In last week's blog entry I asked you to comment on certain aspects of our football coverage on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Sport website.
The response was brilliant - so thanks for all the constructive replies. It was good to read the compliments but also to take proper notice of a few criticisms.
As there were too many responses for me to be able answer individually, I have tried to extract the most common themes from your comments about football coverage on our website.
Here are 10 main points:
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Interactive television's sixth year of offering video streaming options at The Open continues apace at Hoylake this weekend, with Player Group choices and Daily Highlights on offer, complemented by a full leaderboard and news section.
The old adage that Brits can't cope with weather extremes was clearly in evidence earlier this week as we struggled to set the operation up in baking heat.
However, if there was one group of people who remained unfazed by the conditions it was our incredible team of riggers and engineers, who conjure up miracles as our delicate team of producers and editors - myself included - scream for refreshment and air con units in our portakabin homes.
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Not long now to the - indeed just four days until the SPL starts.
I am keen to hear your views about our football coverage on the web, TV text and mobile platforms but specifically, these four things...
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One World Cup's over and another one takes place in Spring next year: , for which we have live radio coverage and television highlights - marking the return of cricket to ´óÏó´«Ã½ tv for the first time since 1999. The planning's now well underway, and one of the things we were kicking around in the office this week was what the theme music should be. And it plays into a wider discussion we've been having about ´óÏó´«Ã½ Sport and music...
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I'm sitting in the office today with one eye on the live TV coverage of the Tour, one eye on the work I'm trying to do and a third eye attempting to look at Google Earth. My jaw is slowly dropping onto the desk as a result.
A while ago I talked about the amazing route guide that has been done for the Earth application. As soon as the race starts the author added in .
Today, as the first mountain stage begins, it's really coming into its own as riders are attacking and being dropped off the back of the bunch and of course the terrain is more interesting.
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All the World Cup ratings are now in, and we have the provisional overnight numbers for the Final. They show the audience chose the ´óÏó´«Ã½ by a big margin:
At 7pm the ´óÏó´«Ã½ One had 11.3m viewers, while ITV1 had 2.3m
At 8pm ´óÏó´«Ã½ 13.5m; ITV 2.4m
At 9pm ´óÏó´«Ã½ 15.1m; ITV 3.0m
At 9.30pm ´óÏó´«Ã½ 17.0m; ITV 3.5m
So a few quick thoughts...
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SIXTY-FOUR MATCHES AND IT IS FINALLY ALL OVER.
That was the 2006 Fifa World Cup finals.
Congratulations to Italy.
And so on to in Austria-Switzerland and then
But what did you make of ´óÏó´«Ã½ Sport's coverage of the World Cup finals?
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After England crashed out of the World Cup, I declared that football was no longer the game for me.
I'd spent more than a year planning the World Cup editorial coverage for the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Sport website and to watch England go out on penalties yet again was a huge disappointment.
So how did we handle the pressure back at the website nerve centre?
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