Why doesnt channel 7 ever put equestrian on at suitable times???

Question

yes equestrian may not be the most popular sport but dont you think swimming,gymnastics and athletics all the time gets a bit boring.the equestrian only ever seems to be on during the night when no one can watch it. come on and make a bit of a change put more equestrian on and during the afternoons too. this is getting ridiculous.i ride horses and i would love to compete in the olympics one day but how can i when i cant see any of the horses when theyr on and aspire to the riders??i put a tape on the other night that went from 11pm-1.30am and still i did not get any equestrian.there are some people out there that want to watch this stuff you know!!!!!

Answer 1

The main reason is probably that the Olympics are on Channel 4!

Answer 2

or table tennis, or badminton.

the list goes on.

there is 40 odd sports in the olympics but for some reason the television has been dominated by swimming and volleyball.

i'm sick of the coverage and have now stopped watching.

Answer 3

I've seen heaps of equestrian!

Its such a stupid sport!!

Channel 7 only cares about swimming!!  

and now they will only care about Athletics,

My advice is to try and watch it somewhere else like on the internet!

Answer 4

What is channel 7?

Answer 5

I have been watching lots of the equestrian on Channel 7 in Australia!

If they showed it in the afternoon, most people would still be at work and would miss the coverage, so they have put it on after dinner.  As far as I know most of it has been live when I watched it, so it is also based on when they event is on in China.

I think this all goes down to the fact that you can please some of the people some of the time, but you can't please all the people all the time!

Here are some videos for you to watch of the equestrian from the Olympic site - http://au.sports.yahoo.com/olympics/vide...

Here is the equestrian schedule to know if it is on - http://au.sports.yahoo.com/olympics/spor...

Answer 6

i think because not a lot of people understand it and im personally a bit pissed about it being on late too

Answer 7

Hear! Hear! Considering that Australia is well known for being such a horsey country, and we won 3 consecutive gold medals in Equestrian sports (3 day eventing), then only just missed out in Athens, it is most disappointing that none of the TV channels show any equestrian events on TV other than the few minutes they allow for the Olympics. I have also been setting the video seeing as what they do show is on so late, then have to fast-forward through 4 hours of tape to see the little bit of equestrian they occasionally put on. Even though I prefer the jumping and eventing, I was disappointed that they only showed the 3 Aussies competing in the dressage so we didn't even get to see the winning riders and horses. At least SBS is having an hours coverage of Equestrian on Friday morning. Roll on London 2012 - I hope Channel 9 do a better job!