Peter Alliss reflects on the BBC losing live Open Championship rights
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- čas přidán 21. 08. 2024
- Veteran BBC golf commentator Peter Alliss gives his reaction to the news that Sky Sports has won exclusive live rights to screen The Open Championship from 2017, ending the BBC's 60-year association with the event.
Interview courtesy of BBC Radio 5 live
We’ll all miss Peter what a lovely man .
Absolutely gutted at the sad loss of Peter Alliss the true voice of golf, he took over this mantle from the much loved Henry Longhurst, the original voice of golf on the bbc, and made us all love him, we’ve not seen much of him since the bbc lost the tv rights to THE OPEN, and most of the televised golf to sky sports, but anyone that truly loves the game of golf as Peter did, he will always have a place in our hearts. Fairways and greens Peter mate God Bless.
Nobody will ever cover golf ⛳ like the BBC did especially now Peter has left us, R.I.P. Peter.
The BBC deserved to lose the coverage. Like all their other sports coverage, they didn’t move with the times and lost pace with more professional organisations. It also can’t be forgotten that it was the BBC’s decision to leave their contract to cover The Open a year early, which perhaps tells us all we need to know about their commitment to the sport.
A huge part of my childhood - back in the 1990's - was spent out on the golf course from dusk till dawn - as a golf mad junior. Watching all sorts of golf on BBC Sport - most of which involved Peter Alliss. Not only was he the voice of golf...he was also the voice of my childhood. I've tried Sky Sports - I really dislike the American commentary, the endless sponsors adverts every 12-14 minutes, the music and the commentary. Hate it. The thing I loved about BBC sport was the slow, uninterrupted style - enabling the atmosphere of the tournament and golf course to come through - to really get a feel and sense of the struggles of each player out on the course. Felt like you were going on a journey - and for me that is what golf is. BBC Sport captured that perfectly back in the 1990's. Watching golf on TV will never be the same again. Such a shame.
Mr Alliss was the best. He put fun into the commentary. The best without doubt. R.I.P. a true LEGEND.
Grass roots level golf in Britain has declined since The BBC lost The Open. The R&A sold the family silver
You didn't miss it!!👍
sky coverage is crap all you get is 2 shots if you are lucky then its adverts , then its a camera shot of a fountain or a tree for 5 mins
Peter Alliss the best.
You got guys who played tennis and football commentating on golf what a joke
instead of the deal starting in 2017, it actually started in 2016.
Greatest game of all time and it's ruined by money!
Thats all it is greed! yr spot on, some traditions should be preserved and a block should be put on a monopoly of coverage etc , so frustrating ...
It’s a professional game, by definition then it’s about money.
@@wimplesaur So poor people watch nothing in 10 years!
@@jazgreen1009 bahhhhhh, get back in your field!!!!!
@@jazgreen1009 it's called monopolisation. The greed, abuse of the little man. Understand yet????
This is no surprise, all sport is going this way pay for view. In my opinion the R & A have sold out to the highest bidder. Its a pity we won't get to hear Peter Alliss live on t v priceless.
R&A haven't sold out. the BBC has been racked by Tory cuts for 10 years which is why they have lost all of the sport, Including the Olympics which I have heard today..
Also paying people like Lineker and other other presenters obscene salaries doesn't help.
@@mcooley88Well they did sell out. 🙈😳 You're partly correct in some of your comment.
Vale a golfing legend that supplied utter honest logic to the game. 🙏❤️
Oh dear we shall miss your honest ramble dear Peter Vale❤️🙏❤️
And this is from an Australian lad. 🦘 Who will always remember your commentary and hallarious charms calling pro golf ❤️☮️☮️❤️
There has been a total decline of grassroots golf, golf clubs are going into decline because of the bbc losing THE OPEN because golf clubs can’t afford to have sky sports in the club house so the members go home without going in the clubhouse to watch golf with their golf mates, most households have sky tv but not all of them have sky sports golf, so the younger golfers are not being exposed to the greatest game in the world and the greatest golf commentator in the world Peter Alliss. This is the demise of golf as we know it.
So you think golf will go to a decline because club houses can’t afford to pay a couple quid a month for a tv channel😂 stop being so dramatic
@@tigerftw3408 explain to your kids why they can't watch it. Can't watch the boxing anymore, can't watch the champions League anymore, can't watch the cricket anymore. In fact can't watch most sports anymore but still pay the same licence fee. Dickhead!!!!!!
Let's be honest - a lot of people only watched the golf on tele because of Peter Aliss.
Why pay a licence to the BBC for sport the only thing they have left is the boat race and that's total rubbish
RIP Peter..brilliant man.
The Greatest RIP
It's and absolute disgrace, the R&A committee should all resign. Next we'll be allowing an American tycoon to bulldoze Turnberry.
It's the BBCs fault
Think the Beeb just wanted highlights. As for Turnberry he has evidently greatly improved the golf course
He's the best of the best !
A total tragedy . It`s all about money now
Proved right less and less people playing the game . R&A it is not your game it belongs to the people
Its a disgrace that Sky have taken over the Open, first they take the UsPga and Us Open which wasnt too bad. Taken the Masters was another bad move by Augusta, leaving bbc with last two days and also 10 grand prixs. Adverts will kill the open, I am a Sky Subscriber and they do a great job but taken the OPEN AND MASTERS is too far.
Rip peter a ledgend in golf on an of the course
It's the same thing as with the English Cricket, being sold to SkySports after the Ashes 2005 and F1 going to sky just as it was getting popular. Kids can't watch with their paretns anymore, unless their parents are prepared to fork out the ridiculous prices for skysports
Well said peter. Moss this so VERY MUCH((
Let's also not forget that the BBC is losing the British Open at the same time that ABC/ESPN, where Alliss has been a commentator since the mid-1970s (Alliss and Henry Longhurst commentated on the 15th and 16th holes in ABC's 1976 U.S. Open telecast), is also losing the American TV rights to the British Open.
While there seems to have been an uproar in Great Britain about the BBC losing the rights to the British Open to Sky Sports for 2017, ABC/ESPN is losing the rights to the British Open, which includes the Senior and Women's Opens, to NBC and the Golf Channel at the exact same time, though without the same fanfare, so this is not only a major sea change for those in Europe, but also for those in the USA that watch the British Open. ABC has been the American carrier for the British Open since 1961, with ESPN carrying the torch in more recent years.
Now 2020. How wrong the R&A were . Interest in golf diminishing world wide. Clubs closing down hard to get young members.They said the Sky money would be used to advance the game . it is not Sky money it is golfers money who pays the exorbitant subscriptions to Sky? Answer the well off golfers who can afford it which precludes the less well off and brings golf back to the elitist image and not forward as it should be. Have watched a little golf on sky because it is the only source but they do not hold a candle to the best sports coverage of any TV company the BBC. By the way i am Irish and would willing pay a license fee to the BBC if it were possible. The BBC should promote itself to the world not shrivel up the way it is going today.
its not fair that sky has all the majors live, the only time bbc shows live golf is the last 2 days of the masters.
The passing of another legend following Alex Hay and Henry Longhurst, the voice the knowledge and no pontificating, with the BBC losing live coverage of golf we lost the soothing voice of Peter Allis, .
Look at golf now Sky used to cover golf well before they took Open and Masters. Too many tournments today with no winter break. Now Peter gone golf is dying again. Graphics dont make great coverage.
The R and A has let down ordinary golfers everywhere! The sport should not be for the rich and privileged alone. This is a total and unmitigated disaster and the fuddy duddies who run the game should be very ashamed.
All that money they take . Yet state broadcaster can't show sport
All come down to the money .Forget about the Golf .
I’ve been all match days for the last 24 years and on the course Sky do a better job as they don’t get in the way and affect play as I have seen with the BBC. They also don’t push paying spectators out of the way as the BBC have also done. I did, and do miss Peters commentary though.
The BBC's coverage was & still is much better than SKY's in my opinion though, no endless ad breaks, endless waffling on about what this guy's swing & posture is like etc etc etc! 🙄🙈 Peter Alliss & Ken Brown alone were a commentary team made in heaven. 🙏 RIP Peter. 💕
Watching the Sky coverage of the Open today. It is dreadful, stale and not remotely compelling, interrupted by adverts and useless commentators. They are treating the same as any old golf tournament. Sky's technology is no substitute for the wit, humour and imagination of the BBC team. So glad they have taken the PGA Championship
As are all sky programmes
You all missed the point?????
What would the USGA do with 1.2 billion dollars?
Now we know that the BBC is not showing it live in 2016 either. I would just like to thank them for the amazing coverage I have been watching since the early seventies. I saw Watson and Faldo who were golfing greats wave goodbye on the Swilken bridge at St Andrews last year and that will do me too. I won't be upgrading to Sky. Spieth made 2015 interesting going for the calendar Grand Slam and nearly doing it. I'm happy.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Golf, cricket, F1, darts, boxing all used to be a lot cheaper to watch
will the bbc show highlights
Greatly disappointed, let's use the common vernacular , I'm pissed off, money grabbing bastards (sky), progress my arse
Between Peter alliss and alex hay the two best commentators ever. SKY'S commentators are no match apart from butch they all kiss these tour pro's arse's and most of the time talk aload of codswallop especially mark roe Robert lee and ewan Murray.
I liked this type of golf before it lost It rights to but and sky shame because it all started early before my time 1961 that was 30 years before my birth time coming to its end in 2000. I liked theme tune to it as well.
The bbc just don;t bother with quality sport .
Blame the EU...
After playing a round of golf at daybreak; playing just like Peter - brilliantly; but putting blindfolded; I thought that I'd take a look at my hero and see what he was up to. And of course then discovered this bitterly disappointing news. However it comes as no surprise as the BBC have been going downhill for years. One no longer even has to speak correctly in order to broadcast! In fact it appears to nowadays go out of its way to engage language bumbleducks. I often have to turn off athletics so appalling is one athletics (field division) commentator! Possibly the money the BBC saves by not securing the Open coverage rights will be used in order to extend 'East Enders?' The BBC are hell bent on endlessly promoting multi-racism and sexual perversity and alas little of that is acted out on the golf course.
One wishes they would loose the tennis too
Dont understand why the bbc have a sports personality of the year show when they dont cover any live major sport any more
Ruined by an all SCOTS COMMENTRY TEAM FOR BBC.. THE MASTERS. T hey must hire one get one free......i turn sound off
Just find a stream with the CBS commentary.
Jealous?
I agree, Sky Sports is a joke, their golf coverage is pathetic. They tend to concentrate on following certain groups of golfers in a tournament, instead of showing as many players as possible. They don’t update the leaderboard often enough and should also provide alphabetical scores of the players more frequently. Viewers around the world need to follow how their favourites are doing regarding making the cut or perhaps how the round is progressing. Sky have started interviewing players during a round which I believe shouldn’t be allowed, it’s not done by any other broadcaster.
The current commentators do not have the charisma and personality of the BBC team.
Peter will be sorely missed, RIP
All exactly & 110% spot on!!!....... 👍🙏 The grass isn't always greener as that saying goes! 🙈 Pun unintended mind you.
Golf is seen as too middle class and white for the BBC?