More on 'RCTI'

More on 'RCTI'

I refer to David Jardine's letter (The Jakarta Post, June 6,
RCTI World Cup coverage).

No David Jardine, to answer your question, you are not alone
in finding that the RCTI's World Cup coverage is a disaster!

You mentioned already a couple of arguments that make watching
the World Cup coverage by RCTI horrible. But as a professional in
making TV programs I would like to add some other arguments on
this subject.

But as the RCTI is too slow or too late for starting their
broadcasting, they are very quick in finishing it. A quick end of
the broadcasting means that watchers have to miss the things
happening on the field straight after the match, such as the
winning team celebrating their victory, changing t-shirts between
players, etc. This is part of the match as well RCTI!

David already mentioned the quiz during the match that takes
1/3 of the size of your TV screen, which makes it not able to
watch what's going on in the bottom of the field. This is the
most annoying one of all the things popping up on the screen, but
in the corners of it is a lot of small adverts which are very
unpleasant as well due to their flashing characters.

By the way, the above-mentioned quiz is not the only quiz
during RCTI's World Cup broadcasting; it's full of quiz things.
Half hour before the match begins there is a quiz from the studio
and from a couple of cafes somewhere in Jakarta. Same thing
happens again during the break and then of course there's some
quiz after the match. Because of all those quizzes there's no
time for the RCTI commentators to say anything useful about the
match itself. They only have time to quickly look back at the
goals and the almost goals, before the program rushes on to the
commercials and the quizzes.

By taking a good look at the arguments of David Jardine and
the follow up that I give here, there's only one possible
conclusion to make out of this; RCTI''s World Cup coverage is an
easy way to make big money in a short time by creating quizzes
and producing time for a lot of commercials.

NET SMIT

Tangerang, Banten