G4 response to DIGG criticism?

[DucoNihilum]

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>G4TV ruined E3! They said that this year was the first year of E3 live coverage on TV. I was pumped to be able to watch on my TV. For the past 2 years I have been watching on sites like GameSpot.com, which really wasn't all that bad. Unfortunately for everyone that watched live on TV, G4TV was doing the coverage.

Four times in the middle of a live keynote they go into 4-5 minute commercials. What?!?! We missed 95% of the BioShock demo video, great job guys! How about no commercials when you are "covering" a live keynote event? But it gets worse! At the very end of the show, Microsoft/Bungie start showing off a kick ass Halo 3 video. Everyone has been waiting for this. It's from the campaign.

Around the middle of the video, they cut from the live video feed into a camera shot of the huge screen that everyone attending the event is watching on. They start to pan out and some douche starts talking over the trailer. What the *****!! You can hear someone telling him to shut up in the background.. and that's it. They cut straight to a commercial, never showing the ending of the Halo 3 campaign trailer.

Holy ****! If I had known I would have watched online, or read a blog.

Don't bother watching the G4 TV coverage of Nintendo's and Sony's keynotes on TV in the afternoon. Save yourself the frustration and watch online, or just read the blogs and wait for the videos to be released.

Hopefully next year someone more responsible will be able to cover this event. It's quite obvious G4TV was not prepared. If your cable/satellite provider doesn't offer G4TV, consider yourself lucky.</end quote></div>

http://ibloggedthis.com/2007/0...ive-e3-coverage-on-tv/ (http://ibloggedthis.com/2007/07/11/how-g4-ruined-the-live-e3-coverage-on-tv/)


Any response?

[Unoriginal_Erin]

Obviously not a G4 rep, but I think some of this stuff is to only be expected.

Last year, G4's E3 coverage was presented by Jeep. This year, nobody has stepped up to be a sole sponsor, so G4 can't have an hour or hour and half of content without commercials, it's just not good business.

Do we know if Microsoft gave the producers an agenda of when everything was going to be shown? If so, then yes, G4 should've planned their commercials accordingly.
But, if not, we all had to assume some content would be cut off. The press conference wasn't going to end for commercial breaks, but G4 needs to make all their commercial-buying sponsors happy.