Tennis And Football Has Taken Over Our Weekend

[renegadefm]

Sorry but I hate both Tennis and Football. 

OK that might be influencing my fury, but why are sports events like these allowed to ommit regular prime time shows which I had planned to record in my planner?

 

Both The Wheel on Saturday night on BBC 1 was over ridden, and tonight's Auntiques Roadshow was over riden by tennis. 

 

How is this allowed to happen? It's basically ruined our weekend.

 

Surely we have sports channels for this? 

[renegadefm]

ToraToraTora, 

Thats weird because when we tried to play last night's edition, it wouldn't work. 

We had to settle for last weeks, which lucky for me we didn't watch yet. 

[ToraToraTora]

They go on Iplayer etc as soon as their broadcast time is finished:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b006mj2y/antiques-roadshow

If you have sky, virgin, a smart TV you can watch that stuff anytime.

[renegadefm]

gingejbee, 

I'm not alone apparently. My partner said there was a post on Facebook where people were kicking off majorly about their Eastenders recordings and live shows we're disrupted by sports.

 

So this is a common hate. It just seems so unnecessary to me, in this age of tonnes of channels. 

We are not living in the 80's anymore with 3 channels 🤔

[THECORBYLOON]

In April this year, the BBC and ITV asked for consent from Ofcom to broadcast the 2024 and 2028 finals.

Ofcom was minded to give that consent but launched a consultation period asking for comments.

They said they had only one response, "from an individual, which stated that they were in favour of the proposed exclusive coverage by the BBC and ITV."

Now, if you had bothered to make them aware of your concerns about the thousands of folk that would be affected by games going to extra-time and penalties, it might not have been granted.

Really then, a lot of it is down to you and your apathy.

I think you owe thousands of folk an apology...

[renegadefm]

ToraToraTora, 

Well we couldn't get last nights The Wheel to work this evening, and gave up in the end. 

My partner reckons it's because it never officially broadcast, the tennis over ridden it. 

[renegadefm]

THECORBYLOON, 

I wasn't aware of the consultation. 

[THECORBYLOON]

So you weren't looking out for it then?

Whose fault is that then, eh?

[ToraToraTora]

I think you are making a mountain out of a mole hill. The football is every 4 years and the tennis is annual. You get your own way 99% of the time. You are just whinging that you've missed a couple of programs that will either be broadcast again or are already on catch up.

[zebo]

At least it's not weeks and weeks of snooker and darts! Critics must be looking forward to the Olympics later this year!

[Maydup]

We've been here before. You like the regular Saturday night TV. Others expect the greatest sporting events to be on live.
 

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1866762.html

[jno]

do yu get the option to record a whole series? If so, that would presumably not record sports programmes that have been put on summer schedules, but would record the ones you want when they're shown later.

 

[renegadefm]

jno, 

Our recordings are set to record the series of The Wheel, but when we went to play it back, it's all tennis. 

 

My whole point is there's nothing wrong in broadcasting live sports, but with hundreds of channels these days, why does it to disrupt prime time TV?

 

This is my whole point. Fine if the demand is there for Football, Tennis, Snooker, whatever. Does it really need to ommit other people's viewing?

 

Like I said on Facebook a whole post was took up of winging women moaning that Eastenders was disrupted, so I'm not alone in this complaint.

 

It just seems unnecessary. 

 

I'd have been happy if they just put The Wheel and Auntiques Roadshow on BBC 2. Or somewhere else. Problem sorted. 

[ToraToraTora]

"My whole point is there's nothing wrong in broadcasting live sports, but with hundreds of channels these days, why does it to disrupt prime time TV?" - because the sports bodies don't want to be on some backwater channel, they want to be on the main channels, if they don't get that they don't allow the channel to film it. Even so called protected events have to do a deal with the TV mob.

[ToraToraTora]

Surely the soap addicted zombies have plenty of chances to watch their visual drug.

[davebro3]

The BBC should not be giving over prime time on both channels simultaneously to sport IMV. (Even the same bloody sport sometimes!)

[renegadefm]

ToraToraTora, 

So the alternative has to be to put the ommitted programmes on the Backwater channels. Surely some compromise has to be met, to cause minimum disruption to viewers. 

 

I'm not saying don't show the live sports, but it doesn't seem right how they steam roller their way over prime time shows. 

Thats really what I cant stand. 

[ToraToraTora]

"So the alternative has to be to put the ommitted programmes on the Backwater channels." - sadly for the same reasons the producers of those don't want to be on backwater channels either. They'd rather be displaced to catch up and or broadcast later. In the case of non BBC the advertisers will pull out too if they are relagated to ITV n. Be grateful they put the TDF on ITV4.🚴‍♀️

[10ClarionSt]

Isn't Wimbledon one of the so-called Crown Jewels of British sport? It should always be free on terrestrial television? Along with the FA Cup Final and The Open Championship, although it seems to have failed with The Open Championship. We only get highlights now on the BBC.

I used to always watch Wimbledon. Loved it. But now I don't have any interest at all. I barely know any of the players. I didn't know who was the mens' world No1 till he was on last week, and even then I'd never heard of him. I honestly think that Chris Evert and Jimmy Connors have got a lot to answer for with the introduction of the baseline game. Prior to that, serve and volley was more exciting and more effective. I think the evidence of that is that no-one has won a season of Grand Slams since Rod Laver, and he did it twice. Some acheivement.

[ToraToraTora]

10cs: "I honestly think that Chris Evert and Jimmy Connors have got a lot to answer for with the introduction of the baseline game. " - er nope, women have always done baseline but the men's game was deliberately slowed down in 2001 as they wanted to slow down the serve. Sadly it also turned the serve and volley game into the standard womens game now played by men. I agree the great characters of the serve and volley days were so much more fun to watch. Now you have them slamming baseline shots at each other for 20 shots each.

[10ClarionSt]

I wouldn't quite agree about the womens' game, TTT. Prior to Chris Evert, women did play the serve and volley, namely Billy Jean King, Rosie Casals, Maria Bueno, Angela Mortimer. I think Everts' success made her style of baseline tennis more popular, even though it was more of a grind.