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Title: News booted out again.....
Post by david en france on Aug 7^th, 2012, 8:00pm

OK, the Olympics are unique but once again the 1800 news and Regional news are booted off BBC1. Has R4 news ever been sideshifted to R1 or even R3? No, I didn't think so. So stop mucking about with THE most important programme of the day!

Title: Re: News booted out again.....
Post by John on Aug 8^th, 2012, 6:31am

It doesn't make a lot of difference. The so-called news is mostly about the olympics anyway.

Title: Re: News booted out again.....
Post by Roundabout on Aug 8^th, 2012, 6:51am

It also has denied us the famous 'choice'What choice is there with four newsreaders on all channels all in the stack of open backed 'studios' looking out on the same view are all presenting similar Olympic coverage at the same time? All the other channels seems to have sports presenters doing the same thing with a slightly different background. By switching around I have discovered only Sky News seems to most often lead with N E W S.

Title: Re: News booted out again.....
Post by John on Aug 8^th, 2012, 7:47am

Roundabout, I forgot to add a comment like yours about Sky News. I have found that Sky News offers a broad news coverage in this time of wall to wall sport.

Title: Re: News booted out again.....
Post by Mikej on Aug 8^th, 2012, 1:43pm

To David in that country across La Manche

I guess it is because the BBC1 distribution network is designed to cope with regional opt-outs whereas only Scotland and Northern Ireland have separate distriubutions and infrastructure for BBC2.

Mike
(with memories from Switching Centre in the 1960s)

Title: Re: News booted out again.....
Post by FoxyFace on Aug 9^th, 2012, 8:50am

Surely if there is important "news" it will be shown anyway-thus surely we can all revel in there being NO news worth showing?
BBC News and channel schedulers please NOTE.

Title: Re: News booted out again.....
Post by Knocking On on Aug 9^th, 2012, 10:38pm

With 24 dedicated Olympic channels + BBC 1 + BBC news channel, is the BBC supplying enough coverage?

Did the news channel really have to be wall to wall sport too?

This seems to be a fantastic fortnight to "bury" bad news.....God knows whats going on in the world and indeed in THIS country.

Thank God for Sky news who seem to realise we are not ALL interested in who can ride a bike or run quicker than anyone else!

My wife and I have found a number of decent Docs so we will be continuing to watch these channels when sensibility has returned....also watching the DVD box set of that great drama of the 70's "Family at War" (even though it wasn't BBC).....we commented "When was the last time we actually had been engrossed/engaged in something similar made recently".

How refreshing it is to hear English spoken well, no foul language and no police sirens! nor the dreaded "backgound" music that becomes "foreground"!!

Title: Re: Para Olympics....What's channel 4 doing f.
Post by FoxyFace on Aug 10^th, 2012, 9:13am

It will be interesting to see if Channel 4's forthcoming coverage of the Para-Olympics extends to More 4 , Chennel 4/7 ,E4 and even Film 4(during the breaks!) all at the SAME Time.
If it does--then the BBC are not the only ones in a wild panic that sports fans might have more than one set of eyes. If they don't--then some interesting scheduling queries need to be addressed at the BBC on a matter of some urgency

Title: Re: News booted out again.....
Post by RobR on Aug 11^th, 2012, 8:12pm

BBC Three is wall-to-wall Olympics from 9am, leaving BBC Two as the Corporation's only "choice" for non-sport fans. I'd like to have seen BBC Four opening up at 9am too, with a full day (and evening) of classic BBC repeats from the archives (but not the usual "Dad's Army" re-runs) as a real alternative to sport.