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david en france Full Member Offline Posts: 112 Old Whittington, Derbyshire. Gender:	News booted out again..... 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!
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John Junior Member Offline I Love YaBB 2! Posts: 80	Re: News booted out again..... Reply #1 - Aug 8^th, 2012, 6:31am It doesn't make a lot of difference. The so-called news is mostly about the olympics anyway.
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Reply #2 - 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.

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John Junior Member Offline I Love YaBB 2! Posts: 80	Re: News booted out again..... Reply #3 - 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.
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Mikej Full Member Offline Posts: 230	Re: News booted out again..... Reply #4 - 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)
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WG Senior Member Offline Posts: 352 Hitchin Gender:	Re: News booted out again..... Reply #5 - 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.
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Reply #6 - 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"!!

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Re: Para Olympics....What's channel 4 doing f.
Reply #7 - 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

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RobR YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 11	Re: News booted out again..... Reply #8 - 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.
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