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The 6 Delayed for.................wait for it!

(June 2006)

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MI
Michael
Andrew posted:
m_in_m posted:
I'm sure in a news bulletin on the BBC this evening, they said that Henman's game had actually been brought forward in the day. I don't know by how far, but if it hadn't would the 6 o Clock news actually ended up being at 7.

The previous match was a walkover so Henman was brought about an hour forward. If this hadn't have happened I expect his entire game would have been on BBC2. The only reason why he stayed on BBC1 was because there was only a few minutes left in the match


Actually if there was any chance of Henman coming on court between 6:00pm and 6:30pm I think that the news would have been bumped over to BBC 2 as Henman is almost always guaranteed a BBC1 slot.

BBC Wimbledon coverage is oversaturated, overrated and over-necessary. Tennis is the dullest of all the sports, and with Federer and Williams dominating the game it's become even worse. If ever there was a case for a dedicated BBC Sport channel it's this. Shove it away with the cycling and the badminton and let's get on with life; those who want to watch it can go out and spend 30 quid on a freeview box.
NB
NerdBoy
Alexia posted:


Actually if there was any chance of Henman coming on court between 6:00pm and 6:30pm I think that the news would have been bumped over to BBC 2 as Henman is almost always guaranteed a BBC1 slot.

BBC Wimbledon coverage is oversaturated, overrated and over-necessary. Tennis is the dullest of all the sports, and with Federer and Williams dominating the game it's become even worse. If ever there was a case for a dedicated BBC Sport channel it's this. Shove it away with the cycling and the badminton and let's get on with life; those who want to watch it can go out and spend 30 quid on a freeview box.


Whilst it is a tad sneaky of the BBC to always put Henman on BBC One I find the news absymal and have little need for it on the two main channels when there is already a dedicated news channel in operation. I have high praise also for anything knocking out Neighbours and other daytime rubbish out for a couple of weeks (although I accept that the amount of sports coverage this week has been in parts heavy, but it's hardly the norm).

Just because you find tennis 'dull' is not reason enough for it to be moved of the main channels (and if you think Williams' are still domininant you've not watched it too recently either). The amount of coverage and inconvience for 2 weeks is pretty insignificant compared to the large amounts of dire, unnnecessary programming on any channel throughout the rest of the year (I will give plently of examples if needed). Remember you can watch sport with the sound-off if they start talking drivel. It's much harder to understand the rubbish they talk on BBC News with the sound down.

Ta rah

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