It won't be because of that. More likely that the Sun don't like being called out on their sometimes offensive or inaccurate headlines.
The BBC shouldn't be promoting the Murdoch press anyway so wonder if they'll also stop covering them on the Papers.
More prosaically, when the BBC News website used to do newspaper front-page round-ups in the 2000s, the newspapers complained it was a breach of copyright and got them stopped. Which is probably why, when they returned, they were accompanied by acres of tedious commentary. And probably remains why the BBC journalists who do the #tomorrowspaperstoday tweets do them from their personal accounts (the responses to them probably make those personal accounts completely unusable for any other purpose).
Looks like the Sun shooting itself in the foot again, it gained loads of free publicity out of it, but then to use his own cowardly lexicon, its editor Tony Gallagher is the biggest, most precious snowflake of them all.
And now back to the World Cup...
:-(
A former member
I truly think it could be pushing 25 million for the next game...
England's decisive World Cup quarter-final victory over Sweden was watched by nearly 20 million viewers on BBC One, according to overnight figures.
An average of 15.8 million watched the whole match, which saw England secure a place in the semi-final.
A peak audience of 19.9 million viewers were watching as the match ended.
It was live-streamed online by 3.8 million people, making it the BBC's highest online-viewed live programme ever.
The game received an 89% share of the TV audience at its peak.
'Humongous figures'
But the figures are lower than the 23.6 million who tuned in for England's penalty shootout with Colombia earlier this week, which was an evening kick-off.
Match of the Day host Gary Lineker, who fronted the coverage of the quarter-final, said: "Humongous figures again for England.
"Football's coming to homes everywhere."
Crikey. Humongous figures again for England. Nearly 20 million on a hot sunny afternoon is incredible, especially given how many watched in pubs, communal gatherings etc...that don’t register. And that share must be close to a record. Football’s coming to homes everywhere. 👍🏻 https://t.co/StVKa1L9ky
Overall, 3.9 million people either live-streamed the game or accessed the match on catch-up that evening via BBC iPlayer or BBC Sport.
During the match, social media showed people on planes, at airports and even at weddings live-streaming the match on their phones.
Some couples organised their wedding around the game, postponing speeches until the final whistle had blown.
Media captionWorld Cup: weddings and an England win
England now face Croatia in Moscow on Wednesday. It is the team's first appearance in a World Cup semi-final since 1990.
The match starts at 19:00 BST and will be broadcast on ITV. Both ITV and the BBC will broadcast the World Cup final next Sunday.
I think the 2012 ceremony figures could be in danger on Wednesday, though ITV haven't so far tried to inflate their ratings by splitting the programme, something the BBC did on Saturday by billing the build up separately.
Looking at Wikipedia the 1990 semi final must have had less than 21m - BARB only lists the BBC1 figure at 16.69m. Euro 96 only peaked at 17.46m on BBC1 as well, but again that was simulcast IIRC.
Have we got to the point yet where iPlayer/ITV Hub streaming is added to the official figures?
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The updated schedules now have ITV splitting the build up as well - through an hour afterwards if its a 90 minute finish will lower the figures a fair bit anyway.
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With a Busy news week now ahead could we see further changes to prevent reduction in news Bulletins lengths on Tuesday and Wednesday?
If England did get to the final surely the BBC and ITV will have quite a few outside broadcasts ready so that the aftermath could be broadcast - even if there is no screen at Trafalgar square they would be celebrations there were England to win and if they lose the media will want to be ready in-case bad reactions occur.
Bbc still haven’t updated their schedules have they
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JamesM0984
The record is 31m in 1966 for the Final, which is an insane figure when you consider the lower TV ownership of the era as well as a smaller population - about 55m as opposed to over 65m today. That said, there were only 3 channels and the only one not showing the game was only available to homes with a 625-line set.
Wednesday 730 fake Britain 800 holly city 900 would I lie to you 930 room 101
No changes to Friday our girl dropped till next week
In wales hidden 9 -10 Friday
In Scotland river city 8 - 9 Wednesday holly city Wednesday 1115 - 1215
The only odd decision is keeping holly on Wednesday when sending it to Friday could have been done an if with the changes our girl could have been slotted in on Friday but the bbc obviously believe this is better anyhow
Itv Tuesday both soaps 1 hour each then animal orphans
Itv Wednesday 3pm catchphrase - then tipping point and the chase 15 mins early starting - the news at 540 and the match between 6 and 10 - alright on the night delayed
Again sensible and workable but maybe too much build up and down time if game is done in 90 mins though. How much would an advert cost anyway btw.
Sorry for the way this is presented but thinking quickly as I’m typing and it’s showing unfortunately
