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UK
UKnews
Blimey - former colleague of mine is watching the Champions League Final on Spanish TV. Their halftime coverage consisted of 14 minutes of ads and 30 seconds of analysis.
Last edited by UKnews on 28 May 2016 9:03pm
LL
London Lite Founding member
Canal+ have put their coverage of the Champions League final on their FTA TNT channel D8 in France.
DV
dvboy
Well I can't follow that without sounding like an insensitive ******* but credit to ITV for staying on air.


I think ITV were lucky their equipment wasn't taken out, or at least they hid it well if it was. Like most broadcasters, they were showing a replay at the time, with world feed commentators. I suppose if that was played out from London they then they had to hope they could get their RG studio on air before the replay finished.
DV
dvboy
Darts on Dave has over-ran tonight. Seems they aren't able to update the EPG dynamically as it is showing QI XL is supposed to be on.
JV
James Vertigan Founding member
QI was meant to be on at 10pm but Dave are sticking with the live darts coverage. What do you do when you show live sport on a channel which usually just shows repeats? Laughing
VM
VMPhil
I hope this doesn't happen tomorrow or it'll mess up my recordings of Parks & Recreation!
DV
dvboy
QI was meant to be on at 10pm but Dave are sticking with the live darts coverage. What do you do when you show live sport on a channel which usually just shows repeats? Laughing


No I understand that, they have made the right decision, but they need to be updating the EPG (does anyone have any idea how long it is likely to be on for?)
JV
James Vertigan Founding member
QI now on - 80 minutes later than scheduled!
DV
dvboy
Dave Gorman will follow it. I suspect they will drop the 2 episodes of Live at the Electric at 2:40 so that their teleshopping starts on time at 4:00.
MI
Michael
England v Wales rugby on Sky Sports today at 3:00pm.

There's three other matches on the day though, two preceding and one following - the RFU County Championship Finals including the Division 1 Cup FInal between Cornwall and Cheshire, streaming live for the second year running (at least) at RFU.COM and on YouTube.

Last year's finals day
VM
VMPhil
I hope this doesn't happen tomorrow or it'll mess up my recordings of Parks & Recreation!

What are the chances? It's overrun again with no sign of ending soon.
DV
dvboy
Darts on Dave just finished at 0:10 and they've gone to HIGNFY that was scheduled at 22:00. Parks and Rec not on until 1:10 by the looks of things (they have tweeted to say it's already on UKTV Play).

Prerecorded continuity anno same as last night, no mention by darts presenters or on screen graphic that I saw, and no EPG update again. Lessons to be learnt.
Last edited by dvboy on 30 May 2016 1:15am

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