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Challenge and Pick to show Euro 2020 matches on Thursday

Steve Williams posted:
That was a very controversial one, on the Tuesday ITV1 had shown a completely meaningless Man U match, and then on the Wednesday Arsenal and Newcastle had crucial matches and they were dumped on ITV2 and Granada Plus respectively. ITV pretended they "weren't allowed" to show Wednesday matches on ITV1, while hoping nobody remembered they'd shown a Man U match on a Wednesday about three weeks earlier. They just clearly wanted to show Man U on ITV1 as they got big ratings.


There was uproar in the North East as Tyne Tees had previously been allowed to opt out of the network to show Newcastle rather than Arsenal. But for the crucial group game against Barcelona they were blocked from opting out of the Manchester United dead rubber on the Tuesday in order to show the Newcastle game the following evening. There was a lot of controversy about football fans being forced to watch Corrie while the crucial game was on a little-watched digital channel.

The previous season I believe that regions were able to opt out of the Tuesday game and show their local sides the following night, showing the Wednesday network schedule a day early.

Baffling that ITV wouldn't want to maximise their total audience by showing the matches with the most interest in each region.

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tightrope78 posted:
I thought the 'BBC News' tribute as presented by Jeremy Vine demonstrated how the BBC misses an identifiable television music presenter these days. In the past these types of programmes would have fallen under the direction of the likes of Whistle Test, Later.... or even TOTP. Although a perfectly enjoyable programme it was a bit of an awkward mixture of news and Radio 6.

I would agree with this. Same with the Michael Jackson tribute its come to the face of Points of View and the Swingometer to host a Music special.

I could feel that Lauren Laverne could have hosted the tribute programme herself but I don't think they'd have her hosting a prime time BBC1 tribute. There is a blurred line between News and Music and can't see this blurred line improving should there be more high profile deaths in Music. This would've benefited being branded as a 'TOTP Tribute' from an established TOTP face but this is the BBC still stating there's no chance of it coming back and seeing no problem with its Music coverage.


You're talking about Jeremy Vine, who presents a daily show on the UK's biggest music radio station and has a distinguished career in journalism. His show mixes music and news content every day of the week.

Surely he's pretty much the ideal person to host a programme like this?