GavBelfast's posts, page 34

Masters Golf BBC 2

It's now also causing a problem with the late night schedule - bad enough for the network, but havoc for BBC ONE NI, who had their flagship discussion programme 'Let's Talk' scheduled for 11.35.

It is normally on at 10.35 and is, I think, usually live - let's hope it isn't tonight. If they show it, current indications are it will begin at near 1.00am.

Let's Sleep more-like! Surely they won't bother?

Probably a wee bit risky to schedule it for after live sport at an already late start time, especially given that it is the eve of Easter anyway and most of this type of programme have been given a rest for the holidays. Hindsight's a wonderful thing I suppose.

Regional News Magazines - Viewing Trends

Yes, we had 'Todays Sport' at 5.35 then 'Inside Ulster' at 5.40 (after a while, the sport just got incorporated in the news programme). Wales also had its news at 5.35, so he would sometimes say cheerio to Wales, too, though we would obviousyl only have saw that if he said it to them first.

Scotland and England had 'Neighbours' at 5.35. Wales changed its news to 6.30 in the early 1990s (I think) and then BBC NI followed-suit in the mid-1990s with the launch of 'Newsline 6.30', now cleverly re-branded as 'BBC Newsline'.

So, no, you weren't imagining what Mr Schofield said in the days when he used to dye his hair.

Regional News Magazines - Viewing Trends

The three or four channel era was also a much darker era for Northern Ireland and during that time I would imagine most adults and a good many children would have watched the local tea time news - when they were both on at the same time, 6.00. I can only imagine how frantic it must have been in a less techonologically advanced era with reports of bombings and shootings coming in - even in the Eighties I remember this, and it would have been a lot worse on far too many days in the 1970s.

Now, in thankfully less violent times, the programmes are lighter and not nearly as "must see", but they both still get good audiences, though probably not with the undivided attention they once did.

Completly OD'd on the Scottish One

Notice how, after saying "Next on ITV2 ....", they then just say "Here", clearly for fear of upsetting those poor, sensitive souls at ITV1 Ulster, ITV1 Grampian and ITV1 Scottish.

Sounds daft, though.

That Scottish guy's voice just sounds very effected to me - if you have a good voice, why the need to over-effect it?

UTV Cock up

A one trick pony. I'm sure and have heard he's a charming fella, but it's James Young thirty years on. No longer funny.

When not lazy, I invariably watch one of the other regions. Some of those Friday night programmes on other regions from about 11.30 .... enough to make a guy .....

UTV Cock up

They said they had decided against making a bid. How easy is it to say that?

I decided I wouldn't climb Everest today - like UTV's "ambitious take-over coup", I never had any intention either.

UTV Cock up

Let's face it, this topic could be given over a whole FORUM of its own, never mind just a thread.

A tatty station and poor representation of Northern Ireland.

RTE prevented Snooker being shown in UK

Only if you have a Southern Irish card.

RTE prevented Snooker being shown in UK

Was there any tobacco sponsorship or whatever involved in this competition?

If there was, that would probably have made broadcast in the UK impossible.

I think the suggestion that RTE would hold the UK rights to anything, let alone not exercising them, must be nonsense. What would be the point anyway, even if law allowed it?

On the Ball axed.

Yes, and that Sky can't show anything from ITV's two Tuesday games. It means neither broadcatser tells the complete picture of the week's games or "match-days" as UEFA insists on calling it.

New BBC ONE ident on the way

Err, no.

Don King

Rather like the man himself, I find the trailers tiresome and unnecessary. The ones last year - with the Uncle Fester like chappie - were almost equally poor.

If the FA Cup had the same appeal as it used to - before the FA ruined it with lots of silly decisions - they wouldn't need to promote it with such drivel anyway.

But then how many BBC trailers are any good? Apart from the ones for 'Hustle' before the series started, I can't think of many.