BBC Breakfast

Yep, but they know the public are not supportive of over the top coverage from this weeks Newswatch but they have decided to run with it anyway so i doubt they care.

So Breakfast packed up and finished at 7:30, bearly any point doing a programme at all as the number of viewers at that time on a Sunday will be very small.

Is the only reason they do those short programmes, because they may catch people who will watch, such programmes F1 that sometimes airs early. Some weeks it seems costly to do such small programmes. Or is there a quota or just to keep the moaners quiet.- i suppose there are not many alternatives on a Sunday morning.

Don't really get why they did Breakfast at all - I suspect had it not been from Salford they probably wouldn't have done and just run the funeral in place of it.

Though would it really have been cheaper or logistically easier to run generic BBC News bulletins on the News Channel instead? Given the time in the morning, surely just as many people would be going to work for a relatively short period of time (just without it being their regular, scheduled work)?

Lmao the cranks and weirdos on Newswatch = the public? No

Really ? Every 'normal' person I've spoken to regarding the BBC's Mandela coverage this week, has just rolled
their eyes, and said, ' bit over the top, isn't it' (or similar). Although, actually, no one has any passionate opinion, because TV's not the be all and end all in their lives. Most of the coverage has been while the main bulk of the population have been

a: In bed asleep.,
b: Getting themselves and their families ready for work/school,
c: At work/school.

I do think the Beeb have grossly over estimated public interest though (and I speak as someone who regularly visits SA for work, and holidays) ,

That is true but they received over 2000 complaints which suggests that a large percentage of people were not supportive of the coverage.

Numbers aren't always indicative of public opinion - a good proportion of the 2000 people could be orchestrated.

It would be interesting to see the number of people who have complained that there isn't enough Mandela coverage. It's normally a good sign getting near equal numbers of "too much" vs "too little" complaints.

Well I had dinner with a friend this evening who is neither interested in nor even aware of television presentation and when Mandela's funeral came on the TV she (totally unprompted from me) said there had been too much coverage on the BBC. I would suggest that she is pretty much as 'normal' as you can get so I would consider her to be generally representative of public opinion. She's certainly not a Newswatch 'crank' or 'weirdo' by any means.

Can I see some error bars on that?