"In the event that a game involving Andy Murray (who may have been knocked out before you buy this magazine... or whose game may be on another day depending on how the tournament has been affected by weather) is in progress - and clearly has some time to run - the Six O'Clock News will be shown on BBC2.
If the game is close to its conclusion, the news may be postponed and the rest of the schedule will run late - although something will probably be dropped so the 2200 news is on time.
If the game is still in progress at 1830, regional programmes will be postponed. They may either be shown in full later or a short regional news bulletin will follow the tennis. If this happens, a full programme will be shown at 2225 and the rest of the evening will run 20 minutes late.
If tennis remains on BBC1, BBC2 will instead show....."
Rather complex and confusing to print in the tv guides - which apart from RT probably wouldn't print alternatives anyway - especially as these are clearly last minute operational decisions. What matters is that EPGs and on air announcements keep people informed.
There are exactly two acceptable solutions to this situation:
1) Leave the tennis on BBC2 where it is scheduled to be, and the news on BBC2 where it is scheduled to be.
2) Re-engineer BBC2 so that all of the regional and sub-regional opts that are possible on BBC1 can be done on BBC2. (The move to centralised coding and mux should mean that this can be done a lot more cheaply than previously)
Those are the only possible solutions. There is no need for the tennis to take over BBC1, and arguably doing so undermines the justification for the license fee; the BBC isn't there to chase ratings and to do so is dangerous.
Looking at the EPG, the nations seem to think they're getting the One Show at 7pm, where it's down for 7.30 in England. Will be interesting to see how that pans out.
Looking at the EPG, the nations seem to think they're getting the One Show at 7pm, where it's down for 7.30 in England. Will be interesting to see how that pans out.
The nations will be getting tennis just like everyone else. No point updating the EPG with something that will be dropped anyway.
My point was that the nations have done their news on BBC Two, as they can. They're going to have a gap to fill between the tennis and the One Show while the English Regions are doing their regional news.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/tv/ thinks that the english regional news will take place at 7.30 with eastenders following that at 8pm. Today at wimbledon on 2 at 8pm. This schedule is mirrored on my EPG
http://www.bbc.co.uk/tv/ thinks that the english regional news will take place at 7.30 with eastenders following that at 8pm. Today at wimbledon on 2 at 8pm. This schedule is mirrored on my EPG
It's now saying 7:40 for me, followed by Eastenders, and then as normal.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/tv/ thinks that the english regional news will take place at 7.30 with eastenders following that at 8pm. Today at wimbledon on 2 at 8pm. This schedule is mirrored on my EPG
It's now saying 7:40 for me, followed by Eastenders, and then as normal.