I get the feeling that local news will be cancelled to make way for eastenders at 8pm, with local news either at 8.30pm, or scrapped for full bulletin after the 10. Nothing yet on http://www.bbc.co.uk/tv/.
With an extra treat for BBC One HD viewers - a few minutes of spectators milling around and heading for the gates, instead of the "Bring Me Sunshine" promo.
I don't know how it works in other regions but in the South East the 20:00 and late bulletin on a Friday is presented by a different presenter to the 18:30 programme (which is double headed). The 20:00 was presented by Lynda Hardy who wasn't one of the presenters who was meant to be on at 18:30 (Rob Smith and Natalie Graham). It will be interesting to see who presents the 20:30 programme and how many presenters there are.
I expect there are few more people with drink inside them out and about at 20:30 compared to 18:30. I wouldn't be surprised if we see someone getting their bum out behind a reporter on one of the regional programmes this evening.
Because the length of a tennis match is totally unpredicatable. It's impossible to know until the last minute if the news will move to BBC2 or be delayed... or when the regional programmes will move to... or exactly how BBC2 will have to compensate. It's not straightforward unlike, say, decisions on which World Cup games to show.
TV Guides are so last century. What matters in these situations is for the EPG to be updated quickly and accurately - and in many parts of the country, of course, everyone now has access to them as switchover's been completed.
All well and good saying that, but the trouble is in terms of recording such an event and the programmes affected the EPG can't handle programmes switching channels.
Although the reasons are clear it is ridiculous in England the BBC can only regionalise one channel now compared to both BBC1 and BBC2 before Digital Switchover - although I would suspect (and hope) if the option did become available to regionalise a second BBC channel they'd go for the News Channel rather than BBC2 so at least in time they could explore regional options there.
Although the reasons are clear it is ridiculous in England the BBC can only regionalise one channel now compared to both BBC1 and BBC2 before Digital Switchover - although I would suspect (and hope) if the option did become available to regionalise a second BBC channel they'd go for the News Channel rather than BBC2 so at least in time they could explore regional options there.
I think the best option, on satellite at least, would be to have 15 or so streams that can be used to make any BBC channel regional. This would only enable one channel to be regional at any time.
So, most of the time every English region gets the same BBC One stream. This then switches to one of the other streams when regional programmes are being broadcast. The rest of the time, these streams can be used so that other channels can go regional.
This would only involve the BBC investing in 1(?) additional channel on satellite. This may be more difficult on terrestrial and cable.