Another point to ponder, albeit slightly off topic. Go back and look at ITV schedules from, say, the late 60s or early 70s. Even in primetime, there was considerable variation in the schedules between each company. It was rare for feature films, for instance, to be networked. Each local station showed their own. And, to take Crossroads for example, it was dropped altogether by Thames for a while in the late 60s, and only reinstated after a campaign which included a plea from the then prime minister's wife (Mary Wilson). Even then Crossroads had a 4.30 slot for a period in the London area. STV screened the same soap at 5.20 for years but fans of the wobbly Midlands motel in Grampian and Border regions tuned in at 6.35. Local scheduling to meet local needs, perhaps?
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in the 70's around that 6.35 time slot is when Scotland today news was on
Another point to ponder, albeit slightly off topic. Go back and look at ITV schedules from, say, the late 60s or early 70s. Even in primetime, there was considerable variation in the schedules between each company. It was rare for feature films, for instance, to be networked. Each local station showed their own. And, to take Crossroads for example, it was dropped altogether by Thames for a while in the late 60s, and only reinstated after a campaign which included a plea from the then prime minister's wife (Mary Wilson). Even then Crossroads had a 4.30 slot for a period in the London area. STV screened the same soap at 5.20 for years but fans of the wobbly Midlands motel in Grampian and Border regions tuned in at 6.35. Local scheduling to meet local needs, perhaps?
I think the difference is that ITV ( at that time anyway ) was generally there to serve its region, whereas BBC Scotland is now in a new millenium and yet seems unable to broadcast ( in more and more cases ) the same programme in the same slot for the whole series.
Another point to ponder, albeit slightly off topic. Go back and look at ITV schedules from, say, the late 60s or early 70s. Even in primetime, there was considerable variation in the schedules between each company. It was rare for feature films, for instance, to be networked. Each local station showed their own. And, to take Crossroads for example, it was dropped altogether by Thames for a while in the late 60s, and only reinstated after a campaign which included a plea from the then prime minister's wife (Mary Wilson). Even then Crossroads had a 4.30 slot for a period in the London area. STV screened the same soap at 5.20 for years but fans of the wobbly Midlands motel in Grampian and Border regions tuned in at 6.35. Local scheduling to meet local needs, perhaps?
I think the difference is that ITV ( at that time anyway ) was generally there to serve its region, whereas BBC Scotland is now in a new millenium and yet seems unable to broadcast ( in more and more cases ) the same programme in the same slot for the whole series.
Well hopefully when they move to PQ they'll pull their finger out and sort the mess of the schedules. I suppose it could be due to limited resources at QMD?
( 1 ) I think it would help if they just broadcast River City in an hour block in a single time slot. Surely they could fit this in on a Sunday ( where the omnibus is! ). And they could even persuade the whole network that this would be better than ancient repeats.
( 2 ) Why can't they put what the network is seeing on one of their extra digital platforms like 301 ( or whatever it is! ) on Freeview?
If I may explain, 'River City' is a reflection of BBC Scotland's Royal Charter remit to make and transmit programmes of particular relevance to the distinctive culture and institutions of Scotland.
However, there are few ready-made slots in which to broadcast such output, so in order to accommodate some Scottish programmes, BBC Scotland has place them where the schedule allows. Naturally, we apologise for the inconvenience this may cause.
Please be assured your comments have been fully registered on our daily audience log. The daily log is an internal document which is made available to our scheduling department and senior BBC management.
May I thank you again for taking the time to contact the BBC.
I don't see why they should have to move their own programmes around to fit network. I like River City but I can't be bothered sitting for an hour to watch it. The way it was previously was fine and should be left like that.
Hopefully they'll sort it all out at some point but I don't see it in the foreseeable.
A phone message from BBC Info today said something along the lines of BBC Scotlad have no plans to show the Dr Who Weakest Link special. You'd think with the importance put on Dr Who, the network people would not be happy...
If I may explain, 'River City' is a reflection of BBC Scotland's Royal Charter remit to make and transmit programmes of particular relevance to the distinctive culture and institutions of Scotland.
However, there are few ready-made slots in which to broadcast such output, so in order to accommodate some Scottish programmes, BBC Scotland has place them where the schedule allows. Naturally, we apologise for the inconvenience this may cause.
Please be assured your comments have been fully registered on our daily audience log. The daily log is an internal document which is made available to our scheduling department and senior BBC management.
May I thank you again for taking the time to contact the BBC.
Regards
I think they trot out the same email reply every time. Does the charter tell them that they have to trot out an extra hour of soap plus omnibus every week? Grrrr
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will STV still has some programmes NEVER shown in Scotland a swell
including some of the:
barrymore My kind of music
....... From Hell type programmes
johnny English film
