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BBC get Highlights from ITV (August 2003)

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Brekkie
With interactive TV and club channels etc, how long do you think it'll be until all Premiership matches are shown live on TV and you choose which one you watch via the infamous red button.
SM
smw
interesting point raised by an Express sports person on Five Live tonight, he was talking about getting Des back and said that he thought the BBC would be better going for Gabby Logan as she would have more potential and I was wondering whether they would go with Matt Smith who is seen as a rising star too.

Also I think its pretty certain that MOTD will be on at 10.30, no other time really worked, they won't try and move it to prime time cos it just doesn't work (ala ITV) and I think people are generally happy at it being on BBC One at 10.30 and then repeated on the sunday morning.

Its funny how these things work isn't it, one minute the BBC loses alll their sport to ITV and then slowly they get them all back leaving ITV with very little.
KA
Katherine Founding member
smw posted:
Its funny how these things work isn't it, one minute the BBC loses alll their sport to ITV and then slowly they get them all back leaving ITV with very little.

Hope Formula One's next on their 'buy it back' agenda!! If that happens, my GOD will I be celebrating late into the night! Come on BBC! Let's get it back where it belongs!!
AN
Andrew Founding member
smw posted:
interesting point raised by an Express sports person on Five Live tonight, he was talking about getting Des back and said that he thought the BBC would be better going for Gabby Logan as she would have more potential and I was wondering whether they would go with Matt Smith who is seen as a rising star too.

I don't know why they need to 'go for' anyone. Just as when Des moved to ITV Bob Wilson ended up getting sidelined, if Gabby Logan moved to the BBC, it'd be Ray Stubbs getting pushed out in the same way
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tvarksouthwest
Football is our national game and there needs to be urgent changes to broadcasting legislation to ensure terrestrial channels get the Premiership matches. Either that or a deterrent directive under which Sky could have the rights, but games must be free to air.
OZ
ozsat Founding member
Mich posted:
A good point was made earlier, Sky may find it difficult to show 138 games! I see no reason [and strangely enough I havn't read the contracts] why Sky counldn't rent out certain games to other channels. It'll depend mostly upon how they market the deal.
I think the Premier League did say that Sky can sub-sell games - so it would be nice for them to allow the BBC to show the occasional live game as well.

Perhaps as a "not available on Digital Satellite" idea - so Sky Sports show it live - as BBC1 does on cable and terrestrial ?

Maybe some matches may be sold to the Freeview version of Setanta?
JA
jamej
smw posted:
interesting point raised by an Express sports person on Five Live tonight, he was talking about getting Des back and said that he thought the BBC would be better going for Gabby Logan as she would have more potential and I was wondering whether they would go with Matt Smith who is seen as a rising star too.


Weren't Matt Smith with the BBC before moving to ITV? Razz
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smw
jamej posted:
smw posted:
interesting point raised by an Express sports person on Five Live tonight, he was talking about getting Des back and said that he thought the BBC would be better going for Gabby Logan as she would have more potential and I was wondering whether they would go with Matt Smith who is seen as a rising star too.


Weren't Matt Smith with the BBC before moving to ITV? Razz


Yeah he was, he read the sport on Chris Evans Breakfast Show on Radio One and he did a show with Katy Hill I think on BBC TV.
JA
jamej
And didn't he fill in for Hazel on the sport on the Six when she weren't there like what Mary does now? Very Happy
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A former member
Katherine posted:
smw posted:
Its funny how these things work isn't it, one minute the BBC loses alll their sport to ITV and then slowly they get them all back leaving ITV with very little.

Hope Formula One's next on their 'buy it back' agenda!! If that happens, my GOD will I be celebrating late into the night! Come on BBC! Let's get it back where it belongs!!


I'm sure it will end up back on the BBC...then again when you have billions of pounds of licence payers money that you can throw about without any regulation (apart from the governors!) anything is possible isn't it?
WI
william Founding member
ozsat posted:
Mich posted:
A good point was made earlier, Sky may find it difficult to show 138 games! I see no reason [and strangely enough I havn't read the contracts] why Sky counldn't rent out certain games to other channels. It'll depend mostly upon how they market the deal.
I think the Premier League did say that Sky can sub-sell games - so it would be nice for them to allow the BBC to show the occasional live game as well.

Perhaps as a "not available on Digital Satellite" idea - so Sky Sports show it live - as BBC1 does on cable and terrestrial ?

Maybe some matches may be sold to the Freeview version of Setanta?


Is there a realistic chance that by this time next year Sky may have simply created an extra sports channel, so you have SS1,2,3,4 and Extra? I get the impression their existing ones are getting increasingly congested, and I don't think they could get away with just sticking some of the matches on an interactive stream.

Would be interested to know if in the agreement they have to provide coverage on channels that are distributed by other means, ie. cable TV, or whether they can keep certain games exclusive to their own platform.
JA
jamej
It was last time the football rights were done (3 years ago?) that the BBC went through its bad patch and lost loads of top sporting events. But they are now getting them back, full six nations rights, premiership highlights. Who knows what will be next? Razz

As the BBC said, next year will be a top year of sport what with the Olympics, Premiership highlights, Euro 2004, Six Nations, Wimbledon etc all on the BBC. Razz Very Happy

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