I think there is far too much sports coverage being shown on BBC2 this Easter. First we have four hours of Davis Cup Tennis on Good Friday from 11.00am until 2.55pm. Then we have late night Masters Golf coverage on Good Friday, Saturday and Easter Sunday nights. Easter Sunday in particular is awfull with Golf coverage starting at 7.30pm until 12 Midnight. Easter should offer us something different like repeats of classic films, sitcoms or dramas. Showing this much sport is not really catering for viewers tastes. I think the BBC need a sports channel, this way BBC1 and BBC2 over Bank Holidays & Christmas can show sports coverage on this channel instead of cluttering up the schedules over the hoilday periods.
I think there is far too much sports coverage being shown on BBC2 this Easter. First we have four hours of Davis Cup Tennis on Good Friday from 11.00am until 2.55pm. Then we have late night Masters Golf coverage on Good Friday, Saturday and Easter Sunday nights. Easter Sunday in particular is awfull with Golf coverage starting at 7.30pm until 12 Midnight. Easter should offer us something different like repeats of classic films, sitcoms or dramas. Showing this much sport is not really catering for viewers tastes. I think the BBC need a sports channel, this way BBC1 and BBC2 over Bank Holidays & Christmas can show sports coverage on this channel instead of cluttering up the schedules over the hoilday periods.
It is quite a change to have that much spoirt on BBC 2, those sports in particular. Besides the majority of BBC 2's content, repeats of classic films and sitcoms are all over BBC 1's schedule. The BBC have had the rights to the Davis Cup for years, I can't speak for the Masters, butit is just chance they've fallen together, this weekend.
A sports channel would be good for the BBC once we've nearly all gone digital, but in the mean time, move those events to a digital only channel and you'd have lots of letters to Points Of View and the like complaining that there's no sport availabel to them anymore... then again it could be used as another incentive to go digital.
Don't know whether it's just until all the analogue transmitters arse switched off, or whether it's permanent, but I heard that the BBC weren't allowed to launch any more digital channels?
Don't know whether it's just until all the analogue transmitters arse switched off, or whether it's permanent, but I heard that the BBC weren't allowed to launch any more digital channels?
When that digital channels were given the go ahead, it was fairly clear, that the BBC wouldn't be launching any more channels in the very near future. AFAIK the 'not allowed to launch any more channels', is just needing to apply to the DCMS to have them approved, something which is time consuming and may lead to rejection.
I think it's all to their own taste really, but I remember BBC2 back in the mid 1990's when there used to be a morning full of old films on BBC2 every Easter and all of the Bank Holidays. These days all we get is CBBC, CBeebies and sport. But like I say this is just my own opinion and what I would like to see more of and I'm sure the younger audiences who like CBBC and sport say when there are too many old films on and too many sitcoms being repeated. Everyone to their own taste.