Great news, according to Digital Spy members it was announced by Manish that BBC have secured the Football League Highlights rights for another 3 years.
Hopefully with the red button streams axed, along with Sunday Kitchen or whatever it was called, they'll give it a scheduled repeated on BBC2 on Sunday mornings, moving MOTD there too. They may be repeats but a two and a half hour football block on Sunday mornings would at least give BBC Sport a presence in the schedules on the increasing number of weekends where later in the afternoon the cupboard is bare.
In both games the camera crew was at the opposite side of the pitch to the normal crew, creating a weird effect in pubs like the one we were in, where the games were being screened on normal TVs as well as the 3D screen.
That's standard with football/rugby matches that are being covered by more than one operation - as otherwise one team gets sub-standard positions (and working close to each other is often tricky in some locations)
ISTR that the BBC and ITV did the same when they covered the same matches separately back in the day, and it's quite common for 3D and 2D coverage to be done from opposite sides.
Great news, according to Digital Spy members it was announced by Manish that BBC have secured the Football League Highlights rights for another 3 years.
Hopefully with the red button streams axed, along with Sunday Kitchen or whatever it was called, they'll give it a scheduled repeated on BBC2 on Sunday mornings, moving MOTD there too. They may be repeats but a two and a half hour football block on Sunday mornings would at least give BBC Sport a presence in the schedules on the increasing number of weekends where later in the afternoon the cupboard is bare.
Isn't one of the proposals of BBC Two to cut down on the amount of sport it shows?
It might be the opposite really - live sport is mentioned as part of their daytime line up. This move and promoting most stuff from the red button wouldn't cost them much at all - MOTD is already repeated on BBC1, so moving to BBC2 fills time on BBC2 without actually costing BBC1 anything as Breakfast continues on the News Channel anyway.
Also although the Diamond League athletics meetings outside of the traditional Golden League meetings in Europe aren't really deserving of being called the Diamond League IMO considering yesterdays in Shanghai fell pretty much in the Grandstand slot I'd have thought that would have warranted an outing on BBC1 rather than recordings of last weeks triathlon and gymnastics, which could have aired today.
I definetly read in one proposal - I think it was actually before DQF - that BBC Two should have less sport. Hopefully they'll change this and make the most of what rights they have. As you say, much of the red button coverage should go on to BBC2. But sadly there does seem to be a bit of dislike of sport at the top of the BBC. It seems sometimes that repeats of Flog It! Etc are preferable.
Sky Sports 2 having all sorts of problems tonight, fillers from Pitch TV (Golf Docs), a static still pic for several minutes, and now suddently burst into very old Newcastle v Man U highlights, Shearer, Ginola era.
New opening titles for RTÉ's The Sunday Game this year - the previous titles having been used (with modifications) since 2007, though for that season a different theme was used before RTÉ was finally persuaded to restore the original theme after its four year absence. This one fits the music a lot better, not surprisingly,
What's the deal with Sportscene? Yesterday's highlights programme of the Scottish Cup Final saw the team decamp to the Pacific Quay studio and was a Sunset+Vine production yet the live coverage and the previous weeks highlights of the SPL aren't labeled as Sunset+Vine productions.
So do they just bring in Sunset+Vine as BBC Scotland don't have enough resources to produce the live coverage and a highlights programme or have they just given it to an independent just to satisfy some quota?
Great news, according to Digital Spy members it was announced by Manish that BBC have secured the Football League Highlights rights for another 3 years.
Some good news from Scotland. BBC Scotland have secured the rights to Scotland's away qualifiers for the next World Cup, except for the game against Wales.