Are they contractually obliged to remain on air even if the matches are cancelled? Seems a bit strange to aimlessly be filling time/rerunning the England v France match the other day when they could have easily aired The Chase and dusted off an hour long episode of YBF or something to run with no ads from 6.15pm.
Are they contractually obliged to remain on air even if the matches are cancelled? Seems a bit strange to aimlessly be filling time/rerunning the England v France match the other day when they could have easily aired The Chase and dusted off an hour long episode of YBF or something to run with no ads from 6.15pm.
Do you want to watch yet another repeat of a gameshow or YBF, or would you ratehr see a rerun, which rarely if ever happens, of a recent England game?
Are they contractually obliged to remain on air even if the matches are cancelled? Seems a bit strange to aimlessly be filling time/rerunning the England v France match the other day when they could have easily aired The Chase and dusted off an hour long episode of YBF or something to run with no ads from 6.15pm.
Perhaps they're waiting to hear if the game is cancelled, or just delayed. Currently it's extended highlights of the France v England game so they can easily cut away.
Do you want to watch yet another repeat of a gameshow or YBF, or would you ratehr see a rerun, which rarely if ever happens, of a recent England game?
I've already watched the England match, I watched the highlights of it on BBC1 for further analysis. Football matches don't have great repeat value especially when you already know the result.
Perhaps they're waiting to hear if the game is cancelled, or just delayed. Currently it's extended highlights of the France v England game so they can easily cut away.
No decision until 6pm, so seems a pointless waste of half an hour although I suppose they can't win either way. The chances are it will be cancelled completely, the pitch is far too waterlogged. But if they do show it tonight it will be interesting to see what happens in terms of the inevitable overlap with the England game later. I assume ITV will just push their schedule back by however long because its Friday and they can get away with airing News at Ten at 11.30pm.
Kind of ironic that we should experience these conditions in a major football tournament again - wasn't it the last World Cup a couple of years ago that a match on the BBC got knocked off air, not because of a storm over the stadium, but over the broadcast centre in Vienna?
ITV seem to have been relatively unscathed - only losing the feed to a blue screen when lightning strikes...
so the match resumes at 6pm... wonder what odds you could get on ITV pres cocking up and playing an ad break at the wrong point?
On a similar note. I was watching on ITV1+1 and at 6:50, before the match started, they took a break. The first advert was blanked out but the first couple of frames were still visible and it appeared to be one of those Ray Winstone adverts with live odds. Since the match hadn't started, what live odds did the advert feature? Could someone check their recording of ITV1?