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Wimbledon 2017

3-16 July on the BBC. Qualifying from 26 Jun. Grass season from 12 June (May 2017)

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NJ
Neil Jones Founding member
And they're back. After another quick grey blip on the wide shot.
TL
toby lerone 2016
Just looking at twitter and more people are complaining the BBC lost their score graphics for 2 games than EastEnders being moved to BBC Two. What did people do prior to the early 1990s when scorebars were added to sports coverage in the UK.
JA
james-2001
I remember Wimbledon in the 90s when the only on-screen score was when they flashed up the results for that particular game (i.e. 15/30) after each point. I'm sure it was only around 2000 when it got a permanent score card on screen.
NJ
Neil Jones Founding member
EastEnders Facebook page was absolutely adamant they were on BBC One by their post at 7:30 tonight, though that may have been a scheduled post. And predictably complaints there about the tennis on One and the soap on Two.
RA
radiolistener
Why don't the BBC close BBC Four, put that programming back onto BBC Two (because 4 is only doing what 2 used to do) and create in Four's place BBC Sport.
VM
VMPhil
Why don't the BBC close BBC Four, put that programming back onto BBC Two (because 4 is only doing what 2 used to do) and create in Four's place BBC Sport.


People always bring up the BBC Sport Channel idea, problem is if it's important enough to be moved from BBC Two to BBC One, then it would certainly be important enough to move from a theoretical BBC Sport Channel to BBC One.
GE
Gareth E
The nation seems to be forgetting that it's being brought together by moments like this.

Together as one. 'Oneness'.
Cando, Stuart and sjhoward gave kudos
TL
toby lerone 2016
Why don't the BBC close BBC Four, put that programming back onto BBC Two (because 4 is only doing what 2 used to do) and create in Four's place BBC Sport.


People always bring up the BBC Sport Channel idea, problem is if it's important enough to be moved from BBC Two to BBC One, then it would certainly be important enough to move from a theoretical BBC Sport Channel to BBC One.


It may have worked 20 or 30 years ago and the BBC still have a fair bit of sport but certainly wouldn't have nearly enough to have a BBC Sport channel and Wimbledon, Olympics, FA Cup, World Cup, UEFA European Championship would be moved like VMphil states to BBC One
:-(
A former member
The nation seems to be forgetting that it's being brought together by moments like this.
Together as one. 'Oneness'.


If only there had some presentation for 'Oneness'.
DV
dvboy
A BBC Sport channel would have nothing live to show more than 50% of the time, and you'd still then have times when you'd need another channel for clashes. The red button is essentially a sport channel, but by not calling it that, they can get away with showing other stuff on it.
NG
noggin Founding member
I remember Wimbledon in the 90s when the only on-screen score was when they flashed up the results for that particular game (i.e. 15/30) after each point. I'm sure it was only around 2000 when it got a permanent score card on screen.


In the 90s the score graphic was only keyed over the court wide shot camera, and disappeared on the cuts to close-ups.
AN
Andrew Founding member
I'm not sure why Sue is still telling us at 8:20 that EastEnders is on BBC Two. If you don't know by now, you've basically missed it.

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