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

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LL
London Lite Founding member
With Murray out, is it likely Konta will be third on Centre tomorrow?
MA
Markymark
dvboy posted:
Also HD takes longer than SD which is why HD channels are usually a couple of seconds behind their SD equivalents.


I've measured HD channels on Freeview being about 8 or 9 seconds behind real time.
It will also be receiver depenant to an extent too.

Next time you see the BBC Salford sports studio in use, you can often see the gallery clock
in the background, it's out of focus, but on HD you can just about make out the second display,
compare that with a known time source (Radio controlled clock or watch for instance) and measure the delay.
KN
knack
With Murray out, is it likely Konta will be third on Centre tomorrow?

First or second. Just the two ladies semi finals on centre tomorrow.

Edit: Probably followed by a doubles match actually of last year is anything to go by.
DV
dvboy
With Murray out, is it likely Konta will be third on Centre tomorrow?


I believe there will only be two matches on Centre Court tomorrow, same as there were today and would have been yesterday if it wasn't for the changes they had to make.
DV
dvboy
Konta v Williams second of two matches on Centre tomorrow.
AN
Andrew Founding member
It'll be the two semis and then a men's doubles on centre.

Even being second on means nothing as ladies matches don't take very long, they'll both be done before 5pm. So it looks like no more scheduling fun and games and no more big ratings this year at Wimbledon.
London Lite and dvboy gave kudos
DV
dvboy
Looks like they missed a game of Federer v Raonic as they took that off BBC One before they moved the match on BBC Two to the red button.
AN
Ant
dvboy posted:
Looks like they missed a game of Federer v Raonic as they took that off BBC One before they moved the match on BBC Two to the red button.

Pretty poor how that panned out actually. Raonic was at 4th (I think) break point when coverage moved to Red Button. Looks like moving the Djokovic match to Red Button was a very much last minute decision as the Federer match never ended up there and the game was missed.
JA
JAS84
With Murray out, is it likely Konta will be third on Centre tomorrow?

Man, that feels weird. A British woman doing better than all the men! Must be the first time that's happened for a good few decades.
DV
dvboy
Ant posted:
dvboy posted:
Looks like they missed a game of Federer v Raonic as they took that off BBC One before they moved the match on BBC Two to the red button.

Pretty poor how that panned out actually. Raonic was at 4th (I think) break point when coverage moved to Red Button. Looks like moving the Djokovic match to Red Button was a very much last minute decision as the Federer match never ended up there and the game was missed.


Well the Djokovic-Berdych match was in a first set tie break, so I think they were reluctant to leave it especially since Djokovic was behind.
CR
Critique
JAS84 posted:
With Murray out, is it likely Konta will be third on Centre tomorrow?

Man, that feels weird. A British woman doing better than all the men! Must be the first time that's happened for a good few decades.


Was going to say yesterday, when was the last time the BBC One schedule would have been displaced because of a Women's match? For the past few years all the late local news programmes have been because of Murray, haven't they?
DV
dvboy
I wondered if they might have done it for Heather Watson v Serena Williams on 3 July 2015, but it looks like that was on BBC Two in its entirety.

The only other time I can suggest would be a long-running final.

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