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Switzerland v. England - No Highlights Show on Terrestrial TV?
Peachy Keen
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I just had a look at next week's terrestrial tv listings and couldn't find no Switzerland v England highlights show on Tuesday!
I know the game is on live on Sky but l thought there would be highlights on either ITV or BBC later on that evening but l couldn't find any in my magazine!
I thought after the nation outcry over the away game in Croatia on Setanta a few years ago, one of the terrestrial channels would have show this as it's a qualiflying game for the 2012 European Championships!
Maybe, on the other hand, my magazine could be out of date?
I know the game is on live on Sky but l thought there would be highlights on either ITV or BBC later on that evening but l couldn't find any in my magazine!
I thought after the nation outcry over the away game in Croatia on Setanta a few years ago, one of the terrestrial channels would have show this as it's a qualiflying game for the 2012 European Championships!
Maybe, on the other hand, my magazine could be out of date?
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At lest BBC1 Scotland has hightlights of Tusedays Scotland game at just after 10.30pm.
Im also glad that Fridays Scotland game is live on BBC1 Scotland for a change.
Darren
I anticipate a last-minute deal will be struck, probably with ITV, for the highlights which will be shown the same night, unlike that away game in Croatia (which was in the corresponding week 2 years ago), but were deferred for 24 hours.
Setanta Sky and ESPN are all to blame here
BBC Scotland have live rights to all Scotland's away games in the qualifiers
Am hoping we will get BBC MOTD international highlights on the on Tuesday evening showing Switzerland v England and the other home nations games.
ITV and BBC are to blame!
How do you come to that conclusion, did they hold a gun to the Football Associations head ?.
:rolleyes:
Facetiousness notwithstanding, these rights have nothing to do with the English FA.
The home game is sold to Sky by the FA.
What he said.
That's right. Place no blame with your own broadcasters. It's always someone elses fault.
I suspect BBC and ITV will be less inclined to hand out large amounts of dosh for the highlights as there has clearly been a decline in interest in the England team since the World Cup shambles. I will be happy to watch the two minutes of news access on scheduled news bulletins.The issue of having to pay to watch your national team has exercised DS for years. Perhaps we should change the law as the Irish did to prevent RTE losing the rights.
Not always, the away ties for the 2006 World Cup - Austria, Azerbaijan, Poland and Wales - were all live on Sky with no highlights, the only away match on terrestrial telly was Northern Ireland as the Beeb had NI rights. Everyone forgot about this while moaning about Setanta.
I also remember Sky being extremely reluctant to offer highlights of the Euro 2004 qualifier away to Turkey - the only away match they had, the Beeb had the others live - with a deal being done with ITV very close to the event.
There won't be highlights of Wales vs England apart from on S4C as the Wales contract doesn't offer English language highlights of home games. Scotland and Northern Ireland home games are live on Sky but they also have a highlights deal with the BBC.
Did you watch the world cup, there are no high points of any England performance :mad:
K
Watching a different team were you?
But, have to agree, there weren't many others!
K
At the end of the day though Setanta were a new TV company, and not offering highlights was one of the many mistakes they made. A lot more people have Sky.