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With the launch of bbc one hd and viewers complaining about the tennis being pushed aside on the bbc hd channel to make way for the doctor who finale, wouldn't it make more sense for the bbc to either launch an hd sports channel or use the existing bbc hd channel for sports ?.
I'm sure the bbc have plans to launch a bbc 2 hd channel in the future and that would leave the bbc hd channel free for sporting events such as football, tennis, golf, formula one, moto GP and the like.
what r ur thoughts on this ?.
I'm sure the bbc have plans to launch a bbc 2 hd channel in the future and that would leave the bbc hd channel free for sporting events such as football, tennis, golf, formula one, moto GP and the like.
what r ur thoughts on this ?.
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Also, there are commercial subscription sports channels who have existed for up to 20 years now and might object to their businesses being undermined at this stage by a competing universal subscription sports channel.
Having read a lot of complaints in other threads about chopping and changing shows and sports it seems better scheduling might not be a bad idea though! For instance finishing a run of Dr Who before an obviously heavy sport fortnight.
If it isn't top flight, headline news and consequently very expensive I couldn't see them bothering to fill the other hours with it. Let alone diverting limited funding to pay for the rights or the hundreds of staff to cover things like you have suggested out of the existing sport budget which goes on the costly flagship sports.
BBC supporters keep telling us how they need 100s of staff to cover events, so if that's true a sports channel covering more events could be massively expensive.
And yes, they would have littel to fill the channel with outside of the peak periods in the year, and yes the commercial pay-tv operators would object to such a channel.
And that also ignores the costs of bandwidth, and the lack of suitable bandwidth on some platforms, especially DTT.
do not have enough sport
I'm stating my opinion that the BBC is unlikely to be able to extend further new channel formats (ie empire building) and so any new BBC sport channel HD or otherwise is not likely to be allowed.
I will try to post relevant to the thread and not just turn up to have a go at other posters I don't agree with.
Picked one for the HD sports channel, and had the other on the regular BBC HD channel.
How about this one: Assuming F1 is still only in SD next year and they are showing quali on BBC1 on the Saturday during Wimbledon. Do they waste BBC1 HD on the F1 or do they put one tennis stream on BBC HD and a second one on BBC1 HD? Or do they move F1 quali to BBC2 to avoid breaking the simulcasting on BBC1/HD?
Were it me I'd put the tennis on HD and the F1 qualifiying (it is after all not the race itself) on a standard broadcast. I have no idea about the technology but there are loads of high def channels out there, some operated by stations which can't have budgets antyhing like what the BBC does, so it seems plausible that the BBC could, if it wanted to, have e.g. ten HD channels.
Not on Freeview, no capacity.
Thanks didn't know that, was just going by what I get on Sky. One day, when the Murdochs run everything, we'll all have more HD channels than we could ever possibly need.
Doesn't mean they can't have more HD channels, just because they're aren't on Freeview.
There is an obvious issue there - regional optouts. What I would do is simulcast London/England on BBC1HD and BBC2HD. However, there could be a third HD channel, BBC Nations HD, to show any non-news optouts - e.g. sporting events. The only issue is if two events are simultaneous. This wouldn't be needed all the time, so the extra time could be used for other things, including BBC3/BBC4 simulcasts. If there isn't enough for that, there might need to be a fourth.
The BBC are platform neutral so any new channel would need to be on all platforms.
So, providing extra channels to cover sport without having to switch channels is "empire building"??!!:D
Which many will not be able to afford.
Also, currently the BBC produce very little of their own sport in HD.
So, you have sympathy with those who's only interest in sport is to make it too expensve for many to afford?:D
IIRC they want all their own sport produced in HD for 2012 when they go up to Salford. Some stuff might be ready to produce in HD, but not done in HD due to space (e.g. national opt-out sporting events - admittedly some of them should really be pan-UK).
You yourself have been claiming several hundred of staff are needed at the Olympics or in South Africa to cover sport (and they are not even filming it) so imagine how costly it would be if the BBC had to do that all the time for more sports events to fill the new channel!!
As for clashes, I'd have no problem with say, suspending BBC parliament* for a few hours to accommodate overlapping sports as needed and as was sensibly done for the winter olympics.
*Parliament has broken up for a 12-week summer break.
And instead of BBC1 London HD, launch BBC Sport HD. This would avoid a repeat of last Saturday and BBC HD can accommodate both its non-sport and sport viewers at all times. BBC HD Sport would simulcast Network live sport, use HD content that is available via the red button (like the current World Cup highlights) and sports rights that BBC Nations have secured (Scottish League Cup, Celtic League Rugby, The Super League Show, etc.). With these regional programmes on a native HD channel, BBC would be forced to provide them with sufficent funds for HD broadcasts and would be a step away from BBC's London bias (launching BBC1 London HD!).
Agree about the BBC Parliament bit, however, the rest of what you say is not entirely accurate, clashing sports events on an extra channels wouldn't cost much extra, the crews are there already.