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lealeeds
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Come on BBC.
Is there really enough interest in women's football ,golf and cycling to warrant saturation coverage on the major channels?
Is there really enough interest in women's football ,golf and cycling to warrant saturation coverage on the major channels?
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Well, I watched quite a bit of both, it makes a change from the constant round of cooking programmes and quizes.
Presently, they are a few of the sports that the BBC can still show.
The average club golfer can learn a lot from watching the top women play.
As for the women's football, over 30,000 turned up at Wembley to watch it.
That beat attendances at a few premier league games last year.
So yes, there is an interest and the BBC are to be commended for showing both those and the Diamond League athletics before and the women's cycling afterwards.
But for most of the evening, there's the "old favourites,"
On BBC1 there's the umpteenth showing of a 34 year-old film at 6.25pm. Followed by, the lottery, (at least the BBC get paid for showing that. No hang on! Don't they pay to show it?)
Then the usual fix of "Casualty," ("Ooo! That looks dangerous!") then another couple of more repeats.
On BBC2 you've repeats from 7.40 pm. until the film at 11.00pm.
But the choices aren't much better on other channels.
I imagine women's sports are cheaper for the bbc to show than men's sports. Does that make it right? Not for me it doesn't. Women's football, golf, cycling = bore bore bore.
As they have 4 channels, 2 of which they don't really seem to know what to do with (although bbc4 does occasionally have a few decent programs) why can't the beeb make one of the channels purely for sports?
It's political correctness gone mad.
Why not have a channel just for cookery shows, antique shows and property porn??
So what's your view Mike?
Maybe these events could go to BT or Sky then, so people who do want to watch them, will have to pay extra.
If don't mind them showing lots of women on TV, but they should change their name to British Boobies Corporation.
I noticed during the screening of the women's FA Cup Final, at the end, Clare Balding had managed to inveigle her way on to the end of the line of the dignitaries in the stand who presented the cup and she insisted in shaking the hands of all the players as they walked past her.
Is there no escaping this woman?
I used to really admire CB; now I just find her intensely annoying.
So another pointless anti-BBC thread then
For which the blame can only be laid at the feet of the greedy organisers of the sports that the BBC has lost over the years.
Well the BBC isn't all about only what you want, is it?
1. They don't have enough rights.
2. They'd need permission from the DCMS.
3. It's not all about you.
Or maybe she was supposed to be there; ie it was pre-arranged for whatever reason. No; I don't know. But then neither do you.
Hmm..
i think you'll find Carl that a lot of people believe she's supposed to be "nearly everywhere."
But as you said in your post, that's only a supposition.
You do make me laugh.
Keep it up!
I never said it was. This is a forum, which means we all have a right to voice an opinion, is all.
Huh!
The way you quote and dismiss, or criticise, other contributors posts, anyone would think that you don't believe they are even entitled to an opinion.
* Which would tell you that she was exactly where she was supposed to be, doing the job she's being paid to do.
As I have said before, I have no problem with reasonable complaints about the BBC but there always seems to be more of this nonsense type than any other.
In the case of Clare Balding, enough people have said she's over-used by the BBC.
That in their and my opinion is what's "unreasonable." There's no "nonsense" about that, it's a plain fact.
You're just ignoring that situation.
Anyway, why does it bother you so much that you feel it's "your job," to have to defend the BBC on so many occasions?
Do you think they BBC will thank you for it?
They won't care.
Nor will most people on a message board.
Sport all under one banner is like saying I do not like movies.
People may like different types of sport, so it is an alternative, people who like cycling may not like golf, your saying only one sport can be shown at a weekend when most sport is played.
So one or another group who like golf or cycling suffer under your policy.
Back to the analogy on movies would you say if BBC1 has an action movie on then Two cant have a historic or romantic movie on?
Far to " sweeping " statements without thinking about it.