I did once wonder if it was a Government ploy to keep people in the pubs watching football instead of being out in the streets protesting against them. But thats just me being cynical
There's more football on these days than 20 years ago but there's hundreds more channels now. So if you dont like watching football, there are plenty of channels you can watch which doesnt show it.
There's more football on these days than 20 years ago but there's hundreds more channels now. So if you dont like watching football, there are plenty of channels you can watch which doesnt show it.
My partner has 60 channels on her Freeview. More than anything this was to stir up debate as I know how big a deal the Euros and the World Cup are to BBC1 and ITV1.
I agree with you with the soaps, they should all finish at 8pm and do we need four omnibuses of Coronation St, but reality shows are far less prevalent on the four main channels than they were in the mid noughties. Remember in 2006 three of the four channels were showing reality crap at the same time and the other was showing Wimbledon, this doesn't happen now.
3 matches last week, including a match not even featuring British sides
2 already by tomorrow night this week
ENOUGH
pleased put either the football or soaps on BBC2 or ITV2 - dont just not show the soaps
So basically you want the channels that show these games to just stop showing it half way through their contact? I'm sure they would gladly oblige! christ theres a million other channels out there! why not watch something else?
So basically you want the channels that show these games to just stop showing it half way through their contact? I'm sure they would gladly oblige! christ theres a million other channels out there! why not watch something else?
How can we drum it into people's heads that there's more to life than watching telly??
How can we drum it into people's heads that there's more to life than watching telly??
Go and have an orgy or something
I think the only decent thing on the telly nowadays is football on FTA TV along with F1 (live and highlights) and some comedy here and there. I reckon these moaners who go on about the football sit and watch daytime TV, soaps etc and are into all the celeb rubbish that a lot of people loathe.
3 matches last week, including a match not even featuring British sides 2 already by tomorrow night this week
ENOUGH
pleased put either the football or soaps on BBC2 or ITV2 - dont just not show the soaps
ITV were contractually obliged to show such a match on the main ITV channel and will continue to do so, even if there is no English representation in the Champions League after this week.
However, this will no longer be a problem in five months time!
I guess for me it is picking and choosing the games.
I am interested in the City/Barcelona; Liverpool/United and the Barcelona/Madrid games this week.
The rest I'll just swerve.
For me too much football means it can get tedious but others enjoy watching football every night. To each his own.
People really would moan if BBC and ITV had rights to ALL premier league and foreign league games but on FTA we have a peppering of it. When the FA Cup isnt on its Match Of The Day on a Saturday night and some Tuesday Champions League matches. In between that its a mix up of different styles of programming therefore suits all tastes.
people saying too much football on at the moment, if you think about it, after the england internationals in june, you will have a good 8 weeks without football, if you dont count pre season friendlies
pity there isnt still a Championship package for FTA TV.
An argument against is you could actually go and watch a game!! I know one club, no names but the local street is Gigg Lane and they complain about no FTA football when there's a club at the end of their street!!
Why can't football go back to being a weekend game again? All these televised and made for Sky matches on weekday nights are getting tiresome. There are some nights I want to go for a drink and don't want football fans in the way or some 0-0 draw being shown.
Yes there's to much football on tv what they should do is change freeveiw so channel one is endless repeats of EastEnders from the very beginning to nowadays channel two should be coronation street same again endless repeats from very beginning to nowadays channel three should be for the Jeremy kylie show channel four should show endless programs about benefits channel five should show endless big brother type programs and football channel should be on channel 1 on (sky only) and you should have to pay a lot to get it and special rooms should be built in pubs where all football fans that don't go to watch there local team can go and watch a game tv would be so much better then wouldn't it or alternatively you could I don't know maybe try changing channel and seeing what past the first 5 channels maybe if you Google it there might be some instructions to help you or if your really lucky a YouTube video explaining how to do it
Oops forgot to mention when X factor start that get the prime channel one slot till it finishes sorry I forgot about that
some people cant, i have cp and mental health issues, and been found to be incapable of work, by doctors and the social, doctors feel im not safe out of my comfort zone, and cant deal with crowds
i dont agree with all matches being shown, but feel some football shou;d be on FTA tv.
long term im going to end up in a care home, which im guessing wont have sky, so i will have to resort to radio 5 and talksport.
seems you can only watch any football unless you ave money, and are in a situation to get sky/virgin/bt.
how about a package of say 10 premier league matches a year even if it was just 4/5th picks, with the fta channel, getting one 1st pick game, which woud be oen to free reign to the channel
How many live football games are shown across BBC, ITV, Sky, BT and Eurosport each season? Must be in the thousands
How many of them are on BBC One/Two and ITV main channel?
A very very small percentage
As you might know I keep a list of the games I watch and I watch a lot of football (sad I know on both counts but there you are!).
I took a random fortnightwhich started 26th October 2010 and ended 04th November 2010 (this was a good way to capture a European week and a non-European week).
In that week I watched a total of 41 games and they were shown on the following channels:
19 ESPN UK (forerunner of BT Sport)
19 Sky Sports
1 BBC TV (this was when the corporation showed some football league fixtures)
1 ITV 4
1 Channel 5 (Europa League)
I guess at this time there would have been a match on ITV for the Champions League but I must have opted to watch the Sky games rather than the ITV option (so if you want you could remove one from Sky's total and put another on ITV. In addition IO guess there would have been another match on ITV 4 but I opted to watch a game on ESPN so again you cuold remove one from ESPN and add another one on ITV 4 giving you 18 ESPN, 18 Sky, 2 ITV 4 and 1 ITV)
So out of over 40 matches over a 2-week period we're talking about 2/3 games max on free-to-air channels
Let me know if you want me to do another fortnight
If you don't subscribe to Sky Sports or BT combined with the fact that ITV is losing the Champions League you will hardly have any football on TV at all.
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hmmmm.
My partner has 60 channels on her Freeview. More than anything this was to stir up debate as I know how big a deal the Euros and the World Cup are to BBC1 and ITV1.
I agree with you with the soaps, they should all finish at 8pm and do we need four omnibuses of Coronation St, but reality shows are far less prevalent on the four main channels than they were in the mid noughties. Remember in 2006 three of the four channels were showing reality crap at the same time and the other was showing Wimbledon, this doesn't happen now.
2 already by tomorrow night this week
ENOUGH
pleased put either the football or soaps on BBC2 or ITV2 - dont just not show the soaps
Best match of the lot!
It is a busy time with the FA Cup and European football TBF.
So basically you want the channels that show these games to just stop showing it half way through their contact? I'm sure they would gladly oblige!
How can we drum it into people's heads that there's more to life than watching telly??
Go and have an orgy or something
I think the only decent thing on the telly nowadays is football on FTA TV along with F1 (live and highlights) and some comedy here and there. I reckon these moaners who go on about the football sit and watch daytime TV, soaps etc and are into all the celeb rubbish that a lot of people loathe.
I am interested in the City/Barcelona; Liverpool/United and the Barcelona/Madrid games this week.
The rest I'll just swerve.
For me too much football means it can get tedious but others enjoy watching football every night. To each his own.
ITV were contractually obliged to show such a match on the main ITV channel and will continue to do so, even if there is no English representation in the Champions League after this week.
However, this will no longer be a problem in five months time!
People really would moan if BBC and ITV had rights to ALL premier league and foreign league games but on FTA we have a peppering of it. When the FA Cup isnt on its Match Of The Day on a Saturday night and some Tuesday Champions League matches. In between that its a mix up of different styles of programming therefore suits all tastes.
How many of them are on BBC One/Two and ITV main channel?
A very very small percentage
pity there isnt still a Championship package for FTA TV.
An argument against is you could actually go and watch a game!! I know one club, no names but the local street is Gigg Lane and they complain about no FTA football when there's a club at the end of their street!!
Yes there's to much football on tv what they should do is change freeveiw so channel one is endless repeats of EastEnders from the very beginning to nowadays channel two should be coronation street same again endless repeats from very beginning to nowadays channel three should be for the Jeremy kylie show channel four should show endless programs about benefits channel five should show endless big brother type programs and football channel should be on channel 1 on (sky only) and you should have to pay a lot to get it and special rooms should be built in pubs where all football fans that don't go to watch there local team can go and watch a game tv would be so much better then wouldn't it or alternatively you could I don't know maybe try changing channel and seeing what past the first 5 channels maybe if you Google it there might be some instructions to help you or if your really lucky a YouTube video explaining how to do it
Oops forgot to mention when X factor start that get the prime channel one slot till it finishes sorry I forgot about that
some people cant, i have cp and mental health issues, and been found to be incapable of work, by doctors and the social, doctors feel im not safe out of my comfort zone, and cant deal with crowds
i dont agree with all matches being shown, but feel some football shou;d be on FTA tv.
long term im going to end up in a care home, which im guessing wont have sky, so i will have to resort to radio 5 and talksport.
seems you can only watch any football unless you ave money, and are in a situation to get sky/virgin/bt.
how about a package of say 10 premier league matches a year even if it was just 4/5th picks, with the fta channel, getting one 1st pick game, which woud be oen to free reign to the channel
As you might know I keep a list of the games I watch and I watch a lot of football (sad I know on both counts but there you are!).
I took a random fortnightwhich started 26th October 2010 and ended 04th November 2010 (this was a good way to capture a European week and a non-European week).
In that week I watched a total of 41 games and they were shown on the following channels:
19 ESPN UK (forerunner of BT Sport)
19 Sky Sports
1 BBC TV (this was when the corporation showed some football league fixtures)
1 ITV 4
1 Channel 5 (Europa League)
I guess at this time there would have been a match on ITV for the Champions League but I must have opted to watch the Sky games rather than the ITV option (so if you want you could remove one from Sky's total and put another on ITV. In addition IO guess there would have been another match on ITV 4 but I opted to watch a game on ESPN so again you cuold remove one from ESPN and add another one on ITV 4 giving you 18 ESPN, 18 Sky, 2 ITV 4 and 1 ITV)
So out of over 40 matches over a 2-week period we're talking about 2/3 games max on free-to-air channels
Let me know if you want me to do another fortnight
Well tell her to swithc the channels over when the Walkers crisps adverts come on TV.