Originally Posted by Dancc:
“BBC Two going an entire weeknight without recording an audience of over 1m not generating any sort of comment at all would be very odd. It was surely one of their worst performing Friday nights ever, and so was quite rightly acknowledged in here.
Also, I'm not sure screening the odd Rugby League game here and there is really getting behind a minority sport and perhaps therein lies the problem, and if they were to offer more consistent coverage on TV as I believe they do on local radio then audiences could grow.
It's better than nothing though, obviously.”
The Beeb show plenty of rugby league, they show live matches from each round of the Challenge Cup. Usually they show them in the afternoon (as they did on Saturday) but this time they showed one of them on Friday night instead. Maybe that was more to do with there being no time on Sunday with the cycling and the golf to show it there instead, so that was the only available slot, rather than any grand plan.
As I said, it didn't help that there was a massive stoppage during the match which also meant it overran and the 10pm programme had to be dropped, which may well have rated higher. But it was hardly a total disaster for BBC2, it didn't rate brilliantly but there'll be many programmes that do worse than that on primetime BBC2 this year. Not sure we can extrapolate much from one rating.
Originally Posted by Chief_Wiggum:
“It's not necessarily libellous to suggest it because we have simply come to an obvious conclusion based on what has happened. If proof or reporting emerges showing that Kelly Cates was not sacked, I will happily retract my statement.”
I think if you're going to announce on a public forum that a presenter has been sacked, the onus is probably on you to find the proof, rather than to wait for proof that she hasn't just left of her own accord.
) For CT, though, the asides just make the game even more annoying.
