Originally Posted by wizzywick:
“And, more importantly, why did the BBC decide to give Rio 2016 its own ident, Glasgow 2014 its own ident yet London 2012 absolutely nothing?”
There were only three other programmes on BBC1 during London 2012, the news, a Grand Prix and Andrew Marr, so there seemed little point in creating an ident hardly anyone would see. That's besides the fact that BBC1 has a different Controller now than they did in 2012 who may have a different opinion about using special idents.
Originally Posted by
D.M.N.:
“Interestingly, I was looking for a comparison to last night's rating, and I think you'd find it difficult to find one given the timings of the previous Opening Ceremonies:
25/07/1992 - Barcelona - 17:15 to 21:00”
This is a bit of a boring observation but as you can see from this YouTube video -
https://youtu.be/u_1BemhUPX4 - although it was billed as such in the Radio Times the Opening Ceremony in Barcelona was actually ninety minutes later than that, with BBC1 showing the film Summer Rental to fill the gap. Dunno what happened there.
Originally Posted by lewiep93:
“BBC 2
20:30: Dad's Army - 1.35m
21:00: The Mystery of Van Gough's Ear - 1.48m
22:10: Olympics 2016 - 680k”
Quite good for BBC2, that, certainly for Van Gogh. You would assume that BBC2 might try and be a bit more populist when BBC1 is non-stop sport but they clearly haven't done that, and the same is true of next Saturday when they're showing a Prom. Not doing them any harm at all. Not like in 1998 when they showed Kindergarten Cop opposite the First Night Of The Proms -
http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules...09-12#at-21.00
Originally Posted by Jokanovic:
“Blimey, it's only day one, full of minor sports and uncompetitive heats. Agree they look fine.
That London figure was no doubt questioned four years ago....”
Indeed, I well remember the concern for some posters around day three of 2012 when Britain weren't winning any Golds and they'd not done much in the road cycling. I particularly remember someone bemoaning the fact we were already out of the judo.
Originally Posted by Chris1964:
“Yes I think the British mindset these days is one of needing to be seen at-or at least being able to say that you have attended, a big event. London 2012 was the biggest ever British event -and full stadiums for heats were the norm iirc. I don't think we will see quite the same level of interest in Rio.
It will be interesting to see how well attended the World Athletic Championships are next year in London.”
This is kind of related to the fact that England can almost always sell out Wembley for a qualifier, however bad they are and even if they're playing San Marino or someone. People laugh at England "only" getting 60,000 for a friendly when most other countries happily play friendlies and qualifiers in 15,000 seater stadia and don't even fill them.
