[Football] BBC ONE Is Devoting Nearly THREE Hours To FA Cup Final Score?

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Last week in this slot was a repeat showing (perhaps the 4th or 5th showing) of Shrek 2. I imagine some felt the same about that. (and some loved it as a Sunday afternoon choice).

Yup, I'm sure you're right, there must be millions of families gathered round the telly enjoying snippets of Tranmere v Southport

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Agreed, tho highly reminiscent of the one time they tried to do Grandstand on the cheap with about three hours of snowboarding and mountain biking. Don't think they ever repeated that particular poundshop experiment

Grandstand was always done on the cheap. Motor bikes in the mud, horse racing, dreary amateur rugby, another horse race, then fat northerners in lycra 'wrestling'

edit: when I said 'lycra' I meant 'underpants'

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Yup, I'm sure you're right, there must be millions of families gathered round the telly enjoying snippets of Tranmere v Southport

You are, clearly

 

[Thunder Bolt]

That's all good (and I totally agree, I worked for the BBC for a number of years and normally have nothing but total respect for their output). But to foist 3 hours of pub bootball on the prime channel of a weekend afternoon? That's just taking the piss. It's like the Red Button had never been invented

Sunday afternoons on BBC1 usual fare is Escape to the Country, Songs of Praise and Countryfile. Which one of those are you missing?
Normally it's the women who complain about too much football. I'm surprised at you tbh.

The terrestrial channels have been done out of most live football games now, by Sky and BT, so it's good to have some live stuff. The FA cup is the last thing the BBC are allowed to have.

3rd round draw tomorrow evening. Brighton are no. 8.

 

[bha100]

All joking aside, how are you/anyone expected to pay over £200 a week in rent? It's a scandle and needs sorting, disgusting profiteering, partly by the buy to let brigade who suffered from low interest rates on their capital and are now ripping off their fellow citizens by charging exorbitant rents to justify supply and demand housing shortages. Despicable behaviour.

I agree, successive governments have never come up with a way of helping people in work poverty like me, im stuck in a vacuum as i can't afford to move anywhere cheaper even if i could find it, 61.84 % of my earnings go on rent.

single person 1 bed flat net income £1,415 pm

Rent, £875 pm 61.84% or £28.7671232877 per day
Council tax, £85 pm 6.0% or £2.79452054795 per day
Gas & Elec £45 pm 3.18% or £1.47945205479 per day
Water £22 pm 1.55% or £0.72328767123 per day
Broadband £18.99 pm 1.34% or £0.62432876712 per day
TV licence £12.50 pm 0.88% or £0.41095890411 per day
Mobile £27.00 pm 1.90% or £0.88767123287 per day

 

[blue-shifted]

So what's the BBC's aim this Sunday afternoon? To drive the majority of licence payers on to BBC2? Oh hang on, that's showing dreary snooker. BBC3 maybe? Nope, that's internet only. BBC4 then? Nope, only starts at 7pm. So essentially it's a choice between meaningless football and meaningless snooker. Sake!

I hardly ever get to watch TV, but enjoyed at least an hour of both this afternoon. Then I turned on IPlayer, as Jason Mohammed sagely advised me to do and watched the World Cup round up. Lovely.

If you aren't into snooker or the 2nd round of the FA Cup there are plenty of other channels and indeed plenty of other entertainment options. Why not take up a hobby? Moaning in chat-rooms?

 

[TheJasperCo]

Why? We bang on about trying to make the FA Cup interesting again, and the Beeb are trying to do that. Why shouldn't we give exposure to the cup and the teams that are still in the hat? It's in the public interest. It's a public service broadcaster. It's precisely why I pay my 41p a day.

Let me just repeat that. 41p a day.

For less than the price of the Daily Fail, I get...

BBC 1, 2, 3, 4. BBC 3 online
Radio 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and the Extra channels
iPlayer
the website
Access to original UK drama like Informer, Killing Eve, Sherlock etc etc

All for 41p a day.

And to think that there are far too many people that want to see the BBC Trust eradicated so that we can pay private broadcaster through the nose for services which should be a lot cheaper, and we can hand over control of all our media to rich money men with an agenda to pursue.

The Beeb ain't perfect, but it is a damn sight better than the alternative - a feral media landscape where you and I get fleeced.

41p a day.

Politically speaking, I think the BBC sadly has its own agenda too - sadly. I think it's the principle that in this day and age it seems ludicrous to have to pay for a licence to watch TV. It's archaic, and I say that as someone who holds British institutions in high regard usually.

Are you in favour of the monarchy? If not, then the '41p per day' argument could apply there as well. It's a question of perspective.

 

[Questions]

Grandstand was always done on the cheap. Motor bikes in the mud, horse racing, dreary amateur rugby, another horse race, then fat northerners in lycra 'wrestling'

edit: when I said 'lycra' I meant 'underpants'

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You retract that Harry and you retract that now.
Grandstand never showed wrestling - that was World of sports contribution between 4.00 and 4.40.

No, the BBC showed show jumping and badminton and all the other biggies thank you very much.

I loved the teleprinter........... let’s get it back.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

You retract that Harry and you retract that now.
Grandstand never showed wrestling - that was World of sports contribution between 4.00 and 4.40.

No, the BBC showed show jumping and badminton and all the other biggies thank you very much.

I loved the teleprinter........... let’s get it back.

Gosh. You're right. Rather than get my shovel to dig myself into an ever deepening and shameful hole, I shall salute your indefatigability.

 

[KZNSeagull]

REALLY?! Total Abuse of our prime licence payer channel in search of cheap telly. More than a bit pathetic really.

Also don't forget that without the "cheap" telly, the BBC would not be able to afford to make stuff like Dynasties which was, once again, superb.

 

[KZNSeagull]

You retract that Harry and you retract that now.
Grandstand never showed wrestling - that was World of sports contribution between 4.00 and 4.40.

No, the BBC showed show jumping and badminton and all the other biggies thank you very much.

I loved the teleprinter........... let’s get it back.

And Moto Cross.

 

[Questions]

And Moto Cross.

It was won every week by a fellow called Arthur Lampkin (sp)

Years later I saw it on Eurosport or Sky or some channel and his son was winning everything as well.

I remember seeing The Duke of Edingburgh regurly winning carriage racing. What an event that was.
Erica Roe, Cambridge sinking in the boat race................bring it back................fecking Bargain Hunt with Angie Dickinson now.

 

[sully]

All joking aside, how are you/anyone expected to pay over £200 a week in rent? It's a scandle and needs sorting, disgusting profiteering, partly by the buy to let brigade who suffered from low interest rates on their capital and are now ripping off their fellow citizens by charging exorbitant rents to justify supply and demand housing shortages. Despicable behaviour.

It’s not really for this thread but give up blaming buy to let landlords. They are providing a service and mostly far from profiteering.

My tenant is perfectly happy with his rent and even did a great bit of Tim nice but dim negotiating last time we did a rent review by offering more than I wanted!

Remove the rental market and many more would be unable to find any accommodation at all. I’m sure you’d enjoy the workhouse.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Blimey. People on a football forum complaining about the national broadcaster showing football. Weird


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[sully]

Blimey. People on a football forum complaining about the national broadcaster showing football. Weird


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Indeed. I think it’s great that they’re showing loads of F.A. cup action again. A few years ago, it would have been the only air time we got and we’d have been lapping it up. I’ve even watched the Football Focusses on the cup weekends and it’s been great hearing about the lower league and non league clubs still involved and their hopes and dreams.

Perhaps it’s just that I love football.

 

[GOM]

.....It's the same level of patronisation they afford the women's game where they pretend not to acknowledge that it's all about filling the screen with cheap telly.:

..........But to foist 3 hours of pub bootball on the prime channel of a weekend afternoon? That's just taking the piss. :

Don't forget that 'pub football' was us not many years ago. I really enjoyed the first round coverage.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Don't forget that 'pub football' was us not many years ago. I really enjoyed the first round coverage.

I watched the Solihull Moors match against Blackpool. I loved the interview with Dan Walker & the owner of Solihull, when asked what getting into the 2nd round meant to them, the owner replied, I can tarmac the car park now.
It's not so long ago we were in a similar situation. Just ten short years.

 

[maffew]

surely this is the most obvious woosh ever? We need a :woosh: smiley


(bbc license money??) Who wants the fa cup and monkey programs anyway? RIP OFF

 

[maffew]

Blimey. People on a football forum complaining about the national broadcaster showing football. Weird


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[hans kraay fan club]

That's bollocks tho isn't it. BBC could quite as easily have put today's 3 hour extravaganza on the Red Button where somebody, somewhere might care. It's the same level of patronisation they afford the women's game where they pretend not to acknowledge that it's all about filling the screen with cheap telly.

Ignoring the subjective aspect of this (surely a bit of FA Cup football is a good thing?) are you really trying to suggest that that sending outside broadcast teams to eight simultaneous football grounds (all of which would have no permanent broadcast infrastructure) is the CHEAP option?