Safeway
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Announced on 5 Live tonight. What's that all about? 
For contract reasons we are unable to bring you coverage from inside Old Trafford"
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Ferguson and his alledgedly crooked son?
albionalex
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Odd.
maidstoneseagull
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is it on Talksport?
kevtherev
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itv have exclusive rights to one game, this week its Man Utd..Thats why the Chelsea game is on Sky and not itv2 or 4 or whatever.
John Boy
Paul McShane
ITV have the television rights, surely not the radio rights? Talksport and 5live have both got commentary of the Chelsea game, odd
This really gets me, most of us are lucky with TV, Sky etc, but what about the poor old sod with just a radio and a mug of tea ... what's he to do?
F**k me, did I really say that ...
F**k me, did I really say that ...
liverpool_one
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Tooting Gull
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- Jul 5, 2003
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Most other broadcasters wouldn't say that, in fact they wouldn't draw attention to it in any way that they WEREN'T broadcasting live from the venue. I suspect it's the BBC's own slightly pompous way of saying: 'We didn't bid enough'.
brakespear
Doctor Worm
Would have only been Alan Green anyway so better it didn't happen at all.
Brighton M
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In around 2001 ITV Champions League day got moved from Wednesday's to Tuesdays (apart from the final).
I notice tonight it's back on Wednesdays again.
Something must be different.
I notice tonight it's back on Wednesdays again.
Something must be different.
Brighton M
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And strangely, ITV didn't mention the Chelsea score in the Man U game....
clapham_gull
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- Aug 20, 2003
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I'd imagine the rights ITV negotiated stated the BBC wasn't allowed to broadcast the game on the radio.
The radio rights wouldn't have been that expensive, but if the television rights state they are exclusive in sound and vision there is very little the BBC could do.
Television rights are becoming more and more complicated, notice the holes in the Iplayer / SkyPlayer online schedules particularly with American programmes.
The Yanks don't really understand why a broadcaster would put their stuff online without trying to charge more for it. They are completly bemused by IPlayer which you don't even need a television licence to view (at the moment) because it isn't live.
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clapham_gull
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- Aug 20, 2003
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In a way, but the BBC being the BBC would have felt that it was completely the proper thing to do to tell the viewers they couldn't do something listeners would have expected.
I doubt it's a money issue as posted above.
Silent Bob
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- Dec 6, 2004
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Or they were keeping people up to date with the score?
desprateseagull
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itv2+1 used to list repeats of what was on itv2, but some shows had 'due to legal reasons we cannot show this program..;
so why list it? and what legal reasons?? grr
(see new thread re freeview probs on itv2+1 today..)
so why list it? and what legal reasons?? grr
(see new thread re freeview probs on itv2+1 today..)
Lord Bracknell
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Why can't Alan Green do what the cricinfo commentators do for test matches? Watch it on the telly and tell the world what they are seeing.
RexCathedra
Aurea Mediocritas
Conversely, iPlayer BBC content can't be played over here, because someday BBC America might run it. I missed the recent "Coast" episode that featured Brighton, for example.
South Yarra Seagull
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Same over in Oz. "Regional Restrictions".
I get most of my UK telly from this site - Home - UKNova - including that Ep of Coast...