Total Moronic BBC Scheduling

On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:30:40 +0100
"Agamemnon" wrote: snip

Another thought, perhaps you need a new DIGITAL aerial.

This won't help BBC scheduling, but you can bask in the glow...

R.

On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:04:02 UTC, Yellow
wrote:

It would be a bit like just showing the finals at Wimbledon but not
bothering to broadcast any of the previous 14 days worth of
"qualifying" matches that set up who the participants of the finals
would be.

What an excellent idea.

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Yellow wrote:
Mark Carver ] said:
Yellow wrote:

I don't think a 15 minute delay on the dancing is going to kill anyone
and it was (thank you BBC for not just abandoning the coverage!)
transferred over to BBC2 for the rest of the session at that point.
No, although it was clear by 19:15hrs that nothing was going to get going
before 19:30hrs, so they could have gone to SCD at the scheduled time.

SCD? Sorry, I dunno what that is.

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challenge, do it without swearing.

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Yellow wrote:

Mark Carver ] said:

I wonder if the continuous coverage, including the 30 second overlap with BBC
2, was actually some contractual agreement with Bernie E, that the BBC must
provide *uninterrupted* coverage ?

Dunno, but it was very very much appreciated by those of us who have
been watching every F1 show on the BBC for the last 17 races, getting up
in the middle of the night for some and sitting inside on sunny
afternoons for others, who would have been heart broken to have missed
the eventual restart and the successful conclusion of this session.

Thank you BBC!

I don't think Bernie has much to do with it. It is probably that the
BBC said it would show uninterrupted coverage of qualifying (and the
race of course) on it's main channels before the season started. This
is the unique selling point of the BBC, they are unencumbered by
advertising breaks. Do you remember the debacle where ITV went to an
ad break in the closing stages and missed the finish of the race? Now
that really was totally moronic, especially so because it was still in
the balance as to who would win.
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Yellow wrote:
...............
......... At least now we have PVRs that can
juggle recordings on the fly so that's something anyway..........

Unfortunately the BBC, I think, did not keep up with the start time
changes. This caused my Humax to crash, for the first time ever, whilst
I was trying to re-jiggle the recording schedule.

If they're going to mess around to give sport priority on BBC1 the least
they could do is to keep up!

Of course it could have been the Humax refusing to keep changing start
times in the EPG!

Richard

Dickie mint wrote:
Yellow wrote:
..............
......... At least now we have PVRs that can juggle recordings on the
fly so that's something anyway..........

Unfortunately the BBC, I think, did not keep up with the start time
changes. This caused my Humax to crash, for the first time ever, whilst
I was trying to re-jiggle the recording schedule.

If they're going to mess around to give sport priority on BBC1 the least
they could do is to keep up!

Of course it could have been the Humax refusing to keep changing start
times in the EPG!

FWIW my Humax Freesat PVR that was set to record SCD, only actually managed to
record 7 minutes worth of the overrunning F1 coverage.

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Mark Carver wrote:
Dickie mint wrote:
Yellow wrote:
..............
......... At least now we have PVRs that can juggle recordings on the
fly so that's something anyway..........

Unfortunately the BBC, I think, did not keep up with the start time
changes. This caused my Humax to crash, for the first time ever,
whilst I was trying to re-jiggle the recording schedule.

If they're going to mess around to give sport priority on BBC1 the
least they could do is to keep up!

Of course it could have been the Humax refusing to keep changing start
times in the EPG!

FWIW my Humax Freesat PVR that was set to record SCD, only actually
managed to record 7 minutes worth of the overrunning F1 coverage.

Oh, what my scrambled brain meant to say was it only managed to record 7
minutes of BBC HD (19:15 to 19:22), rather than any of the delayed SCD on the
BBC HD channel. I was watching BBC 1 SD at the time.

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On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:23:48 +0100, Yellow
wrote:

Apparently not, as the BBC have decided that BBC1 and BBC2 are the right
place for most sport for the time being even if that means bumping the
occasional popularist programme to show it.

Interesting that you chose the word "popularist" with its overtones,
rather than the more obvious and apt "popular" - since many more
people would have watched the scheduled programme had it been shown.

Mark Carver ] said:

Yellow wrote:
Mark Carver ] said:
Yellow wrote:

I don't think a 15 minute delay on the dancing is going to kill anyone
and it was (thank you BBC for not just abandoning the coverage!)
transferred over to BBC2 for the rest of the session at that point.
No, although it was clear by 19:15hrs that nothing was going to get going
before 19:30hrs, so they could have gone to SCD at the scheduled time.

SCD? Sorry, I dunno what that is.

Strictly Come Dancing

LOL! Gotcha. :-)

I thought it was the name of a digital channel and was racking my brain
successfully.