Re: 1 Week to go and the BBC : Fri Jan 30, 2015 7:29 pm  

Fairly newsworthy headline on the BBC website now, and the kind of story that could break the national print media.

Re: 1 Week to go and the BBC : Fri Jan 30, 2015 7:43 pm  

For example, how hard would it be to screen the Superleague Show nationwide at a sensible time of day? Are their schedules so crammed with quality product that there's really no space other 2.00 am on a Tuesday?


I'll bet there are plenty of casual sports fans who would watch it if it came on at 7.30 pm, and aren't even aware it exists at the moment. All these little thing s would help build awareness of our code.

Re: 1 Week to go and the BBC : Fri Jan 30, 2015 9:46 pm  

moto748 wrote:

For example, how hard would it be to screen the Superleague Show [b]nationwide at a sensible time of day?[/b] Are their schedules so crammed with quality product that there's really no space other 2.00 am on a Tuesday?


I'll bet there are plenty of casual sports fans who would watch it if it came on at 7.30 pm, and aren't even aware it exists at the moment. All these little thing s would help build awareness of our code.

It was..all of last season, on a Tuesday at 1pm on BBC2, it'll never make an evening slot on a major terrestial channel, that's just dreamland.

Re: 1 Week to go and the BBC : Fri Jan 30, 2015 10:38 pm  

C'mon lads. Quit whinging. They've changed the front page on the BBC page now.



This time a more wholesome story for the sport on the eve of the new season.

Re: 1 Week to go and the BBC : Sat Jan 31, 2015 2:15 am  

knockersbumpMKII wrote:

It was..all of last season, on a Tuesday at 1pm on BBC2, it'll never make an evening slot on a major terrestial channel, that's just dreamland.

Tuesday afternoons mean nothing to most people. I don't see why such a modest move should be dreamland at all. Is league not worthy of the same degree of coverage by the BBC as, say, womens' football (not that I'm saying womens' football shouldn't be covered)?

Re: 1 Week to go and the BBC : Sat Jan 31, 2015 2:35 am  

moto748 wrote:

Tuesday afternoons mean nothing to most people. I don't see why such a modest move should be dreamland at all. Is league not worthy of the same degree of coverage by the BBC as, say, womens' football (not that I'm saying womens' football shouldn't be covered)?

As a one off maybe, as a regular slot, it won't happen, not on BBC One or Two, not to mention ITV1, CH4 or CH5. BBC3 is going online only soon so that leaves BBC4 (nope, no chance), one of the other ITV channels, again just won't happen because not enough commercial interest

Re: 1 Week to go and the BBC : Sat Jan 31, 2015 6:06 am  

If the bbc don't want to get hits and want to ignore one of the most popular sports in the country more fool them. If I was bbc ceo I'd want to know why my sports media team were so poor at their jobs.

Re: 1 Week to go and the BBC : Sat Jan 31, 2015 8:00 pm  

JB Down Under wrote:

If the bbc don't want to get hits and want to ignore one of the most popular sports in the country more fool them. If I was bbc ceo I'd want to know why my sports media team were so poor at their jobs.

Yep.....because you know better

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Re: 1 Week to go and the BBC : Sun Feb 01, 2015 11:04 am  

Rugby league was already a tin pot regional sport worthy of the negligible interest the bbc give us. And then what we did was get rid of the only top flight club from the South and a club that people will have been vaguely aware of outside the heartlands.

At a stroke we made ourselves even less relevant to the bbc. They might sit up and take notice when bradford, leigh and london get bent over in the middle 8s but that will largely be to laugh at us.

Re: 1 Week to go and the BBC : Sun Feb 01, 2015 12:45 pm  

Pumpetypump wrote:

Rugby league was already a tin pot regional sport worthy of the negligible interest the bbc give us. And then what we did was get rid of the only top flight club from the South and a club that people will have been vaguely aware of outside the heartlands.

At a stroke we made ourselves even less relevant to the bbc. They might sit up and take notice when bradford, leigh and london get bent over in the middle 8s but that will largely be to laugh at us.

Didn't London finish bottom of the league ?