24-04-2022, 09:27 PM
(24-04-2022, 04:52 PM)telebox2001 Wrote: Different world. See also: BBC Wimbledon schedules where anything involving Murray (and I assume from this year, Radacanu) will see the schedules switched. I'm guessing in the old days there were far more immovable objects with that fortnight compared to today.
Well, there were schools programmes and the like, although schedules were far more regimented in those days. I know there was a stat that in the eighties sport made up 40% of BBC2's output for 2% of its budget so they did take some of it for granted a bit and it was considered the ultimate schedule filler. This is the great example, joining a live football match 15 minutes in so they could show Wogan as usual - https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/se...5#at-19.00
People say schedules are boring these days but the broadcasters are far more likely to move things around, in the eighties and nineties you might get EastEnders or Top of the Pops moved once or twice a year at most, and the schedules were often pretty mundane.
(24-04-2022, 05:33 PM)telebox2001 Wrote: Good question. Would matches have been shown on BBC 2 when that was the only colour service?
Not England matches, no, because they were almost never shown live in those days. In fact it wasn't until the start of BSB in 1990 that England home games were broadcast live as a matter of course.
Anyway, England played on Channel Five five times and didn't lose any of them.