The Sport Thread

[Markymark]

According to the TV Guide, they finished at 8pm like BBC One.

Yes, they went on until about 8.05, no Big Long List Of Credits or anything.

In addition the camera up in the VIP stands (for the cup and medal presentations) was shared between BBC and ITV,  simply because it was impossible to have two cameras (of that era) there. I also gather both broadcasters shared some of the scaffold rigs too.

I've probably mentioned this before, but the radio commentary box at the old Wembley had no view of the royal box so the commentators had to watch it on the telly. Alan Green mentioned in his book that after the 1993 League Cup Final, when Steve Morrow broke his arm in the celebrations, the presentations were delayed by so long that ITV decided to go to an ad break and play in the presentations as live after it. That meant when they actually happened, Alan Green was watching adverts and had to make the whole thing up, guessing when the trophy was lifted by the noise of the crowd.

Ha! I'm sure if the Beeb had asked ITV nicely they'd have plonked a monitor with clean feed truck output in the commentry box for them!