One Of Pet Hates

[renegadefm]

I find it so annoying when Football or Rugby takes over a whole Saturday evenings tele. 

This happened a few weeks ago when regular prime time tv shows for a Saturday night was cancelled and if my memory was right it was Rugby that ruined the whole evenings viewing. 

 

My argument to that is with hundreds of channels and quite a few Sports channels, surely Football or Rugby matches could be put on the Sports channels. Not pollute a normal Saturday night tv viewing. 

 

I look forward to our weekends as a family and sit down and watch what normally is family viewing on a Saturday night. 

 

Why are Sporting events allowed to steam roller their way over normal shows? 

[renegadefm]

Peter Pedant, 

I think you just answered my question. 

 

Tele is still dominated by 90% men.

 

Problem is I can't stand football or Rugby, so I must be with the 10%

[barry1010]

Just do what you would have done on the Saturday after the series ended.  As you say, there are plenty of channels to choose from, plus iPlayer, ITVX and the rest.  Or enjoy the lighter evenings and go out.

[THECORBYLOON]

If you want the sports shown on BBC2 or ITV2 it's all right for their viewers to be affected as long as you're okay?

[ToraToraTora]

surely nobody watches TV at the time it's on anyway. Just record all your programs and watch them when you want. Ie during the football if you don't want to watch it.

[ichkeria]

If they put them on the other channels there would be a big row between the menfolk and the womenfolk 🙄  about what to watch.

Crockery would be broken, punches thrown and it would all get very nasty.  No one wants that 😁

No one wants that ...

[douglas9401]

Are we talking about the Women's 6 Nations?

If so I agree.

A little patience and perseverence has resulted in the boss now taking a passing interest in F1 and snooker. Give it a try.

[jno]

BBC2 could broadcast football as a cultural event. Though I suppose "cultural football" is actually rugby.

[jourdain2]

It very much irritates us both (male and female) when a programme scheduled to start at, say, 7.30 p.m. is postponed because a dratted football match has run over for some reason.  Quite often we will turn on  say 10 mins. later to find that the match only overran by a few minutes - but they are still da**ed well talking about it! Then they carry on talking  about it until the next programme is due, instead of cutting it all out after the last whistle and slotting everything else in just a couple of minutes late.

Not that it worries us at all of course. 👿

[Old_Geezer]

Well rene, they all sound like they're pay-to-view independent channels so can't count. Where are the freeview sports channels ?

[Hopkirk]

Your own question says there are 'hundreds of channels'.

Surely you can find something else to watch. Failing that, use BBC iPlayer.

[theshedman]

renegadefm, "If you are a dedicated sports fan, you probably subscribe to some or all of these anyway".  We do by subscribing to the BBC which we have no choice in if we wish to watch live TV and that includes watching sky sports or TNT sports so we pay twice.  Also there is usually nothing much on on a Saturday night anyway but if you don't like sports then there is ITV X or I player.

[barry1010]

There was far more sport on BBC1 and ITV back in the day when there was only two channels.  That's why some very average programmes got very high viewing figures

[Deskdiary]

I assume the OP is talking about Fra v Eng a couple of weeks ago where KO was on Saturday evening. This was 1 game out of 15 that had a Saturday evening KO, with all other games kicking off in the afternoon (OK, granted, there were a few 4.45pm KOs which would go into early evening), so it's hardly a hardship for 1 Saturday on 1 channel. 

 

It may have annoyed you, but it didn't annoy me, and didn't annoy the millions of rugby fans who tuned in.

[renegadefm]

Using the iplayer would have been useless, as they ommited the shows we normally watch that evening.

 

 

[Maydup]

I'm female and I'm an occasional "big ticket" sport fan. Therefore I don't pay to view and I do expect the BBC and ITV to cover the major events when they are on. 

The Boat Race, the London Marathon, the Olympics, Ascot, the Open Golf, the World Cup, the FA Cup and so on. 

Naturally that will interfere with the regular schedule but I don't watch very much of that, mostly good dramas or documentaries, so it seems very fair to me that fit a change, we get to see some quality coverage in a Saturday night rather than the usual offerings.
 

 

[Maydup]

for not fit 

[Canary42]

Too trivial to be a pet hate, but I do agree that it's irritating.

[renegadefm]

My main point here is the sports events actually meant the regular Saturday evening shows were cancelled!

 

I couldn't record them to watch later, it just means we got to wait another week, so that weekend was ruined for us as a family. I only get 2 weekends off a month so our Saturday evenings sat watching prime tele is quite important. 

 

My point is why is sports stuff allowed to steam roller its way into prime time Saturday evening tele? I can't remember this happening when we actually had less channels. 

[barry1010]

You've had lots of answers and now you are just labouring the points you made in your opening post.

Have a movie instead, or go bowling.