fucking bbc2 scotland

[gringo]

REEEEALY wanted to seee this programme on bbc2--blizzard:race to the pole--- and instead i have to endure this village football match, hearts vs athens.


ahhhhh scotland, your local-news, tv, football, and windchill factor sucks!!!!

[Fozzy Bear]

tough.
dont like scotland. dont live here.
and as for the football, it's a champions league game involving one of the bigger teams in scotland at the moment.
if it was an english team playing, the match would be shown and there would be no complaints.

and next time, dont decide you want to watch something that;s on in other regions without checking bbc scotland.

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[queen of scots]

What pisses me off is it seems we have to put up with English football when that's on, plus the Scottish games too. And I can't even begin to describe just how much I hate, loathe and detest football.

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[Malcolm]

Quoting gringo from 21:10, 9th Aug 2006
ahhhhh scotland, your local-news, tv, football, and windchill factor sucks!!!!

100% in agreement here. Everybody I know from Edinburgh is obsessed (and I mean that, even those who show no sign of being into football have the obsession hidden deep within - nobody likes Hibs anymore) with Hearts, but I can't stand Scottish football at all.

Local news and TV, shite. I'm too cheap to get Sky, but rest assured I'd be watching the London feeds if I did have it.

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[thePontificator]

So when you go to Spain do you complain that they insist on showing Real Madrid matches on tv rather than Newsnight?

The only people with anything to complain about are those who don't like football as two channels are currently devoted to it. Anyone fed up because Scottish football is on is kindly reminded that they are IN SCOTLAND.

[Iain]

Go digital and watch whatever flavour of BBC you want and quit complaining just because you happen to be in Scotland. Simple solution. Yes, I'm a Hearts fan (and a bloody annoyed one at that we were pants until Jankauskas came on; and that sending off was the most rotten bit of refereeing since a certain Mr. Poll...)

[Colin]

Quoting Iain from 21:50, 9th Aug 2006
Yes, I'm a Hearts fan (and a bloody annoyed one at that we were pants until Jankauskas came on; and that sending off was the most rotten bit of refereeing since a certain Mr. Poll...)

Very harsh sending off. And also harsh getting beat by 2 goals right at the end (was getting very annoyed at the commentators going on about a famous victory for Hearts immediately before that. blatantly asking for it). But over all, Hearts were guff, and it was a fair result.

[WashingtonIrving]

Given that football is the nations most popular game and it was a champions league match I don't think its surprising that it was shown. I stopped watching after 10 minutes though, they were crap.

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[The Yettoner]

It generally annoys me whoever's playing from whatever country, whatever the sport when they change the shedules. Can we not have a sports channel for this sort of thing on terrestrial TV? It annoyed me most with the World Cup - not everyone wants to watch bloody football.

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[Lid]

It's the British Broadcasting Corporation, not the Scottish Broadcasting Corporation.

I think your rant is perfectly reasonable. If I had Sky, I too would watch the London feeds.

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[Rufus]

Lid:

Why be so London-centric?

[Rufus]

Quoting gringo from 21:10, 9th Aug 2006

ahhhhh scotland, your local-news, tv, football, and windchill factor sucks!!!!

It's not so hot down south either. In fact, it's worse.

I recall watching a news item the other week where chav girls had been kept overnight in the cells due to vandalising a playpark. Rather than being a neutral account, the item interviewed the 'distressed' idiots and their parents, who said things like 'we were only carvin' our names on sumfink' as if they had done nothing wrong.

So, zip it.

[Colin]

To those ranting about the coverage:

Forgive me for thinking that football happens to be the most popular sport in both Scotland and the UK as a whole. And how dare the majority who want to see the game get in your way. I forgot that that the BBC exists to show only what you want to see.

And anyway, live events should always take precedence if there is even a reasonable chunk of the population that will want to see them. Its not as if every other programme wont be repeated ad nauseam anyway - do you really need to see some people falling about in the snow right now? Why not at any of the 4 or 5 times it will be on BBC 3 or 4 over the next week?

[Fozzy Bear]

Quoting Lid from 00:33, 10th Aug 2006
It's the British Broadcasting Corporation, not the Scottish Broadcasting Corporation.

I think your rant is perfectly reasonable. If I had Sky, I too would watch the London feeds.

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yes, it is.
please note that it's not the ENGLISH Broadcasting Corporation either.
the way they go on about things "nationwide" or "across the UK" when it affects the south east of england really pisses me off.

and because it's the British Broadcasting Corportion you think it should show London feeds?
would you mind explaining yourself?

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[David Bean]

I believe that people should essentially accept the programming of the region they're in, but be thankful that the digital option is now available to everyone, which allows programmes like the one originally noted to be viewed irrespective of your region by tuning into the digital repeat.

However, unless I'm much mistake, wasn't the progrramme in question about the race to the South Pole between prominent Norwegian Roald Amundssen, and prominent Dundonian, Scott of the Antarctic? If so, it would seem a rather strange decision to have bumped it for a football match, but there again I daresay hat they must have rescheduled it, unless the BBC2 controller is a total dumbass (in which case I reccomend writing an articulate letter of complaint to the Radio Times: worked for me a few years ago when I complained about technical disruptions to a Due South episode - they printed the letter and re-screened the programme).

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[niall]

Quoting Lid from 00:33, 10th Aug 2006
It's the British Broadcasting Corporation, not the Scottish Broadcasting Corporation.

that argument would only hold if the Hearts game had been broadcast over the entire network, but since the british (hah) Broadcasting corporation are to cheap to buy the nationwide rights, its left to BBC scotland to buy them and show them in scotland.

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[thePontificator]

Quoting Lid from 00:33, 10th Aug 2006
It's the British Broadcasting Corporation, not the Scottish Broadcasting Corporation.

I think your rant is perfectly reasonable. If I had Sky, I too would watch the London feeds.

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Yes it is the BBC. BBC SCOTLAND. That's the country we're living in, I'd have hoped you would have noticed by now.

Also, Hearts in the Champions League would probably take precedence for most people over the dramatisation of a courageously unsuccessful Dundonian, whose story is well known.

[Odysseus]

I just get the feeling this is another attempt at Scots-bashing, which seems to be quite a popular sport on this forum. You don't like it, you can go back down South. Simple.

Anyway, I was at the game and have to say I was disgusted by the lack of fight and invention in the team. AEK are an average European side and they could (and should) have won by more. Still, a couple of good signings and we'll have a chance of winning the league.

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[Setsuna]

AEK are not an average team. They have been completely revamped over the last couple of years after coming from the brink of financial disaster. Last season they finished second behind Olympiakos, the season before 3rd behind them and Panathanaikos. THey have a huge fanatical support, and the passion of their supporters makes any Scottish team look tame. All we care about in this country is Celtic and Rangers, its fucking disgusting.

THe success of AEK is easily comparable with Hearts last season. And Euro 2004 proved that you should never underestimate the Greeks.

I wasnt surprised Hearts got beat.

And moaning about football on TV? Please. You'll never win that one. Change the bloody channel or hurry up and get a freeview box.

ALthough stop them showing England games here, The only ones worth watching are Arsenal, purely for me to perv on Jens Lehmann.

[Lid]

Quoting thePontificator from 11:11, 10th Aug 2006
Yes it is the BBC. BBC SCOTLAND. That's the country we're living in, I'd have hoped you would have noticed by now.

Last time I checked, the country we were living in was the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

My point was that how come Scotland gets much longer opt-ins than the other regions? For example, the Great Yorkshire Show had to be squeezed into a thirty minute news summary, doing it anything but justice.

One thing that really did annoy me last year was BBC Two Scotland showing some Scottish stuff, when the rest of the UK got to see The Great British Menu, even so far as one day they had to change the time and day of the airing of the Scottish heat to be later than the rest of the UK!

Now, down in England, I've seen Scottish football now and again. However, Scotland, in terms of BBC organisation is a region. I have far more times seen Liverpool or Chelsea or Aston Villa play than I have Sheffield Wednesday or Leeds or Grimsby Town, even though they fall into our region.

Lastly, if you ranked the programmes on the BBC Review criteria, which would win out, the Scotland United vs Non-empire City match, or the other documentary programme?

Just for reference, the criteria are "high quality", "challenging", "original", "innovative" and "engaging".


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