What's On BBC Red Button: 6th - 26th March
Here's our regular look at what's coming up under the red button...
The UK Asian Music Awards*
The UK Asian Music Awards are the British Asian
equivalent of the Brits, and for this year's event BBC Red Button will be
on hand to bring you the very best of the awards.
Front of house, BBC Asian Network's Bobby Friction will be hosting the star-filled
ceremony from London's Royal Festival Hall with Murtz reigning backstage
granting viewers exclusive access to all the stars and antics.
Press red for performances from Imran Khan, Jaz Dhami, Mumzy and Talvin
Singh.
The awards to be presented include Best Album, Female, Male, Producer, Urban
and International Acts - and the overall Outstanding Achievement gong.
Full details of the nominees and photo highlights can be seen on the Asian
Network website.
Sky & Virgin:
Wednesday 17th March, 6pm - Wednesday 24th March, 4am
Freeview:
Wednesday 17th March, 6pm - Friday 19th March, 12pm
Friday 19th March, 1pm - 6.45pm & 9.10pm - 8.50am (20th)
Saturday 20th March, 11.10am - 2.20pm & 6.10pm - 9.50pm
Sunday 21st March, 1.10am - 1.35pm & 4.15pm - Wednesday 24th March,
4am
(not available on Freesat)
CBeebies: Nuzzle & Scratch*
Younger BBC Red Button viewers can are in for
a treat as CBeebies' very own safety rangers Nuzzle & Scratch make their
debut on the service.
Our alpacas want to share all they know about 'Hoof and Safety', so press
the red button on your remote and see if you can spot those disasters waiting
to happen by taking their special interactive quiz!
Sky:
Saturday 6th - Friday 12th March, 6am - 7pm (daily)
Virgin:
Saturday 6th March, 6am - 8.30am & 11.30am - 7pm
Sunday 7th - Friday 12th March, 6am - 7pm (daily)
Freeview:
Saturday 6th March, 6am - 8.50am, 11.10am - 2.20pm & 6.10pm - 7pm
Sunday 7th March, 6am - 2.50pm
Monday 8th & Tuesday 9th March, 6am - 7pm
Wednesday 10th March, 6am - 2pm & 3pm - 7pm
Thursday 11th March,6am - 8.20am
Friday 12th March, 8.45 - 10.45am & 1.10pm - 7pm
(not available on Freesat)
BBC News: School Report
Thursday 11th March is News Day for School Report.
11-14 year olds at 700 schools across the UK will be filing their reports
to a 2pm deadline. More than 50,000 pupils have been involved over the school
year with around half that number working on their reports on the day.
Classrooms will turn into Newsrooms, so instead of normal lessons students will start their day discussing the news of the day. What stories will they choose? Who will they interview? And will they make that all important deadline?
Follow their day as it unfolds on BBC News School Report LIVE and School
report radio.
We'll be reporting from schools across the UK and on location in Bristol,
London, Manchester, Edinburgh and Ammanford.
Thursday 11th March, 9am - 6pm
Sky, Virgin & Freeview
(not available on Freesat)
Sport Relief: Red Button Donation†
Once again Sky viewers will be able to use their
remote controls to make a donation to Sport Relief.
Since 2001, BBC audiences have used the Red Button to raise £9.5m
for charitable causes.
Sky only:
Monday 15th - Sunday 21st March
(Not available on Virgin, Freesat & Freeview)
BBC Blast Live
BBC Blast Northern Ireland presents Volume
Control at the Oh Yeah Music Centre in Belfast - a music event, organised
and driven by young people.
Viewers pressing red on the night can see three of Northern Ireland's most
promising new bands - The Good Fight (featured), Skruff and The Key of Atlas.
Blast Live is a BBC Northern Ireland production but will be available to
all UK viewers on BBC Red Button via BBC One and Two.
Sky/Virgin/Freeview:
Friday 19th March, 7.55pm - 10pm
(not available on Freesat)
Eurovision: Your Country Needs You!
Your Country Needs You!
Graham Norton and Pete Waterman host the show where you decide which contestant
will represent the UK at this year's Eurovision Song Contest.
Press red to sing along with the contestants and decide who you want to
sing for Britain.
Sky, Virgin & Freeview:
Friday 12th March, 8.30pm - 10pm
(not available on Freesat)
EastEnders 25th Anniversary Quiz*
BBC Red Button viewers are cordially invited
to the Queen Vic where John Partridge and Rita Simons aka Christian and
Roxy await your company for some banter at the bar.
Press red to take a trip down memory lane and celebrate Albert Square's
25th year with our EastEnders Anniversary Quiz. Filmed on location at the
world-famous boozer these two well known faces from the Square take us through
some of the series' most infamous episodes from the 80s to the 00s.
Using the colour keys on your remote you'll be tested on your knowledge
of some of the show's greatest story lines.
Will you be a Walford wonder or just another duff-duff?
Sky & Virgin:
Saturday 6th March, 6am - 5am (7th)
Sunday 7th March, 6am - 4am (8th)
Freeview:
Saturday 6th March, 6am - 6.50am & 7.10pm - 12.50am (7th)
Sunday 7th March, 3pm - 4am (8th)
(not available on Freesat)
BBC Comedy: Bellamy's People*
Continuing our commitment to comedy we're giving
the red button treatment to Bellamy's People, the show that reunites
Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson for their first television collaboration
in 10 years.
Hapless radio talk show host Gary Bellamy will be taking digital viewers
behind the scenes of his complex and ground breaking TV series. Follow Gary
and his dedicated crew on a trip around our great nation as we look at the
making of Bellamy's People of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland. What could be more interesting than that?
Sky & Virgin:
Monday 8th - Wednesday 10th March, 9pm - 4am (daily)
Thursday 11th March, 10.25pm - 4am
Sunday 14th - Tuesday 16th March, 9pm - 4am (daily)
Freeview:
Monday 8th March, 9pm - 4am
Tuesday 9th March, 10.10pm - 4am
Wednesday 10th March, 9pm - 4am
Thursday 11th March, 10.25pm - 4am
(not available on Freesat)
The Danny Baker Show on BBC Radio 5 live*
When BBC Red Button brought its cameras into
the BBC Radio 5 live studios to give viewers a glimpse behind the scenes
of the 606 football phone-in show last year, Danny Baker and Tim
Lovejoy were among the presenters. Now Danny's back with his Saturday morning
show for the 2009/2010 football season and the cameras are continuing to
roll!
As well as seeing the man himself (possibly wearing his favourite pirate
hat), digital viewers pressing the red button can send in texts and pictures
to be shown on screen.
These will be accompanied by all the great content you might expect from
5 live: the weekend's football tables, fixture lists, upcoming commentaries,
sports news and details of upcoming Red Button content. Plus, look out for
some rather more unexpected content: spoof fixtures and unique animations
as Danny sets up audience head-to-heads on the phone.
Brett Spencer, Interactive Editor at 5 live, discusses the visualisation
in more depth on the station's blog.
Sky &Virgin:
Saturday 6th, 13th & 20th March, 9am - 11am
Freeview:
Saturday 6th & 20th March, 9am - 11am
(not available on Freesat)
CBeebies Red Button
BBC Red Button welcomes younger viewers and grown-ups
with a sense of adventure to a big, bright and fun new world. The CBeebies
interactive service has relaunched!
Now your children's favourite characters are at the heart of the interactive
TV experience. A big, new and bright carousel now greets visitors providing
easy access to games, other children's interactive services such as karaoke
or quizzes, birthdays and star of the week messages.
Different Games
Reflecting the popularity of games for the young audience, a new range of
activities has been specially created. The updated service brings with it
brand new games for some of the most popular shows on CBeebies, including
In The Night Garden and The Green Balloon Club. These new
games replace the old ones, which had become increasingly outdated.
Satellite and digital terrestrial viewers will have slightly different offerings from one another. This has enabled us to offer the best games tailored to each system.
BBC Children's producer Damian Vicary discusses the service on the Press Red blog.
CBeebies Red Button is available now on the CBeebies
channel, and via page 5900 on other channels.
Sky & Freeview
(not available on Virgin or Freesat)
Question Time Interactive
Take part in the studio debate by sending a text message
to the Question Time team.
Each week a selection of viewers' comments will appear during the programme
on BBC Red Button page 155 along with details of the panel and the topics
under discussion.
Available during the show (BBC One)
Thursday 11th, 18th & 25th March
Sky, Virgin, Freesat & Freeview
News Multiscreen: Video Choice
Each weekday BBC News' On Demand team will be
rounding-up the day's strongest news pictures to bring viewers a two-minute
package of highlights. On weekends the tone becomes more conversational
when Red Button viewers can watch a topical interview in 'Five Minutes
with...' or a round of the week's weird and wonderful videos in OddBox.
Video Choice: Weekdays (available around the clock)
Five Minutes With...:
Weekends (around the clock)
Sky & Virgin
(not available on Freeview or Freesat)
BBC Sport Multiscreen*
Catch up on all the latest Sport via the BBC Sport
multiscreen. Headlines are available around the clock with up to five additional
streams available to cover the best that BBC Sport has to offer.
Coming up...
F1 on BBC Red Button…*
F1 fans can customise their viewing experience via the red button with access
to all on-track sessions including Friday and Saturday practice and qualifying
with re-runs of classic GPs also available in the build-up to the main event.
On race day itself a choice of three streams will be available featuring
split-screen in-car camera feeds, leaderboards and rolling highlights, with
the option to listen to either network or BBC Radio 5 Live commentary. After
the end of each race on BBC One there will be an additional interactive
programme analysing the weekend's events and picking up views from the paddock
with race highlights often available the following day.
Full breakdowns of practice, qualifying, race, post-race forum and replay
timings and platform availability will be published on the BBC
Sport website.
Bahrain GP coverage from Friday 12th March
Australian GP coverage from Friday 26th March
- Jenson Button's Glorious Season†
Looking back at the 2009 F1 Season and Jenson Button's road to success.
Saturday 20th February from 2.30pm
Sunday 7th March, 10am - Friday 12th March, 12.30pm
(Sky/Virgin/Freesat. Not available on Freeview)
- Murray Walker's F1 Season†
Murray Walker takes Red Button viewers through the upcoming races and looks
back at Classic Grands Prix.
Wednesday 10th March, 6pm - Saturday 13th March, 6am
(Sky/Virgin/Freesat. Not available on Freeview)
- Inside F1†
Looking ahead to the weekend's Grand Prix.
Friday 12th March, 10.30pm - Saturday 13th March, 6am
Friday 26th March, from 6.30pm
(Sky/Virgin/Freesat. Not available on Freeview)
- Classic F1†
Looking back at memorable Grands Prix.
Wednesday 24th March, 6pm - Saturday 27th March, 6am
(Sky/Virgin/Freesat. Not available on Freeview)
Winter Olympics: Vancouver 2010†
Highlights from the 14th Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver.
Saturday 6th March, 6am - Wednesday 10th March, 7.30pm
(Sky/Virgin/Freesat. Not available on Freeview)
Paralympics: Curling*
Live coverage of the Winter Paralympic Curling Semi Final and Final.
Saturday 20th March,
Semi-final: 5pm - 7pm (Sky/Virgin/Virgin/Freesat. Not available on Freeview)
Final: 10pm - 1am (21st) (all platforms)
Rugby on BBC Red Button...*
- 6 Nations Live: Commentary Choice†
Live coverage of the 6 nations with audio options.
Saturday 13th March:
Ireland v Wales, 2pm - 4.25pm
Scotland v England, 4.35pm - 7pm
Sunday 14th March:
France v Italy, 2pm - 6.30pm
Saturday 20th March:
Wales v Italy, 2pm - 4.30pm
Ireland v Scotland, 4.45pm - 7pm
France v England, 7.15pm - 10pm
(Sky/Virgin/Freesat. Not available on Freeview)
- 6 Nations Highlights*
Highlights of the weekend's 6 Nations matches.
Sky/Virgin/Freesat:
Saturday 13th March, 4.35pm - Saturday 20th March, 6am
Saturday 20th March, 4.45pm - Friday 26th March, 6pm
Freeview:
Saturday 13th March, 6pm - 12.50am (14th)
Sunday 14th March, 7pm - 6am (15th)
- Rugby League: The Super League Show†
Another chance to watch the weekend's Rugby League action.
Sunday 7th March, 3pm - Monday 8th March, 8.30pm
Sunday 14th March, 4pm - Wednesday 17th March, 6.30pm
(Sky/Virgin/Freesat. Not available on Freeview)
- Rugby Union: Ireland v Wales U20s†
Live coverage of the Rugby Union match between Wales U20 and Ireland U20.
Friday 12th March, 7.15pm - 9.30pm
(Sky/Virgin/Freesat. Not available on Freeview)
- Scrum V Live†
Live coverage of the Magners League Ulster v Ospreys match with audio options.
Friday 19th March, timing TBC
(Sky/Virgin/Freesat. Not available on Freeview)
Football on BBC Red Button...
With the 2009/10 season football season in full swing, here at BBC Red Button
we won't taking our eyes off the ball with a host of programming to keep
fans up to date with the action until the silverware is lifted in May…
- Final Score
Gaby Logan and guests keep you up to date with all the day's football news
and results.
Saturday 6th, 13th & 20th March from 2.30pm
(all platforms)
- Midweek Final Score
Keep up with the evening's football action. Choose from a selection of commentated
matches with live stats, scores and the vidiprinter.
Tuesday 9th March from 7.30pm
(all platforms)
- Football League Show Repeat*
All the goals, round up and debate from the Football League. Presented by
Manish Bhasin.
Sky/Virgin/Freesat:
Sunday 7th March, 12.50am - 12pm
Sunday 14th March, 1.05am - 12pm
Sunday 20th March, 1.05am - 12pm
Freeview:
Sunday 7th March, 12.50am - 6.45am
- Friday Focus*
Join Mark Lawrenson for his Premier League predictions along with pundit
interviews.
Sky/Virgin/Freesat:
Friday 12th March, 6.30pm - 6am (13th)
Friday 19th March, 9pm - 6am (20th)
Friday 26th March, 6pm - 6am (27th)
Freeview:
Friday 12th March, 7.10pm - 8.15pm
- Match of the Day: Leicester v Coventry City
Live coverage with audio options.
Sunday 21st March, 1.45pm - 4pm
(all platforms)
- NI Schools Cup
Live coverage of the Northern Ireland Schools Cup football tournament with
audio options.
Wednesday 17th March, 1pm - 4.45pm
(all platforms)
Cycling: World Track Championships
Live coverage of the World Track Cycling Championships.
Wednesday 24th March, 6pm - 7pm
Thursday 25th March, 6pm - 6.30pm
Friday 26th March, 6pm - 7pm
(all platforms)
BBC Sport is available 24 hours a day
Sky, Virgin, Freesat & Freeview*
(*limited coverage on Freeview, †unavailable on Freeview)
Please note that Red Button sport timings are subject to change at short
notice.
For the latest information please check the BBC Sport website.
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Comments
"Full breakdowns of [F1] practice, qualifying, race, post-race forum and replay timings and platform availability will be published on the the BBC Sport website.
The way this is all being treated like a cloak and dagger mastery I'm getting a horrid feeling that the Freeview and Freesat (still) platforms are going to miss out on some substantial content, it's funny how the BBC can publish the schedule for the two Friday practice sessions but not inform us what the race and post race schedules are going to be, these will have been fixed in stone since the F1 race dates were confirmed...
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Boilerplated, you can find full listings here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7755219.stm (albeit with some errors)
The Pope is set to bump Malaysia to BBC Two, despite the fact that The Pope get 500,000 to 1m whereas F1 Race gets 4m....
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2: DMN, the problem with that list is that it doesn't say where the digital content will be, channel number wise, just what platform.
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If you think us Olympic fans gave you a tough time wait till the F1 crew realise they're getting nothing on Freeview. Every single interactive feature listed above is down as "not available on Freeview", which is absolutely pathetic when last year most weekends the two streams were dedicated to F1.
Paralympics - bloody curling again. Will the Opening/Closing ceremonies be shown?
As for other features - always thought the BBC News School Report thing was a complete waste of BBC resources and whether there is one or one hundred interactive streams available it's not worthy of being aired. And as for "singalong" - haven't those who used it heard of subtitles? Failing that rather than putting the subtitles within the video feed wouldn't it be possible to generate them on an MHEG over the BBC1 pictures instead, freeing up the other stream.
Similarly any progress on having the audio options incorporated directly into the BBC1/2 feed rather than requiring an extra video feed?
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...Nowt worng with curling IMHO, but what happens if Paralympics GB get a medal in Alpine Skiing? Absolutely no coverage until the one hour highlights programme on 22 March, which I am guessing will be on BBC 2.
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So is the track cycling sutff not all live on the red button, as it has been many years previously?
If so, thats very poor - particularly as Hugh Porter and the team will be there for it, if at least some is on
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Very poor coverage of the Paralympic games there BBC. No wonder why Channel 4 got the rights to London.
No opening/closing - even without commentary would be better than nothing. I also see on eurovisionsports.tv/olympics that OBSV will be producing a 55 minute programme daily, no chance of that on the red button? Well thats a dissapointment. Oh well, Eurosport are showing some sport (not the ceremonys either actually!)
Secondly, track cycling thats poor coverage as well, when I can see hours upon hours of it per night live, and BBC are giving us an hour or 30 minutes on the Thursday. It's OK, not like we're going to win medals or anything is it? No London 2012 hopes there?
Anyway, thanks for the blog again, helpful as usual.
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Why is rugby continually excluded from Freeview red button, even when it was not excluded on the posted internet schedule? We cannot receive via Sky or Freesat due to trees where we live, and do not receive Welsh TV. We are also far enough away from the telephone exchange not to get sufficient speed via our broadband service to watch on iplayer and have to download and then watch in comparitively uncomfortable surroundings.
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By the by, how do BBC Cymru Wales viewers find moer about the Charities of The Month wiht no Red Button equivalent of Ceefax page 629 when DSO is completed: not everyone has access to the World Wide Web ...
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#9. At 10:41am on 10 Mar 2010, Sue_Aitch wrote:
"By the by, how do BBC Cymru Wales viewers find moer about the Charities of The Month wiht no Red Button equivalent of Ceefax page 629 when DSO is completed: not everyone has access to the World Wide Web ..."
How did they do so before Ceefax, "Radio Times" perhaps?
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Possibly, Boilerplated.
Ceefax 1974 - whenever DSO finished/finishes at the transmitter(s) you receive your signal from.
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It's shocking really there's no equivalent programme support pages via digital text. In the early days of BBCi I know they put additional info on the "bridge" when programmes were airing, but now unless a programme has a dedicated interactive application no such additional info exists.
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First of all, thank you for changing the 301 freeview schedule tonight to show delayed coverage of the Hockey semi final. I think this is a step in the right direction - surely the same 'delayed' coverage can be offered for other sporting events we miss on freeview, delayed coverage is better than nothing, please consider this!
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Ideal Extra is on Freeview Channel 45. You should appeal for this space
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Who else here would like to see delayed coverage tomorrow night of the Scrum V game on Freeview? BBC Red Button, we know it's possible with the late schedule change today with the hockey on Freeview... even if it's midnight i don't mind, but as mentioned in #13, surely the same 'delayed' coverage can be offered for other sporting events we miss on freeview, delayed coverage is better than nothing, please consider this!
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Why on earth are there no Freeview highlights of the Six Nations on the final weekend, just to show the awards show of a soon to be axed radio station, which is airing Wed-Fri and then again till the next Wednesday anyway.
Surely the BBC can see sense and at least show highlights from 6pm on the Saturday after final score, and ideally on the Sunday too through to 1.35pm - though perhaps the Football League Show should get priority in the morning there.
Ridiculous that was sold as being on really late on Saturdays on BBC1, and then on the red button till noon on Sunday. I think it's been on Freeview less than 50% of the time, and it would make much more sense just to give The Football League Show a scheduled repeat on BBC2 on the Sunday considering it can clearly not be accommodated on Freeview.
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Ceefax page 629 gone, gone, gone. http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/info/sites/charities/
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Just to add about the cycling - in addition to the times published here BBC2 are showing it Wed 7-9pm, Thu 6.30-8pm and Fri 7-8pm - though in Wales it's only on the Wednesday, so a simulcast on 301 on the Thursday and Friday would surely be justified then.
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Yeah, the cycling has (in previous years) had around an hour on TV, the rest of red button. This year it looks like there is more on BBC two (and bbc one on saturday) and less on the red button.
Delighted about that.
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Who the hell cares about the pope
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Re maessage 20. Re-read message 2. Well, worshippers at Mass do pray for Benedict XVI and other people of faith take a bit of an interest in him too.
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Winter Paralympics Non red button coverage here. for Scotland and England, Channel Islands and Isle of Man. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rmr2l
Don;t know when BBC 2 Wales and Northern Ireland will get to see any coverage.
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Why have you taken the curling off freeview tomorrow? I was looking forward to it. What do we get instead? 3 hours of 6 nations highlights, which are all shown earlier on bbc1, whereas the curling is now not on at all.
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You may have originally meant you'd show the curling only if GB had not been knocked out, BBC, in which case it would have been helpful to have written as much.
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Bloody Asian Music Awards. With just one stream, not justified at all showing the same event day after day after day, especially at the weekend when Six Nations Highlights and the Football League Show should have taken priority - and although it wasn't on any platform, live coverage of some of the Sport Relief Miles during the day would have been good too considering the BBC1 show was just a round up.
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Asian Music Awards needs to be kicked off now
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Asian Music Awards finally finishes at 4am in the morning, on freeview.
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Would be nice if the epg was kept up to date. Im currently watching Classic F1, epg says its sports news loop.
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I see us Freeview folk are stuck with a looped one-minute preview of Doctor Who for much of the next week, which again is questionably the best use of the space available. Yes, it's got it's place on the red button, but so has things like the Sports News Loop - and indeed now News Multiscreen has gone, couldn't the headlines loop be put on their at appropriate times - during Breakfast for example.
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#29 - Brekkie I agree, I'm a fan of Doctor Who, but a looped one minute preview for most of the week seems a bit OTT.
#28 - I noticed this too Chris, I enjoy the Classic F1 and only caught it by chance flicking through - it wasn't advertised on the EPG so wasn't expecting to see it.
Also, it would be nice to see a replay of Scrum V for us freeviewers who can't see it live tonight! We've missed quite a few games this season, please put a replay in for Freeview fans!
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I live in Wales so I get Scrum V on bbc2, but next fridays game is on freeview.
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Now I have nothing against kids, we were all one once after all, but why did CBBC extra get preference to the F1 practice sessions on Friday (today) on DVB-T LCN301, considering that most kids would still have been in school and that kids already have two dedicated channels and an afternoon on BBC1 - totally unacceptable.
BBC, you do realise that you are slowly pushing more and more people out of the starting gate and down hill towards paying the 'Murdoch shilling', and once they start paying him they quickly start questioning the need/value of the TVL, and should a majority of the UK electorate start thinking that way it won't be long before the politicians pick up in it too, when is the next TVL review?...
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Both F1 practice sessions were shown live on 301 this morning, at 1.30 and 5.30.
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#33. At 9:58pm on 26 Mar 2010, Chris wrote:
"Both F1 practice sessions were shown live on 301 this morning, at 1.30 and 5.30."
Yes and some have to sleep at that sort of time...
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me to. Thats why I recorded them.
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