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Bluestreak · **Posted:** Mon Sep 16, 2019 8:16 pm

Getting switched off from 2020.
Shit for elderly people who have missed the interweb boat.

RemotePoolie · **Joined:** Tue Feb 19, 2019 8:34 am **Posts:** 597

Has a place in television heaven, alongside teletext.

alybaba · **Posted:** Tue Sep 17, 2019 11:43 am

Have you noticed no more Horse racing on here and reduced live football anymore,apart from other things.They taking us to the cleaners with repeat programming and expect us to pay a tv licence whilst watching periodic junk.

born toulouse · **Posted:** Tue Sep 17, 2019 11:55 am

Bit harsh blaming them for getting outbid on the football.

Sky and BT basically use it a loss leader to sell internet, phone and TV bundles so there is no way a publicly funded broadcaster can compete. Even ITV can't because although they sell advertising they don't have non-TV products to shift off the back of football coverage so they can't bid high enough. The blame lies with the FA, UEFA for auctioning the broadcasting rights without considering fans who only have free to air TV.

Mr Ripper · **Posted:** Tue Sep 17, 2019 5:14 pm

Why should football only be on free to air tv? When I was a kid the only football on the telly was the FA cup final, the odd England match and occasional European final. On that basis why should it be expected that there should now be loads all on free of charge?

poolieinnottingham · **Posted:** Tue Sep 17, 2019 5:49 pm

Are you sure Mr Ripper?

I remember watching live top flight games on either BBC or ITV for years until I was about 16.

Was a Sunday afternoon ritual for me and my grandad.

Mr Ripper · **Posted:** Tue Sep 17, 2019 7:12 pm

First normal matches on telly I reckon were about 84 or 85 at a guess. And even then they were sporadic until the early 90s and Sky. You got the odd few NE matches a season on local telly going back even before then too, but again very few and far between in a season.

Sussex UK · **Joined:** Wed Dec 28, 2016 10:34 pm **Posts:** 3544

Eamonn Andrews on This Is Your Life was top notch..

poolieinnottingham · **Posted:** Tue Sep 17, 2019 8:53 pm

If my memory serves me right the BBC and ITV had shared rights for Division One games from about 1983, or even earlier, but I started watching them from around that time.

I may be wrong but I seem to remember one season where ITV had a Division Two game every week, which often featured Sunderland and Boro, and other 'big' teams like Wolves and Leicester.

I can't remember when free English game coverage ended, but I remember me and my grandad being really disappointed with the Italian league games which Channel 4 started showing. Absolutely boring as fuck.

stevetuplingsmullet · **Joined:** Sat Dec 23, 2006 4:31 pm **Posts:** 147

phil wrote:

So how will I watch Final Score whilst the athletics is on?

To clear this up a bit, video on the red button will still exist. You'll still be able to see Final Score, another snooker table or tennis court, or another stage at Glastonbury. It's just the text services - news reports, weather - that are getting dropped.

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