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BBC World Cup Line up announced


Helmerroids said:
🤢 Oh for the days of Des and the boys
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What a motley crew… did no one tell them to dress up smart for the photo.

It’s diverse I will give them that … that’s the first box ticked.

Right let’s look at how articulate they all are … oh that mustn’t be on the checklist.

How many have played or managed at men’s world cups …. A few I recognise … that mustn’t have been a criteria then?

How many are entertaining, thought provoking and loveable characters…. Oh that wasn’t on the criteria either.

It’s not quite Brian Moore, Allison, Clough, Dougan and Jackie Charlton is it
 
Hetty said:
New York based
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An all-star cast of pundits will join BBC Sport's television coverage of the tournament from Salford, while reporters on the ground in the United States, Canada and Mexico will bring the latest stories.

Kelly Cates, Mark Chapman, Gabby Logan and Alex Scott will lead BBC Sport's TV coverage, joined by pundits including Alan Shearer, Wayne Rooney, Micah Richards, Ellen White, Steph Houghton, Rachel Corsie, Giroud, Joe Hart, Azpilicueta, McCarthy, Lucas Leiva and Thomas Frank
 
Fact Hunt said:
An all-star cast of pundits will join BBC Sport's television coverage of the tournament from Salford, while reporters on the ground in the United States, Canada and Mexico will bring the latest stories.

Kelly Cates, Mark Chapman, Gabby Logan and Alex Scott will lead BBC Sport's TV coverage, joined by pundits including Alan Shearer, Wayne Rooney, Micah Richards, Ellen White, Steph Houghton, Rachel Corsie, Giroud, Joe Hart, Azpilicueta, McCarthy, Lucas Leiva and Thomas Frank
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ITV is based in New York studios
 
summaz said:
Just turn it on whenever the matches start

Find it mad people would sit and actively listen to any of the shite any of those come out with
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I go a step further. I record it. Wait until the game is 15 minutes in, then fast forward the recording to the kick off. In that way I can fast forward through the halftime analysis and chit chat too.
 
Whoever is in the line-up, I'll watch it rather than watching on ITV.

I know it's pathetic objecting to adverts as much as I do, it's just the number of adverts. If they didn't go for an advert break between the national anthems and kick-off, then only had one advert break at half-time, then didn't have an advert break immediately after the full-time whistle but showed the player reactions then went for one, it would be a lot more watchable.

Every single match being on the iPlayer might demonstrate to ITV that people don't like it and previously only put up with them because they had no choice. If viewer figures for the match on ITV drop significantly and the iPlayer stats show people are watching there, they might get the point.
 
Helmerroids said:
I love her, but what insight can she provide about competing in a men’s World Cup tournament?
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What insight can a pro footballer provide? Not that presenting is all about insight, and you can be knowledgeable on football without having played it professionally. I haven't played it but I would do a fantastic job as a pundit/presenter.
 
Trauntrian said:
Whoever is in the line-up, I'll watch it rather than watching on ITV.

I know it's pathetic objecting to adverts as much as I do, it's just the number of adverts. If they didn't go for an advert break between the national anthems and kick-off, then only had one advert break at half-time, then didn't have an advert break immediately after the full-time whistle but showed the player reactions then went for one, it would be a lot more watchable.

Every single match being on the iPlayer might demonstrate to ITV that people don't like it and previously only put up with them because they had no choice. If viewer figures for the match on ITV drop significantly and the iPlayer stats show people are watching there, they might get the point.
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You can't watch all matches on iPlayer so you're probably confusing it with all matches covered by the BBC but that will include radio commentary only for example.

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BBC already get the far bigger audience when both show the same game as these are the numbers from the 2022 final. Some people will just flick over once the footy is on depending on the commentators, though that doesn't bother me as in the past it was more which channel had the better quality picture but I don't think it matters that much now.

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Peak audience of almost 15m watched BBC coverage of France v Argentina, with 4.3m watching on ITV
 
ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK said:
You can't watch all matches on iPlayer so you're probably confusing it with all matches covered by the BBC but that will include radio commentary only for example.

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BBC already get the far bigger audience when both show the same game as these are the numbers from the 2022 final. Some people will just flick over once the footy is on depending on the commentators, though that doesn't bother me as in the past it was more which channel had the better quality picture but I don't think it matters that much now.

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Peak audience of almost 15m watched BBC coverage of France v Argentina, with 4.3m watching on ITV
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Disappointing, some of the wording seemed to imply every match was on iPlayer, seems that it is just the matches shown on the BBC will be on iPlayer. :(
 
I’ll be avoiding ITV as much as humanly possible - if only to keep away from Lee f***ing Dixon. Genuinely the worst co-comms in all of football.
 
Hendon Mad Frog said:
I've been hearing more of him recently with his BBC podcast and that and I'm starting to think he might not be wired up reet.

Seems fairly socially inept, struggles to string a coherent sentence together and used alcohol a lot of his life as a coping mechanism.
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Whenever I see or listen to him I all think he has trouble thinking, speaking and breathing at the same time.

He's like the Rosie Jones of football commentators. Highly thought of by his peers, his material is probably insightful at times but you've already switched off the volume or fast forwarded before he gets to the punchline.
Exapno Mapcase said:
Funny how it's the British Broadcasting Corporation and Scotland are at the World Cup but only 3 or 4 Scots involved.
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They may have moved further north to Salford Quays but the whole set up is still as Lahndon-centric as possible and ergo England focused.

Love fae Scotland to cause a few upsets if only to force them to actually highlight the performances.
morroco_mole said:
I must admit I dont know why we need endless hours of talking heads telling us what we already know. Just start 5 minutes before the game so they can go through the teams, then have a single commentator using words sparsely to describe the action/say players names, no need to fill all the empty space, let us observe for ourselves. We don't need to know what the players favorite colour is or what he has for tea etc. Its a pretty simple game, thats why is the worlds most popular sport!
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The best ever MOTD was when the plague was stalking the land and they had NO COMMENTATORS OR ANALYSIS.
 
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