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 Badger11  Beckenham 23 Dec 22 7.40am |
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Originally posted by Fatherken
Sports Personality of the Year . It costs a fortune to put this back slapping festival on as many have to be put up in hotels, travel cost etc. Ironically the BBC's commitment to live sport each year gets less and less. Edited by Badger11 (23 Dec 2022 7.41am)
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| Dubai Eagle 23 Dec 22 8.17am |
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I doubt the BBC have the budget to outbid the various Pay Per View providers on live sporting events these days - ( at least not any live sporting events worth seeing) PPV has definitely "come of age" over the last few years. Originally posted by Badger11
It costs a fortune to put this back slapping festival on as many have to be put up in hotels, travel cost etc. Ironically the BBC's commitment to live sport each year gets less and less. Edited by Badger11 (23 Dec 2022 7.41am)
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| Badger11 Beckenham 23 Dec 22 8.50am |
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Originally posted by Dubai Eagle
I doubt the BBC have the budget to outbid the various Pay Per View providers on live sporting events these days - ( at least not any live sporting events worth seeing) PPV has definitely "come of age" over the last few years. Probably not in which case why do they spend a fortune on promoting sport that is on other channels? This is a left over from when most sport was on the BBC. Edited by Badger11 (23 Dec 2022 9.03am)
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| Dubai Eagle 23 Dec 22 8.57am |
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I guess that it allows them to feel that (at least for the moment) they are in some small way still "relevant" to the sporting world - Originally posted by Badger11
Probably not in which case why do they spend a fortune on promoting sport that is on other channels? This is a left over form when most sport was on the BBC.
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| mezzer Main Stand, Block F, Row 20 seat 1... 23 Dec 22 9.40am |
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A few candidates in this from Ian Drury. Personally I'd like to see this as our National Anthem. This one's for Julie, who we love There are jewels in the crown of England's glory Frankie Howerd, Noël Coward and garden gnomes All the jewels in the crown of England's glory Nice bit of kipper and Jack the Ripper and Upton Park With Billy Bunter, Jane Austen Allright england? All the jewels in the crown of England's glory Somerset Maugham, Top Of The Form with the Boys' Brigade
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| kingdowieonthewall Sussex, ex-Cronx. 23 Dec 22 9.50am |
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the Wagon Wheel chocolate biscuit/cake.
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Henry of Peckham  Eton Mess 23 Dec 22 10.27am |
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I blame Putin for the $hite TV we get these days. It seems to be just combinations of the same fourth rate 'personalities' on panel shows. Edited by Henry of Peckham (23 Dec 2022 10.28am)
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Jimenez  SELHURSTPARKCHESTER,DA BRONX 23 Dec 22 12.12pm |
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Two Tone & some of the old Punk stuff. Jeez I was on Youtube a while back & they had some sort of Two Tone festival somewhere & it was absolutely ball clenching to watch people in their late 50s & early 60s dancing to 'One Step Beyond' Etc
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| Jimenez SELHURSTPARKCHESTER,DA BRONX 23 Dec 22 12.16pm |
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Originally posted by kingdowieonthewall
the Wagon Wheel chocolate biscuit/cake. Funnily enough I went to The Butcher's Block in Queens yesterday to stock up on a few Items & amongst the stuff I bought I noticed that the Lyle's Golden Syrup tin & the Paxo Stuffing box definitely seemed smaller or are they just smaller because they ship abroad?
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| kingdowieonthewall Sussex, ex-Cronx. 23 Dec 22 12.21pm |
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Originally posted by Jimenez
Two Tone & some of the old Punk stuff. Jeez I was on Youtube a while back & they had some sort of Two Tone festival somewhere & it was absolutely ball clenching to watch people in their late 50s & early 60s dancing to 'One Step Beyond' Etc they had a ska weekend in Albufeira, portugal, when I was over in October, in this s***e bar in old town.
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| Midlands Eagle 23 Dec 22 2.26pm |
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Originally posted by Badger11
Probably not in which case why do they spend a fortune on promoting sport that is on other channels? This is a left over from when most sport was on the BBC. Which they never handled particularly well. The test cricket used to be on the BBC but it always had to play second fiddle to horse racing and it was a relief to all cricket fans when they lost the rights to cricket to Channel 4 who subsequently lost it to the much deeper pockets of Sky. They do have certain rights to the dreadful Hundred and end up covering the same matches that Sky are covering. I always watch on Sky as i can't abide that awful Phil Tufnell who has made a lucrative career out of being stupid
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Teddy Eagle  23 Dec 22 2.32pm |
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Originally posted by Midlands Eagle
Which they never handled particularly well. The test cricket used to be on the BBC but it always had to play second fiddle to horse racing and it was a relief to all cricket fans when they lost the rights to cricket to Channel 4 who subsequently lost it to the much deeper pockets of Sky. They do have certain rights to the dreadful Hundred and end up covering the same matches that Sky are covering. I always watch on Sky as i can't abide that awful Phil Tufnell who has made a lucrative career out of being stupid But they did have Richie Benaud.
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