Euro 2020(1) - BBC vs ITV

Not bothered what channel, I switch on about a min before kickoff, do something else during half time switch off again within moments of the final whistle. Sorted, I have no idea whos presenting and commenting but assume it was Savage interjecting at the Wales game last night.

ITV have definitely upped their game this tournament whereas BBC seem to have treaded a bit of water.  Their format is tired now and needs a refresh.  Linker, Shearer and the old guard need shaking up with something that's more than Micah Richards (who is excellent in my opinion, although in danger of becoming diluted a little).

The Beeb itself, I still think the licence fee is excellent value.  Is their a left leaning agenda? Maybe, maybe not.  But felicitations sake, it's not difficult to turn over to a different channel if you don't like what you're seeing.

The dramas and documentaries the BBC produce are worth the licence fee alone in my eyes.

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ITV have definitely upped their game this tournament whereas BBC seem to have treaded a bit of water.  Their format is tired now and needs a refresh.  Linker, Shearer and the old guard need shaking up with something that's more than Micah Richards (who is excellent in my opinion, although in danger of becoming diluted a little).

The Beeb itself, I still think the licence fee is excellent value.  Is their a left leaning agenda? Maybe, maybe not.  But felicitations sake, it's not difficult to turn over to a different channel if you don't like what you're seeing.

The dramas and documentaries the BBC produce are worth the licence fee alone in my eyes.

Shearer and Ferdinand have improved significantly but they offer neither the pantomime menace of Keane or the analytical skills of G Nev.

I haven’t seen the BT Sport coverage since they started trying to charge me for it but I used to like it when they used football journalists on the punditry panel. The likes of Juliens Laurens and Rapha Honigstein (the Schafernaker of the footballer world).

Plus parachute James Richardson in to present the coverage from a tiramisu obscured piazza.

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Shearer and Ferdinand have improved significantly but they offer neither the pantomime menace of Keane or the analytical skills of G Nev.

I haven’t seen the BT Sport coverage since they started trying to charge me for it but I used to like it when they used football journalists on the punditry panel. The likes of Juliens Laurens and Rapha Honigstein (the Schafernaker of the footballer world).

Plus parachute James Richardson in to present the coverage from a tiramisu obscured piazza.

The best football programme on TV used to be the European football show with James Richardson. All the pundits were knowledgable about the games, the country and the history of the clubs etc.

BT got rid…I kind gave up after that…

Enjoying Emma Hayes' tactical stuff on itv this aft, really good.


(I'm speaking as someone who knows naff all about tactics, maybe Jonathan Wilson thinks she's shit, I dunno!)

Just watched itv how dull is the panel, tokenism for you😕

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Just watched itv how dull is the panel, tokenism for you😕

Yeah, Souness isn’t great.

ITV need to save him for the France matches so he can rip into Paul Pogba like a high pitched fart.

Quoted from diehardmariner

ITV have definitely upped their game this tournament whereas BBC seem to have treaded a bit of water.  Their format is tired now and needs a refresh.  Linker, Shearer and the old guard need shaking up with something that's more than Micah Richards (who is excellent in my opinion, although in danger of becoming diluted a little).

The Beeb itself, I still think the licence fee is excellent value.  Is their a left leaning agenda? Maybe, maybe not.  But felicitations sake, it's not difficult to turn over to a different channel if you don't like what you're seeing.

The dramas and documentaries the BBC produce are worth the licence fee alone in my eyes.

Beg to differ. On my local link I have 3 Hull stories and a link to Leeds. When RH won an award they had a bus trip around Hull, apparently, the rest of their area was nonexistent.

They paid Cliff Richards millions for wrong a wrong news story and never learned the lesson. The Bashir scandal proved this.

Documentaries, well didn't Attenborough use a zoo to film polar bears and not the Artic? Some are saying that DAB radio is past its time and trying to listen to it depends where you are.

Then there are the repeats, paid for the original program so why do I have to pay for the repeat. Buy a record/cd play it, do you have to pay again to listen to it?

What I will say is that the BBC was once absolutely brilliant but also now it's like a Dinosaur and out of its depth.

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They paid Cliff Richards millions for wrong a wrong news story and never learned the lesson. The Bashir scandal proved this.

The Grimsby ‘s’ strikes like a French trucker

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If you don't think the BBC's coverage is biased to the left, then that's because your political persuasion is that way too. Hard to tell if it's specifically left or if it's more critical of the government that's in power, but the reporters who are obviously left wing are constantly adding their narrative on events into a story where I just want the facts. Tell me what ridiculous thing BJ has done today and I'll make my mind up whether it's just Boris being Boris, or it's actually a bad decision that will affect the country negatively.

You must be to the right of Genghis Khan if you think the BBC has a left wing bias.