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Ten o'clock news delayed for the tennis

74 replies

Dishwashersaurous · 06/07/2023 22:01

So, the BBC ten o'clock news is not on at ten o'clock.

A tennis match is being shown instead. Not a final. Just a match.

Aibu to not understand why?

I want to watch the news and go to bed.

OP posts:
ilovesooty · 06/07/2023 22:03

Read the news online

Or watch it on ITV.

Bovrilla · 06/07/2023 22:04

Read the BBC news app then 🙄

Sunflowering · 06/07/2023 22:04

I feel the same, op. Should have put the tennis on 2 instead of an old Alas Smith and Jones.

SauvignonBlanche · 06/07/2023 22:04

YABU

LIZS · 06/07/2023 22:04

Is it not on the bbc news channel?

Theoldwoman · 06/07/2023 22:04

Read it on your phone, that way you can scroll past anything not of interest.

MissHoollie · 06/07/2023 22:05

I agree.
Maybe for a final but not a second round or whatever it is match .
Poor people working on the news

KateyCuckoo · 06/07/2023 22:05

BBC news channel, sky news, itv, online? There's plenty of options. Or just watch it tomorrow?

OneTC · 06/07/2023 22:05

The Horror

Smashingwatermelons · 06/07/2023 22:05

This is not just any match - Andy is playing fantastic

Rollerbird · 06/07/2023 22:05

Come on Andy!!

PeachesOnTheBeaches · 06/07/2023 22:05

Google it 🙄

Stratocumulus · 06/07/2023 22:05

Try Ch 231.

Lovelydaytomorrow · 06/07/2023 22:06

Who waits for the news in 2023? Isn't there a 24hr news channel, an app, a website, every form of social media...?

What could possibly have come on a ten o'clock that would be NEW news to you?

Hungrycaterpillarsmummy · 06/07/2023 22:06

Because Andy is playing. Not hard to understand

the80sweregreat · 06/07/2023 22:06

Put number 200 on for the news

morelippy · 06/07/2023 22:06

No one complains when scheduling is changed for football. Some of us prefer tennis to football.

Hungrycaterpillarsmummy · 06/07/2023 22:07

And I'd much prefer tennis to the news. Unless anything significant happens news wise I'm the next hour, nothing will have changed

Hungrycaterpillarsmummy · 06/07/2023 22:07

morelippy · 06/07/2023 22:06

No one complains when scheduling is changed for football. Some of us prefer tennis to football.

Very good point too

KateyCuckoo · 06/07/2023 22:07

morelippy · 06/07/2023 22:06

No one complains when scheduling is changed for football. Some of us prefer tennis to football.

People complain about that too!

Dishwashersaurous · 06/07/2023 22:07

But the news isn't delayed for other sporting events.

I just don't understand why this is so important.

But clearly I'm in a minority

OP posts:
Friolero · 06/07/2023 22:09

I'm watching the tennis at the moment, but agree it's annoying when they constantly delay / switch channels from the scheduled tv to keep the tennis on bbc1. I'd happily switch over to bbc2 or iplayer to carry on watching the Murray match.

BonnieGlasses · 06/07/2023 22:10

Are you my dad? He doesn't understand that the news is available online at any given moment either.

Oblomov23 · 06/07/2023 22:10

Just finished watching the tennis and gone to bed, was a very good game.

Hungrycaterpillarsmummy · 06/07/2023 22:10

Dishwashersaurous · 06/07/2023 22:07

But the news isn't delayed for other sporting events.

I just don't understand why this is so important.

But clearly I'm in a minority

As pp pointed out it is delayed for football.