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BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2023 - RhysJR - 18-12-2023
I think this usually has its own thread, so tomorrow is the annual BBC Sports Personality of the Year broadcast on BBC One. It will be hosted be Gabby Logan, Alex Scott, Gary Lineker and Clare Balding from MediaCity UK, Salford. It will be originally in a two hour slot, which is 15 minutes less than last year, but it will probably overrun anyway.
It is rather unusal for the programme to be aired on a Tuesday. It is only the second time I can remember it not airing on a Sunday, after last year which was moved due to the FIFA World Cup final taking place the last Sunday before Christmas. I doubt I'm alone in not giving it my full attention tomorrow due to it clashing with the Carabao Cup quarter-finals, a problem that would likely not arise on Sunday evenings with so little domestic sport on Sunday evenings. It will be interesting to see how this affects ratings and wider interest.
The nominees for the main award are:
- Cricketer Stuart Broad
- Jockey Frankie Dettori
- Footballer Mary Earps
- Wheelchair tennis player Alfie Hewett
- Athlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson
- Golfer Rory McIlroy
As ever there is discourse and critisicm of the shortlist, and specifically who has been omitted. One of the more vocal complaints that I have come across is the abscence of world 1500m champion Josh Kerr, despite Jake Wightman nominated for the exact same achievment last year. This type of list is always going to be subjective and omit some strong candidates, but I can't see why the shortlist is not bigger at around ten names.
From the other awards, the final three for the Young Sports Personality of the Year:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/sports-personality/67542498
The candidates for the World Sports Star award:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/sports-personality/67414194
The regional finalists for the Unsung Hero award:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/sports-personality/66934172
And Sir Kenny Dalglish will presented with the Liftime Achievement Award:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/sports-personality/67714256
RE: BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2023 - Brekkie - 18-12-2023
I don't really get why they cut it down to 6. It does feel like a non-event though, perhaps following a similar trajectory to Question of Sport. I don't think having multiple presenters does it any favours.
Hopefully a successful 2024 Olympics will mean it feels more relevant next year.
RE: BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2023 - AJB39 - 18-12-2023
(18-12-2023, 08:12 PM)RhysJR Wrote: I think this usually has its own thread, so tomorrow is the annual BBC Sports Personality of the Year broadcast on BBC One. It will be hosted be Gabby Logan, Alex Scott, Gary Lineker and Clare Balding from MediaCity UK, Salford. It will be originally in a two hour slot, which is 15 minutes less than last year, but it will probably overrun anyway.To me the weekday scheduling seems to further indicate the decline of importance and relevance of this event for the BBC. Long gone are the days when it was the centrepiece of the Sunday schedule starting at 8pm.
It is rather unusal for the programme to be aired on a Tuesday. It is only the second time I can remember it not airing on a Sunday, after last year which was moved due to the FIFA World Cup final taking place the last Sunday before Christmas. I doubt I'm alone in not giving it my full attention tomorrow due to it clashing with the Carabao Cup quarter-finals, a problem that would likely not arise on Sunday evenings with so little domestic sport on Sunday evenings. It will be interesting to see how this affects ratings and wider interest.
The nominees for the main award are:
- Cricketer Stuart Broad
- Jockey Frankie Dettori
- Footballer Mary Earps
- Wheelchair tennis player Alfie Hewett
- Athlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson
- Golfer Rory McIlroy
As ever there is discourse and critisicm of the shortlist, and specifically who has been omitted. One of the more vocal complaints that I have come across is the abscence of world 1500m champion Josh Kerr, despite Jake Wightman nominated for the exact same achievment last year. This type of list is always going to be subjective and omit some strong candidates, but I can't see why the shortlist is not bigger at around ten names.
From the other awards, the final three for the Young Sports Personality of the Year:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/sports-personality/67542498
The candidates for the World Sports Star award:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/sports-personality/67414194
The regional finalists for the Unsung Hero award:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/sports-personality/66934172
And Sir Kenny Dalglish will presented with the Liftime Achievement Award:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/sports-personality/67714256
RE: BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2023 - lookoutwales - 18-12-2023
On a similar note, BBC Wales' treatment of their own Sports Personality of the Year award has gone from its own awards night (complete with TV and radio coverage of at least some kind) to pretty much an afterthought.
The winner was announced via an embargoed press release this morning.
Notably, there was no shortlist, either - and a judging panel led by Dame Tanni Grey Thompson decided the winner.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/wales/67690890
RE: BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2023 - RhysJR - 19-12-2023
(18-12-2023, 10:02 PM)lookoutwales Wrote: On a similar note, BBC Wales' treatment of their own Sports Personality of the Year award has gone from its own awards night (complete with TV and radio coverage of at least some kind) to pretty much an afterthought.
The winner was announced via an embargoed press release this morning.
Notably, there was no shortlist, either - and a judging panel led by Dame Tanni Grey Thompson decided the winner.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/wales/67690890
Yes, I was taken aback a bit seeing that first thing this morning after zero build-up or fanfare. Even before the awards ceremony was really a thing (so around a decade or so ago), I remember the voting was quite prominent for a fortnight or so during the voting process. This year I've heard of nothing until this morning. According to Wikipedia, the award was awarded by a panel until the early 2000s, before having a public vote for 20 or so years until the pandemic. Obviously merits in both formats, but a public vote gives you more publicity.
The awards ceremony was in tandem with Sport Wales (the Welsh sports governing body, not the former BBC Wales magazine show) looks like it was discontinued after the pandemic, most likely with that and budget cuts responsible. I can't see any news about the other awards (like Team, Coach, Young Sportsman of the Year) from last year, so it looks like everything else from Sport Wales' end was cancelled as well.
It looks like the Welsh Sports Review of the Year on BBC Wales was stopped after 2021 as well. I think that was the last remains of the old Sport Wales programme, which ceased broadcasting in 2016.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0012f85
(18-12-2023, 09:01 PM)Brekkie Wrote: I don't really get why they cut it down to 6. It does feel like a non-event though, perhaps following a similar trajectory to Question of Sport. I don't think having multiple presenters does it any favours.
Hopefully a successful 2024 Olympics will mean it feels more relevant next year.
Agree it does feel like a non-event in a way at the moment, and Question of Sport unfortunately doesn't feel like that much of a stretch to comapre it to. Four presenters does feel too many.
Though saying that, the format does seem to remain popular across Europe, with plenty of other versions airing and awarding in recent and future weeks (RTÉ for example on Saturday night just gone).
At least with six nominees, the BBC won't do a World Athletics and change the award after the voting to have six winners rather than one...
https://runningmagazine.ca/the-scene/world-athletics-faces-backlash-for-last-minute-change-to-athlete-of-the-year-awards/
RE: BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2023 - robertclark125 - 19-12-2023
In 1974, it was broadcast on Wednesday at 21:40 on BBC1, so it has been midweek before.
RE: BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2023 - Brekkie - 19-12-2023
A real shame the Wales event has been reduced to nothing. If not an event just a vote and announcement on Wales Today would at least show some willing.
There is some logic to moving the main UK event to a weekday given the weekend commitments of those who are competing week in week out but it does feel like a downgrade.
RE: BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2023 - lookoutwales - 19-12-2023
(19-12-2023, 10:42 AM)Brekkie Wrote: A real shame the Wales event has been reduced to nothing. If not an event just a vote and announcement on Wales Today would at least show some willing.
IIRC, they tried announcing it live on Wales Today some years ago, and even then, it felt like too much of an anti-climax.
RE: BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2023 - DE88 - 19-12-2023
(18-12-2023, 08:12 PM)RhysJR Wrote: I think this usually has its own thread, so tomorrow is the annual BBC Sports Personality of the Year broadcast on BBC One. It will be hosted be Gabby Logan, Alex Scott, Gary Lineker and Clare Balding from MediaCity UK, Salford. It will be originally in a two hour slot, which is 15 minutes less than last year, but it will probably overrun anyway.
I guess the days of SPOTY touring the UK are well and truly gone now - this is the fourth straight year it's coming from Dock10.
Gary once again extends his records as the longest-serving and oldest SPOTY host (24th consecutive year, and he's just turned 63). Clare, meanwhile, hosts for a 12th consecutive year, and Gabby for an 11th.
Can't really disagree that four hosts feels too many - but then it *has* had at least three every year since 1994, with two exceptions (Sports Personality of the Century in 1999, when Steve Rider and Sue Barker were the main hosts while Gary, Clare and John Inverdale all had sideline roles, and 2005, when Gary and Sue were the only hosts after Steve left for ITV mere weeks beforehand).
Quote:It is rather unusal for the programme to be aired on a Tuesday. It is only the second time I can remember it not airing on a Sunday, after last year which was moved due to the FIFA World Cup final taking place the last Sunday before Christmas. I doubt I'm alone in not giving it my full attention tomorrow due to it clashing with the Carabao Cup quarter-finals, a problem that would likely not arise on Sunday evenings with so little domestic sport on Sunday evenings. It will be interesting to see how this affects ratings and wider interest.
(19-12-2023, 09:11 AM)robertclark125 Wrote: In 1974, it was broadcast on Wednesday at 21:40 on BBC1, so it has been midweek before.
And in 2011 it was on a Thursday.
Quote:The nominees for the main award are:
- Cricketer Stuart Broad
- Jockey Frankie Dettori
- Footballer Mary Earps
- Wheelchair tennis player Alfie Hewett
- Athlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson
- Golfer Rory McIlroy
2023 wasn't the greatest year for British sport, was it? Man City did finally win the Champions League, and Europe did brilliantly win the Ryder Cup - but England didn't *quite* win the FIFA Women's World Cup; Stokesy and Co rather spectacularly failed to defend the (50-over) Cricket World Cup; and it was a surprise that England finished third at the Rugby World Cup (and came within three minutes of reaching the final, too).
The Ashes, though, were definitely a high point - it's still a great shame that England were only prevented from winning the series 3-2, having been 2-0 down, by the rain at Old Trafford. And Broady was the undoubted star - taking his 600th Test wicket (only the fifth man to do so), surpassing the legendary Ian Botham to become the highest wicket-taker from any nation against the Aussies, then bowing out of playing by hitting a six off the final ball he faced and taking a wicket with his final delivery...
So I'm quite surprised that he's a very distant second-favourite with the bookies, while Earpsy is heavily odds-on (as I type this she's 1/10 with William Hill and 1/12 with Paddy Power, while Broady is 8/1 with WH and 10/1 with PP). Mind you, in 2017 Anthony Joshua was the favourite to win, and missed the top three altogether (pipped for third by Jonnie Peacock by just 18 votes...).
If Earpsy does win, however, it'll be the first hat-trick of female winners since Anita Lonsbrough, Dorothy Hyman and Mary Rand in 1962, 1963 and 1964 respectively. (Notably, in '62 Hyman finished second and Linda Ludgrove third - still the only time the top three were all ladies, which obviously won't be the case this year since KJT is the only other female nominee.)
RE: BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2023 - RhysJR - 19-12-2023
Nice to hear the traditional theme over the opening montage. It hasn't always been that prominent in recent years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHeBcBhGwkY