[Newshound47]

There is certainly going to be an issue on 5th July with the election coverage, Wimbledon and Euro 2024 football all on at the same time. The evening news programmes will have to be displaced on one of the main channels for one of the biggest news days of the year.

And because it’s the knockouts it won’t be known until as late as three days before which channel will be showing one or both of the matches that day.

I suspect they might not any election programming on the Saturday to Tuesday before the election on either channel either as well due to the split schedule meaning things can’t be confirmed till fairly late and channels showing the 5pm match having the risk of extra time pushing the schedule back. Also means late running news some of those days.

If extra time and penalties occurred on the Friday 8pm match one channel might not have the 10 O’clock news until 11pm or later.