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Always found it odd really MOTD is constructed in such a manner it openly gets more boring as the show goes on. You'd think they'd hold back their, well, Match of the Day, until the backend of the programme.
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(31-03-2024, 08:06 PM)Brekkie Wrote: Always found it odd really MOTD is constructed in such a manner it openly gets more boring as the show goes on. You'd think they'd hold back their, well, Match of the Day, until the backend of the programme.
You could also say the same about the news. They should hold their biggest stories to end of the episode.
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(31-03-2024, 09:20 PM)Jon Wrote: You could also say the same about the news. They should hold their biggest stories to end of the episode.
That was actually considered as part of the plan for the original incarnation of what became Countdown With Keith Olbermann on MSNBC. The original Executive Producer for the show wanted it to literally countdown the top 5 stories of the day, with the Number 1 story being the actual top story and being on at the end of the show. Somewhere along the line that plan changed before the show actually came to air with the actual top story being the number 5 story, and an 'And Finally' style piece being the number 1.
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(31-03-2024, 08:06 PM)Brekkie Wrote: Always found it odd really MOTD is constructed in such a manner it openly gets more boring as the show goes on. You'd think they'd hold back their, well, Match of the Day, until the backend of the programme.
Yeah, why not put the viewer last too - as that’s what such a ridiculous idea would do! It’s already on too late and some of us want to get to bed!
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Didn’t The Premiership (on ITV) have the same idea of putting the ‘game of the day’ on last when it launched at 7pm?
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(25-03-2024, 06:25 PM)NI92 Wrote: Lineker was a stand in back in the Adrian Chiles days not that Chiles often missed it, when Colin Murray took over it seemed to be Chappers or Jake Humphrey as the stand in.
Lineker explained on today’s episode of The Rest Is Football that he was asked by the producers to do a swap as Chappers was unavailable and as he saw that Liverpool, City and Arsenal were all playing he agreed to host MOTD2 this week. Worth noting that Alex Scott hosted the Saturday edition.
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Jonathan Agnew will step down as the BBC's cricket correspondent after 33 years in the role. He has however signed a four year deal to continue to work on Test Match Special.
Melissa Story and Katherine Sciver-Brunt the other new names to the TMS roster listed below.
I wonder who will replace Aggers, or will anyone at all? Firstly, almost everyone else is freelance and works on other broadcasters through the year - Alison Mitchell an obvious candidate and example who works for Channel 7 in the Australian summer. Secondly, I don't think Mike Costello was ever formally replaced as boxing/athletics correspondent, and similarly Cornelius Lysaght and James Allen in horse racing and motorsport (though in most of those examples, there is a voice of the sport on BBC radio as a de facto successor (Steve Bunce, John Hunt etc.)). There are a few cricket specialists inbolved in writing for the BBC Sport website, so not much loss in a journalistic sense if there us no titled correspondent.
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(03-04-2024, 01:04 PM)RhysJR Wrote: Jonathan Agnew will step down as the BBC's cricket correspondent after 33 years in the role. He has however signed a four year deal to continue to work on Test Match Special.
Melissa Story and Katherine Sciver-Brunt the other new names to the TMS roster listed below.
I wonder who will replace Aggers, or will anyone at all? Firstly, almost everyone else is freelance and works on other broadcasters through the year - Alison Mitchell an obvious candidate and example who works for Channel 7 in the Australian summer. Secondly, I don't think Mike Costello was ever formally replaced as boxing/athletics correspondent, and similarly Cornelius Lysaght and James Allen in horse racing and motorsport (though in most of those examples, there is a voice of the sport on BBC radio as a de facto successor (Steve Bunce, John Hunt etc.)). There are a few cricket specialists inbolved in writing for the BBC Sport website, so not much loss in a journalistic sense if there us no titled correspondent.
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Sciver - Brunt was on the coverage of the Women’s ashes last year.
Notable they haven’t yet secured the radio rights for the T20 World Cup, The Telegraph says they still haven’t been sold but the other month it said the BBC were the front runners ahead of Talksport. Would be Talksport’s biggest cricketing commitment if they won then and the next 50 over World Cup as well.
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(03-04-2024, 01:04 PM)RhysJR Wrote: I wonder who will replace Aggers, or will anyone at all?
My money is on it being Henry Moeran. He already files pieces for the Today Programme on Radio 4. IIRC, he has done one or two pieces for BBC News when England has been on tour. Lacks a little in terms of experience (based solely on his age) but based on his cricket knowledge, an excellent contender.
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(03-04-2024, 04:19 PM)Dougal Wrote: My money is on it being Henry Moeran. He already files pieces for the Today Programme on Radio 4. IIRC, he has done one or two pieces for BBC News when England has been on tour. Lacks a little in terms of experience (based solely on his age) but based on his cricket knowledge, an excellent contender.
Yep, it'll be him, if Agnew is to be directly replaced.
Though as a previous poster has mentioned, the 5Live correspondents for other sports were not formally replaced when they departed, i.e. Cornelius Lysaght, Mike Costello, James Allen, to name but three.