[Brekkie]

The BBC did stick with SPA on their highlights of the Spain game. I can understand broadcasters sticking with Turkey for now but Czechia seems to have been commonly used for a number of years now outside of football so that's quite surprising.

[RhysJR]

The BBC did stick with SPA on their highlights of the Spain game. I can understand broadcasters sticking with Turkey for now but Czechia seems to have been commonly used for a number of years now outside of football so that's quite surprising.

Another example yesterday evening, with the BBC using SWI rather SUI for Switzerland. Though they have used SUI on Wimbledon since forever, so inconsistent there. I'd just stick to what the relevant governing body uses and nobody should be too lost.


Czechia/Czech Republic is an interesting one. It seems just about everyone outside of the media have adopted Czechia by now, including even the EBU/Eurovision. The doyen of such issues, the AP Stylebook, says both are acceptable. I'm personally with former prime minister in the article below, who says he prefers Czech Republic and Czechia sounds too much like Cechnya. Czechia was first introduced in 2016, so there is a very gradual take-up.
www.euronews.com 

The Czech Republic is still officially called Czechia. Why hasn't it caught…
The country's prime minister, Andrej Babiš, has previously said he thinks C…
  Source: www.euronews.com

x.com 

Really, both country name changes (and other projects like the new BBC logo) demonstrate that if you want full adoption of your new rebrand, make it distinctive or it might not be successfully adopted.


Another example of this was The Netherlands/Holland. I think as recent as the 2014 World Cup, ITV used Holland/HOL, but by now have adopted Netherland/NED. Holland is factually incorrect to use as its only two of 12 provinces of The Netherlands - it would be like calling England Yorkshire or something.

[thegeek]

though that does give me an excuse to dig out the Yorkshire entry on the medal table from 2012
yorkshiredalesfood.co.uk 

Yorkshire Olympics Medal Table | Yorkshire Dales Food
Update 9th August 2012 "That Sporting Powerhouse of Yorkshire" per Dal…
  Source: yorkshiredalesfood.co.uk

[Brekkie]

Having no issue with cutting the News at One to 30 minutes including regional news for Euro 2024 the BBC will be airing the full hour long bulletins during Wimbledon, pushing back the BBC1 start time to 2pm for a 1.30pm start on Centre Court, meaning they'll miss the first set of most matches on BBC1.

[dvboy]

It's messy this year, on Monday-Wednesday they are switching from BBC Two to BBC One at 12:15 to accommodate Politics Live, then back to BBC Two at 13:00.
Friday won't have any BBC One coverage because there is a window for rolling Election news and then the Euro 2024 matches that evening.

[dvboy]

Forgot to add Thursday 4th will not have an extended 1 o'clock news, and they have scheduled Today at Wimbledon at 00:25 instead of the usual 21:00 but it will be at the normal time on the red button.

[Brekkie]

I get why they're showing Politics Live but would be much better if they started coverage on BBC1 rather than having it jump back and forth,but common sense and BBC scheduling rarely go together, especially for Wimbledon.

[dvboy]

I get why they're showing Politics Live but would be much better if they started coverage on BBC1 rather than having it jump back and forth,but common sense and BBC scheduling rarely go together, especially for Wimbledon.

If they start on BBC One then they have to jump to BBC Two anyway for the news.
They'd be better staying on BBC Two and putting Politics Live on BBC One.

[Andrew]

They usually move Politics Live to earlier (9:45am for example) during Wimbledon except for when they cover PMQs

I presume the general election means they don’t think they should air it earlier

I wonder if the same will apply in week 2 as well in the immediate aftermath of the election

[Brekkie]

It's less of an issue in week two with the big matches not starting till later - coverage usually begins at 12.30pm from the Tuesday so Politics Live airs slightly early.