The one thing Sky+ can't cope with
Sky+ is fantastic. Series Link. Winding through adverts at 30x. It even copes with overrunning sporting events. However the one thing it can't deal with is the BBC doing an unscheduled switching of channels halfway through a game, like they did with Andy Murray's match last night.
We set it to record (Mrs H didn't get in till 7.15) and started watching after putting young Master H to bed and saw Andy Murray clinch the 3rd set in thrilling fashion at about 9.40, at which point the Sky+ recording ran out, the game itself had finished, there was no BBC1+1 and we were left to find out the result from BBCi.
And I was interested to read this morning Paul Davies, BBC Sport's executive producer at Wimbledon, saying "It's fantastic that such a great sporting event was brought to a wider audience. The decision to switch it to BBC One was vindicated by so many viewers watching the climax of the match." Maybe he would like to have been in our house last night where Mrs H would happily have vindicated his decision, probably in extremely painful fashion.
Could they not put a trailer on BBC1 instead that says "you might be interested to know that there's a bloody amazing tennis match going on right now on BBC2", for all the apparent millions who don't understand that such a channel exists ?
Note to selves – watch sport live whenever possible.
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