The Championship on BBC NI used this âbleepâ rave classic as the atmosphere building âsub-introâ and for other bits and bobs like their âGoal Of The Championshipâ competition from 1991-1993. It made Ulster football seem utterly cool and utterly different compared to the rest of the GAA.
Whoever was making the production decisions must have dropping Es at places like Lush in Portrush or The Met in Armagh or Clubland in Cookstown on their off time.
They had a different rave/trance type tune as their sub-intro for 1994 which again was a complete banger but I never found out the name of it despite years of YouTube trawling.
I see the bbc have midweek champions league highlight these days - happened to be up one night and watched a few minutes. Canât imagine many are tuning in after midnight on a Wednesday night to watch. Whatâs the point?
We lives in a different world now with iplayers and watch back functions and bbc is a world broadcaster- is it shown far and wide?
In regards to live tv on the mainland- a complete waste at that hour. Whoâs on it?
We moved from 2 channel land to 6 channel land in 1987. Well it was really 5 channel as the âreceptionâ on channel 4 was absolutely atrocious. I havenât thought about this for years but the âreceptionâ was a huge thing up until the early 90s really.
That Warnock fella has the most ridiculous grievance against Rafa and Liverpool Iâve ever heard. He was on one of those âgaffer storiesâ type podcasts about it.
BBC and ITV were well established in urban Ireland by the mid 80s.
I remember watching the build up to the 1986 fa cup final from about 9-9.30am on BBC.
It was very early in my footix career and i didnât specifically turn on bbc for the build-up to the cup final - Charlie Brown was usually on early on a Saturday and a remote control and tv was much easier to navigate for a 7 year old who snuck down stairs around 8am back then
In the preceeding years going live with Philip Schofield took over the early tv slot and would incorporate cup final build up.
ITV had it for 3 seasons from 2001 to 2004. It was a financial disaster. They thought they could monetise it at 7pm but that was at the time when prime time sports were not good for the tv business. They moved it back to 10.30 in short order.
For context, they also had splashed the cash for rights to the Football League via the disastrous ITV Digital. The English Football League almost went bust over that after they had to come back to Sky to beg them to take it back. The Scottish League had a similar problem when they wanted to set up an OTT service but the Old Firm nixed it. Live games ended up on BBC Scotland before Setanta bought them.
An interesting dynamic on the BBC and ITV Premier League rights swap in that period is also the impact it happened on Michael Parkinsonâs show. When the BBC lost MOTD they gave him a better timeslot. But when MOTD came back, then didnât have room for him in a slot he wanted so he defected to ITV who had the Premiership slot open.
It would have been dead a long time ago if it was really finished. People have been able to watch games well in advance of MOTD for 20 years now and via social media for 10 years or so.
say he has some form of addiction (preferably something that tears at the heart strings - drugs, alcohol, gambling) and which was brought on by the death of someone he loved.
come out as bi. Admit any infidelities but say you are much happier in yourself now.
tell all of the above in a tearful interview with a tabloid which will earn sympathy and/or pity. Something similar to Jermaine Jenas and The Sun after he was outed as a deviant.
took over the early tv slot and would incorporate cup final build up.