Sorry seems to be the hardest word
- 28 Feb 08, 11:58 AM
Some of the papers this morning – The Telegraph, The Independent, and the folk over at Media Guardian - have been reporting that the BBC has apologised for there being too much sport on BBC One last Saturday. This has, in turn, produced plenty of blog comment saying "why apologise for a great day of sport?" So I thought I'd better explain what's going on!
As the full statement makes clear, we believe the scheduling last weekend was right. Six Nations rugby is tremendously popular and the France v England game had a peak audience of 7m - so absolutely worth its place in the BBC One Saturday night schedule. I've just done a phone-in on Radio 5 Live where most of the callers emphatically agreed.
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