cara mcallister put it like this.ill colville looked forward to the traditional end of england's football dreams. and bill colville looked forward to the traditional end of england's football dreams. as we mentioned last week, it's notjust the presence of football in news programmes that annoys some newswatch viewers, but the decreasing of news to watch, as those programmes are sometimes moved or shortened to make way for live coverage of the world cup on bbc one. james rogers recorded his thoughts outlining his objection to that practise. i was surprised to find that monday's 6pm news was reduced to ten minutes. given that football did not kick off until 7pm, why was it not possible to have a full half—hour programme? several minutes of the short 6pm news programme were also devoted to football. come on, bbc, there was time on monday in the schedule for both the full half—hour news programme, particularly the full half—hour regional news, and also this could have been done before football kick—off. while we did want

cara mcallister put it like this.ball in news programmes that annoys some newswatch viewers, but the decreasing of news to watch, as those programmes are sometimes moved or shortened to make way for live coverage of the world cup on bbc one. james rogers recorded his thoughts outlining his objection to that practise. i was surprised to find that monday's 6pm news was reduced to ten minutes. given that football did not kick off until 7pm, why was it not possible to have a full half—hour programme? several minutes of the short 6pm news programme were also devoted to football. come on, bbc, there was time on monday in the schedule for both the full half—hour news programme, particularly the full half—hour regional news, and also this could have been done before football kick—off. while we did want to discuss the impact of world cup programming on the duration and timing of the news bulletins, but bbc scheduling declined our request, instead giving us this statement. we plan to discuss the way bbc news is handling the wor