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ITV TBA this weekend

Mr+Ripley — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 13:06:55 GMT

Does anyone know why ITV is showing TBA on the EPG this weekend? On Saturday it's from 4 pm to 7.30 pm & on Sunday it's from 3.30 pm to 7.15 pm & 7.15 pm to 10.30 pm. Is it football-related? If it is, surely they could put some kind of description even if they don't know exactly who's playing.

Re: ITV TBA this weekend

Daniel0210 — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 13:18:23 GMT

@Mr+Ripley

I think you're correct and it'll be footie related as there's a game at 5pm and 8pm on both Saturday and Sunday but the teams involved haven't been confirmed yet. That will be down to what ITV have sent to Sky for inclusion in the epg.

Re: ITV TBA this weekend

SKY1992bf — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 13:23:02 GMT

@Mr+Ripley Most probably football related, sky only populate the epg with the data provided by itv or any other channel

so itv would have to resubmit the data with the correct info before sky can action anything

Re: ITV TBA this weekend

MarkGoldsmith — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 13:58:06 GMT

So it will be because currently it's unknown which of the BBC and ITV will have the game on those nights.

After the group stages the Tv matches gets a bit complicated based on Englands progression. Usually the broadcaster that had only 1 of Englands 3 group stages gets to show the Englands first knockout round match. The schedules will be firmed up later this week (likely Wednesday ) once England play their last group game.

Re: ITV TBA this weekend

Mr+Ripley — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 14:23:05 GMT

Thanks for the replies. I thought it might be something like that but found it odd that it was only ITV. BBC has a full schedule of regular programmes for the weekend. Also, I know I've seen EPG information in the past along the lines of winners of Group A to play winners of Group B, so that's what I was expecting to see rather than TBA.

Re: ITV TBA this weekend

oj01 — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 16:25:57 GMT

@Mr+Ripley wrote:
Thanks for the replies. I thought it might be something like that but found it odd that it was only ITV. BBC has a full schedule of regular programmes for the weekend. Also, I know I've seen EPG information in the past along the lines of winners of Group A to play winners of Group B, so that's what I was expecting to see rather than TBA.

BBC's schedule will also change once the fixtures are known.

Re: ITV TBA this weekend

Jonty1964 — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 09:38:13 GMT

They generally have two schedules planned in the knockout stages. Once each channel selects what games they are showing the required schedule is chosen. Having said that occassionally if one channel is showing two games in one day they then have a hybrid of their two channels.

After tonight's games TBA will be removed