Lineker goes: Does TV still need Match Of The Day?
This Is Why
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4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The change will likely help the BBC's presenter wage bill and might save some run-ins about Lineker's use of social media - but what about the programme he leaves behind?
Sixty years after MOTD's launch, do TV viewers really still "look away now" to avoid the scores before 10.30pm on a Saturday? In the era of YouTube fan channels, TikTok accounts and wall-to-wall live coverage, is a set-piece highlights programme showing its age?
Niall Paterson looks over the options for one of the BBC's biggest brands - how can it change for an audience falling out of love with linear TV without alienating other viewers?
He's joined by our sport correspondent, Rob Harris, and Stuart Rowson, former BBC Sport exec who now works with brands to attract younger audiences.
Producer: Emma Rae Woodhouse
Editor: Paul Stanworth
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| 1:11.2 | Premier League highlights. |
| 1:11.9 | Now, why are you mentioning that? The reason you are in the studio is, of course, Match of the Day and Gary Lineker. Of course, at this point, do you know what I'd like more than anything to do, Rob, is play the Match of the Day theme tune. You know it well, I presume. But are we going to have to improvise? |
| 1:27.2 | Well, we can't play it. |
| 1:28.3 | We're not allowed to play it. |
| 1:29.3 | It will cost us far too much. |
| 1:30.5 | It will certainly be coming out of mice. theme tune. You know it well, I presume. But are we going to have to improvise? Well, we can't play it. We're not allowed to play it. |
| 1:29.3 | It will cost us far too much. It will certainly be coming out of my salary rather than yours. |
| 1:32.9 | But if we just maybe hint towards it, people can have it playing in their minds as we begin our discussion on the podcast. |
| 1:39.9 | Look, obviously, the story of the day when it comes to Gary Lineker and match of the day is he will no longer be presenting the show come the end of the season. |
| 1:49.5 | And he's been doing it for what, quarter of a century? |
| 1:51.8 | Yes, it's 1999. |
| 1:52.7 | There was a brief period when his predecessor, Des Lyonam, defected to ITV and presented their own rival version at the start of the century, |
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