Stormer999

The start of the coverage on BBC 2 TV of the Wales v NZ rugby match was cut off for the showing of the end of a tennis game. The 1 minutes respect silence for the missing NZ miners was, in the eyes of some idiot presenter within the BBC, not as important as a tennis game!
I have sent in a complaint and await some (if any) response.

Justcol

The pike river mine incident probably has little bearing to anyone in th uk.
Its understandable.

Margaret Parkinson

Yes it did especially those who had miners in their own family such as me. My father & husband both worked in the mines and there have been disasters in my area so I felt for them as well.

June

MNandMN

Me too, I have been watching and waiting and hoping they would be rescued - people have been following this from the UK too and would never choose to have tennis over-ride a tribute to the miners, it is disrespectful of the BBC

Leither

So our TV should be interrupted because of a tragic incident that happened 2 weeks ago on the other side of the world? I don't think so.

Maybe if they didn't need to spend a minute showing a bunch of white guys sticking their tongues out and pretending to be Maori they could have shown the minute's silence.

Make sure the door doesn't smack your ar$e too hard on the way out.

Leither

Exactly.

tonrob

Didn't the rugby coverage start on schedule via the red button?

londonescapee

Erm there were 2 British/Scottish people killed in the mining accident. I think many people felt the pain. Also don't forget the tens of thousands of Kiwis who live in the UK and contribute on a regular basis to the coffers of the government.

Again, to quote me old mum, if you haven't got anything nice (or constructive) to say, perhaps you should say nothing at all.

Robbie2010

In October there was an accident in a coal mine in China where more than 30 died.

Was there a minutes silence for them here in NZ?

Did it even make the news?

Plenty of Chinese here that contribute on a regular basis to the coffers of the government.

dannigirl

I was at the game and all I can say is the minute of silence was so respectful and very emotional!!!
I shed a wee tear. The game was awesome......I was in a mainly Welsh section and we had a right laugh!

janek

Of course it made the news, how else would we heard about it? the Chinese deal with these tragedies in their own way.

Do the Chinese play rugby? do the Welsh know just a tad about mining? There's your answer.

luvwelly

LOL to the title...at least the BBC doesn't have constant adverts and advertorials during programmes like here in NZ.
You will surely love NZ and all its shortcomings, if you are happy to moan about the wonderful BBC BEFORE arriving in NZ .

londonescapee

Bo-Jangles

Of course they'd be damned if they did and damned if they didn't. What about the tennis fans? They'd have been pretty peeved not to have seen the end of the game. I heard some comments on the radio this morning from some Kiwi rugby commentators that were there at the game and they weren't exactly up in arms and beating their chests about it either.

It's reminiscent of TVNZ during the Beijing Olympics, on numerous occasions they cut short from an exciting race that was well under way; such as the women's cycling road race to go to some no-hope Kiwis playing a footie game and never returned to the cycling. People were very angry about that too and would have preferred that they stayed to the end of the race once they had started.

At least the BBC has other options when multi-sport events are on, with a myriad of other channels where one can choose which particular event or game to follow.

Robbie2010

Yes they do. ... Have you never been to the Hong kong sevens?