I know we’re still in the midst of the trials and tribulations that are watching England progress through a major football tournament, but things just get busier.
As well as Wimbledon starting today, next weekend sees the return of my sporting highlight of the summer – the Tour de France.
When ITV4 started last autumn, I knew that ITV planned to move most of its sports coverage to the channel and worried me a little because since it doesn’t start until 6.00pm in the evening (it shares a channel space with CITV), that would mean the end of live weekend coverage.
But looking at some of the upcoming listings, it looks as though live coverage is still with us on ITV3 with coverage of the prologue on Saturday and Stage 1 on Sunday. With any luck this’ll continue into the following weekends, particularly that of the 15th and 16th July when the Tour’s in the mountains.
It looks as though weekday coverage is ITV4 between 7pm and 8pm which is fine.