Not related to football but some of the typical Sky Sport issues with the Olympics over the last week. Been recording various sessions during the day to watch in the evening and a couple of times the athletics recording has ended while it was still going as it had gone longer than the scheduled time. I know there was a big rain delay with yesterday's evening session but would still expect them to be able to adjust the live scheduling. Missed the end of the men's pole vault final. The men's tennis final also cut off early in the 4th set, though luckily I expected this as it started about 2 hours later than scheduled so I manually set the next 3 hours to record after the scheduled end time to be safe.
They still don't appear to have learned from the countless times this has happened in football matches that have gone to extra time so gone beyond the scheduled end time, most notably in last seasons's FA Cup Final. The usual excuse is that it's happened on ESPN and they don't control that channel. Surely the Olympic pop up channels are completely under their control however. It now seems to be a requirement when recording sport that you remember to manually set say the next couple of hours on the same channel just in case it goes on longer.
With things like weather delays, extra time, tennis matches going longer than straight sets etc it's pretty common for various sports to last beyond the scheduled finish time so how difficult is it for someone to be checking on them and adjusting the scheduling the make sure recordings continue to the end?