The BBC’s lead football executive has given an insight into the challenges of keeping Match of the Day on air through the Covid-19 pandemic.
The BBC’s flagship football programme, hosted by Gary Lineker, is now in its 55th year and is filmed at dock10 studios at MediaCityUK.
Producing Match of the Day during the pandemic has meant new ways of working to meet strict health and safety guidelines for production.
“The teams at dock10 and the BBC, and the technical teams behind the delivery of the programme did a brilliant job to get us back on air,” says BBC lead executive, football, Steve Rudge.
“Other than Gary, Alan (Shearer) and Ian (Wright) being sat slightly further apart in the studio, I genuinely don’t think that audiences will have noticed too much of difference to how they normally enjoy Match of the Day.”
