I went to the BBC site thinking Erdogan's re-election would be on the homepage (a day or two after the election IIRC), nope, nearly all World Cup. So, it would certainly be on the News section, er nope; not in the European news subsection either. Searched and found one video which was propaganda level of support for Erdogan.

Might've been just me.

I don't quite see how the World Cup is more than a small news story. Why isn't it one item in News and then all the detailed stuff in Sport section.

(Yes, I'm watching it, yes I enjoy it, yes I love football; no I don't think the BBC should devote half the resources they are to it.)

Erdoğan approved an act forbidding presidential candidates being financed by political parties but not president itself financed by means of state, during electoral propaganda. It is not unexpected that Erdoğan has got himself re-elected with unequal opportunity of propaganda, favoring himself.

There were 5 news stories published on July 25th about the results. This story was (for a while) top story on the morning the resuklts came in https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-44596072

July 25th?

On June 25th the Ten O'Clock news running order was Heathrow, Grenfell, Migrants, Student Suicide, Swansea Lagoon, NHS, Turkey (1m20), Prince William doing something, then finally the World Cup which was 3 minutes at the end of the program (England had played the previous day)

On June 26th I don't think there was any world cup.

The Ten's running order (tweeted daily by https://twitter.com/paulroyall) is an indication of what the BBC thinks was important that day (where Today's running order is what the BBC thinks will be important that day)

18 Million people watched the last England game on BBC One, 3 million watched live on iplayer.

That's the most number of viewers for anything since the 2012 olympics. 1 in 3 people in the UK was glued to their screen watching, and that was the first round. Tomorrows quarter final I'm sure will be even higher.

This world cup is major news for the UK - even for those like me that don't watch football. My understanding is that the BBC coverage is better than ITVs too.

(BTW, the BBC's facilities in Moscow are dwarfed by Fox Sports, and the U.S. isn't even in the competition!)

This is the bbc news page I see. World Cup is below the fold: http://imgur.com/c2mkpAkl.png

An ongoing, popular sporting event is always going to be higher priority than an election that is two days old and only minorly relevant to a UK audience (which the BBC serves).

That was my thought as well, there's always something "big" going on. IMO, it would be difficult, near impossible, to coordinate votes with events, going through the bureaucracy involved etc.