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Viewers based in Pembrokeshire will not be able to watch this week's programme live, nor even later on Friday evening (a fact curiously omitted above).
Because ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Two Wales are showing an - admittedly fairly important - live rugby match till 9.30 instead. ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Wales is run by sport obsessives who always get priority treatment whilst all the other viewers suffer. Read the press notice of 25 June re the new Magner's League deal. Unless they can watch on the iplayer, or have Sky, viewers of ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Wales who cannot retune to England will have to wait until Saturday evening to see any AW.
Six out of seven editions of AW Unsprung have also been delayed in Wales - indefensible on four of the nights as the live rugby had already ended and the sport put on in their place was NOT live (and not mainstream either, as alluded to by Kate Humble in her comments about what her husband had said to her).

Gull

Thanks. I have already complained to ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Wales and also commented on the Autumn Watch message boards. My latest suggestion is that AW 2010 should be shown on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ One at 8.30 on Fridays (not ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Two), with the Unsprung programme - which should aleways be shown live in Wales as elsewhere - following on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Two at 9.30 pm. That should avoid the rugby scheduling issue on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Two Wales.

Gull

ashleyhr is well aware of the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ complaints procedure. He has been complaining to ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Wales about the "excessive" amount of rugby shown for some time now. His concerns about this pre-date this series of Autumnwatch and as a resident of England these complaints and all of his numerous posts on the Autumnwatch messageboard have all been made on behalf of family and friends in Wales, who are apparently not able to do this themselves.

As a Welsh resident, rugby fan and active nature lover, who regularly submits photos to the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Wales Nature Flickr group (id former-extog), I am happy, as you are, to watch Autumnwatch either during it's delayed transmission on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Wales or by one of the other ways available to catch up.

Please don't allow this blog to become caught up in ashleyhr's campaign about rugby on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Wales.

Mike

Mike clearly believes that ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Wales should, as it did, have delayed the live AW and AW Unsprung nearly every week on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Two because of rugby/other (minority) sports coverage - even though not everyone in Wales has Sky or iplayer. Fair enough.
Gull however definitely did not express a view on this point. He merely said that he did not know of the delays in Wales until recently as he himself watches AW on the iplayer after transmission (or on Freeview; not sure how that works unless he is in a part of Wales where you can retune to ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Two England/NI).
If Gull has time to look at the AW message board discussions - such as 'Second Class Wales Again!!' which ended nearly two weeks ago, and 'Wales viewers don't panic ...' on 13 Nov, he will see that a number of viewers based in Wales - people I have never met/corresponded with elsewhere incidentally - take a very different view to Mike about (a) the frequent delays to both AW programmes for Welsh viewers and/or (b) the frequency with which ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Wales sets aside half an evening's schedule to 'Scrum V' followed by 'Sport Wales'. They may not like rugby but obviously are entitled to their opinions.
Incidentally, I sometimes watch programmes like 'Big Country' on the iplayer and would agree that ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Wales produces some good nature programmes such as that; I also enjoy some of its nationally transmitted productions like 'Last chance to See'.
Late on Friday evening I sent a text message to a friend living close to Fishguard saying "be sure to watch the programme on Saturday".