BBC Olympic coverage

robdaykin
robdaykin Posts: 102
edited July 2012 in Pro race
Has anyone got a clue what the BBC are playing at with the coverage? All the guide entries have silly names, like Day 1 Mishal Husain. Does anyone know how you get a medal in Jake Humphrey? Or Rishi Persad? They're not sports I've come across before.

My beloved better half has organised a lunch out on Saturday, so I thought I'd set the faithful PVR to record the road race... Just in case Cancellara, Boonen, Chavanel, Pinotti and Gilbert make a break stick on Box Hill.

As far as I can tell, grepping through descriptions, the MRR starts on BBC3, with updates on BBC1 and BBC3 in between other events till 10:45 when it switches to 301 (red button), then you get updates on BBC1 till the finish. Or is the only way to watch the race going to be on iPlayer after the fact, hoping I don't see the result before then? Bearing in mind I have an allergy to paying Murdochs and live in a Branson free area. The BBC website is completely free of any info about TV scheduling for specific events, just has start times, no channel info.

Would it kill the BBC to maybe label programs by sport, and stick with one till it ends? Wasn't that how Beijing worked, and I can't remember missing anything I wanted to see. Or does that deny the competitors in Jake Humphrey an audience? These minority sports get dafter names every year.... Is Jake Humphrey a team sport do you think? Do we have a medal chance?

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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    I believe sky have dedicated channels for each sport.
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  • derbygrimpeur
    derbygrimpeur Posts: 822
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    I believe sky have dedicated channels for each sport.

    ????
  • derbygrimpeur
    derbygrimpeur Posts: 822
    ahhhhh...
    http://www.sky.com/mysky/olympics/?DCMP ... _olympics1
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    24 dedicated channels.

    Should cover it.
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  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    BBC3 from 8:30–14:00
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ljvbz
    The race from start to about two-thirds of the laps of Box Hill (with interruptions from other sports)

    BBC1 from 13:15–16:45
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ll6dz
    That's about the last half of the laps of Box Hill and the run in to the finish, plus medal ceremony.

    Will probably also be viewable via a link on the BBC's Olympics cycling page (check on the day). In Beijing it mirrored the Red Button coverage, so you could watch both races in their entirety and got to hear Hugh Porter announce he was having a half-hour break to go and get something to eat.
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  • derbygrimpeur
    derbygrimpeur Posts: 822
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    24 dedicated channels.

    Should cover it.

    Just about :wink:

    BBC Olympic 3 has it from 9:50, so I presume the full race :) It's in HD as well.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Eurosport are showing the last two hours if Hugh Porter is not your thing.
  • alan_a
    alan_a Posts: 1,587
    Entire race on freeview channel 301 from 10am.

    Hugh Porter is sadly past it. Listen to Simon Brotherton's 5live / bbcweb radio commentary until Eurosport starts
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  • andyrac
    andyrac Posts: 1,197
    Remember the Beijing Road race and a rider with the name Candellabra.....Whatever happened to him? Never heard of him since.... :wink:
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  • Daz555
    Daz555 Posts: 3,976
    BBC content will be mainly on the Red Button I'd have thought.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Sky HD channels for the BBC coverage 450-473.(the RR is on 452)
    Ordinary Sky, BBC coverage 474-497. (RR on 476)
    2 dedicated freeview channels, for access via the red button, I believe.
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  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    afx237vi wrote:
    Eurosport are showing the last two hours if Hugh Porter is not your thing.

    "Now then..."
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Ah, so glad I have the HD with sky.
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Is the Eurosport HD channel now a simulcast of British Eurosport instead of International? I noticed today that they've changed the channel numbers. Hope this means we're not forced to watch James Richardson on the TdF next year!

    No offence to JR, but the stuff on International is better. The riders-being-presented-with-cardboard-cutouts segments were legendary.
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    The 24 HD Freesat channels went live today from channel 151 upwards, I retuned and now have them all.
  • JonS123
    JonS123 Posts: 171
    Goto channel 550 on Virgin, there is a block there in the guide from 550 - 597, looks like 24 HD channels and 24 normal ones.

    Any idea of a rough time when the race is due to finish? (ish) had some plans made for me (without checking!) that I now can't get out of
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    JonS123 wrote:
    Goto channel 550 on Virgin, there is a block there in the guide from 550 - 597, looks like 24 HD channels and 24 normal ones.

    Any idea of a rough time when the race is due to finish? (ish) had some plans made for me (without checking!) that I now can't get out of

    4pm.
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  • symo
    symo Posts: 1,743
    JonS123 wrote:
    Goto channel 550 on Virgin, there is a block there in the guide from 550 - 597, looks like 24 HD channels and 24 normal ones.

    Any idea of a rough time when the race is due to finish? (ish) had some plans made for me (without checking!) that I now can't get out of

    What HD channel on Vrgn?
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  • derbygrimpeur
    derbygrimpeur Posts: 822
    Alan A wrote:
    Entire race on freeview channel 301 from 10am.

    You sure? Won't that just be the BBC1 coverage, which'll be flicking between different sports.
  • garryc
    garryc Posts: 203
    The BBC 24 channels of the olympics is on Sky, Virgin and Freeview so I can watch all the cycling and nothing else - brilliant.

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