[BITList] olympic tv

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it’s about same in the US, Malcolm

some events are broadcast live, some are at other times. I have no idea of any schedule.
contrary to aussie tv, we get plenty of table tennis even though I have not seen an american in it!
a few hours ago I was watching china beat south korea at table tennis, but I don’t know when it was on in uk, it would have been after midnight there........................
I did see about 30 seconds of women’s boxing [eh!] this evening..............

colin t

From: John Feltham 
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 8:52 PM
To: BitList 
Subject: Re: [BITList] (no subject)

G'day Malcolm, 

On 08/08/2012, at 23:58 PM, Malcolm <malcena2 at uwclub.net> wrote:
  Here is a question from my wife Ena. When we are watching the Olympics every evening (We are  watching the Athletics from 6pm to 10pm) Can our relatives in Aus watch them at the same time, accepting the time difference. I said I would expect so. She also asks Do you have the red button on your top left  corner of your screen so that you can watch whichever particular sport that you want to watch as we can. I said I would expect so.



It's not as easy as that.

Free to air TV, Channel 9 has the contract to broadcast the Olympics. Although they [Channel 9], have two channels on which they broadcast, they broadcast the same program on both channels. Ch 9 hop from sport to sport at very odd times . They (mainly) only cover sports where there is an Australian competitor competing. So viewers cannot watch what sport that they would like to watch. I wold like to watch table tennis, but have not seen one episode ot he sport. 

If you have pay TV then you can watch the Olympics on 7 (or is it 9 Channels?). Each channel covering different sports.

  This morning Wednesday the 8th . On the radio they were interviewing one of your TV interviewers and he said that in Aus you can not see the important events until what he called your prime time in the middle of the evening. So, You did not see Usain Bolt win the 100 Mts etc when he exactly did so. That was a big surprise to me. When the Olympics, the World Football Cup, Formulae One etc etc, Is happening we can watch them exactly when they are happening, No matter which country is staging it.

Channel 9 on the free to air channel, broadcasts their version (see above) of the Olympics all day and the evening. But because Australia is presently 9 hours ahead of the UK (you are on 'summer time'), we see yesterday evenings in the UK , on the TV on the morning the next day, our time.
  I have told Ena that next time she wants to know something about Aus I will set the Email up and she can type it to you herself. I am not one for sending long Emails


Very chivalrous of you!ooroo

ooroo




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