[BITList] FW: olympic tv

Fri Aug 10 15:55:52 BST 2012

John & Colin.

Thank you for answering our questions. It is nice to here that the UK and
especially the old BBC TV 1-2-3 channels are at the top of league with the
Olympics programs. When the Aus reporter said in Aus they can only see
sports that Ausie's  are competing in. I thought that I had not understood
him right. 

You did not say if you had the red button at the top of the screen (that Ena
calls it) The correct name is "Activation Button" which changes the screen
to similar to a computer then we can change over to which ever sport that is
playing that actual time. If you want to watch table tennis you just scroll
down to it and enter. Early on this week there was sometimes 14 events to
choose from and you are still on the BBC 1 channel.

My only really sport is Formulae 1 and I watched it on either BBC or ITV
depending which company had paid the F1 to screen it. Now Murdock's Sky has
taken it over and so I had to buy their cheapest package that included F1. I
must admit that they do a good job of it. Now when the race is actually
being run I can go activation and more or less be in the car with about 6
the drivers of the cars and see what the driver is seeing.

Now I have just typed another long Email. It was your compliment  to me that
I was "Very chivalrous  of you" that helped me along. Everyone in Yorkshire
knows that us men are so. Also we can do what ever we like and spend as much
money, as we like, as long as our wife's say so.

Malcolm.

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 <mailto:wantok at me.com>  

Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 8:52 PM

To: BitList <mailto:bitlist at lists.bcn.mythic-beasts.com>  

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

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