[BITList] bbc olympic tv

Fri Aug 10 17:02:57 BST 2012

Malcolm

further on tv and the olympics;  the bbc blocks online viewing/listening of domestic tv and some local radio to folks interested in viewing and listening to same outside uk.
I have got around this [c/o Frank’s info] by using the free proxy server program ‘expat shield’, so I can now see all the bbc tv channels and programs [yes, even East Enders] here in the usa on my pc.
I was hoping to use the same app on my iPad, I could then mirror the BBC TV programs from  my iPad on to my big TV – so far I don’t see a suitable app.

I too am a big F1 fan and we do have very good coverage here now. Former racing driver Davis Hobbs, former race mechanic Steve Matchett and US car guy Bob Varsha are commentators with a young English lad Will Buxton in the pits. it used to be peter windsor until he resigned for greater things – running US F1 team, which turned out to be a joke and a total disaster, it was the subject of many comic pieces like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB6eJluXEbs&playnext=1&list=PL8CF7C4E10192F387&feature=results_main.  

All the races except 3 are broadcast live on the Speed channel but I usually record them so I can view them at a reasonable hour. For unknown reasons Fox channel picks up 3 races per year, these are not broadcast live here because of time differences but are shown at peak viewing times [to impact commercials and increase profitability]. 

You have probably seen that a new F1 track has been built in austin, texas and should be all ready to go in november. 

colin t
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From: Malcolm 
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 9:55 AM
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Subject: [BITList] FW: olympic tv

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 

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

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