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(April 2016)

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Whataday Founding member
Gareth E posted:
deejay posted:
Fantastic programme. The opening ceremony contained some of my favourite ever moments of television. Ever.


Agreed. An unforgettable night. I had the privilege of watching it with 80,000 others in Hyde Park and I can still feel the hairs standing on the back of my neck when I watch it.

If you have a spare 30 minutes, I would totally recommend another look at this documentary - aired around Christmas 2012 and very kindly uploaded by its producer/director Eric McFarland - 'Olympics 2012: Through the Lens'.

https://vimeo.com/59425322

The tear in Hazel Irvine's eye as voices her memorable commentary during the forming of the rings in Pandemonium really is very touching. I remember her words just as much as the event itself.


Interesting to see how Hazel takes her cue to speak from Huw - I've often wondered how at these events they don't end up talking over each other.
PI
picard
BBC Olympics HD is on Freeview 114 with that old style logo, half cut off.
DV
dvboy
I've moved the channels and grouped them together in the 900s so it's easy to flick between them and BBC1 (I might swap BBC2 and BBC4 over for the Olympics too)
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Critique
Whataday posted:

Interesting to see how Hazel takes her cue to speak from Huw - I've often wondered how at these events they don't end up talking over each other.


Also interesting to see how it looks very much like Hazel and Huw are commenting alone - took me a few minutes to realise Trevor Nelson (who also commentated) was in the next seat along, but they weren't interacting with him so I didn't even register!
NG
noggin Founding member
harshy posted:
How weird a testcard comes on at the end, those OBS London Olympics titles were excellent, hopefully via the BBC feeds we can see the OBS official titles for Rio.


Yes - you'd have thought OBS would have clipped it up a bit more cleanly for YouTube. Not a surprise that the original circuit had a slate appear after the show had finished though. You wouldn't want to leave black on a circuit - so having an ID slate makes a lot of sense (and audio so you know it's a live feed and not a freeze in the IRD)
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Inspector Sands
Critique posted:

Also interesting to see how it looks very much like Hazel and Huw are commenting alone - took me a few minutes to realise Trevor Nelson (who also commentated) was in the next seat along, but they weren't interacting with him so I didn't even register!

They did different sections of the ceremony didn't they? Not all commentators did all of it
RK
Rkolsen
Inspector Sands posted:

Bloomberg reports that their attempt was futile.

I'm curious when the Discovery contract takes effect could they set up temporary channels on FreeView to avoid subcontracting them out?
MI
Mike516
Discovery and the BBC already have a deal covering UK Olympics coverage until 2024.

Discovery subcontract the BBC rights for 2018/2020 and vice versa for 2022/2024.

The Olympics are a listed event that requires a free-to-air outlet, but only a few channels qualify to carry listed events - essentially the former analogue terrestrial channels, who enjoy the greatest digital terrestrial coverage following the completion of switchover.

Discovery (through its Quest channel) is not one of them, nor could it be as they wouldn't have access to a Freeview multiplex with near universal coverage. Therefore subcontracting rights is unavoidable.
Last edited by Mike516 on 29 July 2016 9:17pm
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Brekkie
I'd still like to see that challenged - the wording of the act is that the entirity of events on the A-list must be shown on free to air qualifying channels, hence why the BBC and ITV have to get permission to air the final group games of football tournaments on the red button or ITV4. I'd also like to see the BBC confirm the situation for 2018/20 - they've been reluctant to confirm whether the one extra stream deal kicks in in 2018 or 2022 - and as such I suspect it's sooner rather than later.
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james-2001
Rkolsen posted:
Inspector Sands posted:

Bloomberg reports that their attempt was futile.

I'm curious when the Discovery contract takes effect could they set up temporary channels on FreeView to avoid subcontracting them out?


Being NBC and not showing it live and choppign and changing as they do, they could just edit it to put the US team at the end anyway Razz Or just only show America as that always treat it practically as if no other country's competing anyway.
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harshy Founding member
With less then a week to go anyone knows what the BBC main titles are going to look like? will we get a look in on Monday maybe like the Euros? I think the BBC graphics will have a more colourful scheme then the euros, maybe the same for the official graphics too compared to London 2012.
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Brekkie
I'd have thought they'd be based on the promo as they have been for the last few games.

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