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Watched some on Eurosport via BTTV myself but I didn't stay with it for long, I always find the BBC more (want for a better word) homely. Eurosport always feels remote to me, I always feel that they are broadcasting more to an international audience than a British audience. I realise Eurosport 3, 4 and 5 were international feeds but that meant that the BBC had 2 British Feeds and Eurosport had only 2 British feeds which were many time duplicates of the extra channels. I feel Eurosport does have a lot of work to do in time for 2020.
Woodsy was brilliant reporting out in the field but found him a little bit awkward in the studio.
Will be interesting to see the Eurosport ratings for the period but it was always going to be the summer games where losing the multiple feeds will really hit the BBC. With the time difference and limited number of simultaneous events the BBC got away with it this time and to their credit used the one red button stream they had pretty well.
I don't know if there were periods when both BBC1/2 and the red button had the same content but I didn't notice it, though sadly due to the time difference and no time off work I had to view most of the games through the highlights show which on the whole was very good though I think an extra half hour would have enable more events to be shown unfolding as they happened (in an edited form) rather than as "reports".
I did have the Eurosport streams via Amazon for the period but didn't use them - just found it too clunky, especially having to go back to a menu to see what else was on rather than flicking through a guide. I can't comment on the quality of their coverage but really don't think Eurosport broke out beyond it's own viewer base as the home of the Olympics and really do feel they've much to do before 2020 if they really want to deliver.
Will be interesting to see the Eurosport ratings for the period but it was always going to be the summer games where losing the multiple feeds will really hit the BBC. With the time difference and limited number of simultaneous events the BBC got away with it this time and to their credit used the one red button stream they had pretty well.
I don't know if there were periods when both BBC1/2 and the red button had the same content but I didn't notice it, though sadly due to the time difference and no time off work I had to view most of the games through the highlights show which on the whole was very good though I think an extra half hour would have enable more events to be shown unfolding as they happened (in an edited form) rather than as "reports".
I did have the Eurosport streams via Amazon for the period but didn't use them - just found it too clunky, especially having to go back to a menu to see what else was on rather than flicking through a guide. I can't comment on the quality of their coverage but really don't think Eurosport broke out beyond it's own viewer base as the home of the Olympics and really do feel they've much to do before 2020 if they really want to deliver.
Watched some on Eurosport via BTTV myself but I didn't stay with it for long, I always find the BBC more (want for a better word) homely. Eurosport always feels remote to me, I always feel that they are broadcasting more to an international audience than a British audience. I realise Eurosport 3, 4 and 5 were international feeds but that meant that the BBC had 2 British Feeds and Eurosport had only 2 British feeds which were many time duplicates of the extra channels. I feel Eurosport does have a lot of work to do in time for 2020.