Beijing Olympic Games 2008

And now I've figured out how to download it it's useful to me too.

Are the Freeview streams the first three?

Also, anyone know when BBC Parliament is going off air for the games - presumably Friday night some time. Knowing the BBC we'll be forced to retune just as they're about to light the torch or something daft.

I think so but I've not seen any information that says so. 3 and 8 are showing Final Score on Saturday so one of those would appear to be either 301 or 302.



My Freeview EPG suggests 6:15am on Monday. After that, "This is BBC Parliament" is listed.

Bloody football - as if second division football is more important than the Olympic Games!!! I'm sure Freeview viewers could cope without the full Score service for a couple of weeks at least - they can always use Sky Sports News instead.


Also doesn't look like there are any "Olympic Report" programmes as part of the coverage - I'd have thought they'd do one around 5.30pm to finish off their live coverage for the day.

At that time of day, they'd only be missing highlights, nothing live.



The Games Today on BBC One, simulcast and then repeated all evening on Interactive Channels 1 and 9 until 1:00(ish).

Actually, having thought about it, 1 appears to be simulcasting BBC One/Two when they are on air.

I think it likely that 2-6 are the Sky/cable streams and 7-9 are the Freeview streams.

2 and 3 appear to be mostly the same as 7 and 8, and 9 is a mix of 1 (when not simulcasting BBC One/Two) and mostly 4.

This could be the view from the BBC's Studio in Beijing,

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3074/2676094309_9ee00c8473.jpg?v=0

This is from the BBC's flickr site where there are more images of Beijing.

BBC Parliament has already been suspended from DTT today, just an MHEG caption explaining it's off due to the Olympics.

A couple of images from Sunday AM this morning:

http://tvnewsroom.co.uk/olympics01.jpg http://tvnewsroom.co.uk/olympics02.jpg

The set seems to be the same as they always have these days with the grey sofa...

Sue said they think that thing on top of the stadium is going to be the Olympic Flame so they will have it constantly in their background...

The way you say "suspended" makes it sound as if it's been forced off air or something.

Anyway...

many more people care about that "Bloody football" as you
put it than the Olympic if you looked at the numbers.you'd find
that alot of people up and down the uk support football teams
in the football League than will watch the Olympic.for some who
work saturday it's a very important services i and many others
would take that "Bloody football" over the Olympic any day.

That's odd because RadioTimes doesn't mention that it's unavailable on Freeview until Friday.

I noticed that too, the EPG said it would have been available until 6.00am Monday, but it got took off yesterday afternoon.