Olympic Torch TV Coverage

The IOC have mandated following the demonstrations against Beijing 2008 that the Torch relay should only feature Greece and the Host Nation for the immediate future.

A derogation was allowed in this case. I was unfortunately out of Dublin today but it appears to have been a huge success.

Its important to note as well that while the Great Britain team does indeed represent Great Britain and Northern Ireland (and the Isle of Man, Jersey, and Guernsey), sportspeople from Northern Ireland may also be picked for the Ireland team and there will be several doing so at London 2012.

I thought there might have been some mention of this:

BBC to make Opening Ceremony films

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/rogermosey/2012/06/bbc_to_make_opening_ceremony_f.html

The BBC being designated "London 2012 Olympic Ceremonies Featured Film Producer"

Odd. If I make the Torch Relay website feed full screen, I get quite a large grey frame around it. Never seen that before. Is everyone else seeing the same?

Look North Hull had their turn at an Olympic Torch special tonight, amazingly not hosted by Peter Levy but by John Inverdale. A fairly decent effect, with a nice clean opt back to network part way through the build up to the football, with Inverdale explaining that we were joining Lineker and co via a DVE shrink. He had explained at the top of the show that the football was on BBC1 HD.

BBC Hull get quite a bit of stick on this forum but I think credit is due tonight (even overlooking the moment of apparent finger trouble when they cut to colour bars!)

Roger Mosey has said these local shows have been rating well, but didn't quantify it. Poor old John Inverdale though - not only do BBC Sport not give him the respect he deserves now they send him off to Hull!

Yeah, the only thing they did wrong was apparently not telling the BBC Sport studio about the opt-out, meaning that we rejoined them mid-discussion and they didn't welcome viewers from Yorkshire and Lincolnshire the way BBC News Channel welcomes BBC1 or BBC2 viewers half way through a bulletin. Everything was clean and smooth at our end.

Oh, and the Freeview EPG was updated only a couple of hours beforehand, which is pretty dumb since it was announced days ago that this opt-out was going to happen. The Hull Daily Mail mentioned it in an article but for some inexplicable reason didn't update the TV listings page.

BBC One South East have Fake Britain starting at 19:40, presumably they will join it half way through, whereas the other regions have it starting at 19:30 (as did BBC One South East until the last few minutes). I'm not sure I have seen one English region have a programme start at a different time to the others. In fact, all speculation up until now has said that the regions can only replace programmes like for like with other programmes of the same duration.


EDIT :What do you know, as soon as I post, the Olympic Cauldron is lit and the EPG changes back to show Fake Britain at 19:30.

Sorry for two posts in a row, but heres an interesting one for you. The coverage on Tuesday started off with a feed of a reporter and crew in the Brighton Royal Pavilion gardens arranging an interview with a young boy and his Dad (who almost missed seeing the torch due to waiting to be interviewed). After the interview and two live reports are over the cameraman, with camera, leg it over to BBC South East Today's Chrissie Reidy who we see climb over a fence to get out of the Royal Pavilion gardens and get ready to do a piece to camera with the crowds in the background. This is where the feed is cut.

Does anyone know who the first reporter was? I don't see BBC South East in the morning that often nowadays, but I don't recognise her as a local face. Surely, another region weren't covering Brighton too?

View the stream from Tuesday here……..

WWW.BBC.CO.UK/TORCHRELAY/
18-Jul-2012 @ 20:02

BBC London are producing a Torch Relay programme after all, 7pm on July 25th. (There was no mention that London would do one at all when the press release went out)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01l5kcz

It's also followed by Britain's Olympic Torch Story, for those who aren't torched out yet.

The EPG says it's as the torch "arrives in London" which isn't true as it arrives tonight. It sounds like the same template used for many of the other regions. On Wednesday night the torch will be at Alexandra Palace.