Winter Olympics 2010 - Vancouver - BBC TWO/HD/RB/OL/IP

Yeah, did my research - Stine Brun Kjeldaas - wonder if she's ever done any broadcasting before or if she's just a mate of Ed Leigh's from the circuit.

Enjoyed that live, it's on Two repeated now though.

Shameful though the BBC won't cover the sport again (apart from the odd usually non-competitive feature on Ski Sunday) until 2014, assuming they keep the Olympic rights.

That Norwegian woman though ruined the commentary - most of her contributions were "um" and "argh", and anything else she said just interrupted the flow of the superb Ed Leigh.

I think BBC2 could do with a teatime highlights programme of what happened during the night. Sports such as figure skating will lose a lot of exposure this year.

The looped highlights show on the red button in the morning is very good, but should definitely get a scheduled slot - much more deserving of the 5.15pm slot than that rip off of that Restaurant in your Living Room show off TV Burp!

The primetime ratings of 2.5-3m show that the BBC shouldn't have held back and could quite easily have scheduled coverage from 6-10.30pm on BBC2 and got the figures. The overnight figures on the otherhand aren't as impressive - between 0.2m and 0.5m, a figure I'm sure would have doubled if it had simply been scheduled overnight on BBC1 instead.

P.S. Looks like the tent (snow variant) is the ident of choice for these games - has been used for every programme I've seen on BBC2.

Is that a new 'Press Red' logo this evening? I haven't seen it with the Olympic rings before.

Yes, new tonight I think. Still more intrusive though than the one from a few years back which just had the Olympic rings, and still annoying the BBC won't let their press red icons time out after 30 seconds or so as they used to do in the early days of Freeview.

But didn't they add the "Press Green" option to blank them (although it wasn't publicised...)

You can remove them manually, but it's a pain in the arse when you have to do it everytime you come out of a text/interactive service, everytime you switch channels and everytime the BBC change programming.

Talking of interactive though and I think it's a shame they no longer re-skin the service for events like the Olympics, Wimbledon etc. and instead just use the generic yellow/grey look.

Which doesn't work if you've recorded it on a Sony Freeview HDD/DVD Recorder. The prompt is "burned in" (I understand it's an MHEG thing and the way Freeview works, but the BBC tell me everyone else in the country finds it "useful"). Grrrr!

The Sony...

Weird behaviour, the recorder should be taking the digital stream and not the TV image, try pressing Green when watching the recording, the MHEG should disappear. At least that's how my PVR behaves.

Alas, that doesn't work. Bah!