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[Brekkie Boy]

kevzz, on 15 May 2012 - 12:11 PM, said:

BBC has announced the full lineup. I am so excited just by seeing the TV schedule and presenters list. Basically it will be nothing but Olympics on TV for 2 weeks!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk...apacks/bbc2012/

http://www.bbc.co.uk...ympics/18070768


Comprehensive coverage on BBC TV

As host nation broadcaster for the London 2012 Olympic Games, the BBC holds TV, radio, online, mobile and iPlayer rights in the UK. The flagship Olympic channels will be BBC One and BBC Three, as well as BBC Two (when BBC One switches to news), BBC HD and BBC One HD.

These channels will cover all of the key live action and top stories from the Games, as well as the Opening and Closing Ceremonies. Coverage of every Olympic sport from every venue will also be available via BBC Red Button and bbc.co.uk/sport.

Please note: all transmission times are subject to change.

The Olympics 27 July – 12 August

Live coverage on BBC Red Button and bbc.co.uk/sport

9.00am-12midnight

Every Olympic sport from every venue through up to 24 simultaneous, HD-quality, live Olympic streams. 24 channels are also available to cable and satellite viewers through the BBC Red Button.

BBC One

Olympic Breakfast

6.00am-9.00am BBC One/BBC One HD A combination of Hazel Irvine and Bill Turnbull or Chris Hollins and Sian Williams start the day with a look at the main stories from the day before and the highlights from the day ahead, also incorporating national and regional news and weather.

Olympics 2012

9.00am-11.30am BBC One/BBC One HD Mishal Husain brings the first of the day’s live action from the athletics, rowing and swimming heats. Venue presentation from Matt Baker, Clare Balding, Jonathan Edwards, Jake Humphrey and John Inverdale.

Olympics 2012

11.30am-1.45pm BBC One/BBC One HD The live action continues into the afternoon with Matt Baker, Clare Balding or Hazel Irvine. The focus will remain on the athletics, rowing and swimming heats plus other events including the men’s triathlon.

Olympics 2012

1.45pm-4.00pm BBC One/BBC One HD Clare Balding, Jake Humphrey or Hazel Irvine takes on the baton, focusing on the conclusion of events such as the cycling road races, tennis finals, equestrian and diving.

Olympics 2012

4.00pm-7.00pm BBC One/BBC One HD As we head towards the evening, Sue Barker brings us the action from the track cycling, gymnastics, tennis and equestrian.

Olympics 2012

7.00pm-10.35pm BBC One/BBC One HD Gary Lineker takes us through the evening and into the night with action from the competition finals including the athletics and swimming.

Olympics Tonight

10.40pm-midnight BBC One/BBC One HD Gabby Logan, in the company of star guests from the world of sport and beyond, focuses on the stories and personalities that have dominated the day and looks at the sport still in progress.

Olympic Sportsday

00.15am-1.00am BBC One/BBC One HD Dan Walker rounds up the main stories from the day’s action.

BBC Two

Olympics 2012

1.00pm-1.45pm; 6.00pm-7.00pm; 10.00pm-10.40pm BBC Two

Coverage switches from BBC One to BBC Two during the main BBC News bulletins.

BBC Three

Olympics 2012

9.00am-7.00pm BBC Three

Manish Bhasin, Rishi Persad or Sonali Shah will complement BBC One with some of the best action on offer from the 26 sports at the Games.

Olympics 2012

7.00pm-11.00pm BBC Three

Jake Humphrey presents the best of the live action from the football, hockey, boxing and basketball.

BBC News

BBC News: BBC One (1.00pm-1.45pm;

6.00pm-7.00pm; 10.00pm-10.40pm); BBC News Channel (including daily Olympics highlights programmes at 6.30pm, 10.30pm and 00.30pm) and bbc.co.uk/news

BBC News will be bringing you all of the stories from inside and outside of the Olympic venues, 24 hours a day, on the usual BBC One bulletins, the BBC News Channel and bbc.co.uk/news.

Ceremonies (opening and closing)
TV: Huw Edwards, Hazel Irvine, Trevor Nelson. Radio: John Murray.

It's bad enough we get Huw Edwards, but what on earth is DJ Trevor Nelson doing as part of the commentary team. With three of them it'll be even more talked over than I fear. Hazel did a great job as the lead commentator in Vancouver and would much rather it was her for London, with somebody actually knowledgeable about the athletes participating coming in for the athletes parade.

As for the BBC coverage - I don't know if it's just me but the coverage still seems slightly less important than it did in the days it was branded Olympic Grandstand. Even though the main Saturday show is long gone it would be nice if they kept the brand for the Olympics.

[Durban Sandshark]

Viasat teams up with NRK to bring forth 100 hours of 3D Olympic coverage from London on Viasat 3D, 8 hours daily and will produce a 4-hour daily summary of the day's events. Seems as though Norwegians are buying into the 3DTV craze in abundance as the report suggests, four years after NRK and Viasat offered HD coverage of the Olympics for the first time to Norwegians.
http://www.na24.no/p...icle3400708.ece
http://www.kampanje....icle6069049.ece

CVM Television in Jamaica was out and about on a hot Saturday promoting its upcoming official 2012 London Olympic coverage. Photos are here from its Falmouth stop.
http://falmouthphoto...pic-games-2012/

[Durban Sandshark]

Denmark's TV2 just launched its London 2012 Olympic Games webpages days ago
http://tv2sport.dk/ol-i-london-2012

This is how France Televisions plans to deal with their share of the upcoming London coverage that was announced in Paris yesterday under its Francetvsport banner. We already know about the 300 hours that will be televisied among the four France TV channels--2, 3, 4, and O plus nine of its overseas channels. Didier Fraisse was announced as the Francetvsport Olympic director in London. It was also on that day France Television 3 will premiere the show France: London Objective. On the eve of the Opening Ceremony, Marie Drucker will host a program called The Beginning (yes, that's actually titled as such and is likely being the start of a lot of English used on France TV). Among the things featured will be a Usain Bolt documentary directed by Gael LeBlanc and produced by Elephant and Doc under the France The Fastest title.

Speaking of Francetvsport, its Olympic website is fully now up. With that, it was also announced officially French residents will get access to 12 live simultaneous Olympic streams and the simulcastings of the four France TV channels' coverage. Pluzz and Francetvsport will offer on-demand video of all events. All this will be made available on PCs, laptops, mobile phones, tablets, and internet-connected smart TVs. France Televisions will bring around 40 HD cameras, of which the images and signals will be relayed back to Paris and vice versa, to cover the 42 feeds from the OBSL with a team of 250 (up from 180 in Beijing). In Paris, technicians and directors there will cope with 80 images and signals flip-flopping from France 2 and France 3. Actually there will be two additional directors with Jean-Pierre Leroux (at Stage 2) and Christopher Boulain taking turns back in Paris

France Televisions also showed its London headquarters for the Olympics and what it will look like on a pontoon near Old Billingsgate with construction will come on July 15 with Guy Lelong's interior design, decor, and tech teams on July 20 culminating for rehearsals on July 23-24. Studio will be transparent that will have 7 remote cameras. Oh yes, France Telelvisions will have its own London double decker omnibus, but unlike the BandSports' edition, this will be more contemporary-looking with the upper part usually at the back installed in the front. It will be called Louise after Louise Ekland, an British TV host currently on French TV and may be on hand for this. The bus will be equipped with 4 cameras RF remote and machinery with radio-relayed live links on the moving bus. SIS Live will take care of that technological aspect. All that looks neat, doesn't it?
http://www.mediaunau...ges-des-decors/
http://www.sislive.tv/

Had me wondering. Why is ZDF and Das Erste offering only six live webstreaming channels for the London Olympics when the likes of neighbors in France just announced at least 12 Olympic streams? Like I say, surely those two are capable of offering more coverage than six in this case. This is just one of the concerns the private German TV providers has over the two ublic broadcasters; it has criticzed this and perhaps could offer even more.
http://translate.goo...s%3Dcom.microsoft:en-us:IE-Sea
http://www.boulevard...im-netz-508682/

This piece goes further in what ARD, aka Das Erste, plans to do in London as part of the double team with ZDF. The first 40 minutes after the first five of 9am recaps the previous day's highlights. Then goes on to Olympia Live until midnight with the live competition. NDR is responsible for the radio coverage overall. Olympic moderators are Gerhard Dehling, Michael Antwerps, and Alexander Bommes present the hourly Olympia Telegram. Franziska Van Almsick is the swimming analyst with roving London street reporter Rolf Seeman Eggelbert experiencing the sights and sounds of London and of the British lifestyle. There will be a late night show though I can't really find who is doing it this time--Waldi or Harry. Likely CAF will make that clear here. WDR 2, SWR NDR Jump, NDR 2 and 3 will handle the radio coverage with some background focus on doping and sports policy with the live coverage at the daily early morning breakfast period, hopefully (for them) after a German wins a medal. Hosts and commentators there are Sabine Topperwien (WDR), Martina Knief (HR), Martin Roschitz (NDR) and Oliver Frick (BWR). Online is supposed to be cost-effective yet unprecedented diverse method of bringing more of the Olympics to watch that TV can't handle. Along with a EPG a video gallery range and blogs from Olympic athletes like beach volleyball players Sara Goller and Laura Ludwig, who had blogged back in 2008 in Beijing, ARD expert Frank Busemann, hockey record national Natascha Keller and Tennis Association coach Barbara Rittner describe their view of things on the net. http://www.quotenmet...=n&p2=56638&p3=

[Quaker2001]

Cable Show 2012: NBC To Offer Unprecedented 2012 Olympics Coverage

You ready for this one? We have our number. "NBC Sports will provide an unprecedented 5,535 hours of 2012 London Olympics coverage -- including live coverage of every event and every sport -- via its broadcast and cable linear channels, online and mobile , according to Gary Zenkel, president of NBC Olympics and executive vice president of Strategic partnerships for NBC Sports Group." Among some other notes from the article..

NBC will have 272 hours of coverage, up from 225 in Beijing. Don't know where the extra hours are coming from since we're now talking about 17 hours a day (unless maybe they're counting the Today Show as Olympic coverage).
It seems the MSNBC number has already been revised, they're now up to 178 (155 had been reported).
They also mention 770 hours from the basketball and soccer specialty channels, those are back from Beijing.

I don't know how they got to that number even with a lot of double-counting and perhaps adding in VOD content. But my goodness does NBC ever know how to raise the bar on themselves. That's more than 50% more than they offered from London. Who would have thought that's even possible!

[NY20??]

Is anything on NBC primetime going to be live? I'm guessing no, correct?