Tokyo 2020 - satellite coverage issues

liamtech

Hey folks

Just wondering if anyone has any information on Olympics feeds? Seem to recall that 2012 and 2016 say a dozen or so specific FTA Sports feeds - iv googled this time around but very little info beyond

2021 Tokyo Olympics on Freesat  - (copied from Freesat website)

TBC: BBC, Friday 23rd July – Sunday 8th August 

Who can forget the Olympics? Perhaps the most famous and historical sporting event there is, the Olympics will take place in Tokyo this year after being delayed due to Covid-19 and will see countries from around the world compete in a series of grueling sports to break world records and bring home the glory and the gold.  

Gerry Wicklow

The only thing that might be of any use is the HD version of the Red Button

12422 H 27500 2/3 DVB-S QPSK

refusetolose

thanks gerry ,are all the other RB channels finished for this year now?

Gerry Wicklow

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117639223#Comment_117639223

Your guess is as good as mine but it doesn't look too good the way they pulled them so fast. You would think if they planned on using them again in the near future they would have left a test card at least.

lgs 4

That's a shame.

Car99

Hi All,

I have a standard SKy+ HD box anyway to get access to the BBC red button channels?

Very handy for the Olympics.

eguiney

https://boards.ie/discussion/2058200492/bbc-red-button-ireland

There is only one BBC red button channel this time. It can be added to Other Channels in the usual way.

If you have a Sky subscription, there are extra Eurosport channels on 983-989.

refusetolose

be sure to get the HD version

Nowso

bbc player would have more stuff live if you have a vpn and can view it mostly replays and the 2 live links atm

toonarmy1

has anyone the frequency for the BBC red button ?

Gerry Wicklow

The HD version of the Red Button

12422 H 27500 2/3 DVB-S QPSK

SD is on

10773 H 22000 5/6 DVB-S QPSK

Car99

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117654109#Comment_117654109

Very helpful . Thank you.

vimes

Looks like the BBC doesn't actually have the rights to provide its usual coverage level to the Olympics:-

As part of this sub-licensing arrangement the BBC can show a maximum of two live events at one time, through one television channel and a second feed provided through the red button service and online. Everything else requires viewers to switch to Eurosport or Discovery+, meaning many sports are simply not being covered live by the BBC.

So the IOC essentially f*cked the Beeb and everyone else for more cold hard.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jul/25/bbc-olympics-coverage-misses-events-after-selling-tv-rights

icdg

Basically, the European rights to the Olympics have been sold to Eurosport through to 2024.

The BBC still had U.K. rights to this games, but made a trade: for 2020 (er, 2021) give up the multiple feeds and restrict themselves to two simultaneous events, and get the same rights to 2022 and 2024. They decided that deal was best for their license fee payers, presumably under the threat that Eurosport could have looked for other options to get FTA coverage to the U.K. public for the 2022 and 2024 games.

Anyway, that “usual coverage” level is very recent - London 2012 was the first to get that huge level of coverage. God be with the days when it was either RTE or BBC (or Eurosport if you were lucky) and they were all often showing the same thing?

icdg

I’ve merged the couple of threads talking about the Olympics into one.