It's probably not intended to be retransmitted in it's entirity - it'll just mainly be for broadcasting press conferences, interviews and fleshed out with highlights packages which can be put to air. Wimbledon has something similar.
I'm surprised there doesn't seem to be a medal ceremony feed in the afternoon - I assume the OBS provide one so surprised it doesn't seem to be made available by the BBC on the connected app.
This post was made four years ago (by a user who shall remain anonymous ), but it's still relevant today:
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I somehow stumbled on which broadcasters are providing the pictures/coverage for the events on behalf of VOB.
YLE (Finland) will be doing the downhill ski events, NRK (Norway) will be doing the Biathlon and X-Country events, but the most amazing choice is in the Ski Jumping/Ski Flying events, where amazingly, SLO (Slovakia) is providing the coverage.
A shocking decision. Anyone who watches the sport on British Eurosport knows that ORF or ZDF produce the best coverage, with a good use of angles, tracking cameras, flip-flop cut shots, and super slo-mo's.
Why give it to a broadcaster that when I watched the last event in Slovakia was like they were still stuck in mid 80's presentation (the only good thing was the use of a massive hothead crane in the stadium) is totally beyond me.
Hopefully VOB have chosen the angles and installed the necessary gadgets, so all SLOtv have to do is turn up, fire up the scanner and point the cameras at what is happening at the big hill type thing in the near distance.
As we've just established in another thread, "SLO" always refers to Slovenia, not Slovakia. (The commonly accepted three-letter acronym for Slovakia is SVK). RTV SLO -- Radiotelevizija Slovenija -- handled ski jumping in Vancouver in 2010 and is handling it again in Sochi this year.
Few broadcasters have had a longer history with the sport. RTV SLO covered its first ski jumping event for the EBU in 1960 -- 54 years ago. Since then, RTV SLO has been responsible for ski jumping at several Olympics, beginning with Sarajevo in 1984, and has generally been praised for its coverage.
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Is it really fair to say that NOS ballsed up the road race coverage? When OBS contracts out an event to somebody else, is that somebody else responsible for absolutely everything involved? All kit and planning and everything?
It was blamed on spectators using up all the bandwidth I seem to remember. The timing beacons were using the 3G data network I guess? Maybe NOS didn't anticipate the demand.
I'm not even sure it was anything to do with NOS, was it not London 2012 themselves that were
relying on the 02 3G network to relay the timing data, I seem to recall the public information boards along the course were similarly empty ?
Can anyone expand on what exactly the Olympics News Channel feed is (available to host broadcasters, and referred to in the PDF posted). Is it packaged up content that some broadcasters (probably those with few resources) can just grab and put to air?
Yes that's it basically. Rolling highlights packages with optional English narration.
Press conferences are fed on one of the other channels. Can't remember if edited versions went out on the Olympic News Channel, certainly the majority of it was highlights packages.
Seem to remember OBS describing it as suitable for putting straight to air, no idea if anyone did. I'd suspect not- broadcasters offering multiple streams would probably have enough resources to fill them with live events and their own edits but might have used those reports as filler.
RTE, which has no interest in the Winter Olympics but is being basically forced to show
something
as part of its bid for the summer Olympics, is screening a one hour OBS highlights package every night on RTE News Now, of all places. Apparently at least one evening it has gone out without the English commentary. First time an Irish channel has ever covered the Games but it's not going to get much viewers hidden away on News Now.
Only one of them was actually born in Ireland. There's no real interest here in winter sports at all, we don't really get the weather for it! There were a handful of ice skating rinks when I was a kid but they're closed now, there are sometimes temporary ones opened but the only permanent ones are in Northern Ireland.
If they thought they'd get the viewers, it'd be on RTE One or Two, RTE aren't allowed sell advertising or sponsorship on News Now so it had practically no original programming, it's almost entirely simulcasts and repeats.
The Winter Olympics coverage will move from BBC Two to BBC One at 5.15pm on Friday to cover the final run of the women's skeleton.
I didn't realise Andy Murray competed in the women's skeleton but, nevertheless . . .
Thanks for the heads up. Stupid move really considering BBC2 is the home of the games and if they were going to do it they could have scheduled it as such weeks in advance. They're also tempting fate.
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