Summer Olympic Games 2020 Broadcasters

[Orangehair43 251]

8 minutes ago, Mkbw50 said:

A lot of the time though, Auntie isn't even showing a live event on BBC One. So they have two streams, but only one (and sometimes none) of them are showing live sport. We missed a lot of the Athletics because they were showing BMX on Red Button (understandably because GB were about to win two medals) and... boxing highlights on BBC One.

I think with Athletics it was decided to catch up on them a bit later as that is a bit quicker.

[Mkbw50 438]

11 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

Yeah, i had my doubts about Eurosport Player, but it turned out it is excellent. If you take out that first day, which had no commentary of course. 

Spot on. Although Eurosport's TV coverage (from what I can tell) has been a bit lacking.

[pdr4332 218]

My only gripe with ES player is that when they have multiple streams from the same event (athletics, gymnastics), they dont bother naming them, it is just called "Gymnastics - women- day X". What it would cost to put there "Gymnastics - women all-around - vault" for example? Same with athletics. It takes a lot of time to find the stream I am looking for.

Plus: I too find ESP of good value. My yearly plan renewed in June or July this year (last year I got 4 or 5 months free due to the coronavirus pandemic when there was nothing to broadcast live for several months), so it will be valid in time for Beijing. Therefore I get two Olympic Games worth of content out of one year's subscription. Not bad for € 24.99 

[hckošice 14,836]

27 minutes ago, pdr4332 said:

My only gripe with ES player is that when they have multiple streams from the same event (athletics, gymnastics), they dont bother naming them, it is just called "Gymnastics - women- day X". What it would cost to put there "Gymnastics - women all-around - vault" for example? Same with athletics. It takes a lot of time to find the stream I am looking for.

Plus: I too find ESP of good value. My yearly plan renewed in June or July this year (last year I got 4 or 5 months free due to the coronavirus pandemic when there was nothing to broadcast live for several months), so it will be valid in time for Beijing. Therefore I get two Olympic Games worth of content out of one year's subscription. Not bad for € 24.99 

I suggest you to instal the french version. They have every single stream of every match of every sport named, nothing more easy to find the video you search

 

 

[pdr4332 218]

39 minutes ago, hckošice said:

I suggest you to instal the french version. They have every single stream of every match of every sport named, nothing more easy to find the video you search

 

 

Good idea, thanks! Tried out and the same with Spanish. I will use it this way then.

[Orangehair43 251]

The poor worldwide ratings for the Games will make getting bidders for 2036 and onwards even harder - it will have a long term impact on the games. 

[Pifta 41]

I'm a bit upset about M4Sport's coverage, because they only show and talk about Hungarians. I care less about the 42nd Hungarian than a Simone Biles or a Novak Djokovic. I want to see the winners. 

I write here because I wonder if the same thing happens in other countries.

[Quaker2001 251]

On 01/08/2021 at 03:53, Orangehair43 said:

The poor worldwide ratings for the Games will make getting bidders for 2036 and onwards even harder - it will have a long term impact on the games. 

Need to see the numbers from an Olympics not tainted by a pandemic.  Only so much we can figure from the numbers here

[Orangehair43 251]

20 minutes ago, Quaker2001 said:

Need to see the numbers from an Olympics not tainted by a pandemic.  Only so much we can figure from the numbers here

I’m not sure the pandemic can be blamed as the sport has been excellent and the lack of crowd not that noticeable.

[NaBUru38 208]

Bright side: Marca Claro publishes hundreds of highlights videos on YouTube for Hispanic American fans.

 

Dark side: the titles and sample images of every highlights video spoil the results.