BBC internet radio and the Olympics
 

Am trying to get R4 Today programme on my internet box but just get a looped message, "Due to rights restrictions this part of the programme is unavailable."
The same message is being spouted by R2, but 5 Live is OK.

Is this due to the Olympics, and are other expats hearing the same?

(Have also placed this query in the Olympics thread at Jet Blast)

the stupidity is that with a good communications receiver an aerial you could listen to it off air. The only work round is to use a UK proxy server, (Mixture will be along shortly to tell you why you mustn't do that. :) )

My son has just advised me that Sky have a range of extra channels dedicated to the Olympics. What a waste of money. I am about to phone them up and tell them I am cancelling my susbscription - I have been meaning to do this for a while but this seems like the ideal occasion to do so and to express my contempt and disgust.

Just a thought Have you tried the radio channel on the satellite TV?

ExpatShield is what you need.

I have already posted the following on this subject on Jet Blast this morning:


It didn't work for me!
Even Radio Manchester is blocked!

I have just sent an email to Cameron on the subject.

The BBC have 24 SD and 24 HD channels dedicated to the Olympics, in addition to BBC1 & 2.

These are available via Virgin Media, Sky, and FreeSat, with a couple available on Freeview HD.

SD

None of which will work if you sit there drinking a Pepsi.

I just hope that Mrs SSK will be able to get the Archers Omnibus on R4 Long Wave on Sunday. Otherwise my life won't be worth living.

As an aside: Manchester Evening News reports that, besides running out of food at Old Trafford last night, beer was £7.20 a pint!

These games are set to go down as the Biggest Rip Off Olympic Games in history. To be known as the BROOGS from now on.

It's partly down to the extortionate fees the IOC are charging for various licenses to sell merchandise that cause the price hike and why, as they can't charge anyone for using the internet, they instructed the BBC to pull the plug.

The whole BBC Player is useless.

I recently installed it with a view to catching up on events when travelling overseas. Couldn't even get Newsnight over the internet in Malaysia.:mad:

The BBC iPlayer works well at what it is supposed to do: provide catch-up TV services to UK viewers
It is not intended to provide service to overseas viewers. There would be too many copyright problems involved if that were to be allowed
1) because much BBC content is of foreign origin and the BBC only have UK broadcast rights - not global rights
2) the content that originates in the UK is usually sold on by the BBC for broadcast in other countries. By providing their own overseas service, the BBC would be competing with their own customers - so sales would stop
3) there would be severe complications over artist's performance rights and payments

Yes, I get Freesat here and that works, but it is in a different part of the house.

Thanks for that info, and those who PM'd me. I have downloaded it and first impressions seem OK. Will give it a good work-out later.

BBC iPlayer - Help - Changes to BBC Radio online during London 2012 Olympics.

Changes to BBC Radio online during London 2012 Olympics
There are changes to the availability of BBC radio online during the London 2012 Olympics.
Due to rights restrictions, content broadcast from an Olympic venue during the Games will be available live and on demand in the UK only.
This will impact on all BBC radio stations periodically during the London 2012 Olympics, except in the following instances where there is significant coverage.
• BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra and BBC Radio 5 Live Olympics Extra will only be available to listen live and on demand in the UK.
• Radio 2's Chris Evans' Breakfast Show is broadcasting from the Olympics Park and will only be available to listen live and on demand in the UK.
• Live BBC Nations and Local Radio (with the exception of Radio Cymru) will only be available in the UK.
• Radio Cymru will remain available to UK and international users so that they are able to enjoy coverage of Wales' National Eisteddfod.
BBC Radio 5 live Olympics Extra - additional service during the Olympics
BBC Radio 5 live Olympics Extra , a temporary service for the Games, is now available on digital radio and online . It brings extra choice to listeners, offering extended commentary and a catch-up service through the night. BBC Radio 5 live and 5 live Olympics Extra together will allow listeners to follow the Games 24 hours a day.



At the same time, the BBC have introduced a new home page for their online radio services - you can now link to all channel from
BBC - Radio - On Air Now
That seems to avoid the iPlayer, though I assume thats also blocked to overseas users...

I would gladly assign my UK 'rights' to anyone who wanted to use them.

They haven't made viewing/listening compulsory have they ? http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/sr...milies/eek.gif

Not just the beeb...

Last nights opening ceremony was broadcast live on TVE1 here in Spain. Normally TVE1 is simultaneously streamed online but not it seems for matters Olympic...

In the event I was able to watch the ceremony on BBC1 via satellite Astra 1N on a 80cm dish and an 40€ FTA satellite box.

Only slight problem was the superimposed automatic English subtitles which were delayed by about 15 seconds; this happens with all Beeb transmissions and I cannot find a way to get rid of them. No subtitles ON/OFF switch on the remote or within the various menus.

pp

Freesat/Humax Recording Issue
 

Owners of the Humax Foxsat-HDR can watch but not record any of the dedicated 24 Olympic channels due to an encoding issue.

BBC News - Humax box suffers Olympics channels recording glitch

That problem with the Humax boxes should have been sorted well before the Opening Ceremony.The broadcaster 'builds' the program services into a mux (multiplexed transport stream) .It can then be tested without transmitting over satellite by using an ASI to L-Band modulator into all the models of satellite receiver that customers have for compatibility issues ( common problem) .They probably did do this,but just didn't test the record function.

Seems that someone has heeded the complaints, as Radio2 is back on air.

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