BBC to have 24 HD Olympic Streams on TV
The BBC have announced they will make 24 live HD Olympic streams available to cable and satellite providers for the duration of the event.
This means viewers will be able to watch every Olympic sport live for the duration of the summer games through their Television’s rather than the previous idea, to broadcast the streams as online only.
It will be the first time viewers have been given the opportunity to follow one particular sport throughout the day, acting alongisde BBC One & Three’s full coverage. BBC Three is being extended, to a 24 hour channel throughout the course of the olympics.
“These are the first truly digital Olympics, where we’ll offer more choice than ever before,” said Roger Mosey, the BBC’s director of London 2012, on his blog.
He also said “You’ll be able to watch sport from every venue from first thing in the morning to last thing at night… Hockey fans can watch live uninterrupted hockey, and table tennis fans can stick all day with their sport too.”
BBC have struck deals with Sky and Freesat, and Sky themselves have already announced today they will have 48 channels (24 SD and 24 HD) on their Sport’s section of the EPG.
BBC’s coverage of the olympics will be fronted by the likes of Gary Lineker, Sue Barker and Jake Humphrey. the Paralympics will be on Channel 4, fronted by Clare Balding.
