BBC unveil their schedule for London 2012 Olympics coverage
 

BBC One

Olympic Breakfast

6.00am-9.00am
BBC One/BBC One HD
A combination of Hazel Irvine and Bill Turnbull or Chris Hollins and Sian Williams start the day with a look at the main stories from the day before and the highlights from the day ahead, also incorporating national and regional news and weather.

Olympics 2012

9.00am-11.30am
BBC One/BBC One HD
Mishal Husain brings the first of the day’s live action from the athletics, rowing and swimming heats. Venue presentation from Matt Baker, Clare Balding, Jonathan Edwards, Jake Humphrey and John Inverdale.

Olympics 2012

11.30am-1.45pm
BBC One/BBC One HD
The live action continues into the afternoon with Matt Baker, Clare Balding or Hazel Irvine. The focus will remain on the athletics, rowing and swimming heats plus other events including the men’s triathlon.

Olympics 2012

1.45pm-4.00pm
BBC One/BBC One HD
Clare Balding, Jake Humphrey or Hazel Irvine takes on the baton, focusing on the conclusion of events such as the cycling road races, tennis finals, equestrian and diving.

Olympics 2012

4.00pm-7.00pm
BBC One/BBC One HD
As we head towards the evening, Sue Barker brings us the action from the track cycling, gymnastics, tennis and equestrian.

Olympics 2012

7.00pm-10.35pm
BBC One/BBC One HD
Gary Lineker takes us through the evening and into the night with action from the competition finals including the athletics and swimming.

Olympics Tonight

10.40pm-midnight
BBC One/BBC One HD
Gabby Logan, in the company of star guests from the world of sport and beyond, focuses on the stories and personalities that have dominated the day and looks at the sport still in progress.

Olympic Sportsday

00.15am-1.00am
BBC One/BBC One HD
Dan Walker rounds up the main stories from the day’s action.

BBC Two

Olympics 2012

1.00pm-1.45pm; 6.00pm-7.00pm; 10.00pm-10.40pm BBC Two

Coverage switches from BBC One to BBC Two during the main BBC News bulletins.

BBC Three

Olympics 2012

9.00am-7.00pm BBC Three

Manish Bhasin, Rishi Persad or Sonali Shah will complement BBC One with some of the best action on offer from the 26 sports at the Games.

Olympics 2012

7.00pm-11.00pm BBC Three

Jake Humphrey presents the best of the live action from the football, hockey, boxing and basketball.

BBC News

BBC News: BBC One (1.00pm-1.45pm; 6.00pm-7.00pm; 10.00pm-10.40pm); BBC News Channel (including daily Olympics highlights programmes at 6.30pm, 10.30pm and 00.30pm) and bbc.co.uk/news

BBC News will be bringing you all of the stories from inside and outside of the Olympic venues, 24 hours a day, on the usual BBC One bulletins, the BBC News Channel and bbc.co.uk/news.

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Media pack and here for more info, presenters, commentators and Radio 5 Live coverage.


As well as this, they're also launching 'Digital Olympics' coverage, which:

• Brings live HD video coverage to the desktop
• Enables audiences to switch between 24 simultaneous live streams effortlessly
• Gives the option to rewind live coverage, for audiences that missed the start of the action
• Provides chapter markers, enabling simple navigation to those key moments within a session (e.g. the gold medal winning dive)
• Offers relevant live data, statistics and information, while viewers are watching, in a seamless and unobtrusive way

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This is a mammoth operation. Never have I seen an entire day's programming dedicated to one event/show before. Wow.

For someone with absolutely no interest in most sports and indeed the Olympics, I'm actually excited. Incredible.

What will happen to normal programming then like say EastEnders, will it be postponed completely until the Olympics are over or shown on a different channel?

^ What I was wondering

Full on!

And people thought it wasn't gonna be competition for Big Brother :bored:

You can tell Channel 4 is gonna be the same for the Paralympics

I don't mind the Olympics really. I'm not really into sports, but I can tell this will probably do my nut in.

Thank God for BBC4 and my extensive collection of non-sport videos ..... :idc:

oh good lord

I don't think it will be. Not a lot of people will watch the entire coverage.

Amazing. They are treating a sporting event correctly for once, giving it priority.

According to the Telegraph: "All of the regular BBC One programming will switch to BBC Two."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/oly...-coverage.html

Some people won't watch any of it ..... :laugh2:

Big Brother is going to be absolutely battered by this. I'm expecting quite a few dips under a million for some shows.

To be honest with this amount of coverage, I can't see many of the other channels competing successfully.

So basically Olympics from 6am-1am :laugh: don't mind that, least there'll always be something to watch

And just think we have the Euro's to look forward to before it aswell :worship:

Why's that funny?

This.

The fact it's on almost 24-7 makes it more likely people will dip in and out when they want.

Because, despite the media hype and the prospect of consumer frenzy, I, for one, am not a mug, mark or punter ..... :wink:

I will not pay a penny towards, nor positively support in any other way, the gross financial expenditure and covert political statements of the modern "so-called" Olympic Games ..... :hmph:

It's a small protest but ultimately satisfying ..... :pipe:

Why does Omah exist?

Two questions that will never have satisfying answers.

:amazed:

-will only wind up watching closing and opening ceremonies-

Ask a stupid question ..... :pat:

What date does it start?

EDIT: Nevermind. Googled it and I won't even be in the country. I'll be sunning myself on a beach in Turkey.

So impressed with their coverage, the 24 channels on Sky/Red Button are great and the player on the BBC Sport website is very useful. I love the little sports explanation VT's as well which explain the rules of certain sports incase you don't know a lot about them. Also love those 3D London flyovers of all the different venues, and the presenters, commentators and pundits have been great.

Honestly really impressed...and for someone that's never watched the Olympics before, I'm hooked.

My only problem with it really is that they don't have all the red button stuff on freeview

Yeah this had been quite annoying. Otherwise they've done a great job with it.