Sochi 2014 - Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games

BBC RB 302 has been added to Freeview today. Not yet on air.
Will provide coverage of the Winter Olympics from next week.
The old channel 302 moves to 303.
Retune.

I assume it won't stay like this but BBC Red Button 2 is currently available one channel down from 101 or one channel up from 0214 on my Sky+ in my region.

It's actually a shame that the BBC Red Button channel(s) don't get an EPG slot on Sky boxes like they do on Freeview. 'Pressing Red' is so 1998.

For those who are interested, the Radio Times have a 16-page Winter Olympics pull-out next week, which seems to be along the same lines as London 2012 with full-page detailed daytime listings for the BBC Two coverage.

Other listings magazines are available.

Recommend watching the Dan Snow documentary on the history of the Winter Olympics - quite interesting and informative. Also notice the end cap was "BBC SPORT Documentaries" - have they used that before for anything?

https://twitter.com/clarebalding/status/430348121798103040/photo/1

So the BBC definitely has a studio in the main Olympic Park (with, at the moment, a rather uninspiring view which I'm sure will be tidied up by Friday). I wonder if all three presenters will be based here or will Hazel Irvine be in the mountains for the alpine events?

IIRC they had a mountain base and a city base in Vancouver, but from what I saw most of the Vancouver skiing action was anchored "on location" (or at least outside in the snow) rather than in the studio.

Looking back to Turin in 2006, the main studio base was the 'chalet' in the mountains, while Sue Barker anchored the evening events from inside the figure skating/short-track arena.

For both Turin and Vancouver, they were able to get outside at the venue locations regularly, possibly because the coverage was less continuous - i.e. each programme was dedicated to one or two main events. It may be more difficult to do this time, because of the fact that coverage is pretty much ongoing throughout the day, and with a limited presenter base.

Is this it? I wonder
https://twitter.com/OllieW/status/429945406550573056/photo/1

Not that I can see, it wasn't used on the Sports Personality anniversary show (which came from the same production team) so clearly this is a new brand. All the channels seem to be bumping up their sports documentaries, you have BT Sport Films as a brand and all the documentaries that ITV Sport are making. I'm all for it, the more intelligent programming about sport we get the better. The only channel that isn't is Sky Sports, who are happier with another hour of Top Banter with Fenners and Merse.

It's a shame that the Inside Sport brand has gone, IMO, as that was very suited for the documentaries that the Beeb showed. (The brand carrying on for documentaries for a few years after the ill-fated studio formal was dropped)

The building of ANO Panorama's 3 new OB trucks, which will be in use for Sochi.

That was really interesting, I honestly didn't know Sony built cameras over here, certainly not in Wales. I assumed it was mostly Japanese robots building them!