Olympics 2016

Dressage is a sport that's quite hard to watch, because in comparison to most Olympic sports you can at least gauge how well someone's doing by watching, with Dressage I have no idea what's "good" and what isn't, so until the final score comes in I have no idea what they've achieved.

Unless they've started giving the horses medals, I won't watch equestrian events on principle.

Sorry, I wasn't aware the BBCs editorial strategy for the Olympics was meant to align with your personal preferences, I'll go and have a word.


Based on what I saw I don't think the coverage was over the top for an event where we were the defending champions and had a good chance of a medal.

They much prefer some golden sugar cubes.

If they win they don't become glue.

Not much different to the Chinese and North Korean athletes then

Does violentenders really have to be on BBC1?

Looks like the Ten is being cut down to 20 mins every night then, as there wasn't an event to rush back for tonight, yet still did so. Surprised this never made the listings though as it means BBC2 is running 15 minutes early every night.

You know the rule about showing a certain amount of sporting action on the news.

Does that only apply to actual action or any Olympics footage at all.

I.e do the medal ceremonies or general hugs and celebrations count in the minutes as well?

No break at the midnight handover tonight.

No although they were running late and didn't handover until about 0:05.

I think all content is included in the two minute per show rule. The News Access Rules basically seems to say that anything that happens on the grounds are required to follow the NAR guidelines.


As a side note here's an image of NBC's Broadcast Operation Center back in Stamford courtesy of this Philly.com article.



Here's a simplified signal map of how everything reaches the viewer: