ROMANY 1959
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According to Clare Balding, BBC are showing the live cross country event tonight. So get the snacks in girls..gonna be a late one. And I went and signed up for a discovery plus too?
Cross country on BBC midnight
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HashRouge
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Ah but then you can watch all the SJ if the BBC only shows bits of it 
lannerch
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I have totally given up on bbc , signed up to discovery plus got my money’s worth in one night , bbc let us equestrian supporters down big style.
MuddyMonster
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There is no chance I'm going to be able to stay up ?
I got D+ for the dressage so I'm just going to watch it when I get back from hacking & ignore social media until then!
I got D+ for the dressage so I'm just going to watch it when I get back from hacking & ignore social media until then!
Meowy Catkin
Meow!
Any idea what time?
ecb89
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Anyone know who the commentators are going to be? I’ve been loving Lucinda green on Discovery + and she is the xc queen so will probably stick with them
criso
Coming over here & taking your jobs since 1900
In the info for the programme, it mentions swimming medals so it may cut back and forth or just show key rounds.
Meanwhile on Eurosport 2 they are repeating highlights of the eventing dressage at midnight. I get you cant show evetything but i suspect tbat eventing fans would rather see live xc even if they didn't see the dressage earlier.
Meanwhile on Eurosport 2 they are repeating highlights of the eventing dressage at midnight. I get you cant show evetything but i suspect tbat eventing fans would rather see live xc even if they didn't see the dressage earlier.
ycbm
Einstein would be proud of my Insanity...
It wasn't the BBC's fault. Discovery paid £920,000,000 for the broadcasting rights, the Beeb don't have that kind of money.
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ROMANY 1959
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Midnight
ecb89
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Oliver Townend is first at 11.48
saddlesore
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Wow!! ? I felt pretty let down by the Beeb but that’s a hefty sum!
Double_choc_lab
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Just spent ages getting my free discovery plus app thanks to Vodafone and then setting up the smart telly?
criso
Coming over here & taking your jobs since 1900
It gives them the European rights not just the UK.
https://olympics.com/ioc/news/ioc-a...ery-and-eurosport-for-2018-2024-olympic-games
criso
Coming over here & taking your jobs since 1900
According to the schedule they've just announced, from now till 2:30
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Caol Ila
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I hate (a) Discovery+ (b) Vodafone and (c) Windows.
I'd gotten my six months free subscription to Discovery via my Vodafone account, but I set it up on OH's spare laptop. Tonight, I tried to get into it on my laptop because it's late and I couldn't be arsed getting the second computer. But I can't figure it out. It wants me to create a new account. F*ck that. So I fetched OH's computer. But it doesn't give you any choices on when you want to update windows. It just updates. So you wait.... And wait.... And wait for Bill Gates to launch himself very far into space.
I'd gotten my six months free subscription to Discovery via my Vodafone account, but I set it up on OH's spare laptop. Tonight, I tried to get into it on my laptop because it's late and I couldn't be arsed getting the second computer. But I can't figure it out. It wants me to create a new account. F*ck that. So I fetched OH's computer. But it doesn't give you any choices on when you want to update windows. It just updates. So you wait.... And wait.... And wait for Bill Gates to launch himself very far into space.
SatansLittleHelper
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I've got it on D+..so far so good
Caol Ila
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Battered it into submission.
ycbm
Einstein would be proud of my Insanity...
It does cover Europe and future years, but it meant that the UK rights were severely curtailed to 2 live sports at any one time by the Discovery contract, because they were able to buy that restriction, and force UK viewers to sign up to Discovery, which they have in droves.
It's sad to see people criticising the Beeb while signing up to the subscription service which resulted in the Beeb not being able to deliver, so I've made a point of letting people know that the poor coverage isn't the Beeb's fault.
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criso
Coming over here & taking your jobs since 1900
I wasn't criticising, I was just pointing out this is not just a UK/BBC issue but much bigger than that.
I know in Spain it's a similar situation with the national broadcaster sublicensing 400 hours and focusing on sports with big Spanish participation and the rest on Discovery if you pay. There was talk of the Spanish govt subsidising the cost, not sure if it happened.
The IOC did make it a condition of the deal that a certain amount of hours should be made available on their free to air channel which is available in some countries but not in the UK hence the sublicensing. The BBC are reported to have paid 120 million for what they have got but I think this includes the winter Olympics and Paris.
I also have an issue that making it a streaming service that can't be accessed on all TVs without needing to add extra devices
milliepops
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yeah, this makes it potentially inaccessible to anyone with a particular interest in a sport. I am enjoying the mish mash that the BBC is putting on, just been watching athletics which I'd never tune into normally. but I signed up to D+ in a shot when it became clear that despite sounding like there would be good equestrian coverage its scrambled in with the rest. Initially it sounded like there would be hours and hours of equestrian but clearly BBC had a different idea to what the articles etc made it sound like. if they'd said it would be like this from the start there would have been no confusion.
I'd imagine people who are fanatical about other sports feel the same.
rabatsa
Confuddled
Some of my family follow the archery and they are very dischuffed at the lack that has been shown.
Pebble101
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I ended up signing up to D+. No sure who is deciding what camera shots to use but at times it was maddening - someone would be about to jump and the camera shot would change to someone walking to the start, or a boat, or the skyline. Frustrating.
MiJodsR2BlinkinTite
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^^^ Good job I've got a wine-box in - will have to chuck some oven chips in as well then.............