BBC lose rights to Olympics?

[amare32]

REALIST123 said:

Never mind they'll still have hours of Wimbledon every day on three channels. Plus a highlights show.........

Which I can't have access to as I'm on a 3 week holiday in Hong Kong. Really getting my value for money for paying my license fee. Would be nice if an option was available for people who pay their license to access the service legitimately whilst abroad.

[Eric Mc]

C.A.R. said:

BBC three goes on most nights in our house! For me it's family guy, despite the fact they're all repeats!

But Uncle, Bluestone 42 and even that program my Mrs watches where the fella completely messes up the wedding arrangements EVERY TIME.

F1 coverage is OK - for what little of it we get. It (TV licence) isn't great value for money for the consumer.

And for me its fantastic value. I watch BBC programming most of the time - because i like good documentaries. BBC 4 in particular is a bit of a gem.

I'm also a Radio 4 fan.

I don't watch BBC 3 (it was never aimed at my age group).

I am saddened by the way sports coverage is going. I think modern sport really does need free to air coverage of some sort. It is 50-60 years of free to air TV coverage that has turned what had been fairly modest minority interest sports into massive money spinning operations. (Soccer is an exception - it was always a mass audience sport - even before the invention of radio or TV)). The move to pay to view models for sports (soccer being the exception) may eventually lead to their fading in popularity - but it will take a couple of generation for this to happen. In the meantime, people will make fortunes out of these arrangements - but probably bugger up the future of the sport.

[kev1974]

amare32 said:

REALIST123 said:

Never mind they'll still have hours of Wimbledon every day on three channels. Plus a highlights show.........

Which I can't have access to as I'm on a 3 week holiday in Hong Kong. Really getting my value for money for paying my license fee. Would be nice if an option was available for people who pay their license to access the service legitimately whilst abroad.

This. When is the BBC going to sort this out and provide a mechanism for their paying UK customers who are temporarily overseas to enter their licence number and get access to the content. It surely cannot be that hard for something to be added to iplayer on tablets etc so we can download a few things for the flight home, or to watch in the hotel room, after I've watched everything I downloaded before leaving. Even if they have to add some checking to it to make sure one licence number is not being used all over Europe, or each one was limited to 14 days a year usage outside Europe etc. Cannot be that difficult.

(I'm sure there are various ways that individuals get round the problem already, but I don't have time for that, I just want to enter my paid-for licence number while abroad and be up and running).