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Local BBC radio not available online outside UK during Tokyo Olympics

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Re: Local BBC radio not available online outside UK during Tokyo Olympics

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lwhi wrote: post #37
pmyteh wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's free. There used to be a radio licence, but it was discontinued once the income from the TV licence was enough. B&W licences are only for B&W TVs and are now rare.

In that case, the moratorium placed on local radio seems even more bizarre.

It seems likely that the BBC itself has limited rights to broadcast the material internationally. This phenomenon isn't unique to the Olympics. There is a lot of other BBC content that isn't freely available outside the UK for similar reasons. However the IOC is well known to be very aggressive in the demands it makes of partners and even host nations so it would be unsurprising if that was the reason here. I don't really understand why they have to switch off entire radio stations though if that's what they're doing, unless so much of the content on those stations is currently about the Olympics that it's not worth continuing to run the rest on its own.

Re: Local BBC radio not available online outside UK during Tokyo Olympics

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Post by lwhi »

Silhouette wrote: post #51
lwhi wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In that case, the moratorium placed on local radio seems even more bizarre.

It seems likely that the BBC itself has limited rights to broadcast the material internationally. This phenomenon isn't unique to the Olympics. There is a lot of other BBC content that isn't freely available outside the UK for similar reasons. However the IOC is well known to be very aggressive in the demands it makes of partners and even host nations so it would be unsurprising if that was the reason here. I don't r…

This is local radio .. not Olympics coverage.

Re: Local BBC radio not available online outside UK during Tokyo Olympics

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Post by lwhi »

zahrc wrote: post #49
angrais wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In what way is the BBC free? You still need a TV licence to view it live or via iPlayer, which has an annual cost of about £100 if I recall correctly.

The article is talking about radio channels and those are indeed free and available world wide, hence they’ve been “blocked” as they would be broadcasting olympics for free outside of the Uk. I’ve realised that I wrote “free television and radio network” in my parent, I can’t edit anymore.

Why would local radio be broadcasting the Olympics?

Re: Local BBC radio not available online outside UK during Tokyo Olympics

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Post by Silhouette »

lwhi wrote: post #52
Silhouette wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It seems likely that the BBC itself has limited rights to broadcast the material internationally. This phenomenon isn't unique to the Olympics. There is a lot of other BBC content that isn't freely available outside the UK for similar reasons. However the IOC is well known to be very aggressive in the demands it makes of partners and even host nations so it would be unsurprising if that was the reason here. I don't r…

This is local radio .. not Olympics coverage.

Exactly. That's the part that doesn't really make sense to me. It sounds like they're turning off whole stations during the Olympics even though those stations don't necessarily have much if any actual coverage of the Olympics.

Re: Local BBC radio not available online outside UK during Tokyo Olympics

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Post by lwhi »

jonp888 wrote: post #38
lwhi wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thx! Has the BBC decided to do this in retaliation though?

I'm not sure what you mean by "retaliation". The BBC does not have the right to broadcast olympic coverage outside of the UK, even short clips, therefore they are not doing so.

They've stopped broadcasting local radio .. not the Olympics.

Re: Local BBC radio not available online outside UK during Tokyo Olympics

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Post by lwhi »

Silhouette wrote: post #54
lwhi wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is local radio .. not Olympics coverage.

Exactly. That's the part that doesn't really make sense to me. It sounds like they're turning off whole stations during the Olympics even though those stations don't necessarily have much if any actual coverage of the Olympics.

This is exactly why I asked the original question.
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