BBC Coverage

[Giggity1984]

If you've got the BBC App on your TV, then you can choose tables etc. Quite useful.

[daffie]

The Hoover is off and running!!

I thought Selby is scheduled to play later on

[Gerry Armstrong]

The Hoover is off and running!!

Ding must have his best chance yet this year of winning the WC if he can sustain that level for the whole tournament.

[scottley]

Ah, i did'nt know it was on BBC2, i'm watching the Ding match online but for some reason it had the Fu commentary, all sorted now though, thanks!

[DeanH]

hi scottley. not sure what you are seeing, I see the following and the commentary seems to be aligned correctly
BBC 2 - Ding/McManus
Red Button - Stevens/Fu
Online - both

Also what gets me on the Red Button it has the tag "Choose Table" like the old days

[scottley]

This really needs sorting out now, yes, its on the Red button which is a rarity, but i wanna watch Ding, fair enough, i'll watch it online, no problem getting the Ding match on but its got the Stevens v Fu commentary?????


It keeps freezing, it cuts out randomly and it keeps going blurred all in an area with brilliant signal i might add, much more of this and i'm gonna just watch the lot on Eurosport, i would be long gone by now if their commentators and adverts did'nt get on my nerves, the BBC are a bunch of amateurs!!

[DeanH]

Well I did ask

Thanks, Zoe, and sorry for not noticing you'd already answered, Dean.

no worries
I remember when I heard that the Red Button services were to be reduced, I immediately thought "oh crap there goes the multi-table option"

[Billy]

fantastic, technical details, thanks

Well I did ask

Thanks, Zoe, and sorry for not noticing you'd already answered, Dean.

[The Statman]

The red button only appears on BBC One Scotland HD and there's no snooker option. I've reset the box.

EDIT

It appears on BBC three only, weird.

Yes I've noticed before that the red-button option isn't available all the time on the main BBC channels. You sometimes have to wait for a programme which has some associated red-button content available (such as the news) and then all the options will be there and you have to remember not to switch channels again in case it disappears again.

[Sam1036]

The red button only appears on BBC One Scotland HD and there's no snooker option. I've reset the box.

EDIT

It appears on BBC three only, weird.

[jrc750]

So how do I get on the BBC red button tonight, I can't find it?

Lol push the red button !!
If you are on freeview it's channel 301

[Sam1036]

So how do I get on the BBC red button tonight, I can't find it?

[PatBlock]

As I said in a previous post I pay for a UK TV license.

I can understand you guys being annoyed by the lack of BBC2 coverage. My point is that they have full coverage on there website which is very watchable. It's better than them having absolutely no snooker coverage at all.

You're right, the online coverage is very good. But my main point is that there are a lot of people who pay for a BBC license but have no access to the internet, they also deserve a decent service for their money and should not be dismissed by the BBC.

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[DeanH]

Until October last year the red button streams were broadcast via the DSat7 transponder which allowed up to five sports/events to be shown at the same time on the red button. On 15 October this transponder was closed and DSat1 only had capacity for one red button stream.

fantastic, technical details, thanks

[Zoe]

When you say they no longer have the capability to show two tables on the red button, do you happen to know why this is the case?

Until October last year the red button streams were broadcast via the DSat7 transponder which allowed up to five sports/events to be shown at the same time on the red button. On 15 October this transponder was closed and DSat1 only had capacity for one red button stream.