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August 08, 2004
BBC has EPL live radio commentaries online!: "We've got full commentaries from the best names in the business - Jonathan Pearce, Alan Green, Mike Ingham - and for the first time it's all available online in the UK via this website." Oh yes. No more being blocked out, having to find a generous site, or, more likely, subscribing to a team's site. Thank you, British taxpayers.
posted by worldcup2002 to soccer at 11:07 AM - 8 comments
yes, I think so, but not until the olympics is over. Are you lot sending me any money to cover the cost of the licence fee? Thought not.
posted by BigCalm at 01:48 PM on August 08, 2004
So wait, we have to wait for the bloody Olympics to be over (about a month of EPL matches!), before we can hear the games. What the ... I'm sending you a shepherd's pie and Yorkshire pudding to cover the cost, Calmy. See you in the Fantasy League, mates!
posted by worldcup2002 at 03:58 PM on August 08, 2004
Will it actually be available in the US, or not? No, and the BBC's being very specific about this. During the Olympics: streamed to residential broadband customers only. Meaning that non-residential, non-broadband customers get blocked: i.e. people with modems, or at the office. They're using IP whitelisting, which identifies those cablemodem and ADSL addresses which count as 'residential broadband'. That's because the BBC's actually devoting a shitload of resources to streaming yer actual Olympics to UK residential broadbandsters and can't juggle the two filters. After the Olympics: streamed to non-broadband users, but still UK only, this time limited by a country-based IP filter. Sorry, it's a rights thing and a Charter thing. The Beeb has to be really tight at the moment, as it's renegotiating Charter rights.
posted by etagloh at 09:56 AM on August 09, 2004
I don't know if any you American types have had the pleasure of hearing a Jonathan Pearce commentary, but if I was you I would not be in any particular hurry. It won't be long before you will want to smash Alan Green in his enormous gob either.
posted by Fat Buddha at 10:38 AM on August 09, 2004
Bloody freeloaders. Pay your licence fee, like the rest of us.
posted by salmacis at 02:58 PM on August 09, 2004
Where are you getting your info etagloh? After the Olympics will Five Live always be blocking non-UK listeners or just for EPL matches? Last season us non-UK types could get Euro 2004, FA and Carling Cup plus the occasional other match that they'd forgot to turn off the web stream. All this and Liverpool are selling Danny Murphy. I think I'm gonna cry.
posted by Steve-o at 03:00 PM on August 09, 2004
posted by billsaysthis at 03:21 PM on August 09, 2004
For the first time it's all available online in the UK via this website. However, for contractual reasons, Five Live and Five Live Sports Extra will only be available online to UK residential broadband users during the Olympic Games. Will it actually be available in the US, or not?