Record breaking Rio for BBC Sport’s digital service

VisionMan

"BBC Sport’s coverage of the Olympics Games in Rio reached 102.3 million unique global browsers, with 68.3 million coming from the UK, the biggest ever success for BBC Sport’s digital service."

http://advanced-television.com/2016/08/23/record-breaking-rio-for-bbc-sports-digital-service/

If thats not value for money then I don't know what is. Pay-for TV platforms would kill for figures like that.

Robisere

I agree, for all its faults and all the (often false) bad publicity in other media, Auntie Beeb serves us well. No other country has a media service as good. Yes, there is some dross, but a look at other channels will demonstrate the difference: ITV has given up, there is very little worth watching. 4 just recycles whatever it has into all its other channels, 5 is just garbage. In fact, Dave has more watchable stuff than 5 now.

Nilrem

And I suspect that is just the official streams etc.

Apparently a lot of Americans were trying to watch the BBC streams (either original or pirated restreams) as their official broadcaster's coverage was varying from terrible to poor.

VisionMan

Nilrem wrote: »

Apparently a lot of Americans were trying to watch the BBC streams (either original or pirated restreams) as their official broadcaster's coverage was varying from terrible to poor.

Or not able to watch at all. The broadcaster was NBC and via their own on-line service they are infamous for being very bad at it, £1.4bn later.

Whereas the BBC iPlayer is world class, and quite simply the benchmark for all on-line services everywhere.