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BBC Sport Blocks Video Interviews for Overseas Visitors

Started by The Gaffer · 10 months ago

BBC Sport, which has long been a trusted source of football news for years, has scored an own goal with one of their new initiatives.
The site is now embedding video interviews into their football articles (view example). However, visitors from outside the UK are teased with a still from ... Continue reading »

12 comments

  • dragonki2012

    1 year ago

    It's the same when you try to listen to BBC radio, sport radio, live commentary and a few other media features that they offer.

    It's a shame, really.
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  • Anonymous

    1 year ago

    I can understand why they do it with match commentaries as they dont won the rights but for the interviews??? Thats just crazy and disappointing. Surely interviews shouldnt be protected content.
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  • Matt

    1 year ago

    BBC is paid by British public hence the reason why.
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  • Robin

    1 year ago

    If the video also uploaded to YouTube, i think you might want to try this simple hack.

    1. Go to http://www.google.com/translate_t
    2. Type or copy and paste the video address in Translate a Web Page field.
    3. Pick any language because Google only translate the texts.
    4. If the video don't show up, use video downloader and download it to your computer.
    5. Watch it directly from your computer.

    Not guarantee to work everytime but some territory restricted YouTube videos worked for me.

    Living in all exclusive rejected and restriction country make me need to hack to learn. Sorry. I want information just like everyone.
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  • eplnfl

    1 year ago

    Why can't, and hoping some Brits here can tell me that, the BBC offer a pay site for it's content. Ok, I know that some of the material is sold off to other overseas rights holders. surely, this does not apply to interviews and preview and recap shows. You would think that the BBC would take a hint from American broadcasts, like the very insightful, NBC-Universal site that is put it's programing out for free over the web. Ok, I'd have no problem watching an ad or two for programs made available on a international version of the BBC's media player.
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  • Jeff Hash

    1 year ago

    Actually Lou, the BBC's rights on Premier League highlights (Match of the Day) can only be shown to viewers in the UK by contract. The league's highlights for each country outside the UK is handled by the license holders for the games (see the Premier League's official review show being on FSC and Setanta). While I'm not an expert, I'm going to guess that some of the other issues concerning video falls under that as well.

    The League is concerned that every rights holder gets the most opportunity to cash in on their slice, otherwise they wouldn't make as much.
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  • The Gaffer

    1 year ago

    eplnfl,

    Regarding the Universal-NBC joint venture, I believe that site is didja.com which isn't live yet. But Universal has a website that launched as a joint venture with News Corporation called hulu.com

    Unfortunately the content on that site is only viewable by people in the USA, not overseas.

    Cheers,
    The Gaffer
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  • eplnfl

    1 year ago

    Thanks Jeff and Gaf for your input. While PBS in America is a far cry from the BBC, PBS puts some of it's product online before it airs on Public TV. I know it's a world of difference when your talking about sports, but a BBC ad site that is available after a local rights airs could be the compromise. For instance, FSC airs it report and highlights at 10:00pm EST. Say the BBC site makes MOTD available to American views at 11:00pm EST. It could work.
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  • Anonymous

    1 year ago

    Very annoying and to make it worse we dont even get to read the quotes anymore.
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  • Skip

    1 year ago

    I live in the UK (Reading) and i cannot even view the sports streams. This has only happened since a few days ago.

    Rumor is that my ISP uses a server outside of the UK, which is total rubbish!!

    I have sent a complaint to BBC and i will post the reply here when received.
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  • Skip

    1 year ago

    Email received from BBC.

    See URL below...


    http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/video_and_audio...
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  • Peter H

    1 year ago

    The bbc.com comment from Ben Gallop is rubbish. bbc.com redirects to bbc.co.uk for me, in Ireland.
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