{"id":541,"date":"2008-08-08T06:30:45","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T05:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=541"},"modified":"2009-09-26T12:02:22","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T11:02:22","slug":"olympics-baseball-and-softball-tv-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=541","title":{"rendered":"Olympics &#8211; Baseball and Softball TV Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BaseballSoftballUK has helpfully <a href=\"http:\/\/baseballsoftballuk.com\/gen_insert.php?from_level3=Articles&amp;db_story=2656&amp;this_page=bsuknews&amp;back=Current++News\" target=\"_blank\">put together<\/a> some details about the (almost non-existent) coverage on British TV of baseball and softball from the Olympic Games.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been able to uncover a few more details on the BBC website\u00c2\u00a0and have listed the full schedule below.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, all of this is subject to change based on the whims of the TV schedulers.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As stated by BSUK, none of the games are being shown on terrestrial TV.\u00c2\u00a0 You will need to be able to access additional digital content via the red button through a Freeview box or Sky\/Cable to catch any Olympic baseball or softball.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t look like any baseball or softball will be shown on Eurosport.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There are three &#8216;red button&#8217; channels on Freeview \u00c2\u00a0(cunningly labelled 1, 2 and\u00c2\u00a03)\u00c2\u00a0and six &#8216;red button&#8217; channels via Sky or Cable (1 to 6), hence the references to &#8216;Satellite\/Cable 5&#8217; etc.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BASEBALL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday 22 August<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.30 (am).<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0 Live coverage of the first semi-final is available in the early hours\u00c2\u00a0via the red button on Freeview 3\u00c2\u00a0or Satellite\/Cable 4.<\/p>\n<p><strong>15.30.<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0 The second semi-final is being shown &#8216;off tape&#8217; in the afternoon via the red button on Satellite\/Cable 6.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday 23 August<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.30 (am).<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0 Live coverage of the bronze medal match is available via the red button on Satellite\/Cable 5.<\/p>\n<p><strong>15.30.<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0 The final is being shown &#8216;off tape&#8217; via the red button on Satellite\/Cable 5.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SOFTBALL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday 20 August<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>3.45 (am).<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0 Coverage of one of the semi-finals is available via the red button on Freeview 2 and Satellite\/Cable 3.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>6.00 (am).<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0 Coverage of the other semi-final (presumably anyway, it&#8217;s not completely clear) is available via the red button on Satellite\/Cable 5.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>10.00 (am).<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0 Live coverage of the bronze medal match is available via the red button on Freeview 2 and Satellite\/Cable 3.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>17.15.<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0 A repeat showing of the bronze medal match is\u00c2\u00a0available via the red button on Satellite\/Cable 5.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday 21 August<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>17.00.<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0 The final is being shown &#8216;off tape&#8217; via the red button on Satellite\/Cable 5.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s possible that the one baseball game and two softball games\u00c2\u00a0listed as being shown on Freeview also will be accessible to British viewers online via the BBC website.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BaseballSoftballUK has helpfully put together some details about the (almost non-existent) coverage on British TV of baseball and softball from the Olympic Games.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been able to uncover a few more details on the BBC website\u00c2\u00a0and have listed the full schedule below.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, all of this is subject to change based on the whims [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball-coverage","category-international-baseball-2","tag-olympics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4667,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions\/4667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}