Freesat to offer BBC’s 24 HD Olympic Channels

Freesat will carry all of the BBC’s 24 live HD Olympic channels throughout the London 2012 Olympics, offering the full range of live BBC Olympics coverage, bringing every Olympic sport from every Olympic venue.

In addition to the 24 temporary BBC HD Olympics channels listed in the Freesat TV Guide, Freesat viewers will also be able to access the live ‘streams’ via the BBC Red Button service. Freesat’s customers with standard definition boxes will also be able to see all of the 24 BBC Olympics channels in standard definition.

Formula 1 on the BBC

The BBC will be providing live coverage of 10 races in the 2012 Formula 1 season across all its platforms.

For the remainder, there will be extended highlights on television and full live coverage on radio and online, including audio commentary.

The extended highlights programmes will be on BBC One, although start times and duration will depend on race location.

Races in the Far Eastern time zone will have highlights broadcast in the early afternoon, with those in Europe in the early evening (generally of 90 minutes' duration), and races in the Americas later that night.

The BBC's coverage of all the live races will be as extensive as ever, with all the action on and off the track across TV, radio, online, red button and mobile.

For the races that are not live on BBC One, there will be live commentary on Radio 5 Live and the BBC Sport website.

In detail, the coverage will be as follows:

BBC F1 COVERAGE DETAILS

(All programmes BBC One unless stated)

Australia (highlights) - qualifying BBC Two 1300 GMT 17 March; race 1400 GMT 18 March

Malaysia (highlights) - qualifying 1300 GMT 24 March; Race 1445 BST 25 March

China (live) - qualifying 0600 BST 14 April; race 0700 BST 15 April

Bahrain (highlights) - qualifying 0530 BST 21 April; race 1730 BST 22 April

Spain (live) - qualifying 1210 BST 13 May; race 1210 BST 14 May

Monaco (live) - qualifying 1210 BST 26 May; race 1210 BST 27 May

Canada (highlights) - qualifying 2230 BST 9 June; race 2230 BST 10 June

Europe (live) - qualifying 1210 BST 23 June; race 1210 BST 24 June

Britain (live) - qualifying 1210 BST 7 July; race 1210 BST 8 July

Germany (highlights) - qualifying 1730 BST 21 July; race BBC Two 1730 BST 22 July

Hungary (highlights) - qualifying BBC Two 1730 BST 28 July; race BBC Two 1730 BST, 29 July

Belgium (live) - qualifying 1210 BST 1 Sep; race 1210 BST 2 Sep

Italy (highlights) - qualifying 1730 BST 8 Sep; race 1730 BST 9 Sep

Singapore (live) - qualifying 1215 BST 22 Sep; race 1210 BST 23 Sep

Japan (highlights) - qualifying 1300 BST 6 Oct; race 1400 BST 7 Oct

Korea (live) - qualifying 0500 BST 13 Oct; race 0600 BST 14 Oct

India (highlights) - qualifying 1300 BST 27 Oct; race 1400 BST 28 Oct

Abu Dhabi (live) - qualifying 1210 GMT 3 Nov; race 1210 GMT 4 Nov

USA (highlights) - qualifying 2230 GMT 17 Nov; race 2230 GMT 18 Nov

Brazil (live) - qualifying 1500 GMT 24 Nov; race 1500 GMT 25 Nov