WHF Internet radio not always available due to rights restrictions ?

[Snooker]

I have the Denon Ceol N8 (and presume it also applies to the Marantz MCR610), that sometimes on radio 5 live it will not broadcast certain sports programms like the boxing last night due to rights restrictions, as I presume my system is connecting to the main internet radio server from outside the UK, will this be changing anytime soon ? *smile*

 

[spiny norman]

I have the Denon Ceol N8 (and presume it also applies to the Marantz MCR610), that sometimes on radio 5 live it will not broadcast certain sports programms like the boxing last night due to rights restrictions, as I presume my system is connecting to the main internet radio server from outside the UK, will this be changing anytime soon ? *smile*

It's one of the things the BBC managed to mess up when it managed to turn off internet radio to most wi-fi radios and tuners earlier this year, causing lots of user-grizzling and some frantic behind the scenes reworking by some manufacturers to get things working again. I guess the broadcaster haven't got round to sorting that bit out yet, and so some internet radio services are still seen by the stream as being outside the UK, and therefore blocked.

There's a comment in this blog from some months back that

'Based on your feedback we have investigated, planned and started work on adding UK only versions of our backward compatibility streams that will include sport. This goes beyond the 12 stations we used to provide UK only versions for. We will make all 57 stations available, including all the national, nations and English local radio stations in these formats. We don’t have a concrete timeline on this but are working quickly to introduce this'

but it looks like nine months on not much has been sorted, unless anyone knows any better.

Hadn't noticed it myself, but then the few bits of 5live I listen to don't involve live commentaries.

 

[Snooker]

Thanks for your reply spinny norman, well with more and more radio devices going to internet radio its just a matter of time I suppose until it is all sorted, but they could have had it all sorted out by now you would have thought *smile*

 

[Snooker]

Posted twice for some reason, and doesn't have a delete option !!

 

[hg_mike]

It was a shock this summer when Test Match Special was blocked via the internet, for listeners in France, because of rights restrictions. Luckily the ECB realised the error of the BBCs ways, and made a TMS stream available via Youtube.

Maybe a similar stream will be set up for other sports.

 

[chebby]

I don't bother with built-in internet radio.

The user interface is rubbish. A 20th century style remote control selecting from a list presented on a titchy little LED display.

Just pull up the BBC iPlayer Radio app on your choice of phone or tablet or player. Better graphics, better quality and more fun. (And none of the problems experienced by those with proprietary internet radio firmware/software.)

You can even have the app/mobile device wired directly to your DAC or streamer with USB if you don't like wireless solutions like AirPlay or Bluetooth.

Hopefully built-in internet tuners will be allowed to 'wither on the vine' as a technology (along with the disaster that is DAB).