The BBC says that it will offer around 500 hours of supplemental coverage of the upcoming Turin Winter Olympics via interactive TV. Digital satellite and cable viewers will be able to access up to four extra screens of coverage, offering live events and news round-ups. Viewers on the UK's free-to-air digital terrestrial platform, Freeview, meanwhile, will be able to access two extra screens of coverage. The Corporation will also offer a Digitext service, featuring news, results, medals tables and a viewing platform. The interactive TV Olympics coverage will be accessed by pressing the red button during live Turin 2006 broadcasts on any BBC channel. In addition, the Corporation is providing Internet TV coverage of the games: its BBC Two Broadband service will provide daily video round-ups, as well as "bloopers" and "best-ever moments," while its Winter Olympics Web page (bbc.co.uk/winterolympics) will provide broadband-equipped viewers with five channels showing simulcast coverage from BBC Television, as well as an array of on-demand video. "These will be the first fully fledged Winter Olympics of the digital age," Roger Mosey, director of BBC Sport, said in a prepared statement. "We'll be using cutting-edge technology to make the coverage as compelling as possible; and then we'll be offering more choice of sport than ever before--with people able to get extra live events at the press of a red button."
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