BBC Delivered 2.8PB On Busiest Olympics Day, Reaching 700Gb/s As Wiggo Won Gold

Qedward writes "The BBC has revealed that on the busiest day of its London 2012 Olympics coverage it delivered 2.8 petabytes worth of content, peaking when Bradley Wiggins won gold, where it shifted 700Gb/s. It has also said that over a 24-hour period on the busiest Olympic days it had more traffic to bbc.co.uk than it did for the entire BBC coverage of the FIFA World Cup 2010 games. They revealed they had 106 million requests for BBC Olympic video content, which included 12 million requests for video on mobile devices across the whole of the Games. Mobile saw the most uptake at around 6pm when people had left the office but still wanted to keep informed of the latest action. Tablet usage, however, reached a peak at around 9pm, where people were using it as a second screen or as they continued to watch the games in bed."

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Re:A fraction of what it could have been

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Modding me -1 because I said I don't like BBC is very French (i.e. rude) of whomever did it. Perhaps you're upset because I slogged-off on your British channel but I slog-off on American channels. History, Syfy, FX, Discover, TLC... shit, shit, and more shit. Each produces 1-2 good shows per year and the rest is junk. So you see this has nothing to do with nationality..... I just generally hate all television.

And when I said "dramas" I was being inclusive of the sitcoms and all the other primetime entertainment. BBC does produce some good shows. Like Doctor Who and..... well that's all I've got (that's currently airing). Let's so for example that the U.S. Congress was forcing me to pay $230 a year to support PBS. I would feel royally ripped-off about that. $230 just to get 13 new episodes of Doctor Who (plus some other stuff I don't care about). That was the only point I was making.

So what about the British people that DON'T like the BBC? For me if I don't want HBO or Showtime (both of which are good but severely overpriced), I simply don't buy them. That option doesn't exist for British people that don't like BBC. Does it?