The digital Olympic Games: Beeb’s giant urban screens will show sporting events.

The BBC is to show continuous coverage of the Olympic Games on its 22 large public screens across Britain.

The digital screens – joint ventures of the public broadcaster, local authorities, and the Olympics organising body LOCOG – are mostly 100-inch LED units, located in major centres such as London, Liverpool, Manchester, Edinburgh and Belfast, as well as some medium-sized cities such as Norwich and Portsmouth.

Daktronics and Philips supplied the screens, which are driven by Capital Networks’ Audience software.