gymnastics broadcast database @ gym-media.co.uk

This is an attempt to catalog in detail (gymnast/country/apparatus/score) gymnastics broadcasts from the uk and europe.
It is in compliment to the uk & euro tv guide which often provides advance information about upcoming broadcasts.

The information is offered as is and should not be taken as gospel, mistakes do happen.

select from the years below

1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

use the archive pages from the tv guide for 2004/5 onwards

you can now search the database

statistics
There are 471 listing records in the database and the last five entries are as follows:-
 Varna World Cup 2008 on Megasport added 01/08/2008 @ 23:45
 Varna World Cup 2008 on Planeta Sport added 01/08/2008 @ 22:47
 World Stars, Moscow, Russia 2008 on Megasport added 15/07/2008 @ 00:45
 World Stars, Moscow, Russia 2008 on Megasport added 15/07/2008 @ 00:40
 World Stars, Moscow, Russia 2008 on Megasport added 15/07/2008 @ 00:38
 World Stars, Moscow, Russia 2008 on Megasport added 15/07/2008 @ 00:33
 World Stars, Moscow, Russia 2008 on Megasport added 15/07/2008 @ 00:15
More detailed statistics can be found here

trading
If you are interested in gymnastics tape trading my suggestion is you should visit the following sites
 Gymnastics Tape Trading Club
 Rhythmic Gymnastics Tape Trading Club

video systems
NTSC stands for National Television Systems Committee, and this is the main video format for America, and some parts of Japan
PAL stands for Phase Alternate Line, and this is the main video format for UK, most of Europe and Australia
SECAM stands for SEquential Couleur Avec Memoire, and is the main video format for France and a few other places

compatibility notes (slant towards the UK)
NTSC and PAL formats are incompatible, it means you cannot watch either format on the other standards VCR.
However if you have bought a VCR recently in the UK, then you might be able to watch NTSC tapes on your VCR, but you will NOT be able to copy them.

PAL and SECAM are kind of compatible,
meaning that if you watch a SECAM tape in a PAL VCR then the picture will be there, but it will be in B/W, in other words you lose the colour content.
I am not sure but I suspect the same for watching a PAL video in a SECAM VCR

history
This originally started out as an attempt to catalog in detail (gymnast/apparatus) my collection of gymnastics videos quite a few years ago.
Listings were produced in plain html which then progressed into text files being converted into html by using a custom written perl script (tapei.pl).
Now the whole index has been redesigned and coded in PHP using MySQL database to provide the listings, the code is still in development stages, the html parser was knocked together in about ten minutes, so the listings are displayed in a very basic form. Further features are planned such as search for gymnast by name.