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Brekkie
noggin posted:
The one major Olympic broadcaster who does NO host broadcast coverage is NBC of the US. They, instead, take over a very large chunk of the IBC, and have facilities in most areas of US interest, purely for unilateral coverage for the US only...

(I hear they even have a branch of Starbucks INSIDE their production centre at the IBC...)



Can't say I'm surprised. They screw up the scheduling for the host country and two thirds of the world, but put nothing in themselves.
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bbc140
Host broadcaster is BOB - Beijing Olympic Broadcaster.
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Blake Connolly Founding member
It's about 3,000 people NBC are bringing over though, isn't it?

All so they can put the focus on the Americans in their coverage.
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Joe
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2008/08/my_games.html

Interesting, I hadn't thought about international broadcasters.
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bbc140
BBC Studio looks nice as seen on The One Show
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ashley b Founding member
Just seen new BBC Sport Graphics on Freeview 301:

http://www.ashfish.net/sport/sport4.jpg
http://www.ashfish.net/sport/sport5.jpg
http://www.ashfish.net/sport/sport6.jpg

Also golf ones seen on 302 (see the sport thread).
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ashley b Founding member
Animation:

http://www.ashfish.net/sport/sport.flv
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Neil Jones Founding member
Brekkie posted:
noggin posted:
The one major Olympic broadcaster who does NO host broadcast coverage is NBC of the US. They, instead, take over a very large chunk of the IBC, and have facilities in most areas of US interest, purely for unilateral coverage for the US only...


Can't say I'm surprised. They screw up the scheduling for the host country and two thirds of the world, but put nothing in themselves.


I was just about to say exactly the same thing.
Mind you this is the same service that recorded an entire major sporting event a few years back, showed none of it live and broadcast it as live in the peak-time slots so that they could get more advertising revenue from it.

*edit* Sydney 2000 was totally tape-delayed by NBC so all the results were in the papers before they appeared on the TV. Residents advised to put a satellite dish up and tune into the Canadian Broadcasting Company.

Found this interesting blog that slags off NBC since it looks like they'll again be tape-delaying everything:
http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/olympics/2008/06/nbc_head_stuck_firmly_in_the_6.html
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Brekkie
That might have been fine up until the mid nineties, but now with the net, and even 24 hour news, it's just not practical at all.


And generally speaking with big sporting events the viewers will follow the key moments whatever time they're on. Something like 8m people watch Steve Redgrave win his fifth gold in Sydney in the early hours of the morning.

If the BBC had tap delayed it to play "as live" the next day the interest just wouldn't be on the same scale, and nowadays however much effort the IOC put into stopping it, content will be uploaded to YouTube within minutes.
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the eye
TV One's name straps here in NZ have flashy wizzy animations... much nice than a fade of the graphics we've seen so far.
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altrus
No chance of idents on bbc 1?
Sad

Still, a bit of errors, the news's countdown on one, vanished, leaving a black square, then it slided back up. Rolling Eyes

Strange that they could'nt be bothered to create some special titles for the news, with 12 rather than 1, its just the normal news 24 ident on one.
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bbc140
Sound problems as the birdsnest handed back to Olympic Green as well.

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