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From: PGage
I think the proper criticism of NBC is that they do not provide live
televised coverage of premium events during the day (which would be fairly
disjoined and de-contextualized) out of unfounded fear that it would reduce
their primetime audience. But this criticism must be moderated by the fact
that they are providing live or almost live television coverage of lots of
individual and team events, including some that are in high demand in the
US, and live online coverage of all events.
We always praise Canada for their Olympic coverage.
Indeed, glancing at the schedule on CTVOlympics.ca, it looks like the
fully-commercial CTV blows up the schedule to cover the Olympics -- save for
several newsbreaks -- while related cable nets (TSN, OLN, etc.) only pick up
certain time slots.
But I'm curious to know what CTV primetime looks like. Is it just highlights
of the day culled from across the Bell-Rogers family of networks, or does
BriWi.ca sprinkle in those tales of woe?
And while I'm thinking about it:
If ESPN ever picked up the Olympics, they could do something similar for a
time zone-distant site. Have 1, 2, U, Classic, News, and 3.com go all-in for
live (and delayed) coverage until about 5ET, and then have the folks in
Bristol edit together a 3-4 hour package for ABC primetime.
Perhaps to lessen the time gap for the western of the country in advance of
primetime, ESPN could re-run the early hours of the day's coverage.
Just a thought....
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