On 2012-08-01 9:56 PM, Brad Beam wrote:
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.
This has been typical for any Oly whether CTV or CBC gets rights. The
main OTA goes full-blown LIVE, with evening-Prime highlights show.
Other channels offer live of other sports.
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?
I am happy to report that I haven't watched any prime stuff this Oly.
My TiVo's record the live stuff, and we watch that at night, or I watch
recaps online (CTV or BBC).
>> 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.
That's what CBC or CTV usually do. In 2008 CBC re-purposed their
channel "Bold" (think mix of drama, comedy, arts and culture, and sports
programming), for an alternate channel of Oly sports live.
On a related note, CBC won the rights to 2014 (sochi) and 2016 (Rio)
today. This was after the joint CBC+CTV bid was rejected by the IOC,
and CTV then pulled out. No releases have said that CBC won by
acclamation.
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