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CIVT CTV BC and King 5 olympics games
- Thread starter e-dawg
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I must agree with Jensen Bay. 
CBC's coverage of Beijing was incredible - mostly live and then a good re-cap for the west coast hosted by Ian Hanomansing, who normally anchors "Vancouver @ 5/5:30/6."
I'm not sure how CTV will do things, but they will have a lot to live up to. Amazingly, their signal is not viewable in most of BC over-the-air, either. CIVT only has its main signal on Grouse and a Victoria-area repeater. Then again, most Canadians found satellite TV years ago.
CBC's coverage of Beijing was incredible - mostly live and then a good re-cap for the west coast hosted by Ian Hanomansing, who normally anchors "Vancouver @ 5/5:30/6."I'm not sure how CTV will do things, but they will have a lot to live up to. Amazingly, their signal is not viewable in most of BC over-the-air, either. CIVT only has its main signal on Grouse and a Victoria-area repeater. Then again, most Canadians found satellite TV years ago.
e-dawg said:
HEAVENS, NO! On the grounds that, barring some sanity or a U.S. Gold Medal bid in hockey, NBC will be employing the customary - and hated - "West Coast" delay on every minute of its coverage, despite the fact that this is a North American Olympics.
Even the weekend coverage which naturally falls into the traditional sports windows is being held back.
If you're wise, close enough to the border, and don't have a big hill blocking the path between you and Vancouver, you've got to get those antennae up pronto and take what CTV has to offer. Olympics 24/7, more or less, from Friday the 12th at "9 AM Precisely" (or so) until the flame is doused.
BTW: from my location I have a clear path to Mt. Seymour - about 50 or so miles as the crow flies, and the DTV signal just booms right in here.
PDXREXX said:
Yep. Unfortunately, they don't have an HD version on the lineup.
I heard CKWX newsradio 1130 doing live coverage of the opening ceremony around 7:30 last night on my way home from work. Weak nighttime signal into Seattle, and the announcing was nothing to brag about, but it gave me some of the flavor of the event going on.
Got home, eager to see what was happening, and NBC on KING-5 TV didn't have any of it for another three hours. Seemed really odd to be little more than 100 miles away from the ceremony, in the same time zone, and yet unable to see if live - even on an ancillary cable channel (I thought I had heard that NBC was going to use several cable channels to offer different coverage, but that wasn't the case last night on Comcast. I couldn't even get an SAP alternate audio feed in Spanish or whatever.)
Did any other radio in this area have live coverage, as the news station in Vancouver did?
I also found NBC's audio cut out frequently on my Comcast HD and SD reception on channels 105 and 05 (any word, anyone, on the source of all of the audio outages - the announcers didn't reference any of them, so perhaps it wasn't from the source). The NBC audio of the ceremony was also low, probably a mic from the booth, instead of sounding like a direct feed from house. Stayed at the same level that allowed the announcers to interject comments without ever coming up higher than that. Commercials blasted, by contrast, and often by surprise.
And while Bob Costas and Matt Lauer get credit for holding back and avoiding talking over some of the more artistically powerful moments, and even some of the French language remarks at torch lighting (which I found classy), their baseball-style play by play injection of trite factoids at other times really detracted from the emotional power of the ceremony on several occasions, to this otherwise appreciative viewer. Full level audio of the ceremony was what I wanted to experience. NBC -- take me there for the best seat in the house. In HD. Without dumbing it down.
The artistry of the ceremonies is more than just a parade of "foreigners," and it would be nice to be able to observe them without low audio levels and banter such as "that Lula guy who is president of Brazil. He just has one name. Boy, he's really out there on a limb compared to the rest of those Latin American leaders." That kind of stuff is really lame and unwarranted, in my opinion. Fortunately, there wasn't a lot of that.
Since the ceremonies offfered a fantastic depiction of the heritage of our region (Seattle, you are also Indian country, just like BC), I wanted to really get into it without wanting to shout at the announcers to keep quiet. Imagine sitting in the arena and hearing that kind of blather from the people sitting next to you. That's how it felt to me.
What'd you all think? Any audio suggestions from the radio folks?? How was CTV coverage of the opening ceremonies? A real shame Comcast has access to their signal, but won't offer it to us in Seattle. A lot of us would like a choice, and might even pay a nominal fee for it.
Got home, eager to see what was happening, and NBC on KING-5 TV didn't have any of it for another three hours. Seemed really odd to be little more than 100 miles away from the ceremony, in the same time zone, and yet unable to see if live - even on an ancillary cable channel (I thought I had heard that NBC was going to use several cable channels to offer different coverage, but that wasn't the case last night on Comcast. I couldn't even get an SAP alternate audio feed in Spanish or whatever.)
Did any other radio in this area have live coverage, as the news station in Vancouver did?
I also found NBC's audio cut out frequently on my Comcast HD and SD reception on channels 105 and 05 (any word, anyone, on the source of all of the audio outages - the announcers didn't reference any of them, so perhaps it wasn't from the source). The NBC audio of the ceremony was also low, probably a mic from the booth, instead of sounding like a direct feed from house. Stayed at the same level that allowed the announcers to interject comments without ever coming up higher than that. Commercials blasted, by contrast, and often by surprise.
And while Bob Costas and Matt Lauer get credit for holding back and avoiding talking over some of the more artistically powerful moments, and even some of the French language remarks at torch lighting (which I found classy), their baseball-style play by play injection of trite factoids at other times really detracted from the emotional power of the ceremony on several occasions, to this otherwise appreciative viewer. Full level audio of the ceremony was what I wanted to experience. NBC -- take me there for the best seat in the house. In HD. Without dumbing it down.
The artistry of the ceremonies is more than just a parade of "foreigners," and it would be nice to be able to observe them without low audio levels and banter such as "that Lula guy who is president of Brazil. He just has one name. Boy, he's really out there on a limb compared to the rest of those Latin American leaders." That kind of stuff is really lame and unwarranted, in my opinion. Fortunately, there wasn't a lot of that.
Since the ceremonies offfered a fantastic depiction of the heritage of our region (Seattle, you are also Indian country, just like BC), I wanted to really get into it without wanting to shout at the announcers to keep quiet. Imagine sitting in the arena and hearing that kind of blather from the people sitting next to you. That's how it felt to me.
What'd you all think? Any audio suggestions from the radio folks?? How was CTV coverage of the opening ceremonies? A real shame Comcast has access to their signal, but won't offer it to us in Seattle. A lot of us would like a choice, and might even pay a nominal fee for it.
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kenrayc
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Is CIVT CTVs coverage live compared to the NBC west coast 3 hour delay?
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Seattleradiodude
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Goldilocks94941 said:
... umm, Seattle as in "Chief Seattle" the Indian in which the city was named after?
Can you please post without dumbing it down... thanks!
All that you would have missed is the parade of som 80 nations. I know that part is pretty exciting. Give me the live! Then you can
do your delay later. I was watching 5 hoping to see it live when the guy stationed at Whistler pointed out on the big screen at Whistler the Canada team coming in. got to see that again 3 hours later. I wonder if any of these will be on demand. Loved the show but it was so dang late. Everything went perfect till the end, when one of the torch arms wouldn't raise. I was also hoping at the end of the show when attention turned to BC, Micheal Buble would sing "Home". Also thought M.J. Fox should have been included as a final Torch Bearer to the 4-Athletes who did the final lighting.
BTW
I too miss seeing the CBC coverage, if I remember correctly, during the last winter in Olympic's in Italy, they were blacked out part of the time on cable.
do your delay later. I was watching 5 hoping to see it live when the guy stationed at Whistler pointed out on the big screen at Whistler the Canada team coming in. got to see that again 3 hours later. I wonder if any of these will be on demand. Loved the show but it was so dang late. Everything went perfect till the end, when one of the torch arms wouldn't raise. I was also hoping at the end of the show when attention turned to BC, Micheal Buble would sing "Home". Also thought M.J. Fox should have been included as a final Torch Bearer to the 4-Athletes who did the final lighting.
BTW
I too miss seeing the CBC coverage, if I remember correctly, during the last winter in Olympic's in Italy, they were blacked out part of the time on cable.
Curious ... for those watching NBC ... was audio constantly dropping out, or was that an artifact of Comcast coverage?
LITTLEBOYBLUE said:
It was also happening on DirecTV, and I guess by looking at some other sources on Google, it was happening on other NBC affliliates, so this appeared to be an NBC problem. I bet master control at KING was very frustraited with this... They did replay the opening ceremonies though some hours later around 3am, but edited out some parts, for time.
dunno said:
Not in my Seattle zone, but that doesn't mean they didn't elsewhere. I'm still surprised KOMO doesn't demand a black-out for Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune.
Anyone watched "The City" yet? Ian Hanomansing is hosting a program at 11:05 pm to talk about everything going on in Vancouver around the Olympics. CBC tries to do what they can with their more-limited resources.
CTV Vancouver (and nationally as well) have now put the blocks onto any and all video streaming for anyone sporting an out of Canada I.P address. This remains in effect until March 1 and is designed, of course, to protect the responsibilities of their Olympic broadcast privileges.
Hotspot Shield doesn't work here. Try running any news video clip from their site, Olympic or otherwise, and all you'll see is the "Canada Only" banner.....after the 30 second commercial of course.
That you get.
Hotspot Shield doesn't work here. Try running any news video clip from their site, Olympic or otherwise, and all you'll see is the "Canada Only" banner.....after the 30 second commercial of course.
That you get.
So we can finally empathize with all the times our content was blocked (all those "FULL EPISODES AVAILABLE ONLINE" promise only to find non-US IP's are nixed). Have had several CDN friends ask me to put stuff on DVD & "ship it"!!!
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