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NBC's Complete Olympics Coverage for Torino 2006

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Dawn_H

I was just browsing NBC's Marketing Site for their coverage of the 2006 Torino Olympics. NBC Universal plans on using NBC, NBC HDTV, CNBC, MSNBC, USA & Universal HD for their cable coverage and I noticed that Bravo & Telemundo have been excluded from having any Olympic coverage for the Torino Games. Does anyone know why Bravo and Telemundo may have been excluded this time around? Not enough coverage to use all networks? Why no spanish language coverage on Telemundo? I know the Winter Games aren't has big as the Summer Games but aren't there going to be some Latin countries competiting at the Torino Games? Anyone with any discussion about NBC coverage of the upcoming Torino Games.

You can visit the NBC Torino Marketing Website @
http://nbcutorinomarketing.com/intro.php
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> I was just browsing NBC's Marketing Site for their coverage
> of the 2006 Torino Olympics. NBC Universal plans on using
> NBC, NBC HDTV, CNBC, MSNBC, USA & Universal HD for their
> cable coverage and I noticed that Bravo & Telemundo have
> been excluded from having any Olympic coverage for the
> Torino Games. Does anyone know why Bravo and Telemundo may
> have been excluded this time around? Not enough coverage to
> use all networks? Why no spanish language coverage on
> Telemundo? I know the Winter Games aren't has big as the
> Summer Games but aren't there going to be some Latin
> countries competiting at the Torino Games? Anyone with any
> discussion about NBC coverage of the upcoming Torino Games.
>
> You can visit the NBC Torino Marketing Website @
> http://nbcutorinomarketing.com/intro.php
<font color=blue> They were used primarily for football and boxing coverage(summer) and no I don't think many latin countries are interested in competing or viewing</font>.
 
Here is the thing, all US network Olympic coverage is a big jingoistic orgasm and unwatchable. We need to get the nice neutral Canadian feed.<P ID="signature">______________
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> Here is the thing, all US network Olympic coverage is a big
> jingoistic orgasm and unwatchable.

Agreed -- NBC insists on showing it pre-recorded, with plenty of fluff pieces and only show games that the US are involved in. In addition, they "hijacked" internet coverage by buying worldwide rights to English-language audio coverage until 2012, meaning we can't hear the other countries' points of view.

> We need to get the nice
> neutral Canadian feed.
>
Just hope CTV and Rogers doesn't pick up the NBC feed when they show the 2010 and 2012 games.
 
I am a little surprised there is no scheduled Spanish-language coverage of the Winter Olympics on Telemundo.

I thought that Telemundo might show a little figure skating, a little alpine skiing, and a few ice hockey games, including the finals.

Yes, there hasn't traditionally been much interest in winter sports among Hispanics, but Telemundo has the opportunity to build that interest with the upcoming Winter Olympics.

Besides, I thought six or seven NHL clubs had local radio broadcasts of at least some of their games in Spanish. I believe there's local Spanish-language radio coverage of the Florida (Miami) Panthers, Dallas Stars, Phoenix Coyotes, Los Angeles Kings, Tampa Bay Lightning, San Jose Sharks, and maybe the New York Rangers as well. With the NHL off the for Olympics, NBC/Telemundo could certainly hire the Spanish-language radio play-by-play man from one of these teams, send him to Turin (Torino), and have him call the games, using NBC's video feed (with, if available, Spanish-langauage graphics replacing English-language graphics).

"El Slapshot.......Goooooooooooooaaaalllllll!!! Goooooooooooaaaalllll!!!"

Has anyone seen the TV schedule yet (or better yet, can post a link to the schedule)??

I suspect that NBC will carry the Opening and Closing Ceremonies (probably on about six hours' tape-delay to get them broadcast in prime-time), ski jumping, most of the speed skating, most of the bobsled and luge, alpine skiing, speed-skating, hockey games involving the U.S. men's and women's teams plus the finals (live in the afternoon), and figure-skating. I would not be surprised if the entire three-to-four hour prime-time broadcast on Thursday, February 23rd is devoted to the long program in women's figure-skating, which will be held that day. By doing so, NBC would be able to show the long programs of all 20 or so competitors. Running two hours of coverage in the afternoon that day would allow NBC to broadcast several events in sports that it (as opposed to one of it's sister cable networks) wishes to cover.

I would think the USA Network would carry men's and women's hockey games other than those of the U.S. teams or the finals; perhaps USA might rerun U.S. games and the finals in their entirety in the early evening of the day they are played (i.e. the men's finals, facing off at 8:05 A.M. EST on the last day of the Games, February 26th, would air live on NBC and be replayed in it's entirety on USA around 5 or 6 P.M. EST that day).

CNBC might air some live cross-country skiing in the early-morning (prior to the opening of Wall Street), while MSNBC probably would air some cross-country skiing, nearly all of the televised curling, and maybe a few other events.

Personally, I wished NBC would broadcast the Opening Ceremonies live on the afternoon of Friday, February 10th (with a prime-time rebroadcast of the entire event that evening) and the Closing Ceremonies live on the afternoon of Sunday, February 26th (with an edited replay that evening as part of a "Highlights Of The Olympics" special).

While broadcasting the Opening Ceremonies live would reduce NBC's ratigns for the prime-time (re)broadcast, the combined ratings of the live coverage and the taped rebroadcast would probably be much higher than what the ratings of a taped prime-time broadcast alone would be.
 
> Here is the thing, all US network Olympic coverage is a big
> jingoistic orgasm and unwatchable. We need to get the nice
> neutral Canadian feed.
>

I live in Canada.

CBC's coverage is definitely NOT neutral. They're just as guilty of being jingoistic as NBC. Since Canada (in the Summer games at least) doesn't have as many medalists, it does give them a bit more time to talk about other countries. But when Canada's involved, do they ever wave the maple leaf...

JPK
 
> Besides, I thought six or seven NHL clubs had local radio
> broadcasts of at least some of their games in Spanish. I
> believe there's local Spanish-language radio coverage of the
> Florida (Miami) Panthers, Dallas Stars, Phoenix Coyotes, Los
> Angeles Kings, Tampa Bay Lightning, San Jose Sharks, and
> maybe the New York Rangers as well.

Can you make up any more crap that you already do on these boards?
There are no NHL clubs that have Spanish language broadcast(radio or TV)
in US or Canada.


With the NHL off the for
> Olympics, NBC/Telemundo could certainly hire the
> Spanish-language radio play-by-play man from one of these
> teams, send him to Turin (Torino), and have him call the
> games, using NBC's video feed (with, if available,
> Spanish-langauage graphics replacing English-language
> graphics).
>
> "El Slapshot.......Goooooooooooooaaaalllllll!!!
> Goooooooooooaaaalllll!!!"

You're just an idiot.
>
>
 
Hi everyone:

Joeseph Gallant wrote....

> > Besides, I thought six or seven NHL clubs had local radio
> > broadcasts of at least some of their games in Spanish. I
> > believe there's local Spanish-language radio coverage of
> the
> > Florida (Miami) Panthers, Dallas Stars, Phoenix Coyotes,
> Los
> > Angeles Kings, Tampa Bay Lightning, San Jose Sharks, and
> > maybe the New York Rangers as well.

Except for the Dallas Stars (which even I believe either had or had a TV crew, but I could be mistaken on that), that's news to me!

radiodouble wrote....

> Can you make up any more crap that you already do on these
> boards?

Joe's a habitual offender RD.

> There are no NHL clubs that have Spanish language
> broadcast(radio or TV)
> in US or Canada.

I can just see a Latin broadcast originating out of Canada now, can't you? :) *LOL!*

> With the NHL off the for
> > Olympics, NBC/Telemundo could certainly hire the
> > Spanish-language radio play-by-play man from one of these
> > teams, send him to Turin (Torino), and have him call the
> > games, using NBC's video feed (with, if available,
> > Spanish-langauage graphics replacing English-language
> > graphics).

Ohh Joe! You couldn't be any more OFF on this one.

First of all, last I heard was that the NHL *WAS NOT* taking time off to play in the Olympics. Players who choose to do so do so at their own risk. The NHL plans to press on as though it were not an Olympic year.

Secondly, WHY would they go to all that trouble in the production department when NBC has Telemundo at their disposal?

And then there's the issue of would Telemundo REPEATEDLY pre-empt its daytime lineup (which undoubtedly gets HIGHER ratings than NBC's OWN Daytime Lineup) to air the games?

> > "El Slapshot.......Goooooooooooooaaaalllllll!!!
> > Goooooooooooaaaalllll!!!"

Ohh PUH-LEAZE!!! *Rolling eyes*

> You're just an idiot.

Yeah what RD just said. :/

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> First of all, last I heard was that the NHL *WAS NOT* taking
> time off to play in the Olympics. Players who choose to do
> so do so at their own risk. The NHL plans to press on as
> though it were not an Olympic year.

Yes, the NHL is taking the time off to let players play in the Olympics. The NHL is not treating it like it was NOT an Olympic year. If you go to NHL.com and look at the schedule for the month of Feburary there are no games scheduled between Feb 13th until Feb 28th 2006 for the 2006 Olympic break.

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I wish to go back to one of my previous points, which was: Telemundo should be broadcasting a limited amount (maybe a couple of hours a day) of Winter Olympics coverage in Spanish.

As I had stated earlier, this is a prime opportunity for them to help boost the popularity of winter sports among Hispanics.
 
> I was just browsing NBC's Marketing Site for their coverage
> of the 2006 Torino Olympics. NBC Universal plans on using
> NBC, NBC HDTV, CNBC, MSNBC, USA & Universal HD for their
> cable coverage and I noticed that Bravo & Telemundo have
> been excluded from having any Olympic coverage for the
> Torino Games. Does anyone know why Bravo and Telemundo may
> have been excluded this time around? Not enough coverage to
> use all networks? Why no spanish language coverage on
> Telemundo? I know the Winter Games aren't has big as the
> Summer Games but aren't there going to be some Latin
> countries competiting at the Torino Games? Anyone with any
> discussion about NBC coverage of the upcoming Torino Games.
>
> You can visit the NBC Torino Marketing Website @
> http://nbcutorinomarketing.com/intro.php
>

telemundo is running the winter games from turin. they're selling
them separately from nbc umbrella. that's why they're not mentioned
on nbc u's marketing site.
 
> I wish to go back to one of my previous points, which was:
> Telemundo should be broadcasting a limited amount (maybe a
> couple of hours a day) of Winter Olympics coverage in
> Spanish.

they are carrying winter games. you, as always, have no clue about anything that's going around. you just fabricate stuff that you know nothing about.

> As I had stated earlier, this is a prime opportunity for
> them to help boost the popularity of winter sports among
> Hispanics.
>
 
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