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Olympic games on Sirius

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BigTree

We are going to be travelling during the winter Olympic Games. Does anyone know of a Sirius channel that will be broadcasting the games or results results?
 
It looks like it will take some dial twisting, but you should be able to find reports in various spots. In 06' Sirius produced its own nightly one-hour roundup on ch. 123 in the early evening, but that was easy to do because the games were in Italy and the day's events were over by the time the show hit the air. I see nothing on the Web about any plans this time (and because the games are on the west coast, the major events on the schedule won't be happening until late evening in the east).
The obvious channels to try for news coverage of results inside regular programming would be CNN, Headline News, Fox and CBC1 (the CBC didn't win the event broadcast rights in Canada but will presumably have a team of reporters covering the Olympics as news). For the Beijing summer games, NBC spun off some of the actual events late at night and on weekends to CNBC. I can't tell if they have similar plans this time -- and if so, if the audio will be available on the CNBC channel.
 
As I recall, the BBC World Service's sports programming -- including the two-hour Saturday and Sunday sports shows -- was replaced by filler programming on XM and over the Internet during the last summer games. Apparently, the BBC's radio Olympic coverage rights were limited to UK terrestrial only by the International Olympic Committee, so any programming containing live reports had to be kept off the Internet and satellite.

Not sure how it worked on Sirius, which carried the cheaper BBC World Service News feed. Is Sirius getting the full World Service since the merger or just the all-news format?
 
Something to keep in mind: BBC Sportsworld airs during the Winter from 6-9 AM PT on Saturday and 8-10 AM on Sunday (or 1400-1700 and 1600-1800 GMT respectively). The final hour (8 AM Saturday and 9 AM Sunday) typically is devoted to the weekly "commentary match" relayed from 5live. Nothing significant takes place during those hours (Schedule linked below), so all you'll likely hear are reports and summaries of the previous day's events, general conversation and maybe some actualities. I'm don't believe short recorded clips of the BBC's own event coverage would run afoul of IOC rules as long as they stay within quotas, but we'll see.

Based on the above my guess is that  Sportsworld proper should air as normal this time out. Sportsworld: Have Your Say and Sportsworld Extra also should be safe as long as there's no live reports or play-by-play from the venues themselves.

(i.e.: Russell Fuller reading off results from the Sportsworld studio in London - fair game. Mike Ingham on site describing the Third End Live from the curling venue - not.)

Linkage: Vancouver 2010 Event Schedule (All times local to Vancouver.)
 
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