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mybadhairlife

Sometimes, I say something nice.

Feb 28, 2010 19:21

CTV deserves nothing but praise for their coverage of the Olympics. They own several channels, and made use of all of them, ensuring that you could watch the entirety of any event you wanted. Over the internet, you could access live feeds of all of the channels, as well as the world feeds which provided up to the minute results, all the scores ( Read more... )

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mybadhairlife March 1 2010, 04:10:48 UTC

When CBC lost the Olympics, Brian Williams - who was like Bob Costas in terms of hosting everything during prime time - moved over to CTV and it's like nothing has changed - except CTV is doing a much better job than CBC.

hatgrlstargazer March 1 2010, 01:48:06 UTC

I am so jealous. You make a good argument for moving to Canada.

I am intrigued by this Johnny Weir interview. I wonder if I'd be able to watch it somewhere.

mybadhairlife March 1 2010, 04:09:43 UTC

You can try www.ctvolympics.ca and see what you can access.

grendelyn March 1 2010, 12:26:38 UTC

I thought this Olympics was great and I'm sorry it's over. The BBC commentators were not fantastic, but the competition was. Pity it was so far away and difficult to watch most things anywhere near live.

I am also very apprehensive, since this means we're next. When the announced that London had won, I was in the train station in Leeds and everyone was cheering and hugging -- not very British at all. Now, it all seems like it's never going to happen. There's more clusterf*ck every week. But then, Athens was like that and it was all fine...

We still haven't decided whether we're going to get the hell out of dodge and possibly rent our house out for two weeks (It's about as convenient as you could possibly get without actually staying out at the site, which is out in the middle of nowhere) or staying here and trying to live through it. We'll see...

mybadhairlife March 1 2010, 20:26:21 UTC

It's a once in a lifetime experience, and you have a front row seat - why not take the two weeks off work and enjoy the fuck out of it?

You could rent out a guest room if you wanted to make money off it - but if it's anything like Calgary was in '88 or like I hear Vancouver was this year, you really want to be there.

grendelyn March 2 2010, 19:00:24 UTC

I definitely see that side of it, which is what makes it a hard decision.

OTOH, I hate crowds and invasive security, and I keep hearing from the BBC that tickets are going to be ridiculously expensive, if locals can even get them. (£1000+ for the Opening Ceremonies).

I mean, we're already financing this thing. Haven't we paid our entry fees in some way already?

mybadhairlife March 3 2010, 03:21:43 UTC

Eh - it's crowds and invasive security for a short period of time but the payoff is meeting happy people from everywhere in the world. As a local, the security folks will get used to you, and you probably won't have the save level of invasiveness as the non-locals.

Yeah, you are financing it, but the only pay-off you get is having all the facilities available (for pay) after the Olympics go.

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tansu March 1 2010, 12:36:42 UTC

The EBU (association of European national broadcasters) did a pretty good job too. Here in the UK you could watch a choice of feeds on the BBC interactive service (the "red button"). On Eurosport it was Hobson's choice ( ... )