mediabistro.com - 8/8/2008
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Several TVNewser readers have emailed asking what might happen if news breaks during MSNBC/CNBC or NBC News Olympics coverage. One wondered specifically about the Vice Presidential picks — which would be named during the Olympics if they are not named during the conventions directly after.
MSNBC will broadcast 12 hours of Olympics programming each day, with an additional two hours ...
Who wins the medals at this year’s Olympics?
thebuzz.sheknows.com 8/8/2008 —
So who’s it gonna be this summer? Will women’s gymnastics grab the spotlight or will it be basketball or perhaps swimming?
Two of our country’s pride and joy, swimmers Michael Phelps and Dara Torres, took center stage at a media press conference at the Main Press Center in Beijing. They were then replaced on stage by their fellow US Olympian swimmers: Aaron Perisol, Ryan Lochte, Brendan ...
The Place For.... —
mediabistro.com: TVNewser
For the next two weeks MSNBC is calling itself The Place for the Olympics. With as many as 12 hours a day of events then a two-hour wrap up show, politics will take a back seat, relegated to Hardball at 7pmET and Countdown at 8. And while it may take war somewhere much closer than South Ossetia (like, say, New Jersey) to interrupt Olympics programming, MSNBC's two-hour wrap up show ...
They Olympics Are Starting! —
The Gossip Fix
GO USA!!!!
Yes, the Olympics are starting, and I am actually excited about it. Will Michael Phelps win all those gold medals? Will our basketball team live up the hype?
I don’t know the answers to those questions, but we will find out soon enough. Whichever country you are rooting for…..good luck!!!
Hey…I know an event I can enter!!
Olympic Ice Cream ...
MSNBC Adds Daily Olympic Wrap Up Show —
mediabistro.com: TVNewser
MSNBC will produce a two-hour, post Olympics wrap up show which will air weekdays from 5pm-7pmET beginning Monday. Insiders tell us Tamron Hall will anchor from New York and Tiki Barber and Jenna Wolfe will anchor from in Beijing. Morning Joe's Willie Geist will also contribute.
This means the 5pm edition of Hardball and the 6pm show, Race for the White House, will be preempted for ...
Calvinball, Quidditch, and Other Fictional Sports We Wish the Olympics Would Adopt —
Vulture
Courtesy of Scholastic Press, Sci Fi, Paramount, Universal Pictures
One of the complaints often voiced by Olympics-haters is that the sports played are too obscure and seem made up. Sure, LeBron James gets to play basketball in China, but who cares about team handball, modern pentathlon, and the 400-meter individual medley? But for us, the fringey sports we only see once every four years ...
Interlude: Headliners —
Guyism » celebs
AFFLICTION: Arlovski vs. Barnett to headline 'Affliction 2' in Oct.
NFL: Co-defendant pleads guilty, will testify against O.J.
NFL: SI.com's Top 200 Fantasy Players
CFB: Georgia suspends fifth player from season opener
OLYMPICS: Britain's Olympians strip down as they prepare for Beijing
OLYMPICS: U.S. team wears face masks
SWIMMING: Playboy model Beard to bare all in fur protest
TAE KWON DO: He's
Interlude: Deny —
Guyism » celebs
NBA: Stern denies threatening ex-Sonics owner
NBA: Pierce cuffed, released after Vegas traffic stop
UFC: Pregnant woman injured in Rampage Jackson hit-and-run miscarries
WEC: Condit remains WEC champ
OLYMPICS: Olympics protesters clash with police in Beijing
MOUNTAIN CLIMBING: At least 11 die during descent of K-2 climb
NFL: Pack will allow Favre to compete for QB job
NFL: Jessica strips for Romo
TV Squad: The Week Ahead —
TV Squad
Our Monday morning roundup of a half dozen things TV Squad readers - and TV fans in general - will be talking about this week. 1. The Olympics . NBC, along with CNBC and MSNBC and USA and the web, will have approximately 477,312 hours of coverage. (Starts Friday.) 2. Primeval . New show about a rip in time that lets dinosaurs come through to modern England. Is this one of them? (Premieres ...
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