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This is the first "Make Some Noise" promo for the 2008 Fall Season. It aired during the opening ceremony of the Olympics and features Masi Oka, Adr...
The Olympics. She is Coming...
daveandthomas.blogspot.com 8/8/2008 — The Olympics are right around the corner and if you're lucky enough you might catch a few events. Actually, it'll be pretty hard to miss. NBC is broadcasting the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics across all its stations including Universal HD and USA Network . They are also setting the bar high by broadcasting the games online with over 2200 hours of online content scheduled to be view on your ...
A Decade Later, 2,118 Percent More Olympics
jossip.com 8/4/2008 —
When CBS televised the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, some 170 hours of coverage were broadcast over 17 days. When NBC wraps up its coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, it will have broadcast 3,600 hours. [ FT ]
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How Some Covered the Opening Ceremony
mediabistro.com 8/8/2008 — The Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony is currently underway, and although NBC wants us to think it all begins at 7:30pmET tonight (when you can watch it tonight on NBC), it actually started at 8:08amET and continues for a few hours. You can see it now on the web site .
Fox News' Dana Lewis was live this morning on Fox & Friends, reporting from a, "little office," over looking the stadium ...
Test Your Knowledge About the Olympics and TV
buzzsugar.com 8/7/2008 —
The Summer Olympics in Beijing kick off on Friday, with NBC broadcasting several hours of the opening ceremonies. For the next two weeks, coverage of the Olympics will be all over NBC and its cable networks — but how many hours are we talking here? Test your knowledge of that, and many other Olympics-related TV questions, in my quiz!
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2008 Beijing Olympics: Opening Ceremony And Event Listings
cinemablend.com 8/8/2008 — Let the games begin! The 2008 Summer Olympics will kick off this weekend with the opening ceremony set to air Friday night at 7:30 p.m. ET/PT on NBC. Bob Costas and Matt Lauer will host the event, which will introduce athletes representing 205 countries. The Parade of Nations will begin with Greece and end with athletes from the host country (China) will take place at the National Stadium in ...
What Happens If News Breaks During Basketball?
mediabistro.com 8/8/2008 — 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 ...
Nbc - First Non-sports News During Olympics
contactmusic.com 8/8/2008 — Suggesting that NBC and other media outlets covering the Beijing Olympics will have much more than sports to report about during the next 17 days, a pirate radio station went ...
Monday Notebook: "Mad Men," Olympics, Radio Delay
ohiomm.com 8/11/2008 —
"Dinner at Lutece is pretty nice, but I could be home watching gymnastics."
This and that, after the jump. …
Olympics sampled so far: Opening ceremonies (mentioned below), swimming, volleyball, beach volleyball, basketball, badminton, soccer, a smidge of handball, gymnastics, synchronized diving, lacrosse, promos for NBC fall shows and a bunch of political ads ...
Our Olympic Spirit Crushed: The Firework Footprints Were Fake —
Vulture
Courtesy of NBC.com
Say it ain't so, Zhang! It turns out that the very beginning of the Beijing opening ceremony we loved so much — the 29 firework footprints that stepped across the city, finally landing at the Bird's Nest stadium — were in fact a painstakingly created CGI image . Actual footprint-shaped fireworks were shot off — captured in this video , for example ...
NBC's Olympics Coverage -- So Far, So Great —
TV Worth Watching
Sunday night's NBC prime-time telecast of the XXIX Olympic Games -- part live, part replayed from hoarded video coverage -- was nothing short of fabulous. The U.S. athletes shone in some events, faltered in others and barely missed in still others, but NBC, in its first weekend of Olympics coverage, has been a winner all the way.
There's so much to rave about. Start with last ...
What’s Behind This Olympics O-Face —
Jossip
Indeed, swimmer and American hero Michael Phelps can be seen here reacting to winning his second gold medal (there’s a video here ). But this is also the face that’s representative of how NBC feels: The more Phelps keeps on winning, the better their Olympics ratings are going to be . Glad it feels that good for you too, Phelps.
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Stephen Kaus: NBC's "Live" Olympics Fraud —
Huffington Post Entertainment Blog
NBC means "Never Broadcast Currently." Having practiced in June by delaying the telecast of Roger Federer's Wimbledon semi-final for six hours (nine on the West Coast), NBC now is embargoing many of the most important events and running around the world , trying to prevent anyone from posting any video on the Internet.
As much as I enjoyed the victory of the Brazilian soccer team over ...
Time of My Life - Bejing Olympics —
mjsbigblog
By popular demand…
David Cook’s “Time of My Life” was used as a montage at the opening ceremonies for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. It was broadcast on NBC last night.
Rickey has the clip HERE .
YouTube to broadcast Olympics —
Lost Remote
So, while NBC is likely going to be watching YouTube closely for users who upload video of the games in Beijing, the IOC has now approved YouTube as an official global partner for any region not covered by a local exclusive deal. The page is actually available now even in the US, so check it out at youtube.com/beijing2008 . Soon that page will be controlled by geo-location access controls. ...
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