BTHarner
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Well NBC kept the online video from London until the new year, just checked NBCOlympics.com and they have switched over to Sochi (although there is very little on the page at this time).
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I never get into the closing ceremonies as I do the opening. I'm usually too depressed at the thought of the Games ending to enjoy them.
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Looks like NBC's exclusive period has expired at US viewers can now access the London 2012 videos on the official channel at Youtube.
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I'd love to find the full OC from Indianapolis someday. Unlike 1983, I did watch it on CBS. I wonder how the female athletes wearing high heels felt like after walking on that surface at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
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To think that I passed on watching CBS's broadcast of the 1983 ceremony to in order to watch a meaningless NFL pre-season game on NBC. What was I thinking?
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I think I'd go nuts if I lived somewhere where the TV coverage wasn't determined until the last minute.
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Just went there to look at the 1984 video. Parts of it are just clips from 16 Days of Glory.Good news everybody. It seems the user who uploaded the Montreal vid has a website called Olympic Ceremony. It says he will publish the LA'84 full opening ceremonies by tomorrow, so stay tunned
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By the way, is this an official site? I don't want to get too attached to it if it isn't..
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I remember the late Jim McKay of ABC Sports saying that, because of the African boycott at Montreal, he wasn't sure which nation was going to come out of the tunnel next.
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Maybe a bad sign for those of us in the US that were hoping NBCs live online coverage included the ceremonies. They have changed the online listing page on NBCOlympics.com to reflect each day's live streams and the is nothing listed for next Friday. I was looking forward to avoiding Bob Costas and all his smarminess.
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I will probably not be doing much in the way of recording, as I plan to do most my viewing online where I can pick and choose what I wish to watch and have it presented in a nice, neutral feed. I'll try to catch anything I miss right after the Games and before NBC takes down the on-demand video (I have no clue how long they plan to keep it up, Beijing was up into early 2009, but Vancouver for only a couple months afterward).
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Just paged through the USA Today preview that Durban mentioned earlier. It really was a waste of money. Largely a series of getting to know the athlete profiles and rather devoid of any meaningful analysis (I guess they figured a lot of people could care less about the strengths and weaknesses of Tunisia's men's basketball team).
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Any word on whether NBC will be streaming the opening and closing ceremonies live? They keep saying about all the events being streamed but nothing about the ceremonies.
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NBC's talent line-http://www.nbcumv.com/mediavillage/sports/nbcsports/pressreleases?pr=contents/press-releases/2012/06/28/nbcannouncestal1340907544308.xmlup for London.
OK Let's try that again. NBC's talent lineup for London .
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John Tesh was infinitely better than Al Trautwig. John at least liked gymnastics and somewhat understood the sport.
Yeah, if you liked hearing about Vitaly Scherbo's wife's near-fatal auto accident fifteen times every night.
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Both the Olympics and Paralympics are inspiring in their own way, but I think the Paralympic events would get lost if they were merged into the Olympic Games, so they deserve a showcase all their own. Besides the total number of Olympians and Paralympians in 2008 totaled over 15,000 not including coaches, officials, and team staff, toss in all the logistical issues and this would be a massive organizational headache.
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The NBC coverage numbers are absolutely mind-blowing, I remember back in 1996 when the total coverage came to roughly 170 hours, all on the main network.
For all the hours on TV though, for me it is all about the streaming and being able to watch what I want when I want which, until four years ago, was something I never ever thought would be possible.
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The boxing coverage at past Games always included features such as Teddy's Corner with Teddy Atlas (don't know if he will be part of this year's coverage), plus he and Bob Papa spent about 10 hours griping about the judging in Beijing. And don't forget about all those extra commercials you can slot into tape-delayed coverage.
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Please tell me that NBC will keep the archives up for a few months like they did in 2008. There is only 24 hours in a day (even during the Olympic Games) and I just will not be able to cram everything in over the games-time period.
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I'm surprised to see the BOA rep got any camera time at all. I remember seeing a news photograph showing a cameraman facing the crowd with his back turned towards the track as the flag went by the camera's position.
When i think of 1980, I think of really big flags. They look like you could pole vault with them.
A final note. Thanks to the boycott in 1980, Sochi 2014 will likely outnumber Moscow in terms of number of participating nations.
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As someone who enjoys Yanni, Jarre, and John Williams, I disagree with your assessment of Atlanta. Otherwise I concur with you on Albertville, Barcelona, and Lillehammer. The collection of Japanese folk songs used in Nagano was rather neat as well.
BTW the music for the Spanish entry in Barcelona was titled "Espana", sadly I have not found a recording of it elsewhere. Which was probably a good thing as my wife and I got married the weekend after the Barcelona Games and every piece in our ceremony had an Olympic connection of some sort and I would have probably tried to stick that one in at the last minute.
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I liked the music used from 1984-2000, whether is was played by an orchestra, a marching band or a cd player. The music from 2004 and 2008 was fine as music (I do have CDs of both), but it just seemed out of place when used as background music for the parade.
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I wonder if, now that we have a proliferation of streaming players that connect to TVs (Roku, Apple TV, etc), TVs with internet apps, and game consoles (PS3, Xbox360), if NBC will be making its online coverage available through those types of devices.
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I don't think it was necessarily the signs that upset the Koreans as much as the lack of respect for the tradition of the parade as demonstrated by some in the American delegation. The let themselves get strung out, wandered off the track into the shade and get interspersed with the delegations that followed (poor Vanuatu, making it's Olympic debut had its grand entrance spoiled by a bunch of US fencers who carried a large sign to get NBC's attention because they figured they would be ignored in the network's coverage. The tactic worked). It really was a disrespectful showing that alienated a host country (that already had some anti-US sentiment over non-Olympic issues) that values reverence to tradition. One could say that it reminds them of Atlanta in 1996, but that was more poor execution of a novel idea and not ignorant behavior on part of the athletes.
Sochi 2014 Olympic Media Updates
in Sochi 2014 Winter Games
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There is one error in that release. ABC showed the USA-Sweden hockey game the night prior to the OC from Lake Placid.