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  1. Globo TV will have, as a reminder, will air 200 hours. Another thousand hours will be broadcast on the four SporTV channels, apart from the Globoplay apparatus, which will bring together 45 extra official live signals from the games. More than 100 commentators participate overall in the coverage. With the Brazilian men shockingly not appearing in men's soccer this time, the women's soccer and volleyball teams will hopefully take up the slack for Globo (the men's basketball team can still qualify but it'll be a challenge). KTO, BTW, is a betting service that joins as one of Globo's Paris 2024 Olympics sponsors: https://www.gamesbras.com/english-version/2024/3/13/kto-signs-with-globo-and-will-be-sponsor-of-olympic-games-paris-2024-broadcasts-43417.html Globo/SporTV will have a team of 400 people overall. Out of that, only 60 of them will actually be on location in Paris and Tahiti. Here's some of what we now know: Leticia Bufoni just joined to provide skateboarding commentary after participating in Tokyo. Basketball hall of famer Hortencia Macari will do basketball analysis. Bruno Schmidt comes to Globo/SporTV for the first time getting involved in beach volleyball as his nephew Tadeu will co-host a daily program with Fernanda Garay. The great Galvao Bueno will have his own daily nighttime show as well as commentating once again on the opening ceremony. https://oglobo.globo.com/play/noticia/2024/03/15/globo-escala-equipe-numerosa-para-os-jogos-olimpicos-mas-so-uma-pequena-parte-saira-do-pais.ghtml https://oglobo.globo.com/play/noticia/2024/03/14/globo-anuncia-leticia-bufoni-como-comentarista-dos-jogos-olimpicos-de-paris.ghtml https://www.terra.com.br/esportes/jogos-olimpicos/leticia-bufoni-vai-integrar-o-grupo-globo-nas-olimpiadas-de-paris-2024,17a17d9345c61420dc0582852706eff27zrkdfmt.html
  2. Even more big and related news regarding NBC's upcoming Paris 2024 presentation, coming out of the AMC Theaters news. And I do literally mean big. It'll be obviously such a huge experience seeing covering the entire projection sphere: NBC TELEVISION NETWORKS' LIVE COVERAGE OF THE 2024 PARIS SUMMER OLYMPICS OPENING CEREMONY TO MAKE IMAX DEBUT https://awfulannouncing.com/olympics/nbc-paris-summer-imax-opening-ceremony.html No word on whether there will actually be the Telemundo Spanish language version, which we know will finally happen, getting included in this. If so, I can see it just included only for American cities with significant Spanish communities (New York, Houston, Phoenix, San Antonio, Denver, Miami, Orlando, San Francisco Bay Area, Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Las Vegas, San Diego, San Juan, Dallas, Albaquerque, Austin, El Paso, Tucson, Tampa-St. Petersburg). Will there actually be an option for that? Also, look for NBC to drop its trailer promoting its upcoming and massive Paris 2024 Summer Olympics coverage that will run at IMAX theaters nationwide later this week--March 29 (Good Friday) to be exact. TVNorge/Eurosport N plans to assemble over 100 people as its staff for its Paris 2024 coverage, increasing from its current dozen employees--and has a Finn, Helsinki-based Annti Haajanen, fronting it as its Norwegian sports manager. Would like to read it more but there's a paywall on this https://kampanje.com/premium/februar-2024/innsikt/warner-bros-discovery-varsler-storinnrykk-vi-snakker-over-100-personer-som-vil-jobbe-med-ol/ Since we got into TV Azteca and Claro Sports' Paris 2024 sports broadcasting plans. Now we got at least some general info from its giant Mexican TV rival, Televisa. Two of its channels, Canal 5 (specializing in youth-oriented programming, American series, and films) and Canal 9 (telenovelas reruns, sports, news, and comedy shows) will handle the Summer Olympic programming as it goes live from 7am-3pm Mexico/US/Canada CT focusing on the best and live performances along with "carrying out a very detailed follow-up of the participation of the different athletes who will represent Mexico in the summer event, so you will be able to directly witness the medals that the Mexican delegation achieves and also including "special programs, analysis tables and full coverage of the biggest sporting event of the year." Surely there will be more details forthcoming: https://www.tudn.com/juegos-olimpicos/paris-2024/quien-transmitira-juegos-olimpicos-paris-2024-por-television-mexico Now Claro Sports also hooks up with YouTube to provide the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics with all of its hours, including 2000 on-demand videos with highlights, clips, medals, analysis and more, all on Claro Sports’ YouTube channel that's totally free through 16 Latin American countries. Claro Sports' Paris 2024 coverage is 24 hours a day, seven days a week; with 50 live competitions daily, up to 10 simultaneously. Seriously focusing on Gen Z and their sports viewing habits: https://todotvnews.com/en/what-the-agreement-between-claro-sports-and-youtube-tells-us-about-the-new-sports-tv-and-the-paris-2024-olympic-games/
  3. HOW PEACOCK UNVEILS ITS PARIS 2024 OLYMPIC GAMES STREAMING AND VIEWING EXPERIENCE
  4. Just remembered Latvia's LOC had 4F as their uniform supplier too.
  5. Looks like Hellenic Olympic Committee teamed up with 4F, a company that outfitted Poland's and maybe Lithuania's Olympic Committees. Like to see the video this.
  6. Man, that Rubiales saga isn't over! Now he's under fire for his alleged role in the corruption probe of bringing the the Spanish Supercopa to Saudi Arabia. Nothing to do with the women really here, though I'm sure they won't have to deal with them, with police raids both in his Granada apartment and at the RFEF Madrid headquarters. But it does add obviously his woes: https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/39776501/rubiales-set-return-caribbean-amid-corruption-probe Just now saw the Olympic women's draw. There's some spice there in group play. But, as far as I'm concerned with USA and suffice to say, I completely lost all my respect and support for the disgraceful American program after what shamefully happened the summer with NO chance of reconcilliation ever--everyone MUST GO from that! That new draw reinforces this to me. I'm already done with that ineptness! Did plan on writing an indicting and blasting and deserving rant against them here afterwards.
  7. AND...that very article also notes that Telemundo's Spanish-language debut live coverage of the Opening Ceremony from Paris starts at 1pm US/Canada ET (12pm CT).
  8. RAI 2 will designate itself as the Italian Olympic Channel with 24 hours of continuous Olympic-themed programming with the opening and closing headlining as part of its 360 hours of live competitions and ceremonies, through 2 TV channels and 2 signals simultaneously, also including web streaming and VOD, as well as radio and web radio rights like RAI Sport and RAI Play: these are just some of the pluses of the Rai editorial offer for the next Olympic Games which, after 12 years, they return to Europe, to Paris. Also with live broadcasts and in-depth features at the opening and closing of the day. Rai Sport HD will also not miss the event, offering around 10 hours of live broadcasts and content dedicated to the Games. https://www.touchpoint.news/2024/03/19/rai-pubblicita-offerta-total-video-a-cpm-per-le-olimpiadi-di-parigi-2024/ TVP Polska announces there won't be any Polish 4K production of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics and EURO 2024 with no launching of TVP 4K: https://www.wirtualnemedia.pl/artykul/koniec-tvp-4k CT 2 and CT Sport are showing the Czech Republic women's handball team's quest for Paris 2024 Olympic qualification with games versus Spain, Argentina, The Netherlands, and Portugal this April: https://www.handball.cz/aktualita/handball-reprezentace-zeny-ceska-televize-odvysila-kvalifikaci-oh-brezen-2023 Apparently according to a Digital TV reader in Denmark, Danish viewers will once again and expectedly see a split in the Paris 2024 shared live coverage between DR and TV2, according to a published list from Team Denmark and the Danish Sports Confederation both channels get while others are covered live exclusively on Flow TV either by DR or TV 2. But this time, a few sports will be shared--the popular ones like team handball, track and field, Danish tennis participation, and both ceremonies. Despite all not being yet officially announced: https://digitalt.tv/ol-2024-paa-tv-og-streaming/
  9. Saw the FIBA Paris 2024 Olympic basketball draw live this afternoon. My VERY early predictions based on that starting with the women and will certainly change along the way as new developments emerge, especially with the men because of the 4 OQTs set for July: GROUP A: 1. Spain* 2. China* 3. Serbia 4. Puerto Rico GROUP B: 1. France* 2. Australia* 3. Canada* 4. Nigeria GROUP C 1. USA* 2. Belgium* 3. Japan* 4. Germany GROUP A: 1. Canada* 2. Australia* 3. OQT Greece winner* 4. OQT Spain winner GROUP B: 1. France* 2. Germany* 3. Japan 4. OQT Latvia winner GROUP c 1. USA* 2. Serbia* 3. OQT Puerto Rico winner* 2. South Sudan *advance to the quarterfinals
  10. Does inevitably bring a highly foreshadowing celebrity aspect associated and coming with Los Angeles set to host in 2028--not to mention that LA producer connection regarding the late night shows. Guess it's a return of the time when Hollywood and sports colliding really took shape back in 1984. Pertinent here and especially given that we're now in international women's month. A very important read. The OBS has built up and devoted itself to getting women worldwide inside the broadcasting realm greater roles in covering the Olympics and Paralympics like a massive increase in women staff doing behind the scenes starting in Paris through production work as much presenting a more balanced, fair, and diverse athletes' storytelling realm between the genders and build more into the pipeline for future generations building their skills. There's multiple training programs in cameras, commentary, and to get plenty of women, including former athletes, immersely prepared for such major events. Out of one the programs, the Olympic Commentary Programme, will 12 ex-athletes selected out of 16 prospective ones with many of them selected women. Although it's not exactly 50/50 overall, but rapidly becoming a level playing field: https://olympics.com/ioc/news/olympic-broadcasting-more-women-in-key-broadcast-roles-at-paris-2024 Jala Washington from Austin's KXAN, an NBC affiliate, is heading to Paris too as its local reporter very likely focusing on the Texan US Olympic contingent. For now, on Saturday mornings, Jala and Meteorologist Rich Segal will chat about the upcoming summer games live on KXAN.com. They will talk about athletes, Texas ties to the games and more behind-the-scenes Olympics coverage: https://www.kxan.com/sports-general/olympics/paris-2024-a-look-inside-kxans-olympics-coverage/ A group of students from Pierre Mendes-France and Sciences Po conducted a 5-part web radio podcast series on the upcoming 2024 Paris Summer Olympics focusing on "the economic and social aspect of the Paris Olympic Games", "the environmental aspect of the Paris Olympics", "geopolitical conflicts during the Olympics", "new disciplines at the Paris Olympics" and "taking into account disability and gender issues at the Olympics": https://www.ladepeche.fr/2024/03/19/jo-de-paris-2024-la-web-radio-etudiante-de-pierre-mendes-france-lance-une-serie-sur-les-jeux-olympiques-11835809.php Some recent personnel changes for France Televisions when it comes to its planned massive coverage. First off, France 2 journalist Marie Portolano will not co-anchor Telematin with Thomas Sotto at the Musée de l'Homme at the Trocadéro during Paris 2024 due to maternity leave after welcoming her third child (Marie Portolano is also making news with the release of her book in France, I Am The Woman On The Set, that touches on the sexism and sexual violence she encountered as a journalist) Doctor's orders will prevent Michel Drucker from co-hosting the France 2 daily nighttime show "What a Time!" with Lea Salame due to his heart condition and must be in bed by 11pm at the age of 81 with hopes of being there like in Tokyo 1964. He may turn up later and can watch it on Saturday nights. But he isn't slowing down at his age; Michel's got a couple of upcoming television projects beyond Paris 2024 https://www.leparisien.fr/culture-loisirs/tv/enceinte-marie-portolano-forfait-pour-les-jeux-olympiques-sur-france-televisions-12-03-2024-QR3CIXSNZ5CCHLBQD2XYRL5II4.php https://www.20minutes.fr/arts-stars/television/4081068-20240313-jo-paris-2024-enceinte-marie-portolano-renonce-couvrir-jeux-france-televisions https://www.ladepeche.fr/2024/03/17/jo-de-paris-2024-mes-medecins-me-linterdisent-pourquoi-michel-drucker-ne-presentera-pas-lemission-quotidienne-de-france-television-11831443.php The latest Swedish Kanal 5/Eurosport Sverige/Max's Paris 2024 Summer Olympics analysts announced come from the team handball realm with Swedish team handball stars Matilda Boson and Kim Andersson. The Swedish men have already qualified for Paris, but the women will have to enter through a qualifying period after losing to France in the WWH semis on April 11-14 flying to Debrecen, Hungary to face hosts Hungary, Cameroon, and Japan with the top two in their group bound for Paris, which it should have no problems with. Already introducing and endearing herself with comments on Tunisia - Norway and Hungary - Portugal games starting at 18.30 and 21.00 respectively. All qualifying matches from Norway's group are broadcast on discovery+. Both are expected to team with play-by-play guy Niklas Jarelind: https://press-warnerbrosdiscovery-se.translate.goog/post/matilda-boson-och-kim-andersson-bildar-expertteam-i-olympiska-sp?_x_tr_sl=sv&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc Staying with upcoming team handball Olympic coverage, next door neighbors Norway will have 4x Olympian, world and Euro champion, and national team captain Marit Malm Frafjord serving as Eurosport Norge/TVNorge/discovery+'s handball expert with Paris 2024 looming. She's also being involved in the men's Olympic handball qualification tournament that Norway was involved in Hungary, Portugal, and Tunisia--and qualified . Susanne Wergeland is expected to be involved in the Norwegian Eurosport/TVNorge/Discovery+ coverage too: https://presse-warnerbrosdiscovery-no.translate.goog/post/marit-malm-frafjord-blir-handballekspert-for-warner-bros-discove?_x_tr_sl=no&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc Details emerge on TV Azteca's and Claro Sports' innovative and monumental Paris 2024 Mexican TV broadcasting collaboration allowing Mexican viewers in customizing the experience, allowing them to be their own programmer and design their sports content agenda according to their interests. It will be, like it previously was for Claros Sports during the Summer Olympics, four channels. But all four channels will be different this time in having over 4000 hours of transmission of sports events and original content production from a Paris studio, each with 18 hours daily. Channel 1: coverage of the most important events that distribute medals and in which the most important athletes and teams compete. Channel 2: News Center channel that links live to the broadcasts of the competitions at their most important moment. Channel 3: monitoring of the competitions of athletes and teams from Mexico and Central America. Channel 4: monitoring the most important athletes and teams in South America. This approach is postulated as an innovation in the way of consuming large-scale sporting events, adapting to the needs, media consumption, and tastes of the rapidly changing contemporary public. The broadcast offer for Paris 2024 stands out for an impressive production of up to 12 sporting events narrated simultaneously and the production of 18 hours of original content and production per day from a terrace in the host city of the Olympic Games. This TV Azteca/Claro Sports coverage will include news, interviews, analysis and a great diversity of sports content that will be transmitted online, radio and through social networks, with products that are not limited to live monitoring and that include special content that will begin to be broadcast from 100 days before the start of the Olympic Games. Not clear this Paris 2024 multichannel broadcasting model will get replicated across Latin America excluding Brazil: https://www.infobae.com/mexico/2024/03/08/cobertura-innovadora-sin-precedentes-para-los-juegos-olimpicos-paris-2024-la-promesa-de-tv-azteca-y-claro-sports/ We can expect Ines Sainz and Alberto Lati from TV Azteca and Claro Sports, respectively, to be involved in the unprecedented Mexican Paris 2024 coverage presentation. Like when they came together to help present this press conference in Mexico City. With this alliance, we can see social networks clippings, special productions, use of artificial intelligence, in addition to the amplification of some of its contents through allied media and commercial partners of Azteca Media, narration of up to 11 sporting events simultaneously, a multistage studio with the most advanced technology and a privileged view of the French capital, in addition to three documentary series available three months before the start of the Olympic Games, in addition to news, profiles, interviews, sports capsules (starting on April 17--100 days before the start of Paris 2024), analysis, and a complete overview from the experts at Azteca Media, among others: https://mexico.as.com/masdeporte/azteca-media-y-claro-sports-transmitiran-4-mil-horas-en-vivo-de-los-juegos-olimpicos-paris-2024-n/ Some hope faded badly and sadly that Nine would try and temporarily acquire iconic Australian sportscaster Bruce McAvaney for its Paris 2024 presentation but to no avail. Seven denies digging their heals and blocking their attempts for his services, which would've been his 13th overall. Worth noting McAvaney has scaled back his broadcasting in recent years despite being in the Olympics and the FIFA Women's World Cup but no longer doing the AFL. Nine has since set its sights on Gerard Whateley, who is keen on doing this and resumed negotiations with Nine. Whateley may end up being the lead track and field/athletics caller with Dave Culbert and Tamsyn Manou, who previously worked with McAvaney on 7 during Tokyo 2020: https://au.sports.yahoo.com/bruce-mcavaney-sad-development-role-paris-olympics-thrown-major-doubt-231433822.html 8 sponsors have been sealed with Ambev, Nivea, Piracanjuba, and Claro (funny seeing you here) will serve as massive sponsors of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games broadcasts on Brazil's Globo TV's 200 hour-coverage on its open side, a R$59 million package that will also be delivered on ge.com, Globoplay and ViU. XP Investimentos, KTO, and Netshoes acquired quotas for the Olympics on pay TV, which includes SporTV, ge.com. Globoplay and VIU at R$2-5 million for an overall R$67 million. Another guaranteed advertiser is also involved as the 8th one but Globo has not yet named it: https://www.meioemensagem.com.br/midia/globo-ja-garante-sete-marcas-nos-jogos-olimpicos-de-2024
  11. This is a long time coming for us Americans, compared to what Canadians had for Vancouver 2010 and Brazilians with Rio 2026 through Record TV and Cinepolis with London 2012. At least with the Opening Ceremonies in both cases. No doubt spurned on and inspired by the massive success Taylor Swift's and Beyonce's concert films worked on AMC with no studio middlemen. Where was this for NBC in the previous decade? NBCUNIVERSAL TO OFFER A BLOCK OF THE NBC TELEVISION NETWORKS LIVE DAILY DAYTIME PARIS 2024 OLYMPIC COVERAGE AT AMC THEATERS NATIONWIDE FROM JULY 29-AUGUST 11 Will get to the Payton Manning, Mike Tirico, and Savannah Guthrie NBC Opening Ceremony participation in the coming week. Can't get to the Washington Post Seoul 1988 article for paywall reasons.
  12. Guess it'll be like Yugoslavia--then Serbia, Montenegro, and Macedonia--back in 1992 with Barcelona's Summer Olympics looming at the height of that nation's assaults on Bosnia and Croatia.
  13. And here's the brief related highlight video showcasing the 2024 Australian Olympic Team unis presented by Asics at the Sydney Harbour from the AOC/Australian Olympic Team's YouTube channel. Do like the Aboriginal designs and flower-like print on them. Can't tell if the basketball uniforms are a part of this here since, for one thing, there's no basketball players represented here since they're actively plying their trade. Do recall the Beijing 2022 Australia Winter Olympic uniforms had some of those Aboriginal designs too:
  14. Some additional recent info on Telemundo's Paris 2024 coverage plans from Eli Velasquez. Velasquez would like to prioritize Hispanic/Latinx athletes (no surprise) and storytelling them who participate in not just boxing and soccer, but also basketball, cycling, and tennis. So we can expect a variant of those infamous up close and personal profiles. All part of the plan to bring different Hispanic/Latinx generations and audiences together through sports with the younger ones "who were born here are experimenting with new sports, they want to feel that this sport invites them." Man, I wish I would've placed an exclamation point on Telemundo's Opening Ceremonies debut in Spanish. There's a podcast connected to this URL link below. Since I speak only a few words in Spanish, I won't be able to detect additional info from the Velasquez interview with La Previa podcast co-hosts Asli Pelit and Boris Gartner: https://www.sportico.com/podcasts/la-previa/2024/la-previa-30-2024-olympics-telemundo-deportes-eli-velazquez-1234762204/ BBC Radio 5 Live certainly won't the only outlet for British Olympic radio coverage presentation. TalkSport is getting involved through an exclusive commercial radio deal "to broadcast the Olympics on commercial radio via the company’s wider news broadcasting network including Virgin Radio UK, Times Radio, TalkRadio, and the network’s Irish stations" under a sublicensing agreement deal with Warner Bros. Discovery. Pundit and presenters will provide ample and unlimited content and coverage with commentators to be announced later: https://mobilemarketingmagazine.com/talksport-paris/ Globo's latest Paris 2024 promo centering on the moment high jumpers, training buddies, and friends Italy's Gianmarco Tamberi and Qatar's Mutarz Essa Barshim agreed to historically and mutually share gold after clearing their final respective heights: Given the type of schedule the France Televisions channels will have with France 2, France 3, and its upcoming digital channel, one may assume it's complete. But it's not when compared to other Paris 2024 Olympic broadcasters worldwide. Speaking of complete, the Eurosport channels used in France--10 employed here this summer like in Tokyo--will emphasize completeness, "offering everything and showing everything in its entirety", as Eurosport's sports director Geraldine Pons says. But adds the Paralympics are to be absent from them this time "for budgetary reasons": https://www.francetvinfo.fr/replay-radio/info-medias/paris-2024-eurosport-souhaite-attirer-un-public-plus-jeune-et-different_6355504.html ZDF and ARD may rethink plans on heading towards UHD, citing costs, despite sharing EURO 2024 and the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics coverage: https://www.digitalfernsehen.de/news/technik/video/uhd-4k-em-2024-olympia-ard-zdf-arte-1110526/
  15. Makes me wonder if this would serve as an inspiration for the Paris 2024 OBS broadcasting intro. Recent past editions like to highlight the host city and ensuring all the Olympic sports are shown in it.
  16. That's true. Vangelis' Chariots of Fire score did indeed open and close the BBC Olympic Grandstand transmission. Spandau Ballet's Gold was used as a musical sequence for its LA 1984 montage. Seems apt that their hit would be used for obvious reasons and can coincide with the Olympics since it was a worldwide hit during 1983-84--even sampled in some rap songs since. Guess what? That song at that same time was also used on Network Ten Australia's pre-Opening Ceremony segment by Brian McNeese asking at the Olympic Village on whether the 1984 Australian Summer Olympic Team members would march inside the LA Coliseum as the instrumental background. Go to YouTube on that at 12:36-15:14 on the first part of Ten's 1984 Opening Ceremony.
  17. Now that you mentioned this, it does feel such a shame and a missed opportunity definitely in hindsight that the Filipino free-to-air stations TV5 and One Sports weren't around to help capture live Hidilyn Diaz historic gold medal winning women's 55kg weightlifting win. I get the commitment to cover PVL games and not break away from it from One Sports. TV5's game shows and soaps can be postponed to a later date. Maybe those stations went in expecting there a gold medal for the Philippines wasn't going to happen again--because, of course, you never ever forget your first after all. Did any of them make a mention of this as breaking news? Apparently not. And apparently not a priority to cover Diaz's victory or be abundant in coverage. Makes you wonder how would they immediately head over to Tokyo to present this history-making moment--with the sportscasters ready? Would those two allow a simulcast with Cignal TV to assure a bigger TV audience for this moment? Those who could afford Cignal TV in the Philippines were with it at that moment. To your second point, to me it does seem related towards how they poorly prioritize their respective Summer Olympics broadcasting coverage; you would expect, at least on the FTA side, that all of the Philippines' 16 Summer Olympians would get some shine. Then again, other events have proven longstanding TV audiences that ensures a nice and consistent viewership. Even in nations like Paraguay and Andorra would set aside broadcast time for their national Olympians whenever they compete in the broadcasters' very limited Olympics broadcasting like SNT and TVA, respectively. It's a lesson hopefully they learned from and will work among their Philippines' Paris 2024 Olympic broadcasting rights holders. I think they should share among themselves, at least on the free-to-air side, this time around when designing the coverage.
  18. The breakout star of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics men's hockey competition was unquestionably Juraj Slafkovsky, who led them to bronze not long ago. Now starring for the great Montreal Canadiens franchise in that massive hockey hotbed and pressure cooker that's Montreal. He's had his struggles there but hopefully things will work out; he's still very young--seem like he's coming around. You do see nods to his Montreal profession with the Habs team colors, Montreal's city skyline, and his large hockey bag in this commercial as he can't get enough of that tasty Budis mineral water, a major brand in his native Slovakia, so much upon arriving at the Bratislava Airport and on the plane, and in Montreal. Even to the point of bypassing of pretty model-like airport employee, an actress/model, for more Budis water. Perhaps this should encourage us to drink more water. Certainly got some bladder control here. Music is Angelina/Zooma Zooma performed by Louis Prima and Keeley Smith:
  19. Like I say in that earlier post I did, take this with a grain of salt until everything is confirmed and official. We'll likely know more from out of the Philippines, say, mid-late spring at the earliest. Surely basketball and volleyball will surely be focal points in Filipino TV coverage. That RPTV Channel 9 is a new development though.
  20. What was so cool about their qualification was the return of Michelle Heyman, back after 6 years away--and making an instant impact with her goalscoring!
  21. To say the Canadian women's water polo team ran through a gamut of emotions in the aftermath of their matches with Italy and the USA and then Greece to eventually clinch 7th on penalty shots would be a massive understatement. Hungary managed to get one of the two final qualification spots. But from disappointment in missing their chance and not qualifying to actually qualifying for Canada came. See, South Africa, who already done so as the top African team, relinquished their spot so that Canada can proceed. Not sure why the South African women's program did this. Maybe because of those lopsided 11th place game loss to New Zealand--25-6 and France before that--rifed with concerns of them not being competitive enough months later this summer, and Canada is comparatively deeper. Still no African representation in this. Was it from orders on high in SA Swimming? https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/aquatics/canada-aquatics-worlds-feb-16-1.7117148
  22. The Opals qualified for Paris 2024 Olympic women's basketball out of Belem, Brazil last weekend, finishing tops in their group with Germany and Serbia.
  23. Penny Taylor and Carmelo Anthony will conduct the draw for the Paris 2024 men's and women's Olympic basketball competition scheduled for March 19 and will take place at the Patrick Baumann House of Basketball in Mies, Switzerland. Like with the previous Tokyo 2020 edition, the earlier and completely confirmed women's field will have all teams assigned to their groups with the men's version having group slots reserved for their July-held respective OQT winners: https://www.fiba.basketball/news/penny-taylor-and-carmelo-anthony-to-perform-draws-for-the-olympic-basketball-tournaments-on-march-19 And those men FIBA OQTs held in San Juan, Riga, Piraeus, and Valencia will all be scheduled for July 2-7: https://www.fiba.basketball/oqt/latvia/2024/news/thrilling-showdowns-revealed-fiba-releases-olympic-qualifying-tournaments-schedules
  24. IIHF: RUSSIA AND BELARUS ARE STILL NOT WELCOMED BACK FOR OUR 2024-25 IIHF AND FINAL OLYMPIC QUALIFICATION TOURNAMENTS
  25. Definitely a classic. And a much better OT Super Bowl than the first one. Imagine how scary they would be if KC was more fuller strength than this. That Mahomes Magic. Far better the Kansas City Chiefs to win in a Super Bowl OT than that morally corrupt, arrogant, and low down and dirty cheaters from New England when they horrifically first did that--and MUST have all their titles revoked! A record 202.4 million viewers watched at least a portion of Super Bowl LVIII on CBS, Paramount+ streaming, Nickelodeon, TelevisaUnivision, and NFL digital platforms, according to Nielsen. That's 60% of the US population! A 10 per cent jump over last year's figure of 183.6 million. Averaged 123.5 million overall. All US most-watched non-news TV viewing records in history! That's on par with the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing, that was shared by all three TV networks with less people in the USA (202 million) than now. Shattered the previous record last year of 115.1 million from the Chiefs-Philadelphia Eagles game on FOX/FOX Deportes, an increase of 7%. CBS' broadcast alone averaged 120.3 million. Surely the exciting game itself, the overtime aspect, the Taylor Swift storyline impact, and Usher's halftime performance all unquestionably played their roles: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/super-bowl-lviii-breaks-ratings-records-apollo-moon-landing-mash-finale-212955707.html https://www.sportsvideo.org/2024/02/13/super-bowl-lviii-ratings-cbs-sports-notches-most-watched-telecast-in-history/ Broke Canadian TV records too for Super Bowls with an average of 10 million viewers--nearly a third of Canada's population--when it was shown on CTV, TSN, RDS, and on Paramount+ Viewership peaked at 12.6 million during the halftime show, featuring R&B superstar Usher. Now one of the top 5 most watched English programming in Canada. All this from Numeris, Canada's answer to Nielsen: https://www.bellmedia.ca/the-lede/press/super-bowl-lviii-becomes-most-watched-super-bowl-on-record-with-10-million-viewers-on-tsn-ctv-and-rds/ https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/nfl/nfl-super-bowl-most-watch-program-in-u-s-1.7113427 Also was a big touchdown down in Australia for the Seven Network, using the CBS Sports broadcast, on Monday morning there, averaging 800,000 viewers with a peak of 2.7 million on Seven and 7+: https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/super-bowl-monday-a-touchdown-for-seven-1033062025 https://tvblackbox.com.au/page/2024/02/13/record-breaking-super-bowl-lviii-broadcast-triumphs-on-channel-7/ https://bnnbreaking.com/sports/super-bowl-lviii-breaks-records-a-triumph-for-digital-sport-content-in-australia 16.8 million watched in peak of TelevisaUnivision's broadcast of Super Bowl LVIII from Las Vegas in Mexico with the Tres Amigos (Pepe Segarra, Antonio de Valdés, and Enrique Burak) on Canal 5 and TUDN. By contrast, TV Azteca with Azteca 7 had 11 million presented by Enrique Garay, Joaquín Castillo, and Inés Sainz. Both enjoyed viewership increases: https://www.marca.com/mx/trending/television-mx/2024/02/13/65cad1eb46163f8b368b4583.html
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