Guardian 22 Posted January 3, 2009 Report Share Posted January 3, 2009 Now that the whole section about the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games is gone from here, I guess I would make a topic about it in this section. First, the IOC has awarded the Golden Rings to the various international broadcasters that showed the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games to the world. Below, to me, is the overall winners. The Best Olympic Programme Gold: Seven Network Australia. Producer: Andy Kay, Director: Saul Shtein Silver: NBC Olympics. Producers: Dick Ebersol, David Neal, Tommy Roy, Sam Flood. Directors: Bucky Gunts, Andy Rosenberg, Drew Esocoff Bronze: BBC Sport. Producer: Alastair McIntyre, BBC Sport. Director: Richard Carr, BBC Sport Just like the Torino 2006 Olympic Winter Games, both the Australian and American networks got the top honors again. For the CBC, it is not surprising that its Beijing 2008 Olympic coverage suffered on its last outing as one for Canadians. It will be interesting on how CTV will do at Vancouver 2010. Link: IOC: Olympic Golden Rings Winners of 2008 Link to post Share on other sites
baron-pierreIV 1693 Posted January 3, 2009 Report Share Posted January 3, 2009 Now that the whole section about the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games is gone from here, I guess I would make a topic about it in this section.First, the IOC has awarded the Golden Rings to the various international broadcasters that showed the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games to the world. Below, to me, is the overall winners. The Best Olympic Programme Gold: Seven Network Australia. Producer: Andy Kay, Director: Saul Shtein Silver: NBC Olympics. Producers: Dick Ebersol, David Neal, Tommy Roy, Sam Flood. Directors: Bucky Gunts, Andy Rosenberg, Drew Esocoff Bronze: BBC Sport. Producer: Alastair McIntyre, BBC Sport. Director: Richard Carr, BBC Sport Just like the Torino 2006 Olympic Winter Games, both the Australian and American networks got the top honors again. For the CBC, it is not surprising that its Beijing 2008 Olympic coverage suffered on its last outing as one for Canadians. It will be interesting on how CTV will do at Vancouver 2010. Link: IOC: Olympic Golden Rings Winners of 2008 Link to post Share on other sites
micheal_warren 206 Posted January 5, 2009 Report Share Posted January 5, 2009 Good old Channel 7! Isnt it the last time that they will broadcast the games? Link to post Share on other sites
OlympicGames 0 Posted January 5, 2009 Report Share Posted January 5, 2009 Channel 7's coverage of the opening ceremony was garbage though. Link to post Share on other sites
OlympicGames 0 Posted January 5, 2009 Report Share Posted January 5, 2009 NBC Olympics won gold in The Best Olympic Feature with “The clock of their lives”. This was the intro segment to NBC's Opening Ceremony coverage. Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Rols 1902 Posted January 5, 2009 Report Share Posted January 5, 2009 Speaking of Beijing, did anyone catch the South Park take on the OC (Cartman's Chinese nightmare?) South Park Beijing OC! Link to post Share on other sites
NY20?? 98 Posted March 9, 2009 Report Share Posted March 9, 2009 The IOC has updated their website with a dedicated Beijing 2008 page: Beijing 2008 Games of the XXIX Olympiad: http://www.olympic.org/uk/games/past/index...1&OLGY=2008 Link to post Share on other sites
Hobart 13 Posted March 10, 2009 Report Share Posted March 10, 2009 Good old Channel 7! Isnt it the last time that they will broadcast the games? Yep its all channel Eddie from now on oh dear what have we got ourselves in to! Link to post Share on other sites
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