FYI Posted February 2, 2014 Report Share Posted February 2, 2014 So where are these journalists, that are finding themselves without a place to stay, staying in the meantime, until "issues that always happen just before the Games" (according to Bach) get resolved. Are the staying with Putin until then, playing footsie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quaker2001 Posted February 2, 2014 Report Share Posted February 2, 2014 $50 billion and they couldn't finish the hotels? That's bad. In an Olympics that may very well be filled with bad press, that's the last thing the Sochi organizers need.. to make the press angry before the Games even begin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FYI Posted February 2, 2014 Report Share Posted February 2, 2014 Let the (hotel) Games begin! :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baron-pierreIV Posted February 2, 2014 Report Share Posted February 2, 2014 The journalists will double up beds in the security barracks. That way they will be protected from the 'gay' influences lurking about!! BTW, I just thought that all the LGBT advocates should send really suggestive valentines to Putin & cohorts on Valentine's Day, Feb 14!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gangwon Posted February 2, 2014 Report Share Posted February 2, 2014 So where are these journalists, that are finding themselves without a place to stay, staying in the meantime, until "issues that always happen just before the Games" (according to Bach) get resolved. Are the staying with Putin until then, playing footsie. The journalist in the mountains that found the stray dog had to go back to Sochi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FYI Posted February 2, 2014 Report Share Posted February 2, 2014 I don't get that. If the rooms "aren't ready" TBW, how was that journalists let in (or anyone else for that matter) to find a stray in his room. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwissO Posted February 2, 2014 Report Share Posted February 2, 2014 Don't if this has been posted here (did not check), but here is the Press File for France Televisions for both Olympic and Paralympic Games Sochi 2014 http://www.lactf.org/sites/default/files/dp20jo20sochi20ftv.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gangwon Posted February 2, 2014 Report Share Posted February 2, 2014 I don't get that. If the rooms "aren't ready" TBW, how was that journalists let in (or anyone else for that matter) to find a stray in his room. I'd have to find the link, but from what I remember he was booked into a room in one of the unfinished hotels. The first was dirty, the second had construction workers sleeping in there (that should've been working on construction), and the third had a stray dog. So the journalist left the mountains and went back to find a place in Sochi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FYI Posted February 2, 2014 Report Share Posted February 2, 2014 Wow, that sounds so messed up. Wake up call, IOC. Maybe next time you won't fall for the 'grand promises' that everything that needs to be built from scratch will be ready in 6-7 years time. All of those rooms should've been ready by now. Guess the Russians sure ain't the Chinese. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwissO Posted February 2, 2014 Report Share Posted February 2, 2014 Don't if this has been posted here (did not check), but here is the Press File for France Televisions for both Olympic and Paralympic Games Sochi 2014 http://www.lactf.org/sites/default/files/dp20jo20sochi20ftv.pdf Schedule : http://static1.ozap.com/articles/programme/calendrierjo.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agorima Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 This is the press file for Das Erste and ZDF https://presseportal.zdf.de/fileadmin/zdf_upload/Presse_Special/2014/2/Sotchi-2014.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Faster Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 Haha, our secondary network as more coverage than France's primary. Being an Olympic fan in Canada sure has its perks. And being broadcast by a network that's highlights include Dragon's Den and Republic of Doyle doesn't hurt either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agorima Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 TVB picks up Sochi 2014 rights in Hong Kong Free-to-air and pay-television broadcaster TVB has acquired rights in Hong Kong for the 2014 winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia. The exclusive rights cover all media platforms. The deal was brokered by the Dentsu advertising agency on behalf of the International Olympic Committee. TVB’s channels, Jade and Pearl, will show live coverage and highlights of the event. TVB agreed a similarly late rights deal, in partnership with commercial broadcaster ATV, for the 2012 summer Olympic Games in London, UK. The winter Olympics will begin this Friday. http://www.sportbusiness.com/tv-sports-markets/tvb-picks-sochi-2014-rights-hong-kong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMarkSnow2012 Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 I don't see why there wouldn't be a web simulcast of the BBC2 coverage- it's standard. Also, the BBC have started to give more details of this week's Sochi programming, as follows: All coverage is available online (unless specified otherwise), and all video is on selected Connected TVs. Programming on Red Button and Connected TVs is subject to change, so broadcast end times are not listed. (All times GMT) Winter OlympicsMonday, 3 February Sochi preview, 20:30 BBC Red Button Tuesday, 4 February Sochi preview, 19:30 BBC Red Button Wednesday, 5 February Sochi preview, 19:30 BBC Red Button Thursday, 6 February Snowboarding: Slopestyle qualification, 06:00 BBC Red Button Freestyle Ski: Moguls qualification, 14:00 BBC Red Button Figure skating: Men's short & pairs short, 15:30 BBC Red Button Sochi preview, 19:30-20:30 BBC Radio 5 live Friday, 7 February Sochi Opening Ceremony, 15:30 BBC Two Sochi Opening Ceremony replay, 21:30 BBC Red Button [that OC replay is presumably in addition to the no-commentary live Red Button coverage indicated in Radio Times. They also state:] From midweek, this page will also display the schedule for the first weekend of live action across the BBC on television, on radio and online. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamC Posted February 3, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 France Télévisions does have online simulcast. Thank you for that table, it's nice to be able to compare coverage in different countries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOtherRob Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 Sochi Opening Ceremony replay, 21:30 BBC Red Button Well done BBC, I'll get to watch it the same day at least now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLishere Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 France Télévisions does have online simulcast. Thank you for that table, it's nice to be able to compare coverage in different countries. I don't see why there wouldn't be a web simulcast of the BBC2 coverage- it's standard. Also, the BBC have started to give more details of this week's Sochi programming, as follows: All coverage is available online (unless specified otherwise), and all video is on selected Connected TVs. Programming on Red Button and Connected TVs is subject to change, so broadcast end times are not listed. (All times GMT) Winter OlympicsMonday, 3 February Sochi preview, 20:30 BBC Red Button Tuesday, 4 February Sochi preview, 19:30 BBC Red Button Wednesday, 5 February Sochi preview, 19:30 BBC Red Button Thursday, 6 February Snowboarding: Slopestyle qualification, 06:00 BBC Red Button Freestyle Ski: Moguls qualification, 14:00 BBC Red Button Figure skating: Men's short & pairs short, 15:30 BBC Red Button Sochi preview, 19:30-20:30 BBC Radio 5 live Friday, 7 February Sochi Opening Ceremony, 15:30 BBC Two Sochi Opening Ceremony replay, 21:30 BBC Red Button [that OC replay is presumably in addition to the no-commentary live Red Button coverage indicated in Radio Times. They also state:] From midweek, this page will also display the schedule for the first weekend of live action across the BBC on television, on radio and online. Thanks for the details. I changed the table for simulcasts and did a bit more research. France 2 and France 3 simulcasts are available without authentication. BBC / BBC2 simulcasts are available with a proper TV license (just like NBC). The live coverage dates in the table refer to primary TV channels. Sports on Day 0 are mostly available through red-button or online streaming only, but as far as I know, they won't be shown on BBC TV. CBC is the only broadcast I'm aware of with live TV coverage on February 6th. Also, anyone living in Germany - is there an app to watch the Olympics from either ZDF or ARD ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMarkSnow2012 Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 The live coverage dates in the table refer to primary TV channels. Sports on Day 0 are mostly available through red-button or online streaming only, but as far as I know, they won't be shown on BBC TV. CBC is the only broadcast I'm aware of with live TV coverage on February 6th. BBC Red Button functions, in this context, as a TV channel. For the Sochi Preview this evening, for example, I just pressed the Red Button on my TV remote and selected "Sport Extra Video" from the menu, then up popped Torvill and Dean (and many other memorable moments from past Winter Olympics). So on 6 February, if I want to watch Sochi snowboarding at breakfast time, I should be able to press the Red Button at 6am, and I'll be offered that option on the menu. BBC / BBC2 simulcasts are available with a proper TV license (just like NBC). Not sure why it's "just like NBC". The BBC live coverage is only supposed to be available within the UK, and every viewer of live TV in the UK is required by law to have a TV licence (the world's most primitive subscription TV system, which pays for the BBC; luckily pretty much every viewer actually does watch the BBC from time to time). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4gamesandcounting Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 Interesting to see the shot from the bbc studio. Looks like they must have some sort of broadcast tower? A first for a winter games? Did we see any shots of it on the overhead pictures of the park? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brekkie Boy Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 Will miss eurosvisionsports.tv this time - that was a hidden gem of Olympic coverage. Clare Balding has tweeted the view from the BBC studio - doesn't really scream Winter Olympics does it. https://twitter.com/clarebalding/status/430348121798103040/photo/1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLishere Posted February 3, 2014 Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 Not sure why it's "just like NBC". The BBC live coverage is only supposed to be available within the UK, and every viewer of live TV in the UK is required by law to have a TV licence (the world's most primitive subscription TV system, which pays for the BBC; luckily pretty much every viewer actually does watch the BBC from time to time). CBC is a public network (like BBC), but it doesn't require a license, so any Canadian (even those with no TV at home and no subscription) can go online or download the CBC Olympic app to watch any of the 12 live feeds or the 'CBC TV' simulcast, effectively removing the requirement to own a TV in the first place. I believe that's a first. Or am I wrong ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reindeer Posted February 4, 2014 Report Share Posted February 4, 2014 Well, in Finland the national broadcasting company Yle has an app for mobile devices that you can use to watch any live feed from Sochi as well, so I guess that fits your description. There used to be a licence similar to BBC, though it was only loosely enforced or controlled, but the service is now tax-funded. In Sweden the national broadcaster SVT lost the rights to Viasat so for the first time the Games are being shown on commercial service and a cable card is needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runningrings Posted February 4, 2014 Report Share Posted February 4, 2014 Here in Australia the Opening Ceremony will only be shown live - which is 2am here. There will be no replay, as it would interfere with the live broadcasts the following evening. I miss Channel 7. (although not Bruce McIvaney's inane commentary) Anyway I'll be camping that weekend so I'll just stream it when I get back to Sydney. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durban Sandshark Posted February 4, 2014 Report Share Posted February 4, 2014 I wish I could've gotten to those ARD/ZDF and France Televisions Sochi 2014 press portals sooner. I almost did with ARD and ZDF's but I wanted to wait until today to do this. But... First National Television announces daily Olympic shows--Olympic Studies with journalist Yana Pavlova and well-known sports commentator Gregory Pyro(on 1TV Ukraine before the Opening Ceremony on February 7) and Olympic Studio: Summary of the Day with Yuri Pavlov and Gregor Pyro (every Olympic day on 21:30-23:00). http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=uk&u=http://1tv.com.ua/uk/about/news/2014/01/30/52569&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://1tv.com.ua/uk/about/news/2014/01/30/52569%26biw%3D1280%26bih%3D856 And the National Television Company of Ukraine issues a warning to other members from the Ukrainian media (excluding Xsport, which enables Ukrianians to watch all Olympic hockey games for the first time) about unauthorized broadcasting of the Olympics: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=uk&u=http://1tv.com.ua/uk/about/news/2014/01/31/52660&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://1tv.com.ua/uk/about/news/2014/01/31/52660%26biw%3D1280%26bih%3D856 Team Ten Sochi 2014. Actually, 30% of them will be in Sochi with the remaining 70% will stay in Melbourne http://tenplay.com.au/sport/sochi-2014/team-ten/ If you're living in much of the West Indies like in Bermuda and St. Kitts-Nevis and wanting to see Sochi 2014 coverage from NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, and the CBC (doesn't the writer know the Canadian Olympic TV rights no longer belongs to CTV?) from CableVision and The Cable, forget it! SportsMax and SportsMax2 Sochi 2014 select Winter Olympics coverage mandates that "foreign" coverage gets blacked out. http://bermudasun.bm/Content/Default/Latest-News/Article/CableVision-explains-Winter-Olympics-coverage/-3/1297/74272 http://www.winnfm.com/news/local/7172-winter-olympics-black-out ORF showed its Team Austria Sochi 2014 farewell party from Vienna before their sendoff to Sochi that was live on January 29 lasting on 6:30 for 1 hour and 11 minutes (on ORF1 and later re-airings on ORF Sport+). Let's hope Team Austria has better success than what happened to their Summer Olympic counterparts in London two years ago when they returned empty-haned. Plus ORF Sport+ starts ORF's combined 430 hours of Sochi 2014 coverage (250 on ORF1,180 on ORF Sport+) by airing live at 6:30-9;40 am the men's and women's slopestyle qualifications, then coming back at 14:55 with the women's moguls qualification and team figure skating men's and pairs short programs. Just a reminder that with ATV doing the Opening Ceremony to Austrians, ORF1 on that day will only do Olympiastudio on Eroffnungstag live with host Rainer Pasek. ORF Sport+ even will show Shaun White: Road To Sochi. Will show all sports ORF's extensive long promo regarding its general Sochi 2014 Olympic plans on TV, online at orf.at and TVThek livestreams, mobile with the ORF app, and radio (O3) live and in HD and at their studios at the Osterreicher Haus like with all of its ORF family of channels on those fronts. With all of the latest technology to present them with. Even in sign language. ORF won't shy away from the controversy inside Russia either: will show a Pussy Riot docmentary and that aforementioned Putin doc too. Missed out on the ARD/ZDF and France Television Sochi press guides. But I do have Nova Sport and VOYO's Sochi 2014 programming TV guide from the Czech Republic! http://img.cz.prg.cmestatic.com/media/document//1610865.pdf RUV and 365 Midlar share the Sochi 2014 coverage in Iceland. RUV handles the free to air portion with 365 Media's Stod 2 Sport doing the more comprehensive wall-to-wall coverage on the pay-TV end. Both start on February 6 with RUV showing women's moguls qualification and team figure skating with Stod 2 Sport starting only on team figure skating. But neither are airing the men's and women's snowboarding slopestyle qualifications. Both are shpowing the Opening Ceremony live...but will that be a simulcast? RUV seems to aim for more select events with Stod 2 Sport going all out in theirs almost all day with a Olympic daily review show to end their programmings. RUV Ibrottir (RUV Sport) is getting into this too starting on February 7 being somewhere in them middle of the two. http://www.ruv.is/dagskra/ruv/20140206 http://www.ruv.is/dagskra/10/20140207 http://stod2.is/Dagskra/dagskra?stod=SYN&date=2014-02-06 Radiotelevize Svierra Italiano's Sochi 2014 promos instantly remind me of what France Televisions did for their Vancouver Winter Olympic promos by taking an ordinary moment and using it to signify a Winter Olympic sport. In three Sochi 2014 promos, what RSI does with them is take the subjects in these pieces and actually get them pretending they are doing these sports all utilizing the RSI Italian-Swiss sports commentary of that sport in question as they get into the Olympic spirit and carried away with it. Like here with a father and his two sons at a sporting goods store with the former fantasizing himself as a skiier and his boys doing the bobsled. SporTV will transmit 250 hours of Sochi 2014 coverage on Brazilian pay-TV led by the likes of Marcello Barreto as anchor and a 70-person team that ends with SporTV Connection (after the last sports live broadcast of the day), with the participation of athletes and commentators, commanding a bloc Writing SporTV (10am Brazil time), Monday through Friday, and present programming info information over the air with a glass studio in Sochi. http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pt&u=http://oglobo.globo.com/cultura/revista-da-tv/sportv-vai-transmitir-250-horas-das-olimpiadas-de-inverno-de-sochi-partir-de-sexta-11467316&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dsportv%2Bolimpiadas%2B2014%26biw%3D1280%26bih%3D856 SporTV recruits Brazilian-based Russian reporter Svetlana Smeshnaya to guide Brazilians about Russian culture and life mixed with some humor: http://sportv.globo.com/site/programas/sportv-em-sochi/noticia/2014/02/sportv-tem-reforco-da-russia-para-esquentar-olimpiadas-de-sochi.html Argentina Canal 7 TV Publica acquired the FTA rights to Sochi 2014 that starts on the Opening Ceremony live at 15:00 (3pm Argentina time) the small 7-person Argentinian contingent march into Sochi to compete. Gustavo Kuffner and Miguel Osovi host with opinions of special guests participating in competitive sports. http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://blogosfera.tvpublica.com.ar/prensa/%3Fp%3D5490&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dtv%2Bpublica%2Bargentina%2Bolimpicos%2B2014%26biw%3D1280%26bih%3D856 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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