micheal_warren Posted February 12, 2014 Report Share Posted February 12, 2014 Yeah, so CBC joins the rest of the world! About time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faster Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 Wait.. you mean NBC isn't the older broadcast that shows human interest stories and commercials?!!? Holy crap, I'm in shock and utter disbelief that could happen in Canada!!! I assume you mean 'only' instead of 'older'. CBC is a public broadcaster, it use to be almost no commercials. They've always had human interest, but it was once every couple of hours, they also had historical sight/local flavour and other segments to showcase the host country/region/city. Their work on that for Beijing was very good. But this time its over and over again the same athlete and hometown profiles shown 6 or 7 times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLishere Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 I assume you mean 'only' instead of 'older'. CBC is a public broadcaster, it use to be almost no commercials. They've always had human interest, but it was once every couple of hours, they also had historical sight/local flavour and other segments to showcase the host country/region/city. Their work on that for Beijing was very good. But this time its over and over again the same athlete and hometown profiles shown 6 or 7 times. I think Vancouver 2010 is the year where we've seen a dramatic increase of attention and pride towards Canadian athletes. With 'Own the Podium' being rolled out for the first time and a record Games in terms of medals. CTV/Bell Media capitalized on this aspect further with the 'I Believe' campaign. They're the ones who started doing sponsored segments, with advertisers like RBC and Rona looking to capitalize on the strong feelings of pride and patriotism. This created a vicious circle, because athletes (especially medal-winning athletes) started gaining more visibility; almost superstar status. And more sponsors wanted to associate with CTV segments. The same formula continued with London 2012. This year, CBC has more or less followed the same format for its Daytime and Primetime show: Raising an Olympian, and lots of profiles. Thankfully, the Overnight and Morning shows haven't been affected as much (due to live events being shown). And the key difference with Sochi is that we can watch the webcasts instead of the simulcasts. Webcasts don't have any 'special segments' or commercials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faster Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 Did you see how awkward the Dara Howell/Kim Lamarre interview was? Poor Kim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoNutz Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 The correct way. Here's hoping the Russians win far more medals than the US, but not as many golds, to teach NBC a lesson. Uhh what lesson? And it's not only NBC, US media usually ranks by total, I don't think I've come across any that don't. But, I don't understand why this causes so much conflict on the internet? What is the big deal? Like for real most sites allow you to sort however you feel like now, even the Sochi site allows you to sort by total if you want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLishere Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 Gotta say, I'm still amazed by the amount of live feeds we have in Canada : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lirodon Posted February 14, 2014 Report Share Posted February 14, 2014 Random time to do so, but CBC randomly decided to make like NBC and the old CTV coverage and make their opaque and coloured... in between intermissions at a hockey game. (SN and TSN are still using their translucent ones; specifically, ones they used on regular programming on the lead-up to London) You begin to wonder why they didn't do that, uhh, 7 days ago? Sorry for the double-post (why is there not an edit button?), but I meant bugs, sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ofan Posted February 15, 2014 Report Share Posted February 15, 2014 I think I've now seen Caroline Ouellette's "Raising an Olympian" segment six times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenadian Posted February 15, 2014 Report Share Posted February 15, 2014 Could it be because of the big time difference? I wake up in the morning and find out on Facebook or other online media who won what while I was sleeping. There's a 12 hour difference between Sochi and Vancouver, for example, and 9 hours for the Montreal-Toronto time zone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krow Posted February 15, 2014 Report Share Posted February 15, 2014 Could it be because of the big time difference? I wake up in the morning and find out on Facebook or other online media who won what while I was sleeping. There's a 12 hour difference between Sochi and Vancouver, for example, and 9 hours for the Montreal-Toronto time zone. i have to say it sucks. who can watch short track at 4 in the morning? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Team USA Posted February 15, 2014 Report Share Posted February 15, 2014 i have to say it sucks. who can watch short track at 4 in the morning? Is'nt that what the nbc whiners want to watch everything live on tv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krow Posted February 15, 2014 Report Share Posted February 15, 2014 only the insomniacs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faster Posted February 15, 2014 Report Share Posted February 15, 2014 only the insomniacs. So me.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Team USA Posted February 15, 2014 Report Share Posted February 15, 2014 So me.... Except there a big difference if you live in Waterloo, Belgium? then the USA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ofan Posted February 15, 2014 Report Share Posted February 15, 2014 Except there a big difference if you live in Waterloo, Belgium? then the USA His Waterloo is in Ontario. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faster Posted February 15, 2014 Report Share Posted February 15, 2014 Damn I wish I lived in Waterloo, Belgium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Team USA Posted February 15, 2014 Report Share Posted February 15, 2014 Damn I wish I lived in Waterloo, Belgium. I see my mistake waterloo belgium was what came up on google Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkiFreak Posted February 16, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2014 Music that CBC is using: http://musiccanada.wordpress.com/tag/winter-olympic-games/ There's also others like Pink's "Try" that they used in one of the montages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLishere Posted February 16, 2014 Report Share Posted February 16, 2014 Music that CBC is using: http://musiccanada.wordpress.com/tag/winter-olympic-games/ There's also others like Pink's "Try" that they used in one of the montages. Here's tonight's video segment ("Broken Teeth" by Sam Roberts Band): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3AkEvbWO5M This was the one on Day 4 with "Try" by P!nk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awxV9BpTuq4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLishere Posted February 16, 2014 Report Share Posted February 16, 2014 I just discovered this option on CBC (maybe a bit late), but it's amazing. Anyone saw this too? You can watch up to four simultaneous streams in split screens. Adding simultaneous streams: * Open any CBC webcast: http://olympics.cbc.ca/online-listing/grid.html http://olympiques.radio-canada.ca/web-diffusions/grille.html * Wait for streaming to load. * Click on Today's Video to bring a list of other available videos. * Click on the third little icon; your screen will split in four. Do this again with another event to get up to 4 streams. * You can also click the first icon instead (for picture-in-picture) * Switch audio channel by clicking on the video itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micheal_warren Posted February 16, 2014 Report Share Posted February 16, 2014 That's cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faster Posted February 16, 2014 Report Share Posted February 16, 2014 Craig McMorris is a horrible commentator. It is horrendous having to hear is inane ramblings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4seasonscentre Posted February 16, 2014 Report Share Posted February 16, 2014 I just discovered this option on CBC (maybe a bit late), but it's amazing. Anyone saw this too? You can watch up to four simultaneous streams in split screens. Adding simultaneous streams: * Open any CBC webcast: http://olympics.cbc.ca/online-listing/grid.html http://olympiques.radio-canada.ca/web-diffusions/grille.html * Wait for streaming to load. * Click on Today's Video to bring a list of other available videos. * Click on the third little icon; your screen will split in four. Do this again with another event to get up to 4 streams. * You can also click the first icon instead (for picture-in-picture) * Switch audio channel by clicking on the video itself. Oh dear, I am only discovering this now. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox334 Posted February 16, 2014 Report Share Posted February 16, 2014 Craig McMorris is a horrible commentator. It is horrendous having to hear is inane ramblings. I think he was okay for Slopestyle and Half-pipe because he actually knows the tricks (something that is often not the case). But he clearly has no place commentating snowboardcross. Like, does Mike Robertson have a stutter we don't know about? I really, really hope he won't be doing alpine snowboarding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLishere Posted February 17, 2014 Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 Another great segment by CBC - daily musical montage for Day 9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWCLfeMd76A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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