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| James... |
 Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 4:37 am |
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| Does these come with any fanfare, any TV coverage? |
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| PeterL... |
| Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 5:15 am |
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On Aug 28, 7:37 am, James <j0069b... at (no spam) hotmail.com> wrote:
Quote: Does these come with any fanfare, any TV coverage?
No. |
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| Brian Lawrence... |
| Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 12:54 pm |
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"PeterL" <po.ning at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:
Quote: On Aug 28, 7:37 am, James <j0069b... at (no spam) hotmail.com> wrote:
Does these come with any fanfare, any TV coverage?
No.
That depends on your local TV station(s) surely?
Just checked BBC:
06 Sep Opening Ceremony - 4h 25m
Thereafter a one-hour round up of events every day. |
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| Don Del Grande... |
| Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 9:00 pm |
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James wrote:
Quote: Does these come with any fanfare, any TV coverage?
Fanfare? No.
TV coverage? I seem to recall NBC airing a 2 or 3-hour special of
highlights on a weekend afternoon a few months after the fact (it's
still quicker than the turnaround between the event and the airing of
the Ironman Triathlon).
-- Don |
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| Patty Winter... |
| Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 3:17 pm |
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Here's NBC's press release about their coverage:
http://www.nbcumv.com/sports/release_detail.nbc/sports-20080825000000-universalsportsbri.html
Is "Universal Sports TV" a cable/satellite channel? I haven't
heard of it before. No indication of how long the Oct. 18th
show on NBC will be.
CBC has the opening ceremony scheduled for Sat., Sept. 6th,
so that will be a same-day tape delay. I then see a 1.5-hour
paralympics program the following Saturday. Oddly, the Saturday
after that doesn't show any more coverage.
Patty |
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| Don Del Grande... |
| Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 9:43 pm |
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Patty Winter <patty1 at (no spam) wintertime.com> wrote:
It's both a cable TV channel (formerly known as World Championship
Sports Network) and an online "broadcast" site
(www.universalsports.com). However, I am unaware of any cable or
satellite systers that actually carry it.
-- Don |
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| Patty Winter... |
| Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 11:20 pm |
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In article <f51kb4hda708mhjrmo3bpbali0h83ppcv7 at (no spam) 4ax.com>,
Don Del Grande <del_grande_news at (no spam) earthlink.net> wrote:
Quote: Patty Winter <patty1 at (no spam) wintertime.com> wrote:
Is "Universal Sports TV" a cable/satellite channel? I haven't
heard of it before.
It's both a cable TV channel (formerly known as World Championship
Sports Network) and an online "broadcast" site
(www.universalsports.com). However, I am unaware of any cable or
satellite systers that actually carry it.
Yeah, I saw the mention of the website in the press release,
but was curious about the TV channel part of the service.
Thanks for confirming that it exists!
I just found a list of where it's carried:
http://www.universalsports.tv/Universal_Sports_on_TV.html
No wonder you haven't run across it! It's only carried in
a handful of markets. Okay, granted, they include the two
largest markets in the country, but not much else.
Patty |
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| Commander Hughes... |
| Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 9:50 am |
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"James" <j0069bond at (no spam) hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:7e4b5d30-7336-408d-a97e-1d00bf0020f7 at (no spam) 25g2000hsx.googlegroups.com...
Quote: Does these come with any fanfare, any TV coverage?
you can get the paralympics on www.paralympicsport.tv streaming live
coverage from Beijing online every day.
James
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| James... |
| Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 2:39 pm |
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On Sep 12, 10:50 am, "Commander Hughes"
<noneofyourfuckingbusin... at (no spam) all.com> wrote:
Quote: "James" <j0069b... at (no spam) hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:7e4b5d30-7336-408d-a97e-1d00bf0020f7 at (no spam) 25g2000hsx.googlegroups.com...
Does these come with any fanfare, any TV coverage?
you can get the paralympics onwww.paralympicsport.tvstreaming live
coverage from Beijing online every day.
James
aka
Commander Hughes
I got distracted by the market's Black Week.
http://en.paralympic.beijing2008.cn/index.shtml
Anyway it seems China got twice as many medals then Britan. US was a
distant third. No wonder NBC had no coverage at all.
Rank G S B Total
1 CHN 89 70 52 211
2 GBR 42 29 31 102
3 USA 36 35 28 99
4 UKR 24 18 32 74 |
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| Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 6:11 pm |
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On Sep 18, 5:39 pm, James <j0069b... at (no spam) hotmail.com> wrote:
Quote: On Sep 12, 10:50 am, "Commander Hughes"
noneofyourfuckingbusin... at (no spam) all.com> wrote:
"James" <j0069b... at (no spam) hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:7e4b5d30-7336-408d-a97e-1d00bf0020f7 at (no spam) 25g2000hsx.googlegroups.com...
Does these come with any fanfare, any TV coverage?
you can get the paralympics onwww.paralympicsport.tvstreaminglive
coverage from Beijing online every day.
James
aka
Commander Hughes
I got distracted by the market's Black Week.
http://en.paralympic.beijing2008.cn/index.shtml
Anyway it seems China got twice as many medals then Britan. US was a
distant third. No wonder NBC had no coverage at all.
Rank G S B Total
1 CHN 89 70 52 211
2 GBR 42 29 31 102
3 USA 36 35 28 99
4 UKR 24 18 32 74
Not just NBC. Every major US media has no coverage. It is all censored
by the US Government. US Government do not want its citizen to hear
about bad news. Only good news. |
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| Don Del Grande... |
| Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 6:02 pm |
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Lproudman wrote:
Quote: Not just NBC. Every major US media has no coverage. It is all censored
by the US Government. US Government do not want its citizen to hear
about bad news. Only good news.
So explain why every political commercial describes not the good
things about a candidate but the bad things about the candidate's
opponent.
Other networks don't show the Paralympics probably because they might
be included with NBC's sole rights to broadcast the Olympics in the
USA.
If it's anything like last time, there will be a 2 or 3-hour
"highlights" show a few months from now (the same way NBC feels they
have to wait months before showing each year's Ironman Triathlon).
There is a reason NBC - or anybody else in the USA, for that matter -
does not pay much attention to the Paralympics; most people in the USA
are in one of four groups:
(a) "The what?"
(b) "You mean the Special Olympics?" (which is something entirely
different, and I have heard newscasters describe the Paralympics as a
competition "where you don't get a medal just for competing")
(c) People who feel sorry for the athletes - "they might have been
good enough for the 'real' Olympics, if not for..."
(d) People who think that since they weren't good enough for the
Olympics, then why bother watching them - after all, you don't show
the Olympic swimming races for 9th-16th place, do you?
(Yes, there is a group (e) people who understand that these are
legitimate athletes and enjoy watching them compete, but there are
also people who enjoy, say, women's (field) hockey, yet none of the
networks - or ESPN, for that matter - bother showing even the national
university-level championship in that sport.)
Remember that television networks in the USA are private businesses -
if NBC thinks that the third round of a golf tournament, or the finals
of a women's beach volleyball tournament, will generate more income in
commercials than the Paralympics, then golf and volleyball is what it
will show.
-- Don |
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| Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 9:59 pm |
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On Sep 19, 4:02 pm, Don Del Grande <del_grande_n... at (no spam) earthlink.net>
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Quote: Lproudman wrote:
Not just NBC. Every major US media has no coverage. It is all censored
by the US Government. US Government do not want its citizen to hear
about bad news. Only good news.
So explain why every political commercial describes not the good
things about a candidate but the bad things about the candidate's
opponent.
Other networks don't show the Paralympics probably because they might
be included with NBC's sole rights to broadcast the Olympics in the
USA.
If it's anything like last time, there will be a 2 or 3-hour
"highlights" show a few months from now (the same way NBC feels they
have to wait months before showing each year's Ironman Triathlon).
There is a reason NBC - or anybody else in the USA, for that matter -
does not pay much attention to the Paralympics; most people in the USA
are in one of four groups:
(a) "The what?"
(b) "You mean the Special Olympics?" (which is something entirely
different, and I have heard newscasters describe the Paralympics as a
competition "where you don't get a medal just for competing")
(c) People who feel sorry for the athletes - "they might have been
good enough for the 'real' Olympics, if not for..."
(d) People who think that since they weren't good enough for the
Olympics, then why bother watching them - after all, you don't show
the Olympic swimming races for 9th-16th place, do you?
(Yes, there is a group (e) people who understand that these are
legitimate athletes and enjoy watching them compete, but there are
also people who enjoy, say, women's (field) hockey, yet none of the
networks - or ESPN, for that matter - bother showing even the national
university-level championship in that sport.)
Remember that television networks in the USA are private businesses -
if NBC thinks that the third round of a golf tournament, or the finals
of a women's beach volleyball tournament, will generate more income in
commercials than the Paralympics, then golf and volleyball is what it
will show.
-- Don
But the whole world is showing it. There is no excuse. You could show
it on the internet.
At least show the Medal list.
And you can list by number of bronze first too......just like in the
Olmypic. |
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| Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 8:24 am |
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On Sep 21, 9:04 am, Don Del Grande <del_grande_n... at (no spam) earthlink.net>
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Quote: Lproudman wrote:
But the whole world is showing it. There is no excuse. You could show
it on the internet.
You mean like they do atwww.universalsports.com?
At least show the Medal list.
And you can list by number of bronze first too......just like in the
Olmypic.
For whatever strange reason, most USA medal lists show it by total
medals. I have even seen lists of "unofficial winners of the
Olympics" determined by which country won the most medals.
Hey, stop using facts and reason! These fellas are convinced that it's
all a massive conspiracy against China by the evil USA and they ain't
gonna let no steenkin' facts get in their way! |
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| Don Del Grande... |
| Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 11:04 am |
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Lproudman wrote:
Quote: But the whole world is showing it. There is no excuse. You could show
it on the internet.
You mean like they do at www.universalsports.com?
Quote: At least show the Medal list.
And you can list by number of bronze first too......just like in the
Olmypic.
For whatever strange reason, most USA medal lists show it by total
medals. I have even seen lists of "unofficial winners of the
Olympics" determined by which country won the most medals.
-- Don |
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