Here in China, CCTV rules the airways for broadcast television. And as you would expect, CCTV has five to six channels devoted to Olympic coverage. Combine that with two days off from work and you get loads and loads of Olympic Games viewing.Thankfully, the USA vs. China men's basketball game is dragging me to a Western-style restaurant this evening because I have been useless the past 36 hours. In that time I haven't showered and I have only left our building to go get a newspaper and some noodles from the local mart. (Don't judge me, please.) I think the five weeks of basically no sports viewing made me thirsty for competition.
Of course most of the coverage is centered on Chinese athletes but when there are so many channels showing events, I have been able to watch events I have never seen. Here's a list of what I have watched.
– Archery
– Artistic Gymnastics
– Badminton
– Basketball, men's and women's
– Beach Volleyball
– Cycling Road
– Diving
– Equestrian
– Fencing
– Handball
– Judo
– Rowing
– Sailing
– Shooting
– Soccer
– Swimming (I saw Michael Phelps cry during his first gold medal ceremony.)
– Table Tennis
– Volleyball
– Weightlifting
That's 19 events. It would be awesome if NBC or any of the cable networks teamed together to give you the ability to see so much Olympic coverage at once. Of course, that is a bit unrealistic in the States.
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There is much more than just the NBC channel though here in the states. No, each channel doesn't broadcast the olypmics 24-7, but there is something olympic going on at least one of them at any given time. Here are the channels broadcasting the olympic coverage
NBC
CNBC
MSNBC
USA Network (owned by NBC)
Oxygen channel
Universal HD
Plus DISH network has two channels devoted to "Athlete bios", & 'Team USA'
and an interactive channel that splits all the channels on one screen and you can watch what might be going on any particular channel.
Along with all the channels the dude above me listed, NBC is also providing something like 25 sports and 2,000 hours of stuff available to watch online... which has allowed me to watch crazy stuff like Judo and badminton.
OK, OK. In the past (I don't know about this year because I am here) networks like NBC don't utilize partner channels like CNBC, MSNBC and USA Network like they should. I have always been disappointed that they have some 1,000th rerun of Monk on instead of live Olympic coverage. Again, I don't know how it is this year. Also, I forgot to mention that 90 percent of this coverage is commercial FREE. That is another aspect of the coverage that makes it seem like there is a crazy amount of Olympics on ALL the time.
now being commercial free is impressive. that would be a great way to watch them......i think i have all the olympic commercials imbedded in my brain......i've seen them over &over &over.
Commercial free would be outstanding.
And don't worry, they're still working in the Monk reruns in the afternoon, between coverage.
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