It happened early Monday on CTV`s Olympic Morning, as NBC News anchor Brian Williams paid a visit to Canadian Olympic host Brian Williams at the giant international broadcast consortium studios in Vancouver.“Your fake fireplace looks a lot like Bob Costas‘ fake fireplace,” NBC Williams quips to CTV Williams. Watch the entire meeting here at CTVOlympics.ca.The
Last month at press tour, NBC chairman Jeff Gaspin was surrounded by reporters after his executive session. The big story, of course, was the oops-a-daisy do-over with The Tonight Show.At the time, Gaspin had just lobbed a Hail Mary attempt to keep both Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien by offering Leno an 11:35 half hour
With apologies to David Letterman, here are the Top 10 Reasons why that Canadian Olympic “Own the Podium” slogan isn’t working out: 10. Bobsledders thought it was “own the per diem”9. Alpine team freaked because wavy medals look like they’ve been left out in the sun8. Super-G team too busy out fighting Super-G crime7. Snowboarders
Are you loving all the Olympic coverage? Do you want to scream every time you hear that bloody “I Believe” ditty?A week in, people are starting to form opinions about the CTV-Rogers consortium as well as the NBC Winter Olympic Games coverage. Tons to say on this topic, much of it bashed into paragraphs here
In Week Two, Boston Rob was near death after eating a bad burrito or something. Jeff Probst gave him a foot massage and that seemed to help, except then Rob started hallucinating. “I respect it too much not to play,” he babbled, red eyes blazing, before pointing at the sky and shouting, “Da planes! Da
That’s not an Olympic timer at left. It is a Portable People Meter. About the size of a pack of smokes, it satisfies and tastes best to Canadian networks, especially the CTV-Rogers consortium broadcasting these Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games.How much of a role does the new PPM data play in the huge Olympic numbers
This week with CHML’s Scott Thompson, we get right to the main event, the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games.Scott has a complaint: how come the CTV feed doesn’t look as good as the images over at TSN? Hadn’t noticed that myself but maybe others have. Scott watches the Games on a non-high-def receiver, but the
NBC, like CTV, struck Olympic Gold with their coverage of Friday’s opening ceremonies of the Vancouver 2010 Games.According to fast affiliate Nielsen data, NBC scored 34.45 million viewers for their entire prime time coverage from 8 to 11 p.m. The NBC window on the games drew a peak audience of 38.04 million at 9 p.m.