US Olympics Coverage - Opening Ceremony NOT LIVE for USA
The opening ceremony for the Summer Olympics 2008 in Beijing is scheduled to start at 08:08:08 PM (Chinese Standard Time).
In the Northeast USA, we are twelve hours behind. So if it is 7:30AM in New York City, it is 7:30PM in Beijing.
In the US, our "live" coverage does not start until 7:30PM this evening with the media broadcast of the Olympics opening ceremony. Of course, we would be about 12 hours late for that.
I checked all listings for NBC, NBCHD and they have the "Opening Ceremony" starting tonight 7:30PM EST. I guess I understand the media wants to maximize television viewership, but I really believe that you got millions of people in the States expecting to watch the opening ceremony at 8AM in the morning!
If you go to the BBC Sports Web Site, they started coverage at 745 BST through 1245 BST, so the UK folks will be watching the opening ceremony LIVE!
This really sucks. On Friday morning's "Today Show," Matt Lauer never mentions that the actual ceremony is starting this morning, but he just says that folks in the US can see the ceremony at 7:30pm ET/6:30pm CT. Yes, it's "PM" that you read. Sad...sad.
Here's BBC Live Action Blog (as of 1240 BST, 740 EST), the Bird's Nest stadium is almost at its 90,000 capacity.
Oh yes, Canada TV (CBC) is broadcasting it LIVE - Link
(oh crap, US users are blocked! :-( )English CCTV is also broadcasting LIVE from their web site
(but IOC is restricting live video to the chinese mainland, sucks!!!)You can try this one too - http://tvkitamasanmbc.blogspot.com/
Or this - http://www.justin.tv/koncerto
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Posted by: David
Posted on: August 8, 2008 08:23 AM
Go to my website: http://nowsport.blogspot.com as NOW Sports blogs about the Opening Ceremony LIVE as it unfolds from Olympic Stadium.