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First Thoughts
17/08/08 22:47 Filed in: Sports
I'm using a pretty great program to create this
website called "RapidWeaver". It's working very well
for me since it has a lot of predesigned elements and
I'm no good with this whole computer thing. This blog
set up, for instance, is a pre-set in the program and
I'm not sure yet how it works. So we'll see.
I've been watching some of the summer Olympics lately, enjoying the fact that Satellite TV allows me to watch the CBC, TSN and NBC coverage whenever I want. It's interesting to see what they do and don't cover. It would appear to me that CBC is using TSN to broadcast the more familiar team sports like basketball, soccer and baseball — sports we North Americans already get our fill of every day — while keeping the more interesting, Olympic-type sports (track and field, wrestling, swimming and diving, rowing and the life) for itself. What I can't figure out is why, when both CBC and NBC broadcast the women's marathon "live", the NBC broadcast was always seven or eight seconds behind. It was easy to spot: while CBC showed the race clock reading, say, 1:23:37, NBC showed a race clock reading of 1:23:29. Does NBC have a seven-second delay on in case one of the athletes has a wardrobe malfunction or something?
Another television note from the weekend, I simply cannot believe that Sportsnet refused to break away from a Blue Jay game that the Jays led something like 15-2 in the eighth inning in order to start its coverage of the final round of the Canadian Open women's golf tournament on time. We see Blue Jays baseball every day for eight months of the year — Canada's championship of women's golf is only on once each year. The Jays were up by a dozen in a snoozer of a game. What's the problem? Go to the golf. Please.
I've been watching some of the summer Olympics lately, enjoying the fact that Satellite TV allows me to watch the CBC, TSN and NBC coverage whenever I want. It's interesting to see what they do and don't cover. It would appear to me that CBC is using TSN to broadcast the more familiar team sports like basketball, soccer and baseball — sports we North Americans already get our fill of every day — while keeping the more interesting, Olympic-type sports (track and field, wrestling, swimming and diving, rowing and the life) for itself. What I can't figure out is why, when both CBC and NBC broadcast the women's marathon "live", the NBC broadcast was always seven or eight seconds behind. It was easy to spot: while CBC showed the race clock reading, say, 1:23:37, NBC showed a race clock reading of 1:23:29. Does NBC have a seven-second delay on in case one of the athletes has a wardrobe malfunction or something?
Another television note from the weekend, I simply cannot believe that Sportsnet refused to break away from a Blue Jay game that the Jays led something like 15-2 in the eighth inning in order to start its coverage of the final round of the Canadian Open women's golf tournament on time. We see Blue Jays baseball every day for eight months of the year — Canada's championship of women's golf is only on once each year. The Jays were up by a dozen in a snoozer of a game. What's the problem? Go to the golf. Please.