Opmac Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 CBC/Radio-Canada has won the Canadian media rights for the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, and the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro. "CBC/Radio-Canada has been an unwavering champion of amateur sport and our nation's best athletes," said Marcel Aubut, president of the Canadian Olympic Committee Wednesday. "They have unparalleled experience in broadcasting major multi-sport events, most notably the Olympic Games." For almost 60 years, and on 19 different occasions, CBC had broadcast the Olympic Games, most recently during the 2008 Olympic Summer Games in Beijing. "This is excellent news for Canadians across the country who will once again experience the Olympic tradition with their public broadcaster," CBC president Hubert Lacroix said in a statement. "We've promised Canadians signature events on all our platforms that create opportunities to connect with each other and the country." The deal comes more than a month after CBC and Bell Media announced they would no longer submit joint bids for the Canadian media rights for the games. The two media organizations, which had formed a partnership last September, had submitted two joint bids for the package, but both were rejected by the International Olympic Committee. Canada's Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium, made up of a partnership between Bell Media and Rogers Communications, had the broadcast rights for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics and currently have the rights for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avelanch Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 thank goodness. If I had to suffer through NBC for another olympics I'd go crazy. CBC will probably just run Olympics 24 hours a day, suspending all other programming, save for an evening or morning news break. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shift-4 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 http://www.cbc.ca/ne...ics-rights.html Canada's Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium has been good because they are able to broadcast on CTV, TSN, and Sportsnet. CBC only has one channel and then there's Bold and Documentary, etc. So will CBC sell some of their rights to TSN and Sportsnet as they have in previous years? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xbox Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 I dont care about the summer olympics, but I am very happy that they got the rights to Sochi games! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuck_trevor16 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Jim Hughson will he do the hockey game???????? !!!!!!! no way CBC can cover all the events again unless some of them are online and some are given to sportsnet or tsn....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuck champs Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 If they do sell some of the rights to Sportsnet and TSN, then I won't mind. But I can already see myself losing my mind if I have to see Ron MacLean every day during the Olympics - once a week on HNIC is already bad enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Brahma Bull Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 I hope Ron MacLean is out of there by then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UMB Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 I want TSN CTV and SNET as well it gives me the abilityy to scroll through the channels watching every event Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seycove Seyhawk Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 CTV, TSN and Sportsnet have done a far better job. This is bad news as far as I'm concerned Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*vInTaGe* Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 I want TSN CTV and SNET as well it gives me the abilityy to scroll through the channels watching every event Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shift-4 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 CTV, TSN and Sportsnet have done a far better job. This is bad news as far as I'm concerned Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronthecivil Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Good god won't the mothership just roll over and die already? The coverage has been VASTLY improved since they lost the contract. I take this news as a disaster.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hockeyville88 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 I'm sure CBC will sell rights to SN and TSN. Otherwise there is no way that they'll ever be able to cover all the events. As a semi-related question: are SN HD and TSN HD now part of the basic HD package? Last season when I wanted to watch Canucks games on SN in HD it said that I was not subscribed to the channel. But today I was watching Olympics coverage on both SN and TSN HD. Is this just for the Olympics or are we actually getting those HD channels permanently? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avelanch Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 I'm sure CBC will sell rights to SN and TSN. Otherwise there is no way that they'll ever be able to cover all the events. As a semi-related question: are SN HD and TSN HD now part of the basic HD package? Last season when I wanted to watch Canucks games on SN in HD it said that I was not subscribed to the channel. But today I was watching Olympics coverage on both SN and TSN HD. Is this just for the Olympics or are we actually getting those HD channels permanently? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hockeyville88 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 ^ see that's weird. Because we've been getting TSN HD as well...not that I'm complaining Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
î мцšт вяздк чфµ Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 yay more ron maclean! NOT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avelanch Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 ^ see that's weird. Because we've been getting TSN HD as well...not that I'm complaining Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckamo Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 I have no issues at all with it ( in fact I quite like it), but I'm surprised nobody has said anything about the 'I Believe' song. All I ever see are complaints about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hockeyville88 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 might be a special for the olympics. yeah maybe. thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UFCanuck Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 At least it's only once every couple years. Get ready for sub par television. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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