Established in 2007, Canada's Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium (legal name ''7048467 Canada Inc.'', also sometimes referred to informally in branding as CTV Olympics and RDS Olympiques, additionally referred to as the National Olympic Network by BBM Canada) was a

joint venture A joint venture (JV) is a business entity created by two or more parties, generally characterized by shared ownership, shared returns and risks, and shared governance. Companies typically pursue joint ventures for one of four reasons: to acces ...

set up by Canadian media companies Bell Media (formerly CTVglobemedia) and

Rogers Media Rogers Media Inc., operating as Rogers Sports & Media, is a Canadian subsidiary of Rogers Communications that owns the company's mass media and sports properties, such as the Citytv and Omni Television terrestrial television stations, Sportsnet, ...

to produce the Canadian broadcasts of the

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, Canada, and the

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in London, England, as well as the two corresponding

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. Bell owned 80% of the joint venture, and Rogers owned 20%. The consortium encompassed many of the properties owned by both companies, including Bell Media's

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, RDS and RDS Info, and Rogers Media's

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Sportsnet Sportsnet is a Canadian English-language sports specialty channel owned by Rogers Sports & Media. It was established in 1998 as CTV Sportsnet, a joint venture between CTV, Liberty Media, and Rogers Media. CTV parent Bell Globemedia then ...

, OLN, and the Rogers radio stations group. Several other broadcasters carried consortium coverage, including

Noovo Noovo is a Canadian French-language terrestrial television network owned by the Bell Media subsidiary of BCE Inc. The network has five owned-and-operated and three affiliated stations throughout Quebec, although it can also be seen over-the-ai ...

(formerly V), and several channels owned by Asian Television Network. Finally, dedicated websites in English and French (''ctvolympics.ca'' and ''rdsolympiques.ca'') were set up to stream live coverage over the

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to Canadian viewers. The consortium replaced

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, which had held the Canadian rights to all Olympics beginning with the 1996 games, although some cable rights had been sub-licensed to TSN / RDS beginning in 1998. Rogers announced in September 2011 that it would withdraw from the consortium following London 2012, and therefore not participate in its bid for rights to the

2014 Winter Olympics , ''Zharkie. Zimnie. Tvoi'') , nations = 88 , events = 98 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , athletes = 2,873 , opening = 7 February 2014 , closing = 23 February 2014 , opened_by = President Vladimir Putin , cauldron = , stadium = Fisht Olympic ...

and

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. The company cited scheduling conflicts and financial considerations for the decision. Bell Media then announced a new partnership with the CBC to bid for Canadian broadcasting rights of Sochi 2014 and Rio 2016. Broadcast details for the joint bid were never released. The joint Bell/CBC bid was considered the prohibitive favourite to win the rights when the

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accepted bids. However, the Bell/CBC bids were rejected by the IOC. On August 1, 2012, CBC Sports announced that it had made a deal to broadcast the 2014 and 2016 Summer and Winter Olympics, replacing the Bell/Rogers group. However, in February 2013, CBC announced that both Sportsnet and TSN would sub-license broadcast rights to the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Participating media outlets

Television

*Primary coverage (live coverage of major events, and highlights of all events) was carried on CTV (English) and

(French), known as V in 2010. **As there is no full-time CTV affiliate in

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, coverage was simulcast on Bell-owned CTV Two Atlantic, which is available on cable in Newfoundland (in other areas, CTV Two carried normal programming). During the 2010 Winter Olympics, over-the-air station NTV carried only the opening and closing ceremonies, and coverage of the men's hockey gold medal game. **Noovo's coverage was produced by RDS and mostly used that channel's talent, as V has no in-house production staff for news or sports. Similarly, most hosts for CTV's coverage came from TSN. **Since Noovo has limited coverage outside Quebec, its coverage of the 2010 games was simulcast on the

Cable Public Affairs Channel The Cable Public Affairs Channel (french: La Chaîne d'affaires publiques par câble), better known by its acronym CPAC ( ), is a Canadian specialty channel owned by a consortium that includes among other part-owners Rogers Communications, Sha ...

(CPAC), which has mandatory carriage on all cable and satellite providers. *Secondary coverage (full events and some highlights between events) aired primarily on

and

(English), as well as RDS and RDS Info (French). Select TSN coverage was rebroadcast later on TSN2. OLN (English) also provided full-event coverage of selected outdoor events. *Multilingual coverage on various

stations: ** Omni.1 (Ontario) only: Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Ukrainian ** Omni.2 (Ontario), Omni Edmonton, Omni Calgary, Omni British Columbia: Cantonese, Mandarin **Omni BC only: Punjabi *Multilingual coverage on seven Asian Television Network channels: ** ATN Bangla (

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) **

ATN Gujarati ATN Gujarati is a Canadian exempt Category B Gujarati language specialty channel owned by Asian Television Network (ATN). ATN Gujarati broadcasts programming focused on family entertainment and culture. Programming includes talk shows, current a ...

(

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) **

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(

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) **

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and ATN MH1 (

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) ** ATN Jaya TV (

Tamil Tamil may refer to: * Tamils, an ethnic group native to India and some other parts of Asia ** Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamil people native to Sri Lanka also called ilankai tamils **Tamil Malaysians, Tamil people native to Malaysia * Tamil language, nati ...

) **

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(

Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
''

APTN provided coverage of the 2010 games in several native languages; including (

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, Dene,

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, Mechif,

Mi'kmaq The Mi'kmaq (also ''Mi'gmaq'', ''Lnu'', ''Miꞌkmaw'' or ''Miꞌgmaw''; ; ) are a First Nations people of the Northeastern Woodlands, indigenous to the areas of Canada's Atlantic Provinces and the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec as well as the northe ...

, Mohawk, Ojibway and Oji-Cree). In some cases the network was split, with commentary in two or three different languages on the East, West, and North feeds. It also aired some English and French coverage as an overflow channel. APTN did not participate in coverage for the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Radio

*English-language radio coverage aired over Rogers's Sportsnet Radio Network. Ten Rogers stations, namely "Sportsnet Radio" (

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Toronto and CFAC Calgary), all-news or news/talk stations ( CKWX Vancouver,

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Toronto, CFFR Calgary,

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Kitchener,

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Saint John, CJNI-FM Halifax, and

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Moncton), as well as

CISQ-FM CISQ-FM is an FM radio station owned by Rogers Sports & Media and operating in southwestern British Columbia. It broadcasts at 107.1 MHz in Squamish and 102.1 MHz in Whistler. It broadcasts an adult contemporary format branded as ''M ...

Whistler, were listed as "official" Consortium stations and typically air most if not all coverage. Portions of the coverage aired on other

radio stations, as well as several other stations in non-competing markets (such as CTV-owned

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). *

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radio coverage of the 2010 games was aired on Cogeco radio stations, primarily airing on

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Montreal (then an all-sports station). No similar coverage plans were announced for the 2012 games.

Other affiliated outlets

*Several other Bell Media-owned channels, such as CTV News Channel and

Discovery Channel Discovery Channel (known as The Discovery Channel from 1985 to 1995, and often referred to as simply Discovery) is an American cable channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav. , Discovery Channe ...

) provided ancillary (non-event) coverage related to the games. CTV-owned music channel

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broadcast programming live from the Vancouver area throughout the 2010 games, including special editions of ''

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'' broadcast from Whistler. *''

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'', a national newspaper which was owned by CTVglobemedia at the time of the Vancouver games (and is currently 15% owned by Bell Media's parent company), was listed as part of the consortium and supplied content for its websites, however its sponsorship/coverage of the games is independent of the broadcast rights.

History

Early coverage

CTV has previously broadcast the Summer Games in

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(along with CBC) and

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, and the Winter Games in

1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch ...

1968 The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide. Events January–February * January 5 – "Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. * Januar ...

1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, me ...

1980 Events January * January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. * January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC. * January 9 – ...

1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast A ...

(along with CBC),

1988 File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655; Australia celebrates its Australian ...

and

1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...

. The 1980 "

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" game was aired live on CTV in Canada, but not

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in the United States. Thus, American viewers who resided in or near the Canada–US border and received the CTV signal could watch the game live, but the rest of the United States had to wait for a delayed rebroadcast.

Rights fees

In 1974,

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(who anchored CTV's prime time Olympic coverage from 1964–1980) became vice-president of CTV Sports, a position he would hold until his retirement in 1990. He negotiated the host broadcasting rights to the

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in Calgary, Alberta. As the main host broadcaster for the 1988 Winter Olympics, the CTV television network paid $45 million for domestic rights to the 1988 Winter Olympics. Esaw also brought the

1964 Winter Olympics The 1964 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IX Olympic Winter Games (german: IX. Olympische Winterspiele) and commonly known as Innsbruck 1964 ( bar, Innschbruck 1964, label=Austro-Bavarian), was a winter multi-sport event which was celebr ...

to CTV. Production of the broadcasting for the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, which costs NOK 462 million, was the responsibility of the

Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation NRK, an abbreviation of the Norwegian ''Norsk Rikskringkasting AS'', generally expressed in English as the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, is the Norwegian government-owned radio and television public broadcasting company, and the largest ...

(NRK), with assistance from CTV and the

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(EBU). NRK had 1,424 people working at the Olympics, while international broadcasters sent an additional 4,050 accredited broadcasting personnel. The transmission rights for the games were held by EBU in Europe, CBS in the United States, NHK in Japan, CTV in Canada, the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union,

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in Australia, as well as other broadcasters in other countries. The total transmission rights price was 350 million United States dollars.

Commentators

* Rod Black anchored CTV's coverage of the

1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, ca, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and commonly known as ...

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and

1994 Winter Olympics The 1994 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVII Olympic Winter Games ( no, De 17. olympiske vinterleker; nn, Dei 17. olympiske vinterleikane) and commonly known as Lillehammer '94, was an international winter multi-sport event held fro ...

in Lillehammer, Norway. *

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provided

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coverage of the

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for North American audiences since 1972, working for the CBC, the

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(ABC), and the

before moving on to NBC. More recently, he covered events at the

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, including

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, and

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for NBC, and, along with longtime partner, Don Duguid, called curling at the

2002 Winter Olympics The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002 ( arp, Niico'ooowu' 2002; Gosiute Shoshoni: ''Tit'-so-pi 2002''; nv, Sooléí 2002; Shoshoni: ''Soónkahni 2002''), was an internation ...

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and in the

2006 Winter Olympics The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially the XX Olympic Winter Games ( it, XX Giochi olimpici invernali) and also known as Torino 2006, were a winter multi-sport event held from 10 to 26 February 2006 in Turin, Italy. This marked the second t ...

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for NBC. *

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worked on CTV's coverage of the

and the

in Lillehammer, Norway. *

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was the lead play-by-play hockey broadcaster for CTV at the

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. *

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hosted the network's coverage of the

, the

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, and the

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. * Jiggs McDonald did play-by-play on CTV for

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games in 1992. *

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paired with

as the lead broadcasting team for CTV's ice hockey coverage at the

. The secondary team was

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and Tom Watt. *

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broadcast Gymnastics at 1976 Montreal Olympics, Hockey 1976 from Innsbruck,Austria,Hockey 1980 Lake Placid, NY including only live TV in North America of USA vs Russia,Also broadcast Hockey at 1984 Games in Sarajevo, Cross Country Skiing 1988 Calgary/Canmore *

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was a host of special events programming such as the network's 1993 election and 1995 Quebec referendum coverage and the

in Lillehammer, Norway. * Ron Reusch covered the

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(

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), the

in Calgary, Alberta (

), the

(

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), and the

in Lillehammer, Norway (

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). *

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was the colour commentator for both the CBC and CTV football broadcasts, plus covered other sports such as the

and the

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Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...

. * Lloyd Robertson was the prime time anchor for CTV's coverage in

and

2010 Winter Olympics

For the 2010 Winter Olympics, coverage was as follows:Vancouver 2010 Coverage by Network
", COBMC press release, 2010-01-12

Television

Consortium coverage originated primarily from the Vancouver Convention Centre (the International Broadcast Centre for the 2010 games) as well as Mountain Square in Whistler. *CTV: An average of 22 hours per day of coverage, focusing on the major events and highlights. ''Times varied on certain days depending on events in progress'' **''Olympic Morning'': 3:00-9:00am PT (6:00-12:00pm ET), with Beverly Thomson, Jay Onrait,

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, and

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**''Olympic Daytime'': 9:00am–2:30pm PT (12:00-5:30pm ET), with James Duthie,

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, and

Michael Landsberg Michael Elliott Landsberg (born July 22, 1957) is a Canadian sports journalist and the former host of TSN's, ''First Up with Landsberg and Colaiacovo'', and former host of TSN's ''Off the Record with Michael Landsberg'' from 1997 to 2015. Br ...

**''Olympic Prime Time'': 3:00-11:00pm PT (6:00-2:00am ET), with

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and

Jennifer Hedger Jennifer Frances Hedger (born September 18, 1975 in London, Ontario) is a Canadian television personality and the co-host of TSN's nightly sports news program '' SportsCentre''. Broadcasting career Hedger's first on-air experiences were with the ...

**''Olympic Late Night'': Midnight to 3:00am PT (3:00-6:00am ET), no host (event repeats) :The only breaks in coverage were for 30-minute local newscasts daily at 2:30 pm PT (5:30 pm ET), as well as a one-hour newscast produced by CTV British Columbia at 11:00pm PT (2:00 am ET). Two ''

CTV National News ''CTV National News'' is the flagship newscast of CTV News, the news division of the CTV Television Network, which airs at 11:00 pm local time on the CTV stations across Canada, and is produced from CTV's facilities at 9 Channel Nine Court in Sca ...

'' summaries, anchored by Lloyd Robertson at CTV's main Vancouver studios, were aired nightly during ''Olympic Prime Time''; the regular ''CTV National News'' broadcast aired solely on CTV News Channel for the duration of the games. From 3:00 – 6:00am PT (6:00 – 9:00am ET) CTV News Channel also aired a simulcast of CTV's ''Olympic Morning''. *Noovo (V): Major events and highlights in French, averaging 16.5 hours per day, including a morning show simulcast from RDS *TSN and Rogers Sportsnet: Full-event coverage, averaging 18 hours per day on each channel *OLN: Full-event coverage of outdoor events, averaging 4.5 hours per day *RDS: Full-event coverage in French, averaging 21 hours per day *RIS: Full-event coverage in French, averaging 6 hours per day *Omni: Multilingual coverage, averaging up to 6 hours per day (depending on location; not all coverage carried on all stations) *ATN: Multilingual coverage, averaging 6.5 hours a day across seven channels *APTN: Coverage in English, French, and Aboriginal languages, averaging 13 hours a day The television broadcast was filmed with 39 new Hitachi SK-HD1000 studio/field cameras from Hitachi Kokusai Electric including on-site

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. The cameras were also used to broadcast the

. Following the games, portions of CTV's set were re-purposed by its Vancouver affiliate

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for its newscasts.

Radio

English-language coverage was provided by the Sportsnet Radio Network, and included coverage of the opening and closing ceremonies, selected hockey games, special editions of '' Prime Time Sports'', and various updates / programs on the games. French-language coverage, which was similar in scope, was carried by Corus Québec.

Broadcast team

=Hockey studio

= * James Duthie (host) * Dave Hodge (host) *

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(host) * Bob McKenzie (analyst) *

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(analyst) *

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(analyst)

2012 Summer Olympics

The consortium also held rights to the

. Coverage plans for those games were follows (see above).

Broadcast team

English broadcasters French broadcasters

Other rights

Paralympic Games

The consortium also owned rights to the corresponding

, namely the

2010 Winter Paralympics ) , nations = 44 , athletes = 506 , events = 64 in 5 sports , opening = 12 March , closing = 21 March , opened_by = Governor General Michaëlle Jean , cauldron = Zach Beaumont , stadium = BC Place , winter_pr ...

and the

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. Coverage for the 2010 games consisted primarily of coverage of the opening ceremonies (live on CTV British Columbia, and on tape delay on the rest of the CTV network and RIS); daily highlights packages split among CTV, TSN and Sportsnet in English (and RDS / RIS in French); and live coverage of all sledge hockey games featuring the Canadian team. Although not originally scheduled, CTV and RDS later added live coverage of the closing ceremonies. Coverage for the 2012 games offered no live television coverage and consisted primarily of 10 late night highlight shows carried on TSN2,

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, and RDS2, though rebroadcasts of the opening ceremony were carried on both CTV and Rogers-owned broadcast network

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Criticism of Paralympic Games coverage

=2010 Winter Paralympics opening and closing ceremonies

= Originally, CTV did not plan to air the

opening ceremony An opening ceremony, grand opening, or ribbon-cutting ceremony marks the official opening of a newly-constructed location or the start of an event.

live. After receiving criticism on the decision, CTV changed its mind and decided to air the ceremony live in Vancouver region. CTV originally continued to stick to its initial plan of not airing the

closing ceremony An opening ceremony, grand opening, or ribbon-cutting ceremony marks the official opening of a newly-constructed location or the start of an event.

live. This decision led to more complaints and CTV relented by airing the closing ceremony live across Canada.

=2012 Summer Paralympics

= Despite the

being a breakthrough games for international media coverage, giving a significant boost to the overall audience shares of British broadcaster

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and Australia's

, no Paralympics sports events were shown live on television in Canada or the United States. "Based on the level of overall coverage, it's clear that Canadian broadcasters do not deem disability to be important. They are not supporters of inclusion", SCI BC (

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) Executive Director Chris McBride said, contrasting Canada's coverage with Britain's. More than 1,000 people signed a petition calling for Canadian broadcasters to provide full Paralympics coverage at future Games.

International Paralympic Committee The International Paralympic Committee (IPC; german: Internationales Paralympisches Komitee) is an international non-profit organisation and the global governing body for the Paralympic Movement. The IPC organizes the Paralympic Games and fun ...

President

Philip Craven Sir Philip Lee Craven (born 4 July 1950) is an English sports administrator, former Paralympic wheelchair basketball player, swimmer and track and field athlete. Between 2001 and 2017 he was the second president of the International Paralymp ...

criticised North American broadcasters for having fallen behind and said in future the International Paralympic Committee would scrutinize broadcast partners more carefully. "If the values fit, we've got a chance. If they don't we'll go somewhere else", he said.

Youth Olympics

Finally, the consortium owned broadcast rights to the first Youth Olympic Games, the

2010 Summer Youth Olympics The 2010 Summer Youth Olympics ( ta, 2010 கோடைக்கால இளையோர் ஒலிம்பிக் விளையாட்டுக்கள் ms, Sukan Olimpik Belia Musim Panas 2010), officially known as the I Summer ...

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. Coverage of those games was limited to a one-hour daily highlights package on

and TSN2 (rebroadcast several weeks later on TSN).

References

External links

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{{Rogers Communications 2007 establishments in Canada 2010 in Canadian television Olympics on Canadian television CTV Sports Joint ventures The Sports Network Sportsnet Simulcasts

Participating media outlets

Television

Radio

Other affiliated outlets

History

Early coverage

Rights fees

Commentators

2010 Winter Olympics

Television

Radio

Broadcast team

=Hockey studio

2012 Summer Olympics

Broadcast team

Other rights

Paralympic Games

Criticism of Paralympic Games coverage

=2010 Winter Paralympics opening and closing ceremonies

=2012 Summer Paralympics

Youth Olympics

See also

References

External links