Archive for August, 2008

Be Honest, NBC. You are wrong with China. For NBC, it’s goodbye, Beijing; hello, London. If you dislike China, will you hate Britain?
The torch is out, the drums are stilled, and the network is off to Britain for the next Summer Olympics — and a new set of challenges.
On the plus side, it won’t face [...]

NBC Cries but China Laughes: NBC Guilty at conclusion of successful Olympics. Record ratings for NBC Universal’s coverage of the Olympic Games should silence speculation about General Electric’s commitment to the US broadcaster, its chief executive said yesterday.
The 209m viewers for an unprecedented 3,600 hours of coverage on seven NBCU channels in the first 15 [...]

Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Revealed: NBC says the Beijing Olympics proved so captivating that millions of Americans now need to catch up on some sleep.
A survey of people who followed the Olympics found that 76 percent said they stayed up later than normal to watch, NBC said Sunday. More than half of its specially convened [...]

Beijing 2008 Olympic Closing Ceremonies Revealed: The closing ceremony for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing has already been underway for some hours now, but if you’d like to follow it all through some good ol’ liveblogging action, we’ve scrounged up several choice picks. For an American audience, relegated to watching happenings time-delayed by [...]

LEONA Lewis, David Beckham and Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page wowed the crowd at the Beijing Olympic Games closing ceremony.
Leona looked stunning as she emerged from the roof of a double-decker bus on a rising column dressed in gold and singing an R’n’B aria.

Beijing 2008 Olympic Closing Ceremony
The stunning singer then broke into a rendition [...]

Beijing 2008 Olympics Closing Ceremony Revealed: The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad has released the details of live colverage of the Olympic Closing Ceremony on its’ website.
1. Pre-ceremony Performance

Synopsis: With Fuwa as the creative theme, relaxing and humorous performances interact with the audience and create a passionate, relaxed and joyous [...]

The closing ceremony of the Beijing Summer Olympics will feature a Spanish tenor, a British soccer star and a throng of kung-fu fighters. Three less-than-stellar acts for an incredibly boring two weeks of competition.
The major US stories of the games have been Michael Phelps’ dominance, the women gymnasts and their individual gold medals after getting [...]

Beijing Olympics Closing Ceremonies Revealed: STAR Kobe Bryant hit two 3-pointers in a big fourth quarter to help the United States defeat Spain 118-107 and win the gold medal for the first time since 2000.
MEDALS
China had one of the most dominating and diverse performances at an Olympics ever, winning a games-leading 51 golds and an [...]

Where to Watch Olympic Closing Ceremony? Olympics Closing Ceremony is coming, but Live Coverage never shows timely. Let’s hope Seven doesn’t cut to an ad each time something interesting happens and the Chinese put some humour into the thing.
Type Kids and Family
Channel 7
Date Sunday August 24 Time 10:00 PM
So some of the astonishing fireworks we [...]

Live Coverage of Beijing Olympic Closing Ceremony and Opening Ceremonies: In a summer programming schedule dominated by reruns and humiliation-based game shows like ABC’s “Wipeout” and G-4’s “Hurl!” (a show in which “the last contestant to spew” wins awesome prizes), it’s little wonder that NBC’s coverage of the Beijing Olympics has been an unqualified success, [...]