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[90] At the end of 2008, the American Film Institute selected the coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympics opening ceremony as one of their "Eight Moments of Significance" of the year of 2008, and states: "The opening ceremony, directed and staged by acclaimed Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou, marked the most significant live event of the year" and it ...
The Jamaican men's team won the men's 4 × 100 m relay for the first time, setting a new world record time of 37.10 seconds. Usain Bolt , running the third leg, gained his third gold medal and third world record of the Beijing games, and became the first sprinter since 1984 to win the three sprint events in a single Olympiad.
The following October, NBC showed the 1964 Summer Olympics from Tokyo, marking its Olympic TV debut. This time, NBC used the Syncom 3 satellite for direct broadcasts, with the opening ceremonies being broadcast live and in color (the first live color television program ever transmitted by satellite from overseas to the United States; the ...
NBC Olympics is the commercial name for the NBC Sports-produced broadcasts of the Summer and Winter Olympic Games as shown in the United States on NBCUniversal platforms. They include the NBC broadcast network and many of the company's cable networks; Spanish language network Telemundo; and streaming on the NBC Sports app, NBCOlympics.com, and Peacock.
This is a list of Olympic broadcasters of the 2008 Summer Olympics.These games were the first to be produced and broadcast entirely in high-definition television. [1] In their bid for the Olympic games in 2001, Beijing confirmed to the olympic evaluation commission "that there would be no restrictions on media reporting and movement of journalists up to and including the Olympic Games."
YouTube TV: For $73 a month, YouTube TV lets you stream live events on over 100 channels, including CBS, FOX, NBC, TNT and more. (P.S., you can get coverage of other sporting events through the ...
[c] A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) competed in 28 sports and 302 events, one event more than those scheduled for the 2004 Summer Olympics. [2] This was the first time China had hosted the Olympic Games, and the third time the Summer Olympic Games had been held in East Asia, following the 1964 Olympics in ...
[2] On 8 February 2023, Nine was announced by the International Olympic Committee as the exclusive Australian Olympics broadcaster for Paris 2024, Milan-Cortina 2026, Los Angeles 2028, Winter Olympics 2030 and Brisbane 2032 in a deal worth AU$ 305 million, [3] which includes Nine's talk radio stations and Nine's newspapers (The Sydney Morning ...