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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 title card for the ABC Olympic Games coverage. Note the integration of the network logo into the Olympic symbol. The Olympic Games aired in the United States on the broadcast network ABC during the 1960s to the 1980s. ABC first televised the Winter Olympic Games in 1964, [1] and the Summer Olympic Games in 1968. [2]
Opening Ceremony Starting at 8:00 pm CST (), [5] the four-hour opening ceremony was attended by 91,000 spectators, [6] including more than 100 world leaders. The spectacle was directed by filmmaker Zhang Yimou, and the Olympic Cauldron was lit by former Chinese gymnast Li Ning.
As was the case with Seoul in 1988, NBC convinced the organizers of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics to stage many of their major events during the late morning and early afternoon hours, which translated to live coverage during prime time in the United States.
NBC televised its first Olympic Games in 1964, when it broadcast that year's Summer Olympics from Tokyo.NBC originally had intended to film the events from Tokyo but the Syncom team had a 1-hour test on the Syncom 3 satellite and it was discovered that it can transmit up to two hours from the United States to Japan as with signals from the West Coast.
Olympics on TV; The World Comes Together in Your Living Room: The Olympics on TV; OLYMPICS AND TELEVISION; Olympic Commentators by Event History; Olympic Broadcasting Services [permanent dead link ] Logos of Olympic Broadcasters - Part 2: 1960s. Logos of Olympic Broadcasters - Part 3: 1970s; Logos of Olympic Broadcasters - Part 4: 1980s
The lighting of the Olympic torch will get the big screen treatment this summer thanks to a new partnership between NBC and Imax. The television network, which broadcasts the games, will air its ...
The 2008 Beijing Wushu Tournament saw 128 athletes from 43 countries participate, with medals awarded in 15 separate events; however, these were not to be added to the official medal tally since Wushu was not on the official program of the 2008 Summer Olympics.