Feb 9th, 2010 | 12:10 pm |
By Travis Duncan
The 2010 Vancouver Olympics will begin Friday night (2/12) with the opening ceremonies from the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada at the BC Place Stadium from 9 p.m. EST-Midnight EST or 6 p.m.-9 p.m. PST local time.
The ceremonies can be seen on U.S Television beginning at 7:30 p.m. ET and lasting until midnight on NBC. In Canada, coverage of the opening ceremonies will begin at 6:00 p.m. EST on CTV, TSN, and RDS, along with pre-ceremony coverage including the Olympic Torch relay all through the day on Friday. Coverage in the United Kingdom will be spread on the BBC, Eurosport and Eurovision. A complete schedule can be viewed at www.vancouver2010.com
The NBC network schedule is divided into three dayparts – afternoon, primetime and late night – for a total of 193.5 hours of coverage over 17 days beginning with the Opening Ceremony on Friday. NBC Universal paid $820 million for the Vancouver Winter Olympics rights compared to $243 million by CBS for the 1992 games at Albertville. The 2010 games will be the first Winter Olympics broadcast entirely in HD.
If your looking for streams online, NBC says they will police pirated online streams and videos. The network is focusing on providing short clipped highlights on their websites, only Hockey and Curling will be shown online.
NBC’s Primetime coverage will heavily consist of men’s and women’s figure skating and alpine skiing. Other sports to be featured in primetime will include freestyle skiing, speed skating, snowboarding, and short track.
55,000 people will be in attendance to watch the opening ceremonies in person at BC Place Stadium. The Order of the nations will take place with countries entering in alphabetical order. The exceptions being Greece, who always enters first, and Canada which will enter last this year.
There are seven sports at this year’s Olympics, with 87 medal events taking place. The sports include Biathlon, Bobsleigh and Skelton, Curling, Ice Hockey, Luge, Skating (Figure Skating, Short Track/Long Track SpeedSkating) Sking (Alpine, Cross Country, Freestyle, Nordic combined, Ski Jumping) and Snowboarding.
Twelve competion venues are spread out in four locations. Vancouver, Whistler, West Vancouver and Richmond.
At Vancouver, the Canada Hockey Place, will host Hockey. The Vancouver Olympic Center will host exclusively Curling. The Pacific Coliseum will hold Figure Skating and Short Track Speedskating. The UBC Thunderbird Arena will host Ice Hockey and Ice Sledge Hockey. And an Olympic Village is in Vancouver.
In Whistler, the Whistler Sliding Centre will host bobsled, Luge and Skelton. Whistler Creekside, will host Alpine Sking. The Whistler Olympic Park will host Biathlon, Cross Country Sking, Nordic Combined, and Ski Jumping. For a shot of what it looks like at the top of Whistler Mountain check out the Google Maps 360 view.
In Richmond, the Richmond Olympic Oval will host Speedskating.
In West Vancouver at Cypress Mountain, Freestyle Skiing (Aerials, Moguls, Ski Cross), Snowboard (Parallel Giant Slalom, Halfpipe, Snowboard Cross) will be held.
Olympic Winter Games Opening and Closing Ceremonies, Nightly Victory Ceremonies take place at the BC Place Stadium in Vancouver.
TUESDAY 2.16
NBC / NBC HD 3PM – 5PM 8PM – 12M 12:35AM – 2AM 2AM – 5AM [PTR]
USA / USA HD 12N – 6PM
CNBC / CNBC HD 5PM 5AM
MSNBC / MSNBC HD 5:30PM – 8PM 3AM – 5:30AM
WEDNESDAY 2.17
NBC / NBC HD 3PM – 5PM 8PM – 11:30PM 12:05AM – 1:30AM 1:30AM – 5AM [PTR]
USA / USA HD 12N – 3PM
CNBC / CNBC HD 5PM 5AM
MSNBC / MSNBC HD 3PM – 8PM 3AM – 6AM
THURSDAY 2.18
NBC / NBC HD 3PM – 5PM 8PM – 12M 12:35AM – 2:00AM 2:00AM – 5AM [PTR]
USA / USA HD 12N – 5:30PM
CNBC / CNBC HD 5PM 5AM
MSNBC / MSNBC HD 5:30PM – 8PM 3AM – 5:30AM
FRIDAY 2.19
NBC / NBC HD 3PM – 5PM 8PM – 11:30PM 12:05AM – 1:30AM 1:30AM – 5:30AM [PTR]
USA / USA HD 12N – 3PM
CNBC / CNBC HD 5PM 5AM
MSNBC / MSNBC HD 3PM – 5:30PM 7:30PM – 10PM 12M – 3AM 3AM – 6AM [PTR]
SATURDAY 2.20
NBC / NBC HD 1PM – 6PM 8PM – 11:30PM 12M – 1AM 1AM – 4:30AM [PTR]
CNBC / CNBC HD 5PM – 8PM 10PM 1AM
MSNBC / MSNBC HD 12N – 5:30PM 7:30PM – 10PM 12M – 3AM 3AM – 6AM
SUNDAY 2.21
NBC / NBC HD 12N – 6PM 7PM – 11PM 11:35PM – 12:35AM 12:35AM – 4:35AM [PTR]
CNBC / CNBC HD 5PM – 8PM 10PM 1AM
MSNBC / MSNBC HD 12N – 3PM 7PM – 10PM 12M – 3AM 3AM – 5:30AM
MONDAY 2.22
NBC / NBC HD 3PM – 5PM 8PM – 12M 12:35AM – 2AM 2AM – 5AM [PTR]
USA / USA HD 12N – 6PM
CNBC / CNBC HD 5PM 1AM
MSNBC / MSNBC HD 3AM – 5:30AM
TUESDAY 2.23
NBC / NBC HD 3PM – 5PM 8PM – 12M 12:35AM – 2:00AM 2:00AM – 5AM [PTR]
USA / USA HD 12N – 6PM
CNBC / CNBC HD 5PM 2:30AM
MSNBC / MSNBC HD 10PM 1AM 3AM – 5:30AM
WEDNESDAY 2.24
NBC / NBC HD 3PM – 5PM 8PM 11:30PM 12:05AM – 1:30AM 1:30AM – 5AM [PTR]
CNBC / CNBC HD 7PM 2:30AM
MSNBC / MSNBC HD 5PM – 8PM 3AM – 5:30AM
VENUES BY SPORT
Alpine Skiing: Whistler Creekside
Biathlon: Whistler Olympic/Paralympic Park
Bobsled: The Whistler Sliding Centre
Cross-Country Skiing: Whistler Olympic/Paralympic Park
Curling: Vancouver Olympic/Paralympic Center
Figure Skating: Pacific Coliseum
Freestyle Skiing: Cypress Mountain
Ice Hockey: Canada Hockey Place, UBC Thunderbird Arena
Luge: The Whistler Sliding Centre
Nordic Combined: Whistler Olympic/Paralympic Park
Skeleton: The Whistler Sliding Centre
Ski Jumping: Whistler Olympic/Paralympic Park
Snowboard: Cypress Mountain
Speedskating: – Long Track Richmond Olympic Oval
Speedskating – Short Track Pacific Coliseum
Opening and Closing Ceremonies BC Place Stadium
Victory Ceremonies: BC Place Stadium, Whistler Celebration Site
STANDARD MONDAY-FRIDAY SCHEDULE U.S. TV BROADCAST SCHEDULE
*ET; **ET/PT By Network
NBC 3 p.m.- 5 p.m.** 8 p.m. – 11:30 p.m. ** 12:35 a.m. – 2 a.m.** 2 a.m. – 5 a.m.**
CNBC 5 p.m.- 5 a.m.*
MSNBC 5:30 p.m. – 8 p.m.* 3 a.m. – 5:30 a.m.*
USA Noon – 5:30 p.m.*
Universal HD 9 a.m. – Noon*
