http://www.buzzsugar.com Entertainment hourly. en http://www.buzzsugar.com/507707 <a href="http://www.buzzsugar.com/507707"><img width=138 height=160 src='http://media.onsugar.com/files/users/1/13839/32_2007/index1.large.jpg'></div></a><p><span class="inline left"></span>Yesterday I brought you news that NBC plans to provide us with <a href="/505976" rel="nofollow">1,400 hours of coverage (plus 2,200 hours of online broadcasts)</a> for the 2008 Olympics, but how much of it will interest you? </p> <p>Are you one to obsessively tune in for any and all Olympics events, or do you just watch a few particular things? Or maybe you ignore the whole thing?</p> <!-- no strip poll --><form action="/507707" method="post" id="epoll_view_voting"> <div><div class="poll"> <div class="vote-form"> <div class="choices"><div class="form-item"> <label>How Much of the Olympics Do You Watch?</label> <div class="form-item"> <label for="id-0-507707" class="option"><input type="radio" id="id-0-507707" name="edit[choice]" value="0-507707" class="form-radio" /> Every event I possibly can!</label> </div> <div class="form-item"> <label for="id-1-507707" class="option"><input type="radio" id="id-1-507707" name="edit[choice]" value="1-507707" class="form-radio" /> Only the interesting things like, you know, gymnastics</label> </div> <div class="form-item"> <label for="id-2-507707" class="option"><input type="radio" id="id-2-507707" name="edit[choice]" value="2-507707" class="form-radio" /> A few events if I happen to catch them by accident </label> </div> <div class="form-item"> <label for="id-3-507707" class="option"><input type="radio" id="id-3-507707" name="edit[choice]" value="3-507707" class="form-radio" /> None!</label> </div> </div> </div><input type="hidden" name="edit[nid]" id="edit-nid" value="507707" /> <span class='button'><span><input class='fancybutton' type='submit' name="op" value="Vote" class="form-submit" /></span></span> </div><input type="hidden" name="edit[form_id]" id="edit-form_id" value="epoll_view_voting" /> </div> </div></form> <!-- no strip poll --> http://www.buzzsugar.com/507707#comment TV Buzz Poll NBC 2008 Summer Olympics Thu, 09 Aug 2007 05:45:00 -0700 BuzzSugar http://www.buzzsugar.com/507707 http://www.buzzsugar.com/505976 <a href="http://www.buzzsugar.com/505976"><img width=138 height=160 src='http://media.onsugar.com/files/users/1/13839/32_2007/index1.large.jpg'></div></a><p><span class="inline left"></span>I'm kind of a sucker for the Olympics, but even I'm not sure I'm <b>this</b> much of a sucker: NBC has announced its plans for broadcasting the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, which start one year from today, and all told, the network plans to show <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/televisionNews/idUSN0827699320070808" target="_blank">1,400 hours of coverage</a> - plus another 2,200 hours of free online broadcasts.</p> <p>NBC's cable networks will carry much of that load, with coverage planned for USA, MSNBC, CNBC and Telemundo. (No Bravo? And what about Sci Fi? Surely there's some Sci Fi channel tie-in for the Olympics, right?) On some days, the network plus cable plus online broadcasts will add up to 212 hours of coverage. Yes, that's nearly 10 times the number of hours in a day. </p> <p>NBC hasn't said how much of that coverage will be live, but they're certainly doing all they can to get high-profile swimming and gymnastics events to the East Coast as they happen. The network has managed to convince the International Olympic Committee to move the times of those events so they can be shown live - despite the inconvenience to the athletes, who will be competing in a time zone that's 12 hours ahead.</p> http://www.buzzsugar.com/505976#comment TV NBC 2008 Summer Olympics Wed, 08 Aug 2007 10:32:13 -0700 BuzzSugar http://www.buzzsugar.com/505976