Canada and the world will have the chance to see every momen of every event, if you have the time. For the first time ever 4800 hours of brodcasting will be made available over all types of media.
It is taking a team of roughly 1400 staff members to "make the trains run on time" at the CTV-Rogers broadcasting center. IBC (Intrrnationa Broadcasting Center) takes up 3 floors, 6 studios, and a few dozen suites for editing video and audio recording voiceovers and publishing the www.ctvolympics.ca website.
There are over 2250 hours of television coverage. There is Si much coverage that it takes a room full of servers that look like stacks of VCRs stacked on top of each other, just to process it all.
A huge chunk of coverage will be online and feeding to mobile phones. From highlight packs to onsite interviews with athletes, to hourly updates on each sport.
"You can't turn in any direction without running into the Olympics and especially an Olympic broadcast. Says Alon Marcovici who is in charge of the digital offerings.
Ivan Fecan, president of CTVglobemedia says " We need to do it differently than CBC had done it, and for that we need scale."
The availablity of the events has reached new hights with the joining of the newest technology and the hard working 'Team' effort of all Canadian media. The Games have finaly arrived for the whole world to enjoy.
We as a nation have been working so hard for so long, or time to play hard has arrived.
Go Canada Go.
