The 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver will be here soon. We watched some of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing on the Canadian Broadcasting Corp (CBC) channel, which we thought had much better coverage than NBC. They showed more live unfiltered footage of events and they also weren't so biased towards US athletes.
Unfortunately this year, CBC won't be showing the Olympics in the Seattle area. We're only 140 miles away, yet we won't get Canadian coverage. I guess it doesn't matter much to us though, since we don't have cable any more and only get local channels.
An article from the Seattle Times summarizes it pretty well:
CBC, the Canadian network available on cable here, won't be carrying the games. Local fans will have few alternatives to NBC, which tape-delays coverage of most premier events for West Coast audiences. CTV, the largest privately owned network in Canada, outbid CBC for the broadcast rights in that country. But CTV is available almost nowhere in the state of Washington.
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The Olympics is one of two events that is going to make me break down and buy a cable package this summer. The other is the World Cup of course. I always watch every minute of these two events that I possibly can. And the rest of my life I spend not caring about sports at all.
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