2012 Olympics
The Games of the XXX Olympiad kick off Friday, July 27th, in London. And as might be expected in this day and…
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The Games of the XXX Olympiad kick off Friday, July 27th, in London. And as might be expected in this day and…
The International Olympic Committee pushes out integration with a host of social platforms and attempts to clarify rules as London 2012 draws near, following recent criticism of its policies
With the Olympics just a few months away, there’s the usual flurry of stories detailing frenzied preparations by organizers and athletes. But one other type of news item is surprisingly popular in Britain – stories equating telecommuting during the games with slacking at home.
The BBC is permitting use of its iPlayer mobile apps over 3G mobile networks, ahead of its big 2012 Olympic Games mobile push.
“Every sport, from every location.” That is BBC Sport’s mantra for delivering next year’s London 2012 Olympic Games digitally.
Samsung and VisitBritain expect 2012 Olympics tourists will be walking around London toting Galaxy Tabs.
They have partnered to ship a Visi…
London 2012 Olympics organisers aim to make money from their online operations, including capitalising on a domestic commercial straitjacket…
Last week, one of the stranger controversies to arise during the Olympics had nothing to do with authentication, thanks to commentators on…
Buildings, like cars, need constant tune-ups to make sure they’re running efficiently, says David Helliwell, co-founder of 4-year-old startup Pulse Energy, which…
Let’s get the credits out of the way first: this February, NBC Sports will stream more than 400 hours of live event coverage on NBCOlympics.…
Is YouTube Looking at a Subscription Model?; Google vice president of content partnerships David Eun said some full-length shows would not be…
We tend to focus a lot on News Corp.’s desire to get paid for its online content but the “pay plus ads” refrain is being sung elsewhere in t…
Tomorrow is the big launch for NBC’s (s GE) 2010 Olympics coverage. With 100 days till the opening ceremonies in Vancouver, NBC…
Exactly a year ago CAA announced its biggest bet on sports media, and formed a new unit called CAA Sports Media Venture, as a rollup venture…
Still conscious of staying on the right side of regulators and anxious newspapers, the BBC has assured its critics that – despite relaunch…
That was quick: The United States Olympic Committee announced this morning that it will launch a cable TV network devoted to Olympic and Par…
Corrected: I really must stop believing some news sources. Contrary to what Revolution magazine reported from its own conference, Blue State…
The London 2012 Olympics is planning a significant mobile infrastructure roll-out for both the public and for bandwidth-hungry visiting medi…
The 2012 London Olympics will be the most wired yet but, true to its modest ambitions relative to Beijing, will focus on mass viewer appeal…
I already reported on the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games’ online strategy in text here. Now see London 2012 new media head…
The 2012 London Olympics will be the most wired yet but, true to its modest ambitions relative to Beijing, will focus on mass viewer appeal…
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has awarded the European cross-platform broadcasting rights to the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Ru…
CBS (NYSE: CBS) and Time Warner’s Turner Networks are in discussions about making a joint bid for the broadcast rights for 2014 and 2016 Oly…
This summer’s Olympic Games in China were the perfect opportunity for the mobile industry to showcase mobile content and reach out to a new…
In UK, BBC may not now win the rights to the 2014 Winter Olympics the 2016 Summer Games after the International Olympic Committee turned dow…
The long march to the 2012 Olympics continues with the announcement that Spanish web portal Terra, part of the Telefónica group, has bagged…
NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) claims it streamed at least 12 million hours of Olympics content across its digital platforms — HD, broadband, mob…
If Fox Sports CEO David Hill had any qualms about live streaming simulcasts with TV, it sounds like the Olympics took care of it. Hill told…
The BBC has released some statistics on its blog looking at how its web site fared during the Olympics with audiences. Online video, turned…
Some stories for this long holiday weekend in U.S.:
— Chinese online traffic exceeds U.S. websites during Olympics: So says WebTrends, cit…
I have post-Olympics blues, but that doesn’t stop some news and numbers:
— NBC’s final numbers online: NBCU has come out with some numbers…
Great lessons in usability … Almost as soon as Rafat posted about the Opening Ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics, we started getting queri…
That’s the estimate from eMarketer: it says that the online video advertising on NBCOlympics.com will reach a relatively small $5.75 million…
When it comes to Olympics coverage on the mobile phone, the best Olympics coverage hands-down was found at mobile.NBCOlympics.com. That’s l…
We spend a lot of time separating the wheat from the chaff around here so you don’t have to and the latest broadband release from NBC requir…
We’re not going to ruin the results of Usain Bolt’s just-finished 200M run for you… Of course, NBCOlympics.com already has the results (sp…
The Olympics are now in full swing. Countless records have been broken and the touchy-feely stories and analysis often hit the point of naus…
With the first week of the 2008 Olympics in the history books, we’re getting a better picture of NBCOlympics.com.
Some of the stats throug…
Michael Phelps who? In what is probably the greatest moment in this Olympics, Usain Bolt of Jamaica won gold 100m dash in 9.69 seconds, a ne…
In our second of a series (first is here) of reviews on mobile content from the Olympics, we took a look at the major sports news sites
The 2008 Summer Olympics are destined to go down as one of the biggest digital events the world has yet to see, spanning across the TV, Inte…
Perhaps you’re feeling a little self-conscious about the fact that your weekend plans consist of your couch, your TV, and Olympics coverage…
— NBCU claims $10 million in Olympic ad sales: But that’s for TV and digital combined, as NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) reps declined to provide…
NetEase.com, one of the big Chinese online portals, reported its Q2 earnings today, and the growth came ahead of analyst views. NetEase earn…
Vodafone’s (NYSE: VOD) BBC Sport news widget may have made headlines yesterday, but one unknown component of the broadcaster’s Olympics cove…
The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing are supposed to be one of the biggest digital events of all time with tons of content being available fo…
NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) execs claimed to have been “stunned” by the level of mobile adoption by users turning to their mobile phones to che…
Five days into the Olympic Games, NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) execs hailed the audience ratings results as “phenomenal” now that the first resu…
As someone who doesn’t watch a lot of network news, but does catch earfuls while in transit from one location to another,…
We aren’t planning a daily traffic report of this but NBCU’s numbers through this afternoon are out and so far more than 1 million streams o…
Update: Because people are asking this in the comments thread below: The DVD of the opening ceremony is now for sale…can be ordered here.…
While we are still awaiting the Olympics opening ceremony on TV on the West Coast (oh the misery), and pretend it hasn’t happened almost a d…
Finally! The Olympics kick off today and we want to make sure you are fully prepared. We’ve run stories about them all…
Was going to go with ‘let a thousand widgets bloom’ but we’re way beyond that with the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing. NBC Universal (NYSE: GE…
The Beijing Games begin in four days — and with them, the most complicated, intensive digital media Olympics yet. Perkins Miller heads that…
YouTube has finally managed to get a piece of the action for the Olympics, though a minor one: it will show about three hours of daily cover…
The compulsion to get GE execs on the record about NBC Universal’s (NYSE: GE) future — maybe we can make it a drinking game during the Olym…
Combine technological advancement, a worldwide stage and fears of terrorism, and what do you get? An Orwellian 2008 Summer Olympic Games. From…
On the eve of the Beijing Olympics, Brightcove’s new Japanese subsidiary, Brightcove KK, has signed a deal to power video for gorin.jp,…
NBC has released details of its digital coverage for the Beijing Olympics, and there’s a fair amount in there. NBCOlympics Mobile will inclu…
Yes, I have been miffed at some of NBCU’s digital Olympics offering, but that doesn’t mean you can’t give them credit for the huge digital e…
Verizon (NYSE: VZ) and AT&T (NYSE: T) are both going multiplatform for the Olympics Games in Beijing next month. NBC Universal (NYSE: GE), w…
Some good news for Chinese office workers without a TV during the Olympics… Three top web portals, Netease (NSDQ: NTES), Sina (NSDQ: SINA)…
NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) says advertising inventory for the roughly 2,200 hours of online Olympics coverage next month is about 85 percent s…
NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) has unveiled its programming guide, but it
While NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) is raking in millions from advertising commitments for its TV, online and mobile phone coverage of the Summer…
And here I was rejoicing that finally we could do away with the lame soft-focus athlete stories and parochial commentary from NBCU with this…
Someone at NBC Sports needs to find that fine balance between managing the network’s expensive Beijing Olympics rights and and making the v…
The man who once predicted a television universe with 500 channels isn’t too thrilled with the internet version. Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA)…
Sohu (NSDQ: SOHU), the Chinese portal company who already is the online host/content provider for the upcoming Beijing Olympics, has now sna…
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has gone some way to avoiding the kind of embarrassing new media reporting restrictions imposed by…
With the Beijing Olympics roughly four months away, Kevan Gosper, vice chairman of the IOC coordinating commission, is warning organizers th…
An intriguing move by China Central Television … the Wall Street Journal reports that the state-run broadcaster is tying up with MySpace C…
The International Olympic Committee, still sitting high on its all-rights-are-ours horse, has opened up a little, allowing athletes to blog…
State broadcaster China Central Television’s CCTV.com, which already has over-the-air rights for the Beijing Olympics, now has the internet…
Two years ago, Chinese site Sohu.com beat out the competition with an estimated $30 million bid to become the exclusive internet sponsor of…
This is pretty interesting and you won’t see this ever happen here: Chinese portal Sohu is the official news provider and sponsor of the 200…
Last November we had a post about NBCU planning 1,000 hours of live streaming online with the next Olympics. Now USAT has some follow up. “T…
With the majority of eBay users between the ages of 35-44, the online auctioneer hopes to attract younger demos though a partnership with te…
The European Broadcasting Union has released some data on online streaming in its member countries during the Winter Olympics held last mont…
(via PVRblog) Yep, not BitTorrent, as most of us expected, but on the age-old Usenet…Olympics coverage is being digitized and circulated t…
I have to post this…I would probably make this into a T-Shirt slogan as well, if it was shorter…
Norman Chad at The Chronicle has put it…
(reg. req.) In UK, that is. More than 6 million people have clicked on their remote control red buttons to use the BBC’s interactive TV cove…
A review of Olympics coverage online, from NBCOlympics.com, Athens2004.com and others…”The Internet is good for getting results and learn…
My feelings exactly…die, broadcast, die.
Some facts and fiction on the online and wireless coverage of Olympics…
— Early signs that Games are web hot: You can’t be serious…
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Well, it is here, but you can’t watch it if you’re outside UK. Interesting experiment with multicasting, though…
As it says, “Multicast is…
Some Australian broadcast outlets have been forced to shut down their Internet radio broadcasting streams to avoid breaching the Internation…
Another profile of sucky NBCOlympics.com…god awful coverage offline and online….
The Web is worldwide, but that isn’t stopping Olympics officials from trying to set up regional boundaries. However, you may be able to watc…
The 50th story on how BBC is planning to cover Olympics online, with broadband playing a major part…The BBC sports site offers live covera…
Well, NBC’s trying hard… it has announced a series of partnerships and new interactive services it will use to help viewers navigate its p…
Well, another example of how Europeans are ahead on sports right online and on mobiles, than U.S. where rights holders want to control it to…
In U.S.: “Provide downloadable video of all sports, regardless of whether or not they aired on TV.” Of course, it is not going to happen any…
Some interesting projected figures for NBCOlympics.com, for August, the month of the Olympics…
1,210 – Hours of Olympic broadcasts (televi…
Really? That’s news…
Anyway, NBC Universal Networks Group President Randy Falco: “I love wireless. I think that in the future people are g…
An interesting promotion by B2B info vendor: it will provide free access to SIRC SportDiscus, a premier sports medicine database, to physici…
(by Jak Boumans): The Dutch public broadcaster NOS will webcast the Olympic games. For this, it is tying up with the Dutch incumbent telco K…
(via Lost Remote) Well, balance is a slightly generous word, because TV networks and rights holders still want to tightly control online dis…
The United States Olympic Committee has relaunched its website and introduced personalization. In addition, the site will also lauch a premi…
A roundup of online coverage of the upcoming Olympics…including the official NBC site, the BBC Online’s coverage.
I am thinking of going to the Olympics for about a week, to cover technology’s affect on sports and sports coverage, focusing on things like…
A detailed interview with Rex Sorgatz, interactive director for IBS, about the challenges and innovations behind NBC’s newest site, NBCOlymp…
(reg. req.) Will the BBC’s Olympic webcasts revolutionise the way we watch sport on TV? And can they tempt us to buy broadband?
Andrew Thomp…
I’m starting a new category, “Digital Olympics”, covering the digital media-related aspects of the upcoming Olympics…this will be the firs…
(sub. req.): Thanks to a recent deal with Greek operator Cosmote, one of the main sponsors of the Olympic games, DoCoMo’s i-mode mobile inte…
Microsoft should go in for the kill with its SPOT watches, and focus on the Olympics, writes Joe Wilcox. “The Summer Olympics event is a gol…
BBC’s Creative Archives, the controversial plan by the Beeb to launch its archives online, for free, will launch sometime in Autumn this yea…
EU competition authorities are concerned the IOC did not offer any rights to new media and mobile phone providers for the last Olympic games…