VANCOUVER – With the start of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games just days away, Canada’s Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium has released its digital viewers guide so that fans can plan out the events that they’d like to watch.
Updated regularly to capture programming changes throughout the Games, the customizable viewers’ guide is designed to help viewers navigate the more than 4,800 hours of live coverage on television and on-line.
The guide, which is also available as a mobile application, is available from the home pages of the Olympic-dedicated websites CTVOlympics.ca and RDSolympiques.ca.
The Consortium also unveiled its 63-member multilingual broadcast team that will deliver the Games in 22 languages.
Broadcast veterans will team up with relative newcomers as OMNI Television, Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) and Asian Television Network (ATN) will air a combined total of 421 hours of multilingual coverage throughout the 17 days of the Games.
“We have recruited and trained a dynamic group of broadcasters who will deliver the Games in their native languages”, said Consortium president Keith Pelley, in a statement. “Hosting the Games on home soil gives us the perfect opportunity to celebrate the country’s diversity and share in the magic of the Games like never before.”
Training for first-time broadcasters included workshops with broadcast veterans, in-studio prep work, and on-line instruction through a portal and website created by the Consortium.
Coverage of the Games will be delivered in Bangla, Cantonese, Cree, Dene, English, French, Gujarati, Hindi, Inuktitut, Italian, Mandarin, Mechif, Mi’Kmaq, Mohawk, Ojibway, Oji-Cree, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Tamil, Ukrainian and Urdu. The Opening and Closing Ceremonies will be broadcast in a record 13 languages.
Click here for the complete list of the Consortium’s multilingual broadcast team.
