Cartt.ca Feature: An Olympics broadcast unlike any other

A MILLION FEET of broadcast cable. 100 or so cameras. 1,350 people. No tape. All for 17 days of sliding, gliding, jumping and skating.The broadcast (or, more accurately, broadcasts) of the 21st Winter Olympic Games from Vancouver and Whistler will be groundbreaking. With every single second of competition to be shown somewhere (12 TV stations or online), it’s been a monumental undertaking for the broadcast consortium led by CTVglobemedia.Nineteen tractor-trailer loads of gear travelled before Christmas from Toronto, where the broadcast team went through full rehearsals in a warehouse in October, to Vancouver. And now a crack team of about...