TORONTO – CBC is offering Canadians access to every hour of live sports at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games via digital and mobile platforms that include a “responsive” website, a CBC Olympic Games app for iOS, Android and Windows 8, and a primetime Olympic second-screen experience called ‘Primetime Plus’.
The CBC Olympic Games app, available now from the App Store on iTunes and Android Market on Google Play, lets Canadians customize their viewing by sport, set alerts for events, research athletes and delegate countries, check the medal count and stream live coverage. In addition, it will offer webcasts containing raw feeds from the Sochi 2014 competition venues, plus The Olympic Feed, a live blog that will be a resource for all the latest news and social media highlights coming out of the Games.
Primetime Plus, the ‘second-screen’ companion for the primetime show, will be available in English and French during the Olympic Primetime show with Ron MacLean, daily as of February 7 from 7:00 –11:00 PM across Canada, except Alberta (6:00 –10:00 PM) and British Columbia (5:00 – 9:00 PM). This viewing companion will serve as a guide for the stories being focused on during the primetime show, and provide an opportunity for viewers to interact with the programming through live polls, photo and caption contests. It will also give viewers a more comprehensive experience of the Olympic Winter Games through access to expanded clips, behind-the-scenes social media action and additional content in real time as events air on television.
Lastly, two viewing schedules have been added to the official website this week: ‘Watch Online’ which outlines the online streaming schedule, and 'TV Listings' which provides the schedule for CBC-TV, and specialty channel partners TSN, TSN2, Sportsnet, and Sportsnet ONE.
www.cbc.ca/olympics
