TORONTO – With just days to go until the start of the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018, CBC revealed plans to air 18 hours of live coverage daily, plus offer free live-streaming and on-demand coverage from every event.
Through broadcast, web, mobile apps, social media and radio, CBC’s coverage will be “as in-depth as any Olympic Games the network has covered before”, the public broadcaster said. The Olympic Winter Games officially kick off with the Opening Ceremony on February 9, beginning with a pre-show at 5:30 AM ET/2:30 AM PT followed by the Ceremony itself at 6:00 AM ET/3:00 AM PT.
For the second consecutive Olympic Games, CBC’s website will offer virtual reality technology in the form of 360-degree immersive video and a schedule of daily live VR coverage. Every minute of the action will be available via CBC’s digital coverage, with live feeds of every event, and live feeds of CBC, TSN and Sportsnet linear channels. Viewers also have the option of dual-screen live video, allowing them to watch two different feeds at once.
The free CBC Olympics Virtual Reality app will offer VR live-streams of events including alpine skiing, curling, figure skating, ice hockey, short track speed skating, skeleton, snowboarding, and select other highlights, in addition to live VR coverage of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies. The VR app can also be downloaded for Oculus, with additional exclusive content available.
The CBC Olympics app, available for iOS and Android devices, will feature high-quality live-streaming of every event, up-to-the-minute results and personalized alerts. The app will be available prior to the Opening Ceremony and it will also be replacing the CBC Sports app, at which point sports fans can still connect with the mobile version of cbcsports.ca for their non-Olympic Games needs.
CBC Radio’s Olympic Games Report will air multiple times daily across the CBC Radio network during the Games, and will include reports from South Korea as well as interviews with athletes and CBC broadcasters.
@CBC and @CBCOlympics social feeds will have social/digital teams across Pyeongchang offering different perspectives on the action: @CBC accounts on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram will focus on the Olympic Games atmosphere and fans’ Canadian spirit, with an exploration of Korean culture, while @CBCOlympics will cover all moments from the Olympic Winter Games with added insight from analysts and the athletes themselves using Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube.
The new CBC Sports PYC Podcast, hosted by Olympic Games Overnight host Kelly VanderBeek, focuses on the Olympic Games past and present, with unique insights from the people who have lived – or are living – the experience, while CBC Kids will serve up a dedicated Olympic Games website with videos, activities, quizzes, blog posts, and fun facts about each sport and the host country.
CBC Music will offer streaming music channel K-Pop Idols, an upbeat selection of the best and biggest in South Korean pop music, and Canadian athletes will also share their favourite Canadian song in a special playlist.
The PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games will take place February 9 – 25, 2018 in PyeongChang, South Korea.
