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12 August 2008

Olympics Coverage on RTE

Filed under: ireland,sports — Tags: , , , , , , , , , — Will @ 19:10

Radio Telefís Éireann (RTE) is the Irish national broadcaster, and it is my source for the 2008 Olympics on television. Its coverage consists primarily of three programs: Olympics through the Night, Olympics AM, and Olympics Today. All three consist of live broadcasts as well as overviews and highlights. At any time from about midnight to 4pm, the Olympics is broadcast on one of RTE’s two television channels — but never both to this point.

I record all three programs every day, so I see all the events that RTE chooses to show — although I see many of them at 12x or 30x speed. RTE’s choices are shaped by the sports for which Irish athletes qualified and the events of (putative) Irish interest. These are quite different from what I remember of US coverage, but that should be no surprise.

Still, I am surprised by what I’ve seen. (more…)

19 June 2007

First impression of hurling

Filed under: sports — Tags: , , , , , , , , , — Will @ 21:25

We put Sunday’s hurling match between Waterford and Cork on our DVR, and here’s a summary of our impressions of hurling after about 10 minutes:

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hurling from wikipedia, cc from Gnevin
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