Updated Olympic TV Schedule for T&F

a big thank you bump for this one.

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I still don't know what the F is going on. I'm just gonna DVR everything and sort through it later. Too bad I don't get CBC here...

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backstretch wrote:

Doesn't this mean that the women's 10,000 will be shown very early on Friday morning (as in staying up late Thursday)? If it is listed as 12:30am02:00am on Friday, August 15 it would appear to be the first track event we would see rather than after the daytime and evening broadcasts......

Hopefully TVhelp can clarify this, but it appears he has listed the times for the night they occur, not changing the day at the strike of midnight. If you look on the NBC page the women's 10000m is listed on Saturday in the 12-2am window, which is really late Friday night. It is listed as Friday on TVhelp's schedule. The semis in the women's 800m are listed on Sunday on NBC, but Saturday on the list TVhelp posted.

No, because if you go to the IAAF web site (linked to off the LR home page), you'll see the womens 10,000 takes place Friday night in Beijing - which makes it about 9:45 AM CST in the US. Late night to NBC means very very early morning to the rest of us.

backstretch wrote:

Doesn't this mean that the women's 10,000 will be shown very early on Friday morning (as in staying up late Thursday)? If it is listed as 12:30am02:00am on Friday, August 15 it would appear to be the first track event we would see rather than after the daytime and evening broadcasts......

Is there a list of any events that will be played live online?

ggilder wrote:

If you have a Vista operating system you can automatically download all the T&F events onto your harddrive every night and play them in high definition (with full pause, rewind and fast forward etc.) the next day through NBC's Olympics on the go using TVTonic (www.tvtonic.com).

Is this free??

And knock it off with the stickey. It has alread been done. it is on the homepage. You click t.v schedule and it takes you right to this thread...

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I just got back from Africa and Europe and watched US covergae for the first time last night. I was very underwhellmed. In Africa, I got supersport from RSA and they had 5-7 channels (i.e. Supersport 5,6, etc.) all devoted to 24 hour coverage. Nearly everything was live and comprehensive. They had no sap stories, no studio talk, no dramas, just live, unedited events WITH NO COMMERCIALS!! In Europe, it was the same way. I just looked at the eurosport website and they have live coverage of all the track events (about 5 hours a day live!)

I don't care about the excuses--America should have similar coverage!

Is there anywhere to watch Friday's womens steeple heats live on the internet? It appears they are starting around 8:25 pm in Beijing which will be 8:25 am in the Eastern time zone. Thanks.

TV help, you're the greatest. I vote him for poster of the year....already!

But, we do have similar coverage. Just move to Detroit and watch on CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Company). Or Buffalo. Or Upstate Vermont. You get the idea.Ah, for the days of Triplecast. All events shown live, Frank Shorter as the commentator...bascially, by day 5 no one who had it was going to work anymore.

US coverage sucks wrote:

I just got back from Africa and Europe and watched US covergae for the first time last night. I was very underwhellmed. In Africa, I got supersport from RSA and they had 5-7 channels (i.e. Supersport 5,6, etc.) all devoted to 24 hour coverage. Nearly everything was live and comprehensive. They had no sap stories, no studio talk, no dramas, just live, unedited events WITH NO COMMERCIALS!! In Europe, it was the same way. I just looked at the eurosport website and they have live coverage of all the track events (about 5 hours a day live!)

I don't care about the excuses--America should have similar coverage!

so basically the womens 10k is saturday morning during the hours of 12 am - 2:30 am???

bumpity stick!

hayward102 wrote:

Hopefully TVhelp can clarify this, but it appears he has listed the times for the night they occur, not changing the day at the strike of midnight. If you look on the NBC page the women's 10000m is listed on Saturday in the 12-2am window, which is really late Friday night. It is listed as Friday on TVhelp's schedule. The semis in the women's 800m are listed on Sunday on NBC, but Saturday on the list TVhelp posted.

You are correct, I didn't bother to note the day had changed at midnight in listing the events at they occur throughout the day. I thought it was obvious that after the 8pm-midnight "PT" prime time coverage that everyone would understand that the 12:30am-2:00am "LN" coverage, which starts only 30 minutes after the "PT" coverage ends, was really the next day.

For example, when I say there is late night "LN" coverage Mon-Aug18 12:30am-2:00am, it does occur late Monday night, but because it's occurring just after midnight, it's technically early Tuesday morning. But NBC is calling them "late night" broadcasts. I didn't want to place them in the next day's schedule and call them "early morning" broadcasts. I thought that would be more confusing.

You can get the actual Beijing time every T&F event starts (in Beijing Time) here at USATF's website:

Better yet, go to the official Olympic website (don't bother with the crap on NBC's website)here:

Then select schedule & results. Then select the day and the sport. From there you get the start times, start lists, results, etc. There is a huge amount of interesting informaton on this official Olympic website -- far better than the crap on nbcolympics.com. So visit it and spend some time there.

The women's 10K starts at 10:45pm Beijing time on Friday. Now simply subtract 12 hours and you get 10:45am Fri. EDT, the time it is occuring in NY/east coast. Now the jerks at NBC could pick up the last half of this 10K race live during their 11am-noon broadcast of Friday. But they won't do this. They won't even show this race during their 8pm-midnight "PT" coverage later on Friday. Instead they wait until after midnight to show this 10K women race during their 12:30am-2:00am late night broadcast (yes, that's actually very early Sat. morning). This race, like almost every other T&F race, is being broadcast about 15 hours after it actually took place. Hope this helps.

TVhelp wrote:

You are correct, I didn't bother to note the day had changed at midnight in listing the events at they occur throughout the day. I thought it was obvious that after the 8pm-midnight "PT" prime time coverage that everyone would understand that the 12:30am-2:00am "LN" coverage, which starts only 30 minutes after the "PT" coverage ends, was really the next day.

I think the way you have it set-up makes the most sense. Thanks for putting this schedule together. I have it printed out and am ready to go.

We will never have any such thing in the US because its all about commercials and getting you to buy more junk. Every few mins. we have a commercial. Also, the media is so stupid that they cant deliver rational analysis of anything. They need something with pizzazz to talk about, very little or no substance. I dont know whether the problem is the media or the viewing public or both.

The TV schedules are impossible to understand. I give up. I'll wait to see it all on youtube in a few days.