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Originally Posted by GirlySports
TSN pretty much pulled this off themselves. Were there any CTV people anywhere? Maybe behind the scenes people.
It seemed like a TSN production with Sportsnet people sprinkled in. CBC has enough play-by-play guys and the analysts are pretty much the same. There are a lot of ex-athletes.
The online portion will definitely be better. It was better in Beijing than in London and CTV has 4 more years of technology. Way too many ads and feeds kept dropping at around noon.
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Well its definitely a Bell Media (TSN, CTV) production first and foremost.
But Basketball they used the NBC feed. Soccer games not including Canada were international feeds/announcers, as were most of the team sports outside of volleyball. CBC tried to patch together their own commentators as much as they could although I think they had help in 2008 IIRC from TSN.
Jamie Campbell (Cycling), Rob Faulds (rowing), Gerry Dobson(soccer, water polo), Kevin Quinn (Beach and Regular Volleyball) were some of the Sportsnet talent in addition to of course having the the Snet hosts over there.
I can see a Snet (who seemed to relucntant into this consortium, because I think the Bell/CTV/TSN deal big occurred before 2010 but after the deal was made as a consortium for these last 2 Olympics prior to that) teaming with CBC at least for 2014/16.
CBC does need more commentators...outside of hockey, there is nothing else that needs sports commentators with the loss of CBC Sportsweekend this past year...Mark Lee can do other things but Hughson's never done anything sportswise outside of hockey, baseball, and the odd early Raptors game. Then you're left with Cole, who's only done hockey and guys like Dean Brown who did events in Olympics for CBC previously.