CBC/Radio-Canada has introduced its intensive protection plans for the 2024 Paris Olympics, which happen between Friday, July 26, and Sunday, Aug. 11.
Protection of Workforce Canada’s roughly 10,500 athletes will embrace a constant slate of on-the-ground and in-studio protection programming for 22 hours every day.
“As we mark our twenty fourth Olympic Video games as Canada’s official broadcaster, we look ahead to offering audiences with unparalleled stay and on-demand protection of the world’s high athletes on their pursuit of the rostrum throughout all of our platforms,” Chris Wilson, CBC/Radio-Canada’s basic supervisor of Olympics, Paris 2024, stated in a launch.
The stay and on-demand protection will encompass broadcasts spanning each venue Paris presents and can amass greater than 3,000 hours of content material as CBC goals to seize each Canadian medal-winning second.
“CBC/Radio-Canada is delighted to broadcast to Canadians from coast to coast to coast the thrills of the Olympics, this summer time with the spectacular backdrop of Paris, France,” Catherine Tait, President and CEO, CBC/Radio-Canada stated.
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Audiences can view occasion schedules, outcomes, athletes’s biographies and extra on CBC’s web site and app. Tuning into protection is feasible by means of conventional tv broadcasts on CBC, their companion networks in TSN and Sportsnet and catching stay occasions by means of the free streaming service CBC Gem.
Two-time Olympian and former pace skater Anastasia Buscis will kick off protection at 6 a.m. ET, bringing up-to-date protection for six hours all morning with CBC Sports activities’s Rob Pizzo on deck for stay updates.
Afterward, audiences will get a view of the Eiffel Tower as Scott Russell hosts the subsequent six-hour block of programming alongside Julie Stewart-Binks from 12 to six p.m., who, like Pizzo within the mornings, will deliver stay updates to the Bell Paris Prime Stay section.
The next seven hours of stay programming begins at 7 p.m. with Toyota Olympic Video games Primetime operating till 2. a.m. The seven-hour block will function a four-person panel consisting of two Olympians with former Canadian water polo co-captain Waneek Horn-Miller and world champion hurdler Perdita Felicien.
Lastly, CBC’s 2 to six a.m. schedule — Olympic Video games In a single day — will showcase highlights and replays from the occasions from that day whereas offering stay protection of the early morning Paris occasions earlier than Buscis’s program kickstarts the subsequent day’s Olympic protection.
CBC Sports activities’s Devin Heroux will likely be on the bottom in Paris, bringing audiences as near the athletes as potential.
The general public broadcaster will present kids with protection of the occasions on cbckidsnews.ca, whereas cbckids.ca will home Olympic motion and an array of video games.
“Due to our gifted and tireless CBC/Radio-Canada groups, audiences from coast to coast to coast won’t ever miss a second of the motion because the nation cheers on and celebrates the world’s high athletes,” Wilson stated.
