CBC Receives Positive Reviews For Final Year Of Olympics Coverage

CBC Receives High Marks For Olympics Coverage Despite Calling Equestrian Events From Toronto

TALENT REVIEWS: The GLOBE & MAIL's Houston wrote CBC reporter Elliotte Friedman's work at the pool and the track "rankles some because he's serious, doesn't flatter the athletes and asks good questions." Houston: "In other words, he's doing his job. His work stands out, but also jars some viewers because it is so different from the sort of doting, congratulatory conversation that we hear in the studio" (GLOBE & MAIL, 8/23). Houston added, "Below average Canadian performers at Beijing have been praised way too much by CBC broadcasters." But following Canada kayaker Adam Van Koeverden Friday finishing eighth in the men's K-1 1,000m final, an event in which he was "expected to win a medal," CBC reporter Karin Larsen "handled this situation appropriately." Larsen "usually asks good questions and she did again" with Van Koeverden (GLOBEANDMAIL.com, 8/22). The STAR's Zelkovich noted Lee "handled his first Olympics track assignment remarkably well." He did a "good job of calling what was happening, never got caught up in sideshows and let his analysts -- Michael Smith and Dave Moorcroft -- do the heavy lifting" (TORONTO STAR, 8/24).

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AROUND THE WORLD: The HOLLYWOOD REPORTER's Jonathan Landreth cited Nielsen data showing that 96% of Chinese families "watched at least some portion of the Olympics" on China state broadcaster CCTV (HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, 8/24)....The BBC through Friday had drawn about 40 million total viewers in the U.K. who "have watched at least 15 minutes of the Beijing Olympics -- up from 32 million" through the first week of the Games. BBC1 for the first week of the Games "had its best viewing figures for two years" (GUARDIAN.co.uk, 8/22).

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