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The Chicago Tribune had an interesting article on ABCs Olympic
coverage.  While generally disapproving of the USA cheerleading
aspect of the coverage, the article made several interesting points 
in defense of ABC.

Apparently the signals fed to other countries' TV administrations
are not what we watch on ABC. ABC does all the camera work, of course, and
then makes available the unedited, multi-camera feeds to the other countries.
Then, the other countries are free to put n their own commentary, and in fact
can also choose different camera angles etc. than those chosen by ABC.

Thus, while ABC is following the US teams around,  simultaneous camera coverage
of other nations is available.

The big difference between this year and previous Olympics (even those also
handled by ABC) is that the signal provided to the various press boxes, and
to the olympic village, is the USA broadcast version, in all its
"go-USA" glory.  Previously, there was a generic"world feed" broadcast
that was distributed around the Olympic village, and to the world press,
that differed quite a bit from the USA TV broadcast.

Just the same,  I've been getting pretty aggravated with the coverage.

I don't mind seeing a lot of the US teams, but really object when Cathy Rigby
says "We really did it this time!", acting like she's still part of the
gymnastics team.  She and Kurt Thomas also spend a lot of time picking out
every little thing wrong with everyone else, while gushing about how the 
American "really nailed it!"

Bob Schleicher
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