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The Fab Fortnight.
Watching the Beijing Olympics, for all the athletic and architectural spectacularity on display, has turned out to be more frustrating than I expected. What an opportunity this was--not, as is obvious, just for China but for the rest of the world, the people whose only chance to visit China would be through the lenses of NBC's cameras. Thirty-six hundred hours of sports and features filled the network and its cable sisters CNBC, MSNBC, USA, Telemundo, Oxygen, and Universal HD, and the Web--but I feel as though all I saw of China on TV was tourists walking on the Great Wall and correspondents eating, or not eating, "funny" food like fried scorpions. And yet NBC was so ...
- Beijing Olympics under clouds of terrorism.
- News wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd. July 13, 2008 700+ words
...Xinjiang, said, "the Beijing Olympics is facing a terrorist...for a trouble-free Games with a raft of measures...used to ensure safe Games, a top official of...terrorists who had targeted Beijing Olympics. China accuses militants...before or during the Games.
- Beijing Olympics to witness first-ever HDTV broadcast.
- News wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd. November 7, 2006 700+ words
...The up-coming Beijing Olympics will be the first in the history of the games that would broadcast...thing not only for the Games but also for the broadcasting...be available during Beijing Olympics. For the Olympic Games, held after every...
- China releases second series of Beijing Olympics Gold Bars.
- Newspaper article from: China Business News December 19, 2005 700+ words
China releases second series of Beijing Olympics Gold Bars Shanghai. December 19...BOC) released the second series of Beijing Olympics Gold Bars on Sunday. The bars were...Huang said. The second series of Beijing Olympics Gold Bar's price is RMB 156 (USD...
- TV Guide Network Teams Up With NBC Universal to Promote NBC's Coverage of the...
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...UniversalHD. The Beijing Olympics marks the third Olympic Games promotional...of the 2008 Beijing Olympics include: * SUMMER GAMES SUPERSTARS...duration of the Beijing Olympics. About NBC...the Olympic Games, television...
- Tanzanian sports official highlights Beijing Olympics
- News wire article from: Xinhua News Agency August 6, 2009 700+ words
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- Beijing Olympics sponsors bring home gold.(news)
- Magazine article from: Television Asia November 1, 2008 700+ words
...Research has found that the 2008 Beijing Olympics official sponsors have enjoyed significant...of the top 12 sponsors of the 2008 Beijing Olympics spent about US$70 million to have...brands made in sponsoring the 2008 Beijing Olympics are possibly justified for most...
- Beijing Olympics and China's Economy.
- News wire article from: UNB - United News of Bangladesh August 29, 2008 700+ words
...not a mere display of games and sports, creating...The just concluded Beijing Olympics had political connotations...smile by staging the games successfully in an atmosphere...the theme of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the curtain on which...
- China feels Beijing Olympics will enhance her image internationally, strengthen...
- News wire article from: UNB - United News of Bangladesh August 22, 2008 700+ words
...the eve of the global games, Beijing seems to have...theme of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the curtain on which...completion o the Olympic Games. He admitted that there...behind the Olympics-the games that give aesthetic...have been covering the Beijing Olympics 2008. Jiang said ...