page_title: Canada's Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium
section_title: Television
hierarchical_section_title: Canada's Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium / History / 2010 Winter Olympics / Television
caption_attribution_description: CTV broadcasting at the 2010 Winter Olympics. From left to right: James Duthie, Darren Pang, Nick Kypreos and Bob McKenzie
context_page_description: Canada's Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium was established in 2007, as a joint venture set up by Canadian media companies Bell Media and Rogers Media to produce the Canadian broadcasts of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England, as well as the two corresponding Paralympic Games. Bell owned 80% of the joint venture, and Rogers owned 20%.
  The consortium encompassed many of the properties owned by both companies, including Bell Media's CTV Television Network, TSN, RDS and RDS Info, and Rogers Media's Omni Television, Sportsnet, OLN, and the Rogers radio stations group. Several other broadcasters will carried consortium coverage, including V, and several channels owned by Asian Television Network. Finally, dedicated websites in English and French were set up to stream live coverage over the Internet to Canadian viewers. The consortium replaced CBC Sports, which had held the Canadian rights to all Olympics beginning with the 1996 games, although some cable rights had been sub-licensed to TSN / RDS beginning in 1998.
context_section_description: Consortium coverage originated primarily from the Vancouver Convention Centre (the International Broadcast Centre for the 2010 games) as well as Mountain Square in Whistler.
  CTV: An average of 22 hours per day of coverage, focusing on the major events and highlights. Times varied on certain days depending on events in progress
  Olympic Morning: 3:00-9:00am PT (6:00-12:00pm ET), with Beverly Thomson, Jay Onrait, Seamus O'Regan, and Melissa Grelo
  Olympic Daytime: 9:00am–2:30pm PT (12:00-5:30pm ET), with James Duthie, Lisa LaFlamme, and Michael Landsberg
  Olympic Prime Time: 3:00-11:00pm PT (6:00-2:00am ET), with Brian Williams and Jennifer Hedger
  Olympic Late Night: Midnight to 3:00am PT (3:00-6:00am ET), no host (event repeats)
  The only breaks in coverage were for 30-minute local newscasts daily at 2:30 pm PT (5:30 pm ET), as well as a one-hour newscast produced by CTV British Columbia at 11:00pm PT (2:00 am ET). Two CTV National News summaries, anchored by Lloyd Robertson at CTV's main Vancouver studios, were aired nightly during Olympic Prime Time; the regular CTV National News broadcast aired solely on CTV News Channel for the duration of the games.  From 3:00 – 6:00am PT (6:00 – 9:00am ET) CTV News Channel also aired a simulcast of CTV's Olympic Morning.
  V: Major events and highlights in French, averaging 16.5 hours per day, including a morning show simulcast from RDS
  TSN and Rogers Sportsnet: Full-event coverage, averaging 18 hours per day on each channel
  OLN: Full-event coverage of outdoor events, averaging 4.5 hours per day
  RDS: Full-event coverage in French, averaging 21 hours per day
  RIS: Full-event coverage in French, averaging 6 hours per day
  Omni: Multilingual coverage, averaging up to 6 hours per day (depending on location; not all coverage carried on all stations)
  ATN: Multilingual coverage, averaging 6.5 hours a day across seven channels
  APTN: Coverage in English, French, and Aboriginal languages, averaging 13 hours a day
  The television broadcast was filmed with 39 new Hitachi SK-HD1000 studio/field cameras from Hitachi Kokusai Electric including on-site technical support. The cameras were also used to broadcast the 2012 Summer Olympics. Following the games, portions of CTV's set were re-purposed by its Vancouver affiliate CIVT for its newscasts.
caption: The Consortium's studio panel for men's hockey, at Canada Hockey Place (from left: James Duthie, Darren Pang, Nick Kypreos, and Bob McKenzie)
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