Olympics
Breathing in Beijing: Environmental Quality and the 2008 Summer Olympics
Watching the wonderful spectacle of the Olympics this year, one finds the world outside the sports arenas constantly intruding. Russia manages to invade Georgia, human rights activists try to communicate their message to the world and oh yeah, breathing in Beijing remains a challenge. All of these issues are important, but as you might expect, I'm going to focus on breathing today.
I have the honor of participating in a program at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs where we provide management training for senior government officials from Guangdong Province in China. Guangdong is an industrial province with about 80 million residents and a large number of guest workers, and is at the heart of China's massive effort to develop economically. read more »
NBC to Air 3,600 out of 3,800 Possible Hours of Olympic Competition
and Ferdinando Beccalli-Falco,
President and C.E.O. of GE International, in Beijing
Over the weekend, Allison Romano of Broadcasting & Cable took an in-depth look at NBC's plans for broadcasting the upcoming Olympic games in China.
According to Ms. Romano, this year's coverage of the games by NBC represents a "radical shift reflecting a more technologically savvy era," that will result in more sports than ever before being covered on a variety of NBC owned platforms, including Telemundo, "five of seven major NBC Universal-owned cable channels," and NBC's Olympic Web site.
More from the article:
After being criticized in the past for limited and delayed Olympic coverage—not to mention for its ill-fated Triplecast pay-per-view deal for the 1992 Barcelona Games—NBC is now going to an unprecedented extreme.
