GTA TeleGuam will air extended coverage of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games to be held in London beginning July 26 through Aug. 13 with pre-event features prior to the games through the conclusion of the Olympics.
KUAM TV8 will air the Olympics on the NBC network locally with the opening ceremony scheduled for Saturday, July 28 at 9:30 a.m. Guam time.
In addition to the coverage provided by KUAM, GTA will feature the games on other NBC television affiliates. GTA Digital TV customers can watch the Olympics and special features on the NBC Sports Network on channel 42 and HD channel 442, CNBC on channel 56 and HD channel 456, Bravo on channel 91 and HD channel 491, along with MSNBC on channel 55.
Roland Certeza, GTA executive vice president of sales and marketing, said: “We’re thrilled to provide extended Olympic coverage to our Digital Television customers. The island will be closely watching our local Olympians as they prepare to represent Guam in London, and having these additional channels featuring Olympic coverage gives us more opportunities to catch our athletes in action.”
Certeza added: “These particular channels are also available in HD for sharper imaging and since we will have several channels featuring the various Olympic sports simultaneously, GTA customers can use their digital video recorders to record the programs for viewing at their convenience.”
NBC Sports Network will air up to 22 different Olympic U.S. sports while MSNBC features a wide variety of long-form Olympic sports. CNBC will be featuring Olympic boxing and Bravo will cover Olympic tennis.
For further details and schedules of events on each network, click here and here. Schedules are subject to change and customers should consider time differences. All programming can also be found on the GTA Digital Television user guide.
GTA to broadcast extended coverage of Olympics
- Thursday, 26 Jul 2012 03:30am
- BY MIKE NAUTA JR. | VARIETY NEWS STAFF
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I am a huge Olympic fan, stay up late, get up early to see the live action.
Guam is an Olympic Nation because of the hard work of one man.
Mike Reidy started in the 1980's to make us an Olympic Nation.
Without Mike Reidy we would still be part of the United States Olympic Team and no Guam athlete would ever make the team competing against the USA team for a place.
Mike did this almost 100% on his own>
He made Guam an independent Olympic Nation, he got Juan Antonio Samarach, the IOC head to visit Guam and Mike arrange for the official ceremony at the Pacific Star Hotel.
Then Rick Blas decided he did not want a local white boy in charge, so Rick rallied the sports federations, bribed them to vote for him and Mike was kicked out.
If it were not for Mike Reidy, no Guam athlete would ever have set foot on an Olympic venue.
Mike is truly the Father of Guam's Olympic history.....
.hasta
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