Television
Coverage of the Equestrian Events at the 2008 Olympics Announced
NBC Universal will be airing 3,600 hours of coverage of the 2008 Beijing
Olympic Games, including the equestrian events, which will be taking place in
Hong Kong. This total amount of coverage will be more than the hours of coverage
for all the Olympic Games since 1960 Rome combined. All Broadcasts will also be
in HD. Though
NOT listed on the below schedule, the Lexington Herald Leader newspaper
lists Equestrian Dtessage as being on USA on Sunday August 10 between 2 and 7:30
AM along with Men's Basketball, two games. Though
this is not exactly a convenient time, it might be worth taping. The
equestrian television coverage schedule is as follows: Date: Program-Time
(EST) on Channel
Aug. 9, Sarurday: Eventing: Dressage-2:00 a.m.-2:00
p.m. on USA
Aug. 11, Monday: Eventing: Cross- Country- 6:00pm-8:00pm
OXYGEN
Aug. 12, Tuesday: Eventing: Jumping Team Gold Medal Final-6:00
p.m.-8:00 p.m. on OXYGEN
Aug. 13, Wednesday: Dressage-6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. on
OXYGEN
Aug. 14, Thursday: Dressage Team Gold Medal Final-6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
on OXYGEN
Aug. 15, Friday: Show Jumping-6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. on OXYGEN
Aug.
16, Saturday: Dressage Individual - 5:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. MSNBC
Aug. 17, Sunday:
Show Jumping Team Gold Medal Final 1st Round-10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m on NBC
Aug.
18, Monday: Show Jumping Team Gold Medal Final Round- 6:00pm-8:00 p.m. OXYGEN
Aug.
19, Tuesday: Dressage Individual Gold Medal Final - 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. on OXYGEN
Aug.
21, Thursday: Show Jumping Individual Gold Medal Final- 10:00am- 1:00 pm on NBC
Editors
Note: It
seems peculiar that there is no coverage of the second day of Eventing
Dressage on Sunday, July 10th, particularly in view of the fact that most
teams send their best horses on the second day. Perhaps if all of us contact
the Oxygen network this can be changed.
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