Well, the International Olympic Committee has been taking down videos of the Opening Ceremonies from Beijing on YouTube due to copyright issues. Various people have lost their accounts, others have seen their videos erased while others have been outright suspended.
If they chose to wait a few years, the IOC may have chosen to look the other way, but with so many TV partners paying so much money to broadcast the Olympics in Communist China, you can understand why the IOC wants to protect its brand. While I won’t post videos of the Opening Ceremonies, I do have some videos I can provide. Watch them now before they get taken down.
This is how 7 Network in Australia began its live coverage of the Opening Ceremonies. Opening shots of China before Matthew White threw it to the 7 Network crew outside the Bird’s Nest.
Although here’s a shorter, but better quality version of the above.
This is the intro from GWN which 7 Network’s affiliate in Western Australia.
Here’s how the intro looked from the official broadcaster providing the world feed, Beijing Olympic Broadcasting:
I’m not even going to look for intros for BBC, CBC and NBC as I’m sure those have been taken down. But since I’ve been on an Olympic theme over the last few weeks, I figured I would continue this week. Enjoy.
