Vantastic Voyage

On our way back to D.C., a few of us decided to take the scenic route back through Seattle. While in our hotel room, watching the highly anticipated women's figure skating, I could not help but notice the distinct differences between CTV and NBC. In Vancouver, I was initially disappointed to not be able to watch NBC's Olympic coverage complete with inspirational pieces on the American athletes. After leaving Canada, my opinion has completely changed.

The CTV coverage features one sport at a time and has no/limited commercials during its coverage. We were able to watch three hours of uninterrupted coverage of ice dancing on CTV. On Tuesday night, NBC showed an average of 1-2 figure skaters per hour. In between figure skating coverage, NBC bounced between skiing and bobsled as well as daily highlights. This made the coverage seem disjointed.

This is the classic example of not knowing what you've got until it is gone. I am missing Canadian TV coverage of the Games!

-- MORGAN GOERKE