No doubt about it. Many eyes are tuning into the Summer Olympic Games. A record count, according to NBC Universal, which this Saturday divulged statistical details for the first day of its video-rich online venture, NBCOlympics.com.
But say you’re not satisfied with the thousands of hours of live and on-demand content promised by the broadcaster. As some of you had made known in a Mashable poll concerning Silverlight adoption, there are those who still choose to maintain allegiance to YouTube. That is to be expected, of course. The site’s users wasted no time in uploading video clips of the opening ceremony in Beijing before NBC had broadcasted the event on television, triggering headlines in the news media and a kind of cat-and-mouse chase to remove such material. The strength of the masses at work, as they say, eh?
If you count yourself part of that pack, the arrival of a Summer Games channel on YouTube, comprised of a steadily growing collection of videos from a panoply of broadcasters, may well satisfy some of those Olympic cravings. Bringing together material produced by the Associated Press, The New York Times, Getty Images, Reuters, France 24, The Travel Channel, GroundReport, Euronews, and Paralympic Sport TV, the Summer Games channel pulls highlights from sporting events as well as associated news stories and makes them available in a single location. No need to race against the YouTube police for recaps of Olympic proceedings. This page has backing from some of the biggest sources around.
