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PEOPLE & ARTS Saturday 15 July 2017

New TV network to focus on

Olympics making debut on Saturday

By DAVID BAUDER national Olympic Com- played by the team that
AP Television Writer mittee and United States featured Michael Jordan,
NEW YORK (AP) — While Olympic Committee, al- Magic Johnson, Larry Bird,
too early in the morning though representatives Patrick Ewing and other
for a torch lighting, a new wouldn’t outline how that Hall of Famers.
television network de- responsibility is divided. The The games were such blow-
signed to highlight Olympic network’s unwieldy name outs, with USA never win-
sports and American ath- is to avoid confusion with ning by less than 30 points,
letes chasing gold medal the IOC’s digital Olympic that NBC never televised In this Aug. 7, 2016, file photo, rowers are seen through a screen
dreams is set to debut Sat- Channel. all of them in full when they decorated with the Olympic rings as they practice at the rowing
urday. Multiple ownership situa- happened. venue in Lagoa at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil.
The Olympic Channel: tions can also be unwieldy A 2012 documentary on Associated Press
Home of Team USA net- in creative operations. the team will be featured
work launches at 6 a.m. ET But promoting the Olympics and the games will be re-
in some 35 million Ameri- is the IOC’s and USOC’s broadcast in a Labor Day
can homes with NBC’s business. NBC Universal marathon.
Mike Tirico previewing the also wants to build interest Operators are also setting
live sports, archival foot- in the Olympics because it a goal of establishing a
age and documentaries has the rights to broadcast sports documentary fran-
that will make up most of summer and winter Games chise along the lines of ES-
its programming. The show through 2032. PN’s “30 for 30.” One film al-
will repeat several times Many fans follow Olympic ready in the works is about
over the weekend for those sports and athletes for only Cuban boxers.
sleeping in. a couple of weeks every The new network has ac-
World championships in four years. cess to archival footage for
track and field, swimming “The Olympic Games will most past Olympics. There
and diving and beach vol- now have a home be- are exceptions for Olympics
leyball will fill considerable tween these Games being footage owned by ABC
airtime during the infant played,” Tirico said. from the 1970s and 1980s
network’s first two months. A big part of the network’s — meaning the channel
A lengthy tribute to the appeal for NBC is to give would have to strike a deal
1992 United States “Dream viewers the chance to if it wanted to air “Miracle
Team” in men’s basketball build relationships with ath- on Ice” footage from the
will lead into Labor Day. letes as they qualify for the 1980 Lake Placed Olym-
The launch comes at a time games, said Jim Bell, ex- pics, for example.
of cord-cutting and con- ecutive producer of NBC’s Bell said he didn’t expect
traction in the cable busi- Olympics telecasts. NBC will need to hire new
ness; NBC Universal shut- The Dream Team program- on-air talent for the net-
tered its Esquire network ming is expected to be a work, which will only be
earlier this year. But NBC draw. Over eight nights, available digitally to cable
Universal is sharing costs the new Olympic chan- and satellite customers
and control with the Inter- nel will fully air the games who get the channel. q

Castmates pay tribute to late ‘Glee’ star Cory Monteith

By The Associated Press
Some former “Glee” cast-
mates of Cory Monteith
have paid tribute to the
late actor on the fourth an-
niversary of his death.
Lea Michele posted a
picture of herself with
Monteith, whom she also
dated, on Instagram on
Thursday with the caption,
“4 years and it still feels
like yesterday.. love you
more C.” Actress Dianna
Agron did the same , call-
ing Monteith a “wonder
human.” She writes, “I miss
every bit of you.”
Monteith was found dead In this Jan. 27, 2013, file photo, Cory Monteith, left, and Lea
in a Canadian hotel room Michele arrive at the 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards
on July 13, 2013. A coro- at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
ner’s report blamed the Associated Press
31-year-old’s death on a fatal dose of heroin and alcohol.q