{"id":23980,"date":"2012-07-25T12:23:08","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T16:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=23980"},"modified":"2012-07-25T12:23:08","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T16:23:08","slug":"olympic-coverage-tailored-to-caribbean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/07\/olympic-coverage-tailored-to-caribbean","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Coverage Tailored To Caribbean"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Coverage of the Olympic games will be tailored to the tastes of Caribbean viewers, said Lance Whittaker, vice president of production for Sports Max.<\/p>\n

He said sports that Caribbean athletes are competing in – such as track and field – will be given priority over the coverage of other athletics.<\/p>\n

The Broadcasting Corporation of the Bahamas (who owns ZNS) acquired exclusive rights to air the games in The Bahamas from International Media Content who is the parent company of Sports Max. Sports Max is also the sole legal entity authorised to grant licenses to the BCB in this territory for live, deferred and delayed television and radio transmission with commentary.<\/p>\n

When reached for comment, general manager of ZNS, Edwin Lightbourn said: \u201cWe\u2019re going 24\/7, we\u2019re going full coverage, live coverage starting at 4.30 in the morning.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are going to see everything they want to see. You\u2019re going to see extensive coverage,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

With BCB\u2019s rights to broadcast the games, no other entity is allowed to air the Olympics in this territory unless an agreement is reached with BCB.<\/p>\n

Cable Bahamas executives told the press last week they are negotiating with BCB to allow for other feeds of the games to be broadcast on cable.<\/p>\n

Dana Smith
\nThe Tribune<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ZNS has acquired the exclusive rights to air the Olympic Games through Sports Max TV, who has promised tailor-made coverage of Caribbean sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[131,56,129],"class_list":["post-23980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-sports-2","tag-television","tag-zns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}