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HDTV Olympic coverage in North America: who's got more?

Torino 2006 on NBC

We were stoked earlier this month to find that NBC will have over 416 hours of Olympic coverage from Torino, but we must have ticked off the Canadians. CBC is touting over 1,000 hours of Olympic coverage for Canadian viewers, but only 39 of those hours will be in high-def. That works out to be approximately 4% of the Canadian coverage in HD, while a bulk of ours will be high-def. Still, this is a positive step as it marks Canada's very first year of the games in high-def. Now all that needs to happen is for us to win more Winter Sports medals than them. Oh wait, we did the last time around, 34-17. Yikes!