{"id":20486,"date":"2012-07-16T06:31:58","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T13:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=20486"},"modified":"2012-07-16T22:16:36","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T05:16:36","slug":"2012-london-olympics-on-iba-channel-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=20486","title":{"rendered":"2012 London Olympics on IBA Channel 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sports, summer, the vicarious thrill of following your favorite teams and athletes onscreen \u2013 all the pleasures of the London 2012 Olympics will be coming your way soon on IBA Channel 1, official broadcaster of the 2012 Olympic Games in Israel. The opening ceremony will take place on July 27th and this year you can pick up your smartphone and cheer on the Israeli athletes from wherever you are: IBA Channel 1 will be broadcasting the Olympic Games on television, radio and new media.<\/p>\n

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IBA Channel 1 – Olympic team of broadcasters\/Photo: Ayelet Dekel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Even the non-enthusiast will find it hard to remain indifferent to the muscular bodies hurtling across the screen, and for those tough-to-please viewers, IBA announced today that they will also broadcast a late night show hosted by Eli Finish of Eretz Nehederet<\/em> fame. Finish made good on his reputation as an entertainer, breezily showing up in the closing moment of this morning\u2019s press meeting to steal the show. Finish said that the format would be a comedy talk show with \u201csurreal interviews\u201d in the late-night slot, saying \u201cwe\u2019ll make sure to interview all those who didn\u2019t make it to the Olympics, those athletes who came in 5th or 6th and are bummed out about not being there.\u201d\u00a0 After indulging in some speculation on the pre-games sexual antics going on in the Olympic Village, Finish said that they would make use of the IBA\u2019s \u201ccrazy\u201d archive, and promised a show that would focus on fun. Sounds good to Midnight East.<\/p>\n

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Eli Finish\/Photo: Ayelet Dekel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As for those readers who happen to be serious sports fans \u2013 there\u2019s a lot to look forward to with live and recorded broadcasts available on all platforms: TV, radio, internet and smartphone applications. IBA will broadcast the games in HD, and they can be viewed in HD on the internet and mobile phones as well as on television. The internet site is already up and running<\/a>, with tons of background information, profiles of the Israeli athletes and a memorial to the Israeli athletes slain in Munich.<\/p>\n

IBA will broadcast live from several different Olympic arenas simultaneously, allowing the viewer to choose which one to view online. The hyper-avid fan will be able to view multiple arenas at once on a split screen. At the end of each day, an Olympic journal will summarize the day\u2019s events, with commentary from sports experts such as Yael Arad on Judo and Dani Neuman on football. Recorded events will be available on VOD. Uri Levy, Channel 1 Sports Head, said that they followed three main criteria in planning their programming for the Olympics:
\n1.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Events in which Israelis are competing
\n2.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0The three traditionally popular Olympic sports: athletics, swimming and gymnastics
\n3.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Sports popular in Israel: Judo, tennis, football and basketball<\/p>\n

Check out the site http:\/\/www.iba.org.il\/olympics\/<\/a> (yes, it\u2019s in Hebrew but there\u2019s lots of video footage to enjoy), join the countdown to the 2012 London Olympics and don’t miss the live broadcast of the opening ceremonies on July 27th at 23:00!<\/p>\n

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Sports, summer, the vicarious thrill of following your favorite teams and athletes onscreen \u2013 all the pleasures of the London 2012 Olympics will be coming your way soon on IBA Channel 1, official broadcaster of the 2012 Olympic Games in Israel. The opening ceremony will take place on July 27th and this year you can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}