XX Olympic Games - Curling TV Schedule (and July blog spam)

RichH · February 11, 2006, 03:17:40 AM

Well, I put together the hockey TV schedule, so as a fan and participant of curling (Cornell Curling Club Alumni Liason), it was useful to me to throw the curling schedule together as well. So I thought I'd share.

This is more straightforward than the hockey schedules. Basically, matches happen live at 3 am, 8 am, and 1 pm, EST. NBC is airing USA prelim matches, and the medal round. The 3 am and 8 am matches will most likely be live. The 1 pm matches are airing tape-delayed at 5 pm. With a couple of exceptions, there will be curling-only shows every night on CNBC from 5-8 pm, and live Curling at 8 am on USA.


2006 XX Winter Olympics, Turin, Italy
Women's and Men's Curling TV Schedule

All Times EST.

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Monday, Feb. 13

USA, 3-11 a.m.: Men's and women's curling, live
    3:00 am - Men's Curling, U.S. and Norway (live)
    8:00 am - Women's Curling, U.S. and Norway (live)

CNBC, 5-8 p.m.: Men's curling 
    5:00 pm - U.S. and Finland (tape)

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Tuesday, Feb. 14

USA, 3-11 a.m.: 
    3:00 am - Women's curling live U.S. and Canada (live)
    8:00 am - Men's curling, U.S. and New Zealand (live)

CNBC, 5-8 p.m.: Women's curling
    5:00 pm - U.S. and Japan (tape)
   

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Wednesday, Feb. 15

USA, 8-11 a.m.: Women's curling, live
    8:00 am - U.S. and Denmark (live)

CNBC: 5-8 p.m.: Men's curling 
    5:00 pm - U.S. and Italy (tape)


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Thursday, Feb. 16

USA, 6-11 a.m.: 
    8:00 am - men's curling, U.S. and Sweden (live)

CNBC, 5-8 p.m.: Women's curling
    5:00 pm - U.S. and Sweden (tape)

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Friday, Feb. 17

USA, 4 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
    8:00 am - women's curling, U.S. and Russia (live)
    ?       - a men's curling match

CNBC, 5-8 p.m.: Men's curling 
    5:00 pm - U.S. and Switzerland (tape)

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Saturday, Feb. 18

USA, 8-11 a.m.: Men's curling, live
    8:00 am - U.S. and Germany (live)

MSNBC, 5-8 p.m.: Women's curling
    5:00 pm - U.S. and Italy (tape)


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Sunday, Feb. 19

USA, 8-11 a.m.: Women's curling, live
    8:00 am - U.S. and Switzerland (live)

MSNBC, 4-7 p.m.: Men's curling
    4:00 pm - U.S. and Great Britain (tape)

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Monday, Feb. 20

USA, 8-11 a.m.: Men's Curling live
    8:00 am - U.S. and Canada (live)

CNBC: 5-8 p.m.: Women's curling
    5:00 pm - U.S. and Great Britain (tape)

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Tuesday, Feb. 21

CNBC, 5-8 p.m.: 
   Tiebreaker game, curling (tape)

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Wednesday, Feb. 22

USA, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.: Live coverage
    8:00 am - women's curling semifinals: Canada vs. Switzerland (live)

CNBC, 5-8 p.m.: 
    5:00 pm - Men's curling semifinals: USA vs. Canada (tape)

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Thursday, Feb. 23

MSNBC, 7-10 a.m.: 
    7:00 am - Women's curling bronze medal finals (live)

USA, 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.: 
   11:30 am - Gold medal finals of women's curling (live)

CNBC, 5-8 p.m.: 
    5:00 pm - Gold medal finals of women's curling (tape)


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Friday, Feb. 24

MSNBC, 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.: 
    7:00 am - men's curling bronze medal match (live)

USA: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.: 
   11:30 am - men's curling gold medal match (live)

CNBC, 5-8 p.m.: 
    5:00 - Gold medal finals of men's curling (tape)

Rita · February 11, 2006, 10:34:18 AM

Thank you Rich!!

I got hooked on Curling during the 2002 olympics and was wondering what the coverage was going to be. I still do not understand it all, but I was mesmerized watching the stones slide down the ice. This time around I think I will catch most of it by taping.

I just saw a nice ppg by the swedish women hockey team, now 2-0 Sweden over Russia (game on CNBC).

ftyuv · February 13, 2006, 05:22:27 PM

I was going to start a thread about this, but I'll just sneak it in here. I just saw a bit of curling on the TV, and I'm not sure I understand why there are separate men's and women's team. For many sports, I understand the basic idea -- guys can get bigger and stronger than girls, generally, so it'd be unfair to match them together. But from what I can tell of curling, it's a game that deals more with precision than anything else. Maybe I missed something, but there didn't seem to be anything those men did that a 17 year old girl wouldn't be able to do as well. So... why not just coed curling?

ugarte · February 13, 2006, 05:25:48 PM

[quote ftyuv]I was going to start a thread about this, but I'll just sneak it in here. I just saw a bit of curling on the TV, and I'm not sure I understand why there are separate men's and women's team. For many sports, I understand the basic idea -- guys can get bigger and stronger than girls, generally, so it'd be unfair to match them together. But from what I can tell of curling, it's a game that deals more with precision than anything else. Maybe I missed something, but there didn't seem to be anything those men did that a 17 year old girl wouldn't be able to do as well. So... why not just coed curling?[/quote]I thought about that, but I think the harder you can sweep, the more precise you can be. Maybe. I've never played, so it is just a theory.

Why there are different men's and women's teams for archery and riflery, on the other hand, is a separate question. (FWIW, men and women used to compete against each other in riflery ... until women were actually competitive. Then they got their own sport. You figure out what that means.)

Rita · February 13, 2006, 06:26:03 PM

The olympic medals do look like bagels.

Anyone watching Curling on CNBC now? What did you think of the special "curling bread". Yeah, they do kind of look like curling stones. I'm sure there are also some other descriptions warped imaginations can come up with.

Okay, back to the hockey forum.

jtwcornell91 · February 14, 2006, 12:11:19 PM

[quote Rita]Anyone watching Curling on CNBC now? What did you think of the special "curling bread". Yeah, they do kind of look like curling stones. I'm sure there are also some other descriptions warped imaginations can come up with. [/quote]

Didn't the Scottish guy say it looked kind of "sexy"? ::twitch::

Anyway, the tape-delayed curling shows are a good place for TiVo, and not just because they come on at 16:00 in my time zone. I skipped through a lot of the fluff and just watched the match.

billhoward · February 14, 2006, 03:22:59 PM

The Olympics can hook you on sports you don't think much about otherwise.

Curling is one sport where HDTV isn't necessary to see the puck/ball/object-in-play.

Rita · February 14, 2006, 06:36:40 PM

[quote jtwcornell91][quote Rita]Anyone watching Curling on CNBC now? What did you think of the special "curling bread". Yeah, they do kind of look like curling stones. I'm sure there are also some other descriptions warped imaginations can come up with. [/quote]

Didn't the Scottish guy say it looked kind of "sexy"? ::twitch::

Anyway, the tape-delayed curling shows are a good place for TiVo, and not just because they come on at 16:00 in my time zone. I skipped through a lot of the fluff and just watched the match.[/quote]

Tonight's fluff is one of the Finnish curlers. He had an interesting look on his face when presented with the curling loaf. And he was very adept with a Rubik's cube as well.

Anybody else think Fred Roggins looks a bit like the Gopher from the Love Boat? I wish they would show all the stones for each end. I would like to see more on how they set up the guards. Maybe they showed that in some of the earlier coverage, I didn't get home until 6 pm EST.
edit: CNBC heard me. 7th end from the beginning. :-P

I will definitley put TiVo on next year's Christmas list. This year, satellite radio was more of a priority. Also by then I should be living somewhere with better cable/TV options that what I currently get in my apartment.

CUlater 89 · February 16, 2006, 04:55:33 PM

[quote billhoward]The Olympics can hook you on sports you don't think much about otherwise.

Curling is one sport where HDTV isn't necessary to see the puck/ball/object-in-play.[/quote]

As in 2002, I think much of the appeal is due to the "Dons" doing the announcing. Their enjoyment of the sport comes through clearly on the telecasts. It also doesn't hurt that anybody watching curling probably thinks he or she could learn to do that too.

RichH · February 22, 2006, 12:25:28 AM

Wednesday update:



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Wednesday, Feb. 22

USA, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.: Live coverage
    8:00 am - women's curling semifinals: Canada vs. Switzerland (live)

CNBC, 5-8 p.m.: 
    5:00 pm - Men's curling semifinals: USA vs. Canada (tape)

ebilmes · July 06, 2006, 10:29:52 PM

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French Rage · July 06, 2006, 11:51:46 PM

[quote ebilmes]The spambots are keeping this forum alive through the summer months.[/quote

They're like fathers to me. Robotic, porn-promoting fathers.

RichH · July 07, 2006, 01:11:26 AM

[quote ebilmes]The spambots are keeping this forum alive through the summer months.[/quote]

And even better, they keep reminding me how much curling rocks!

French Rage · July 08, 2006, 03:27:46 AM

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Liz '05 · July 08, 2006, 09:31:12 AM

[quote French Rage]My hat goes off to the guy who created a bot to spam threads about curling. Cuz that'll get you lots of traffic. Brilliant![/quote]

I dunno...they're all under ugarte's post which includes a link to his blog...
Of course, every post of his includes links to his blogs in his signatures, so maybe it's just coincidence that they choose the same post every time to reply to.