BC Canada Place

One of the great experiences of supporting events at the BC Canada Place here in Torino was meeting the CTV team -- including Murray, Brent, Kevin, and Vicki (apologies if I've missed some people). If you want to get a real sense for how media functions on the ground during such a crazy news period as the Olympics, check out Murray's blog, aka Chopper Murman. These guys are working super hard and going through a lot, and for such a sustained amount of time that the fatigue levels are astounding.

Murray has been doing a fantastic job of chronicling the experience with words and pictures on his blog, which he started right at the beginning of the Torino experience. I like this post about filming a typical Italian family's reaction to the open ceremonies (since non-rights holders can't cover ANY events that take place directly at official Olympic venues). They ended up editing the shots directly at the dinner table -- check out The Opening:

Well, the first view of British Columbia Canada Place house was pretty amazing. We got inside and met the friendly Canadian representatives. Dan Shimotakahara is one of the House Hosts, except he got commandeered into tech support. Hopefully we can help a bit with that as we get all our gear out and in place. 

Dan showed us into the big board room upstairs, and already we've got all the computers out and are starting to get things set up. He also mentioned that we want to call the house by its full name. In Canada, we may all know that "BC" stands for "British Columbia", but outside of the country, people won't know the abbreviation.