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the Moscow Television Network—was
available for an information programme.
Thus 12 air channels carried the
following transmissions during the
Games:
— 3 programmes of the USSR
Central Television Network including
around 20 hours of the Games coverage
in addition to regular telecasts;
— 2 information programmes covering
highlights of each day which
were scheduled by the Gosteleradio
USSR, on the eve for all days of the
Olympics. The programmes contained
the international pictures and the international
sound and were not accompanied
by commentaries.
— 4 assigned and 3 booked private
channels subscribed to by the
OIRT, EBU, TV Asahi, and other
broadcasters to be used for vision
feedbacks to commentator positions
on venues.
A commentator at his desk was
able to select, for example, the programme
to report on and simultaneously
to watch other events in the same
or other sports at the same or other
sites. He also could watch the programmes
of major broadcasters. Besides,
special programmes from the
ACS "Olympiad" data-processing complex
were transmitted to the television
160
monitors at the athletics and yachting
competition sites.
The following selection of pictures
was provided for commentators and
the written press at the venues:
The Lenin Central
Stadium 25 channels
The Olympiiski Sports
Complex 20 channels
The sites in Krylatskoe
16 channels
The CSCA Sports Complex
21 channels
The Dynamo Stadium17 channels
Other venues 13 channels
TSU
NBC
TV
USSR TV camera
NBC TV camera
TV camera
Portable TV camera
Possible TV camera position
Portable cine camera
Cine camera
Interview area
Microphone
TV vehicle parking
Television cameras in operation
at the Opening Ceremony