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    nebusj-@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) wrote:   
      
   > 	Hm.  I don't know whether Beijing is starting the ceremony in   
   > the morning or the evening local time.  If it's starting in the morning   
   > China time, that means programming would actually start Thursday night,   
   > probably bumping The Tonight Show and Late Night into who knows when.   
   >   
   > 	If it's in the evening local time, then the ceremonies start in   
   > the morning, US time, and the only things bumping Late Night even deeper   
   > into Saturday would be individual events running long.  I presume there   
   > is some way of looking up television schedules online, but I haven't   
   > been able to do that since about 1998.   
      
   You seem to be under the impression that NBC is going to be airing the   
   opening ceremonies live.   
      
   There will be no Olympics coverage on NBC on Thursday; Leno, Conan, et   
   al. are going to air at their scheduled times Thursday night.   
      
   On Friday, the opening ceremonies will air, via tape delay, from 8:00   
   P.M. to midnight Eastern and Pacific, 7:00 P.M. to 11:00 P.M. Central   
   and Mountain.  Presumably, NBC will take advantage of the tape delay to   
   make sure they fit into exactly four hours.  Easiest way to do that is   
   to skip over the less well-known countries as they're marching in, which   
   I seem to recall them doing in 2004.   
      
   (There is already Olympics coverage happening on some of the other   
   NBC-owned networks, but that doesn't affect "Late Night."  Meanwhile,   
   all I care about is women's beach volleyball in HD.)   
      
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