5 Ways Jamaicans can bypass CVMTV and Watch the London 2012 Olympics

This Olympics Games 2012 in London, is NOT the time to mess with a Jamaican’s television or Twitter feed. We have great expectations from our fantastic athletes in this our Jamaica 50 celebrations. So we are glued to the Olympics Games on television at home, work, bars, restaurants…everywhere, for the live action and chatting it up with friends on Twitter before, during and after races.

Thankfully Twitter has us covered, so there will be no fuzzy feeds, audio missing, ads or lottery draws at crucial times Games times. This has clearly been the experience of Jamaicans as they have been shackled to the CVMTV station who have the exclusive rights to to rebroadcast the Games in Jamaica.

Ordinarily Jamaicans would have had no issue with CVMTVs exclusivity if the broadcast feed was on point and of the quality that was keeping us happy.

Instead, Twitter and Facebook has been rife with tweets and status updates about the awful coverage they are being given, making even the the most patient and levelheaded serve up R rated rants.  The situation got so unbearable, that the The Broadcasting Commission issued a notice of breach of licence to the TV company, complaining of “poor to very poor” coverage and have ordered  them to “immediately” improve its coverage of the London Games.

Unfortunately, and I say this with a restrained self and pursed lips, CVM’s chief executive, Al Edwards, in a Jamaica Observer article CVM blasted for “poor” Games coverage rejected the criticisms, saying they were “unjust and unfair”. He said further that ” the signal was bad when it arrived on the island. “We don’t determine what comes through that feed,” said Edwards. “We don’t have cameras in London.” And my response to that….WTH…KMDT..SMH…oops sorry went into a Twitter lingo rant there.

Edwards went on further to say that “CVM acknowledged its breach of license and gave an undertaking to work assiduously to improve coverage and that prior to the Games had increased its coverage of the island from around 60 per cent to over 70 per cent with new antennas and more powerful transmitters.”

While you are setting yourself up for some Olympic viewing pleasure this weekend, check this out.

Photo: JamaicaOlympics.com

Jamaica was 3rd in the World in Tweeting the Olympics last weekend

AdWeek in an article The Twitter Olympics: 5 Surprises Number of tweets for first day tops the entire 2008 Beijing Games By Christopher Heine had Jamaica at #5 with “Cool Tweetings. Despite ranking 141st in population among world nations, Jamaica is being extremely well represented on Twitter. The Caribbean country ranked only behind USA (190,000 tweets) and Great Britain (180,000) in terms of the number of tweets in support of their athletes over the weekend.

I am like please, this Sunday we’re going to blow the roof off of Twitter so get your Twitter fingers ready.