VANCOUVER, B.C. - The Olympic Games briefly returned to CBC on Friday.
A spokesperson for CBC-TV has acknowledged to The Canadian Press that an error caused CBC NN - the Canadian broadcasting network's round-the-clock news channel - to broadcast about 45 minutes of Olympic footage.
The CBC could not pinpoint the cause of the error but did confirm that the footage was broadcast from coast to coast.
The Olympics are being broadcast by CTV, Canada's largest private broadcaster, and Rogers Media, a unit of cable TV, cellphone and media giant Rogers Communications Inc.
The two partners paid US$93 million several years ago for the rights to broadcast the Vancouver Games in Canada by outbidding the CBC, which had broadcast the five previous Olympics.
CTV did not immediately respond to a request for comment.