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Fans watch Olympics online


August 24, 2008 The European Broadcasting Union has said that over 120 million video streams of the Beijing Olympic Games were downloaded from its members' Web sites and from the EBU aggregated live video portal. The EBU, which includes such broadcasters as BBC, ZDF, ARD, ITV, TF1 and Canal +, said its broadcast infrastructure for Beijing was more than double the size of that for the 2004 Athens Olympics. The average visit time on the EBU video portal was 30 minutes per viewer, with each viewer watching an average of five different live streams each visit.

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