Just how "LIVE" is TV One's Olympic coverage?

It is 4.15am NZ time and TV One's coverage of the Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony is currently showing the official oath being taken. However at the exact same time on Freeview channel TVNZ Sport Extra the ceremony has completely finished and they are 15 minutes into a soccer match between North Korea and Nigeria.

I timed the difference between the two TVNZ channels and it worked out that Sport Extra was about 26 minutes ahead of TV One. This goes to show that what many would assume was "live" coverage on One has been paused and delayed when going into advertisement breaks. In my opinion this is very poor form, and means that many enthusiastic viewers who enjoy watching the ceremony in it's entirety are having an extra half an hour of sleep taken away from them by TVNZ.

It will be interesting to see the difference in coverage when the Olympic Games move to PRIME and Sky in 2012.