Another Olympic slip-up from TVNZ this week saw TV3 announcing Tom Ashley's gold medal win before TV One had even realised it happened. TV One stopped their coverage of the Beijing Olympic Games to screen One News and Close Up meaning that the Men's RS:X sailing event was not shown live on the channel. It was played live on TVNZ Sport Extra to the 124,000 New Zealanders that have Freeview, however TV One viewers were made to wait until after Close Up to watch a replay.
The worst thing about this situation is that 3 News announced New Zealand's third gold medal before TV One even realised it had happened. Ashley's gold medal win came at about 6.55pm NZ time, and in a live cross to One News after the win had taken place Peter Williams told Wendy Petrie that they did not have the full results yet.
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