Unfortunately, unless you can get Chicago's NBC affiliate TV signal, this
marathon will not be seen
on live TV in the U.S.A. outside of Chicago. But it looks good if you are
in Japan and the U.K.
As for radio, I'm not sure of the strength of the ESPN 1000 AM signal.
There will be regular on-line reports available at CAA.com (Chicago
Athlete,) which is part of
RunningNetwork.com, and there is supposed to be a link at
ChicagoMarathon.com
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Subject: INTERNATIONAL BROADCAST SET FOR THE LASALLE BANK CHICAGO
MARATHON
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 12:24:16 -0500
From: marathon.office
PRESS RELEASE
INTERNATIONAL BROADCAST SET FOR
THE LASALLE BANK CHICAGO MARATHON
Chicago (October 6, 2002) The 2002 LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon will
have
the largest broadcast audience in the race's 25-year history. The
Marathon
will be broadcast internationally to nearly 100 million potential
television viewers on Sunday October 13. Chicago's NBC5 and ESPN Radio
1000
will again be joined by TV Tokyo. The British Broadcast Company will
televise the race live in Great Britain for the first time ever.
The live broadcasts will require more than 50 cameras on trucks,
motorcycles and helicopters along Chicago's fast 26.2 mile course in
several neighborhoods and at the Start and Finish Line in Grant Park.
NBC5
alone will have nearly 200 on-air and behind the scenes staff involved on
race day.
Chicago's NBC5, the proud home of the LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon, will
begin coverage at 6 a.m. on Race Day with news, traffic and weather
updates
live from Grant Park. Full coverage will begin at 7:00 a.m. and the Race
kicks off at 7:30 a.m. with 37,500 registered runners. The elite field
includes the two fastest males and two fastest females competing against
each other in the same race for the first time in the history of marathon
running.
Darrian Chapman, NBC5's top sports anchor, will host NBC5's race
coverage.
He will be joined by international marathon experts Tim Hutchings and
Toni
Reavis. Former U.S. Olympian marathoners and several NBC5's anchors and
reporters will again be providing coverage from the neighborhoods,
capturing the reactions of the more than 950,000 spectators expected on
race day. Along the course, U.S. Olympian marathoners Linda Somers-Smith
and Mark Coogan will provide insight from the men's and women's lead
vehicles. Runners from 66 countries and all 50 states are participating.
Last year, NBC5's television broadcast ranked #1 throughout its four-hour
coverage, averaging a five household Nielsen rating - a total of 400,000
viewers. NBC5's 2001 telecast recently received two Emmy nominations
NBC-owned Spanish language television station Telemundo 44 Chicago will
join NBC5 in the Pilsen community (mile 17 of the 26.2 mile course) for
live, hourly Spanish language updates broadcast locally on WSNS.
Chicago's ESPN Radio 1000 will have host Dave Juday, veteran marathon
expert Creigh Kelly and several reporters along the course in its live
broadcast to Chicago's radio audience from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m.
For the second consecutive year TV Tokyo will broadcast the Race live to
an
enormous Japanese national television audience. The 2002 LaSalle Bank
Chicago Marathon telecast will be live in prime time throughout Japan.
The British Broadcasting Company has committed to a two-and-a-half hour
live broadcast of the Race without commercial interruptions from 1:30
p.m.
to 4:00 p.m. in Great Britain. Paula Radcliffe, winner of the 2002
London
Marathon in a time only eight seconds behind the world record set last
year
in Chicago by Catherine Ndereba, is now a enormous sports celebrity in
Great Britain. The BBC will be closely following Radcliffe's much
anticipated second marathon in Chicago.
Elite athletes will compete for an event record purse of $500,000. The
male
and female winners each will earn $100,000, the largest ever payout for
first place in a marathon. The LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon has always
lived up to its reputation as one of the world's fastest courses. Besides
Catherine Ndereba's World Record set in 2001, Joan Benoit Samuelson set
the
woman's American record of 2:21:21 in Chicago in 1985. In its 24-year
history Chicago also has owned two men's World Records (1984 Steve Jones
-
2:08:05, 1999 Khalid Khannouchi - 2:05:42).
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