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Parks board gets 2010 tenants

By BOB MACKIN

"Live from Stanley Park."

Get used to hearing that next month on NBC.

The Peacock Network, the 2010 Winter Olympics' rights holding broadcaster in the U.S., has secured locations for live cameras at the Brockton Point lighthouse and Nine O'Clock Gun, said Vancouver park board chairman Aaron Jasper. NBC will also have a camera atop Queen Elizabeth Park.

CNN, meanwhile, will telecast from the western edge of Coal Harbour.

Coal Harbour Community Centre closed Monday to become the dignitaries' protocol centre and won't reopen to the public until April 2010.

VANOC has rented a parking lot at the Queen Elizabeth Park pitch and putt course.

Jasper said VanDusen Gardens and Vanier Park were not rented, but an undisclosed tenant was found for the Roundhouse Community Centre. The historic home of Engine 374 was originally supposed to be Canada Olympic House.

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