Uh, somehow, allowing live broadcasts from around the Olympics in Beijing still hadn't been cleared with the Chinese government with not even a month to go before Michael Phelps hits the pool. Not to confuse you: The permissions had nothing to do with NBC's ability to broadcast from the actual sporting events; the billions of dollars in license fees it ponied up guaranteed the network that much. But if, say, Matt Lauer wanted to hop on over to Tiananmen Square to remind viewers, live, that the world's biggest athletic competition was this year taking place in the middle of a human rights debacle, NBC didn't yet have the go-ahead. Now they do. China has issued special licenses and frequencies for networks to shoot live from Tiananmen and other city locales, but not "cultural relics" like the Great Wall and Forbidden City.