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He was, Deckerd. He was.
I know it's the Onion and all, but I found that "news" incredibly in poor taste.
Poor Olympics Broadcast
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I know it's the Onion and all, but I found that "news" incredibly in poor taste.
I get both american and canadian channels and tend to flip around till I see an event I am interested it. I can barely watch the american coverage. It is so biased towards americans it's boring. There can be some fascinating stories from other countries athletes in the same event and instead we hear about things like how a swimmer went to live with her aunt. And forget events where an american isn't even competing.
To be fair, the coverage is a little better on the NBC sister channels.
All the time I read about corporate sponsers and the money that is paid to broadcast the games, and I wonder why is it that one of the biggest countries in the world has to worry about tape delay while the rest of the world can show it live. I can understand the BBC because that's their home turf (Even though they showed vancouver live too) but Canada is even showing the events live. Why is the US different in that regard.
Like today and the 100M Dash, the race was ran at 1:50 PM PDT on a Sunday afternoon, which is inside the NFL window of people watching TV. Because of NBC, that race won't actually be aired until like 11:00 at night tonight, despite people going to bed early for work the next day.
I understand they've done research about the prime time thing, but I look at that as being Bull Crap because other than online streaming, we don't have much of a choice.
I wish I had any of the Canada channels or the BBC. The coverage on anything (Other than American sports not named the olympics) is so much better.
Like today and the 100M Dash, the race was ran at 1:50 PM PDT on a Sunday afternoon, which is inside the NFL window of people watching TV. Because of NBC, that race won't actually be aired until like 11:00 at night tonight, despite people going to bed early for work the next day.
I understand they've done research about the prime time thing, but I look at that as being Bull Crap because other than online streaming, we don't have much of a choice.
I wish I had any of the Canada channels or the BBC. The coverage on anything (Other than American sports not named the olympics) is so much better.
NBC paid 1.2B to broadcast the 2012 Olympics, I don't know how that compares to other countries but maybe they need a higher ROI.
Doesn't Canada share coverage too. I think the games are on Sportsnet, and CTV among others. Why couldn't there be a shared broadcast rights. I guess getting exclusive olympics coverage is a bad investment but this is NBC, I wouldn't expect anything less.
I read that CBC paid to get exclusive rights to the next two.
Now how come no one's made an Olympic sport out of that
"OOH! OOH! He dabbed too much paint! It's going bleed!"
The Daily Show (as noted by LoB above) had a great take on NBC's (and other stations) handling of The Olympics and spoilers.
No, it doesn't share. The coverage is on TSN and Sportsnet because CTV/Bell own those channels, and all of the channels broadcasting are showing different events. In terms of coverage, the channels get a raw (world feed) feed, and it's up to them to provide the commentary and backstory. It just so happens that NBC's really poor at it.
was over at the neighbours and they were watching nbc coverage. We watched the end of the men's gymnastics and saw the 3 medalists but had to google to find out what they won
I've watched a bunch of stuff during the day before I go to work, on NBC, Bravo, NBC sports, A&E....its all over the dial.
Volleyball, Archery, Water Polo....not to mention basketball and soccer.
Not sure what the problem is, but I've been able to watch anything I wanted, I just looked at the schedule.
They do show pre-taped things during primetime and I watch what I miss there, and on the late night broadcast when I get home.
I think they've done a great job.
Volleyball, Archery, Water Polo....not to mention basketball and soccer.
Not sure what the problem is, but I've been able to watch anything I wanted, I just looked at the schedule.
They do show pre-taped things during primetime and I watch what I miss there, and on the late night broadcast when I get home.
I think they've done a great job.
Look at what NBC did with the women's gold medal beach volley ball match--they didn't air it LIVE on any of their networks, (of course they aired live the bronze medal match), and then aired it in prime time hours later after the country was already spoiled by twitter, news programs, etc. of the result. LAME.
Us poor saps can't watch anything live online without a cable subscription. I guess for Rio 2016, I better pony up with the $$$!
Oh, and wasn't that a great idea by NBC to short change the decathlon and instead air a "preview" of a crappy Matthew Perry sitcom? Yes, I will "Go On" and change the fricking channel, NBC! I said it before, and I'll say it again, NBC's coverage has been truly awful.
Us poor saps can't watch anything live online without a cable subscription. I guess for Rio 2016, I better pony up with the $$$!
Oh, and wasn't that a great idea by NBC to short change the decathlon and instead air a "preview" of a crappy Matthew Perry sitcom? Yes, I will "Go On" and change the fricking channel, NBC! I said it before, and I'll say it again, NBC's coverage has been truly awful.
NBC doesn't have regular daytime programming; between 11 AM and 8 PM all the programming is the local station's, not the network's.
Ok, but even if it doesn't, I'd expect the country's sole rights bearer to the Olympics to make more of an effort on an international event such as this, like perhaps preempt any local programming. My point still stands. As a network, they should pull together their resources.
