[Mr. Jeeves]

One of the reasons I hate NBC’s coverage is because they are too US-centric in their coverage.

Yeah, skipping three gold medal finals to do a twenty minute profile of a guy from Youngstown, Ohio who finished seventh in the luge and is working at Pizza Hut to put his terminally ill sister through college is not a winning broadcast strategy. :)

[Nowhere Man]

Yeah, skipping three gold medal finals to do a twenty minute profile of a guy from Youngstown, Ohio who finished seventh in the luge and is working at Pizza Hut to put his terminally ill sister through college is not a winning broadcast strategy. :)

There is a time and place for that, during down time and reviews of the day's events. BTW, I always thought we should divvy up the games and events with the three, well, four networks, give people a choice. If I want to watch synchronized swimming and curling and it is on CBS, I'd go there and so on. Either that, or open up new subchannels with the HDTV system we have now, the NBC affiliaties could open up say channels 9.4, 9.5 and 9.6 and so on in addtion to 9.1 (where I live, Steubenville, OH is the NBC station) and put the smaller events people want to see on the subchannels. Even if they are in the old 480 line standard-def, a least people still can see them.

[redangus]

But the Oprahized women love that stuff. Screw sports who cares about that when there is a Lifetime movie available?

[Loyalist]

Watch the Canadian coverage instead in 2016. Olympic broadcasting is one of the few things CBC TV does well. When CTV has the rights, they do it just as well too.

Sure, they focus on Canadian competitors, but at least they give fair coverage to the rest of the world.

Both are certainly superior to NBC.