Posted on 02/14/2010 9:39:45 AM PST by My Favorite Headache
That was an interesting costume choice....lol!
And I hate figure skating because the judging is so corrupt.
I guess I’m not sophisticated enough to understand the judging. As the performances got worse the scores got higher.
And the Australian who wouldn’t give them an interview.
We got the Bronze, do you know the guy’s name? It was Bryon. He deserved the coverage.
They are gushing over the Chinese skaters too. I don’t even know the American’s names.
Holy crap!!! The Mogul’s awards are on!!!! What do you know!!!
Anyway these two could have shut up for this?
Hey, they’re doing a medal ceremony!!
Are they really scheduling the medal ceremonies for the next day after they win the medals, or is this NBC’s schedule?
It wasn’t a very good wipeout. I like when they flip over the wall.
Enough of Canada already! Geez.
I haven’t found these awards anywhere.
I think they must be awarding all at one time.
My girls are happy because they get to stay up until Apolo gets his medal!!!!!
>>How do we MISS a run on the moguls when the entire thing is TAPED?<<
Great question!
A good rant against NBC’s coverage I found while looking for an online site to watch the Olympics.
“Today the Nordic Combined Ski Jumping started out live on NBC, but then when NBC went to commercials, they came back at the same point they left off. So they progressively became more and more tape delayed. This is the equivalent of watching a golf game with Tiger Woods playing. The station starts out live but then covers it as though every stoke of Tiger is live. Stupidest thing ever! So by the time Tiger Woods is at the 16th hole on the tape delayed NBC coverage, the tournament is already over and Tiger Woods won. Absolutely ridiculous! All they have to do is say “this is what happened moments ago during the commercial break” and then go back to live coverage.
Then last night, the short track semi-final race with American short track skater J.R. Celski happened while NBC was greedily extending their commercial break. The second semi-final 1500M short track race had no Americans, so NBC went to commercials, by the time the long commercial break was over, the third semi-final 1500M short track race had already taken place.
Don’t get me started on the NBC’s luge coverage last night. NBC was airing the 1st round of luge on tape delayed, while the 2nd round of luge was going on in Vancouver! So NBC could have showed the 2nd round of luge live, but why show a live event when you can show tape delayed, right? NBC = absolutely maddening.
To anyone reading this who thinks: “who cares if the events are taped delayed 10 minutes”, I respond, they let’s tape delay the 4th quarter of the Super Bowl, you can find out who wins online 10 minutes before you see it on TV. The Super Bowl comes once every year, the Winter Olympics comes every four years and rarely do they come to an American time zone (Pacific Time Zone).
The two sporting events I love don’t revolve around the American obsession of throwing as many mind-numbing commercials in as possible: The World Cup and The Winter Olympics. For both of these, I enjoy watching the entire world play LIVE, I don’t watch to cheer for Americans only. I am stunned ESPN does not break in for commercials during the World Cup games for the sake of good ol’ American greed. They show the entire 45 minutes halves commercial free!! They have advertising in the corner of the screen, something NBC should do for live coverage. (Hint, hint, NBC)
NBC, giving ulcers and heart attacks to die-hard Winter Olympic fans, wants to kill off the people who watch their coverage. I know one of my favorite events is on right now live, the biathlon, but I too pissed to watch it.
NBC should give advice to CBS for March Madness coverage: have all games on tape delay!!! Show most games 2-8 hours after they happen!! That will make all March Madness fans happy! Right? If it is good enough for the Olympics, it is good enough for March Madness. (BTW, I love March Madness, it’s my favorite yearly sporting event, so CBS better not do anything like that. Like the Olympics, I enjoy watching ALL teams play, not just my team.)”
RobertVC — 12:02 PM on February 14, 2010
http://newteevee.com/2010/02/12/where-to-watch-the-2010-winter-olympics-online/
I think he pretty much covered it......lol
I agree with Robert but he needs to stay off the internet during the coverage. I can guarantee these long commercial breaks are not going to change.
I guess the thinking is that since they are losing money don't even have to try.
So far, Worst. Olympic. Coverage. Eva!
Yes, that ceremony was handled very poorly by NBC.
Sure was but I still cried.
Once they shut up it was great. I was surprised they finally did.
OMG, they never even showed Ohno GET the medal.
I am so ticked. I hope they have it on the internet.
I could throw something.
I ended up going online and found out the pair in electric blue is from Ukraine and they placed 9th last night. Even though they had mistakes and such in their program, I enjoyed the different costumes and their choice of music. I found them different and that was good.
Thanks Pan_Yan!
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