Posted on 02/17/2010 3:52:54 PM PST by Species8472
NBC has heard your complaints, America, and they have a message for those who are whining about the dearth of live event coverage at the Winter Olympics: We don't really care.
Other media outlets are picking up on the viewer outrage and doing their best to channel it toward the Peacock Network—and the network has been less than receptive. Seattle Times columnist Ron Judd has a rather amusing article (in a "you can't be serious" kind of way) about trying to set up an interview with Christopher McCloskey, NBC Universal's vice president for communications, who is based in Vancouver. He was happy to chat! "On background" only. Yes, the vice president for communications refused to give an on-the-record quote to a journalist. Brilliant.
NBC claims that most Americans don't care if the broadcasts are live, and that's probably true. Most of them work during the day and can only watch at night, so it honestly makes no difference to them when the sports were recorded. NBC caters to those folks, because they believe the Olympics are sports for people who don't care about sports. The outrage is coming mostly from sports fans, who are obsessed enough to follow live scoreboards during the day and DVR events they can't be home for and know that sports provide enough real drama that it doesn't need to be manufactured by highlight packages. They love sports enough that they will watch imperfect coverage of pre-taped events. Why break your back making them happy?
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NBC?...the New Barack Channel?...DON’T CARE?....who wudda thunk it
F/U, NBC.
Last night I was watching the Westminster instead...
...still not watching NBC...
Dick Ebersol is one of the worst TV executives in the world. It’s incredible that this fool has a job.
He actually (for real), cited the 1980 Miracle on Ice as evidence that tape delay works. Apparently he’s been sleeping for the past 30 years.
I wouldn’t mind the NBC coverage being delayed, if they’d still show mostly events. But they don’t even do that.
I would really be upset if they lose money.
I’m waiting for the Curling competition.
....(just as a side comment)
I tried top find Vonn’s gold medal run and can’t find it anywhere....guess NBC has clamped down YOUTUBE, normally you can find this stuff fairly easy within minutes on youtube
Country went digital back in June. Since then my NBC channel display shows “no signal.” Oh, well. sd
thats a given.....not to worry our tax dollars will help with their cost....NBC needs to be “saved”
Was watching the skating national championships in Spokane - thing that PO’d me was the constant inane chatter the so called color commentators used while the skaters were out there ... you couldn’t enjoy the performance - it was like someone in a movie theater chatting behind you yakking about what was happening on the screen ....
They have replaced the Tingler and Shultz with Lesbian Ice4 Hockey for better ratings.
Why televise live sporting events when you can show Oprah-like uber-sensitive profiles of the ahtletes grappling with their inner demons?
Did you see how effeminate the “men’s” figure skaters are. They’re unwatchable.
I tried to watch the Men’s DH two nights ago. I already knew the results but I was interesting in seeing some good skiing. In 35 nimutes they only managed to show bib #6 Bode Miller (3), #8 Axel Lund Svindal (2), #18 Didier DeFago (1), # 22 Didier Cuche (6) and #23 Robbie Dixon’s crash.
With the exception of the announcing by Todd Brooker, great as always anda really fun guy to go dringing with, the coverage SUCKED!
CBC isn’t carrying the Games in Canada, this time it’s CTV, SportsNet and TSN. The last two are cable-only, but several over-the-air CTV stations are in border cities that could be picked up in the States. (I guess CTV, unlike CBC, isn’t available on a lot of Stateside TV packages).
One possible wrinkle: Canada hasn’t converted to Digital signals yet for over-the-air while the US has, so a lot of American TV’s might not be able to read the signal (I think?)
I tried five different times to see some type of event, never actually saw any "sports" event
There’s an Olympics going on presently? Who knew?
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