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Olympics viewership is down, even as NBC pays more for the rights to air it
Vox Media ^ | Feb 9, 2018, | Rani Molla

Posted on 02/09/2018 12:23:41 PM PST by george76

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To: 1Old Pro

Curling is like hockey in slow motion,
only without all the violence that makes
hockey entertaining in the first place.


41 posted on 02/09/2018 1:48:45 PM PST by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: sparklite2

It looks like bowling.


42 posted on 02/09/2018 1:50:47 PM PST by caww
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To: Snickering Hound

I’d collude with her and welcome the investigation. “Yeah, I did it! And I’d do it again!”


43 posted on 02/09/2018 1:51:11 PM PST by Rastus
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To: Paulie
.....”I understand some black athlete is angry that, of all things, a flip of a coin awarded a white athlete the opportunity to carry Old Glory”......

Just another black ‘resister’ of Hillary's creating the great divide among the races.

44 posted on 02/09/2018 1:52:50 PM PST by caww
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To: caww

With brooms.


45 posted on 02/09/2018 1:53:51 PM PST by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: UB355

Last night I watched curling. Very soothing. Always rocks me off to sleep.

I find Womens Luge compelling. What would inspire an attractive, intelligent young woman to lie down on a Flexible Flyer and then hurl herself down a bobsled track at 80 MPH?

The hockey tournament is going to be a train-wreck of second and third-rate talent.


46 posted on 02/09/2018 1:54:05 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: morphing libertarian
Add shooting back at border soldiers, and you have a biathlon.

-PJ

47 posted on 02/09/2018 2:09:43 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: Paulie

There’s a black athlete at the WINTER games?


48 posted on 02/09/2018 2:29:52 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: Snickering Hound

I HATE that. Love racing, love my horses, and for the last several years have to see Johnny WEIRD, such an obvious FRUIT. Blatant promotion/propaganda by NBC.

Disgusting. Hate having this on in front of my son.


49 posted on 02/09/2018 2:33:02 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

I guess so. Is that unusual?


50 posted on 02/09/2018 2:41:12 PM PST by Paulie (America without Christ is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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To: wrcase

“You can also go to nbcolympics.com and watch the events”

I can’t get anything to play, either on a laptop or on a PS4.


51 posted on 02/09/2018 2:44:10 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Huskrrrr

I don’t blame you for that at all. Just like I watched NFL games this year because I was born near Philly and the Eagles were playing good. We never made landfall in the ROK but were close enough to fire if ordered in 1969 after Lil’ Kim’s grand daddy had one of our electronic spy planes shot down. Everyone in our crew got the Korean Expeditionary Medal but it doesn’t appear in the service records.


52 posted on 02/09/2018 2:45:16 PM PST by VietVet876
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To: jmcenanly

“Perhaps the IOC should start webcasting its own events”

are you kidding? and lose the billion dollars NBC paid for broadcasting rights? If people had to pay per view for webcasting, almost no one would watch, and there’d be near zero revenue ...


53 posted on 02/09/2018 3:05:46 PM PST by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: VietVet876

“Everyone in our crew got the Korean Expeditionary Medal but it doesn’t appear in the service records.”

Have you talked to the Board for Correction of Military Records?


54 posted on 02/09/2018 3:07:51 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: george76

After short-stroking the gay skater vs VEEP for a couple of days, they should not be surprised when people tune out.

They love to lecture us dumb rubes, but us dumb rubes do not enjoy being lectured to.

The last thing I need is to listen to twenty hours about who is sleeping with which sex. Unless they intend to broadcast the sex, it is not relevant.


55 posted on 02/09/2018 3:10:22 PM PST by Haiku Guy (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: dsc

You might need a specific video player, I don’t know. I don’t have a PS4. Sorry, I’m not real tech savvy,.


56 posted on 02/09/2018 3:18:37 PM PST by wrcase
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To: libertylover

You won’t miss much unless you are a fan of Imagine by John Lennon. They sung it while I was in my gym lockeroom and they had them on live here in Canada.


57 posted on 02/09/2018 4:13:34 PM PST by xp38
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To: MeganC

“The Olympics are on?”

My first response, too. Olympics? When? Where? Well, I could care less. In other news, President Trump’s speech at the National Prayer Breakfast was fantastic.


58 posted on 02/09/2018 4:14:36 PM PST by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94))
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To: george76

That’s what happens when you get on your knees!


59 posted on 02/09/2018 4:17:07 PM PST by Portcall24
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To: Paulie

Yes.

As rare as a black hockey player in itself...for the same basic reasons. Never seem to understand cold.


60 posted on 02/09/2018 4:51:10 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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