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Missing Olympic Coverage Comments?

landtuna

landtuna

I am surprised not seeing any posts concerning NBC's coverage of the Olympic Games so far. Elsewhere there appear to be plenty of comments:

Joshua Cooper Ramo was dismissed from his role as a commentator due to his remarks about Korea and Japan during the opening ceremonies. (He was supposed to be the "Asia Expert" but doesn't appear to know his Asian history at all.)

Katie Couric is taking considerable heat from the Dutch concerning her comments about freezing canals and skating to work in the Netherlands. (Is she REALLY that stupid?)

The usual disparaging remarks about American TV doing "too much talking" and not covering sports thoroughly.

While I was doing other PC work yesterday I had the coverage up in the corner of my screen and was amazed that NBC spent the entire day with such boring pursuits as mogul skiing, something called "slopestyle", figure skating, halfpipe snowboarding, curling and biathlon. What a miserable waste of a Sunday.

The Olympic Games have become nothing more than an exhibition and an extension of politics.
 
landtuna said:
I am surprised not seeing any posts concerning NBC's coverage of the Olympic Games so far. Elsewhere there appear to be plenty of comments:

Joshua Cooper Ramo was dismissed from his role as a commentator due to his remarks about Korea and Japan during the opening ceremonies. (He was supposed to be the "Asia Expert" but doesn't appear to know his Asian history at all.)

Katie Couric is taking considerable heat from the Dutch concerning her comments about freezing canals and skating to work in the Netherlands. (Is she REALLY that stupid?)

The usual disparaging remarks about American TV doing "too much talking" and not covering sports thoroughly.

While I was doing other PC work yesterday I had the coverage up in the corner of my screen and was amazed that NBC spent the entire day with such boring pursuits as mogul skiing, something called "slopestyle", figure skating, halfpipe snowboarding, curling and biathlon. What a miserable waste of a Sunday.

The Olympic Games have become nothing more than an exhibition and an extension of politics.
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To be fair, there aren't all that many Winter Olympic events that attract huge numbers of American viewers -- figure skating is the blockbuster, of course, and that really hasn't gotten going yet. Downhill and slalom skiing, same thing. And the NHL torpedoed NBC's Olympic hockey ratings by ordering all of its players to stay home and play regular-season games instead. A "miracle on ice" by American no-names was must-see TV in 1980, but today's viewer has to have big-name celebrity branding on just about everything or else he/she just doesn't care.
 
I checked "upcoming episodes" on my TiVo and all "Wheel of Fortune" episodes are on the CBS station. For some odd reason, my cable system has two CBS affiliates but that can be useful if "Jeopardy" gets pre-empted on the NBC station. So did "Wheel" do anything special so NBC affiliates wouldn't miss out on any new episodes?
 
Well NBC Sports Net national is going wall to wall with live coverage of the winter Olympics. Luge, Snowboarding and figure skating are getting some emphasis here plus curling and Hockey on the overnight hours.
 
vchimpanzee said:
I checked "upcoming episodes" on my TiVo and all "Wheel of Fortune" episodes are on the CBS station. For some odd reason, my cable system has two CBS affiliates but that can be useful if "Jeopardy" gets pre-empted on the NBC station. So did "Wheel" do anything special so NBC affiliates wouldn't miss out on any new episodes?
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Stop complaining about Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy. This aint the thread to do so.

Well back to NBC Sports over Olympics coverage. Over in San Francisco KNTV the NBC O&O and Hearst Owned KCRA3 the NBC Affiliate in Sacramento has Olympic Zone at 4:30pm pst and prime time Olympics at 5pm PST. But the Primetime edition is the highlights though.

Over on NBC Sports Net Bay Area. There's some Olympic medals updates but that's before and after local coverage of Golden State Warriors games. Also NBC Sports Net Bay Area also has done segments where they emphasize which Bay Area Talent is active in the Olympics in some segments.
 
NBC likes to hype up the event months in advance, but I have always found the Olympics to be incredibly boring. It's like the equivalent of going to your neighbor's kid's soccer game. You watch for a little while because you feel like you should root for him, but in the end you don't really care if they win or not.
 
RadioPatrol said:
http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/111200/olympics-this-is-us-give-nbc-ratings-win

Here is an update on the Olympic ratings.
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Only going to get worse with the no-name US men's hockey team losing its opening game to Slovenia. Hockey is pretty much the only Winter Olympic sport that draws 18-49 male viewers, and now they have no reason to watch. Think NBC might be rethinking its commitment to the NHL going forward after the league sabotaged a keystone of its Olympic coverage. Gary Bettman is taking his life into his own hands if he shows up anywhere near 30 Rock these days!
 
The NHL is the only thing keeping NBCSN afloat; i can't imagine NBC rethinking its commitment to the NHL going forward, since the only thing NBCSN has remotely worth watching is NSACAR and Indycar.
 
I watch virtually nothing Olympic except hockey and for that nothing beats the CBC. NBC can go pound sand.
 
RadioPatrol said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v_siRRvZ-g

How about this some people managed to produce a cool parody of the Olympics called "the marblelympics" on Youtube. It's fun though on the games. How many of you like the parody of the Olympics over the real one.
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and Jimmy Kimmel has a bit on Jimmy Kimmel Live where he prefers the "YouLympics" over the actual Olympics, where he shows classic YouTube clips and makes it look like a sporting event.
 
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