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NBC Sucks Again... For NOT covering the Olympic Ceremonies LIVE.

azumanga said:
Wide World of Sports is different, as it often featured filler sports that would otherwise go unseen in the days before ESPN.
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Huh? Have you been WATCHING the Olympics? Most of the summer games ARE filler sports. Would I watch mountain biking if this wasn't the Olympics? No. In fact I'm not actually paying attention. There really are only 3 sports that matter: Swimming, gymnastics, and track. Everything else is filler. And it's the 3 major sports that are getting delayed to prime time. All the filler is during the day, and much of it is live.

Prime Time IS reality TV. American TV is for profit. You want it to be educational. That's not going to happen. So in prime time, you'll get interviews and features with Tom Brokaw, Shawn White, and Jimmy Fallon.

Once again, if you want to watch unedited live broadcasts of this stuff, get an online subscription. Put your money where your mouth is. NBC has no obligation to subsidize your personal taste.
 
TheBigA said:
Most of the summer games ARE filler sports.
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No, most events are not actual sports. They are entertainment. A sport is an athletic competition between two or more human participants whose purpose is to outscore the opponent within a given set of rules, judged by absolute scoring and not esoteric judging, without intentional injury to either party, and does not include the use of vehicles, weapons, cards or animals.

If you apply this axiom to the Olympics you are left with:

Basketball
Track & Field
Swimming (all 196 varieties)
Soccer....oops.....futbol
Wrestling
Boxing
Martial Arts
Rowing
Water Polo (or should it be called Water Hockey?)
Handball (whatever passes for the Eastern European version anyway)


With the exception of the last three the sports are the same ones we see almost constantly.
 
landtuna said:
A sport is an athletic competition between two or more human participants whose purpose is to outscore the opponent within a given set of rules, judged by absolute scoring and not esoteric judging, without intentional injury to either party, and does not include the use of vehicles, weapons, cards or animals.
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I love that comment! The use of judges in events like gymnastics and diving is exactly what leads the Olympics to be more like Reality TV. I'm surprised NBC doesn't spend more time developing the characters of those judges as they do with America's Got Talent. They did a little of that in the Olympic trials, but not at all in the Olympics.
 
landtuna said:
...does not include the use of vehicles, weapons, cards or animals.

If you apply this axiom to the Olympics you are left with:

Basketball
Track & Field
Swimming (all 196 varieties)
Soccer....oops.....futbol
Wrestling
Boxing
Martial Arts
Rowing
Water Polo (or should it be called Water Hockey?)
Handball (whatever passes for the Eastern European version anyway)
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Fixed...use of a vehicle. :)
 
TheBigA said:
I love that comment! The use of judges in events like gymnastics and diving is exactly what leads the Olympics to be more like Reality TV. I'm surprised NBC doesn't spend more time developing the characters of those judges as they do with America's Got Talent. They did a little of that in the Olympic trials, but not at all in the Olympics.
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In the Cold War era developing the characters of the judges used to be a major component of the coverage.
 
dhett said:
landtuna said:
...does not include the use of vehicles, weapons, cards or animals.

If you apply this axiom to the Olympics you are left with:

Basketball
Track & Field
Swimming (all 196 varieties)
Soccer....oops.....futbol
Wrestling
Boxing
Martial Arts
Rowing
Water Polo (or should it be called Water Hockey?)
Handball (whatever passes for the Eastern European version anyway)
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Fixed...use of a vehicle. :)
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Yup.....how did I miss that? :eek:
 
azumanga said:
Apparently, NBC is not too keen on geography...
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Or at least the flags of the nations.

I think we are seeing the effects of our very poor education system. Hardly a day goes by that I don't see grammatical or other language gaffes in televised content on both the local and national levels. Just yesterday I saw a national ad by AT&T that had a simple word misspelled. It's no wonder the Brits make fun of our English.
 
landtuna said:
azumanga said:
Apparently, NBC is not too keen on geography...
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Or at least the flags of the nations.

I think we are seeing the effects of our very poor education system. Hardly a day goes by that I don't see grammatical or other language gaffes in televised content on both the local and national levels. Just yesterday I saw a national ad by AT&T that had a simple word misspelled. It's no wonder the Brits make fun of our English.
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What was the word?
 
We really need to extend the Olympics to about 36 weeks, and only do one event at a time....in Prime Time, Central Time zone.
None of this "all day long" stuff.

;D
 
^Comcast, which specializes in cable television services, Internet services, and telephone services.
 
Comcast owns 51% of NBC. GE owns the remaining 49%. To be safe, I'm watching the closing ceremonies right now, and the flame is about to be put out. The next time we'll be seeing it again, it will be in Russia for The 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi.
 
and the next summer games in Rio....oh will there ever be a cleanup of THAT town before the IOC arrives.

The London closing games ceremony looks like something out of Pink Floyd concert.
 
Okay.... I've been holding off on posting this. But FWIW, here goes....

My daughter lives in London. She and my British son-in-law have been here in the U.S. during the games. Like a lot of Londoners, they simply decided they didn't want to deal with the crowds, hassles, etc., so they planned their annual summer trip here to coincide with the Olympics.

Anyway, one night about a week ago we were having dinner at a place with a number of TVs tuned to the games. My son-in-law is used to BBC coverage, and you might say he's spoiled by it. Shortly after we were seated in the bar area of the restaurant, my wife noted that Rob, our son-in-law, had no view of the TVs. She offered to trade places with him.

"That's allright", Rob said only half-jokingly "Not having a view at all isn't much different than watching NBC's coverage".
 
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