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NBC's Olympic Coverage
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OMG! I was just posting the same thing in another topic. I'll get the duct tape if you hold him down. His ego is amazing.
I have been watching some old baseball games on the MLB channel. It is so refreshing to not be distracted with an announcer's blah, blah, blah. Some of those guys didn't speak except between pitches to give the pitch count.
I have been watching some old baseball games on the MLB channel. It is so refreshing to not be distracted with an announcer's blah, blah, blah. Some of those guys didn't speak except between pitches to give the pitch count.
Would suit me just fine if they sent them back to the hotel and let us enjoy the ceremony as it was intended.
Otherwise, this is an awesome production. Wonder how long it took them to develop this? Wish NBC would pick up the bit rate some, I'm seeing some pixalation in the video on fast action.
Otherwise, this is an awesome production. Wonder how long it took them to develop this? Wish NBC would pick up the bit rate some, I'm seeing some pixalation in the video on fast action.
Motormouth TV annoucers are a pet peeve of mine. Especially when motormouth is saying the same thing that the PA annoucer is saying. Another one is when anchors talk over a singer or public speaker at the same time telling us who it is and what is being said or singing. If they would shut the hell up we would be able to hear whats going on. Someone stop giving these motor mouths the script. And another thing. When the President is giving a speech, don't spoil it by telling us what the president is going to say and after he is finished, don't tell us what he just said, we already know, we have already heard it twice.
Correction, the Winter Olympics are not relevant. Let's compare the "sports" of the Winter Olympics to the Summer Olympics. I'll stick to a few of the most popular. Speed skating is essential roller skating on ice...do you see roller skating in the summer games? Snow boarding is kin to skateboarding/half pipe and you don't see that in the summer games, do you? Women's hockey can't be a worldwide sport, right, this is sort of the equivelent of adding American style football. The winter olympics have gone out of their way to add more dangerous and "new" sports to make up for the lack of competition and worthless entertainment factors. The summer games don't have to do that, they are still relevant.
My idea: Polar Bear swimming...see if Michael Phelps can win that!
My idea: Polar Bear swimming...see if Michael Phelps can win that!
I was flipping back and forth between NBC and CTV last night, and I actually really enjoyed the commentary from the NBC commentators. There were some very large gaps on CTV with no commentary, just raw video. I like to know things about the countries competing and their athletes, and other factoids.
Overall I found NBC's coverage of the opening ceremonies to be superior to CTV. Now the question is how coverage of the rest of the Games will be.
Overall I found NBC's coverage of the opening ceremonies to be superior to CTV. Now the question is how coverage of the rest of the Games will be.
Oh you lucky folks at the Canadian border...how I wish I had that CTV option. NBC's coverage last night started with the wordy, pompous Brian Williams, then Brokaw's feature report on Canada, which was so dumbed down I felt I was back in grade school....did you know they have their own army?? etc etc.
Like past productions, NBC's will be canned, little live, and will focus almost exclusively on a handful of American stars, making them celebrities and obsessing over them. Very little attention is paid to anyone from other countries. Then their athlete profile packages with the violin music and the "hardship they're trying to overcome" narration. Truly forced theatre.
I don't think there's as much attention paid to the Olympics this time. NPR's Morning Edition said the new archaic scoring system for figure skating has lost a lot of fans, among other things.
Like past productions, NBC's will be canned, little live, and will focus almost exclusively on a handful of American stars, making them celebrities and obsessing over them. Very little attention is paid to anyone from other countries. Then their athlete profile packages with the violin music and the "hardship they're trying to overcome" narration. Truly forced theatre.
I don't think there's as much attention paid to the Olympics this time. NPR's Morning Edition said the new archaic scoring system for figure skating has lost a lot of fans, among other things.
benwolf said:
Which is why I haven't watched the Olympics in decades. The Roone Arledge soap opera sports coverage philosophy is a big turn-off for me.
Perhaps the Olympics have become a victim of their own endless hype, as well as the fact that most of the athletes are, for most intents and purposes, professionals.
Perhaps the switch to two-year spacing between Olympic games has resulted in overkill. Seems the Beijing games just ended. Maybe the old four year gap kept the anticipation level up?
Apparently I'm not the only person to think NBC did better than CTV in the opening ceremonies coverage...
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jGvtqvmoQ6D3stPaPact-BCGYtRA
It's funny how Canadians preferred the NBC coverage, and Americans wished they had the CTV coverage.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jGvtqvmoQ6D3stPaPact-BCGYtRA
It's funny how Canadians preferred the NBC coverage, and Americans wished they had the CTV coverage.
I'm going to go ahead and say it. The new "We Are the World" is crap! 
My frustration in Seattle, the next big city down the coast from Vancouver, is not only being able to have access to CTV as an option (CBC's main channel is the only Canadian broadcaster offered by Comcast out here), but the sound quality of the opening ceremonies seemed like a mic was stuck out of the booth, instead of patching into the house sound system. Also, we had many audio outages of ten seconds or more Friday night. Was that nation-wide from NBC? Or a local problem at KING-TV?
And, worst of all, I'm 100 miles away from the Olympic ceremonies in Vancouver, yet I have to wait three hours to see what's happening because of the "prime time" delay from NBC. And there's no live coverage yet today on any of the other NBC-controlled cable channels, which I had expected as an option to waiting for what will end up tonight on NBC.
Come on, folks. We're in the same time zone as the Games, and want to feel connected to the event - and all of the athletes and the nations they all represent. Give us some options on the hundreds of cable channels we have, please.
And, yes, cut the play by play commentary and let the ceremonies and singers and speakers speak for themselves. Even in French, s'il-vouz plait. It's good for Americans to get to hear another language for more than 3 seconds while waiting for the English. Might foster some interest in the rest of the world, too.
Otherwise, I posted comments along these lines on the Seattle Radio board on this topic, which you are welcome to follow.
And, worst of all, I'm 100 miles away from the Olympic ceremonies in Vancouver, yet I have to wait three hours to see what's happening because of the "prime time" delay from NBC. And there's no live coverage yet today on any of the other NBC-controlled cable channels, which I had expected as an option to waiting for what will end up tonight on NBC.
Come on, folks. We're in the same time zone as the Games, and want to feel connected to the event - and all of the athletes and the nations they all represent. Give us some options on the hundreds of cable channels we have, please.
And, yes, cut the play by play commentary and let the ceremonies and singers and speakers speak for themselves. Even in French, s'il-vouz plait. It's good for Americans to get to hear another language for more than 3 seconds while waiting for the English. Might foster some interest in the rest of the world, too.
Otherwise, I posted comments along these lines on the Seattle Radio board on this topic, which you are welcome to follow.
Goldilocks94941 said:
That might've been KING 5. I didn't watch the broadcast from start to finish on NBC, but on WDIV there were no audio problems.
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Goldilocks94941 said:
I recall being at a friends house in Lynnwood( just north of Seattle) years age and he was able to get Vancouver and Victoria stations over the air.
I believe the channels were 2,6, and 10.
Is CTV carrying live coverage compared to the NBC west coast feed being 3 hours delayed?
kenrayc said:
CTV's coverage is live coast-to-coast. I don't know how good their signal is on the Washington side but they broadcast from Vancouver on Channel 32 (analog). Although they have a digital signal I'm told it barely even covers Vancouver itself.
For the record, Channel 2 is CBC (CBUT), 6 is CHEK, and 10 is Citytv (CKVU).
Maybe ABC can get the Olympics back. Oh wait, they're f***ed up as well now.
M.J. said:
Where I live, approximately 60 miles away, I've got a straight line-o'-sight shot North to (or 'at') Mt. Seymour. But for an occasional burp or two (not a complete dropout), I've got a solid signal from CTV's digital service, and analog's near perfect (at least for 18 more months it is...)
Of course, your mileage may vary.
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