As long as NBC does not assign Olberman to the Olympic coverage, I'm cool with them. However, if he shows up, I'm gone. He's the reason I refuse to watch the Sunday night NFL games on NBC.
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NBC's Olympic Coverage
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I like to get on NBC's case as much as the next guy...but I think they've done good work with the '08 and '10 Olympics. I'm watching a live event as we speak -- and when the '08 summer Olympics were half a day away, I was watching live events at midnight on cable. Yes, they replayed them in primetime on the network for those who didn't keep the night-owl hours, but when it was 8 p.m. on the east coast there wasn't a whole lot going on they could cover live for the '08 summer games -- so why not run tape-delayed versions of the most popular events? I commend NBC for being live as much as they can - both in terms of logistics and finances.
benwolf said:...we do get endless features on some American athletes that look like they were produced by the Hallmark Channel.
Personally, NBC does present good sports coverage at the Olympics -- when they show sports. Their main problem is its overreliance on fluff, to make it more like a reality program than a sporting competition.
Bengalsfan said:
I'm surprised they don't send him out there (as they already are ditching 2 and a half hours a night on MSNBC to the olympics anyway) as he once was employed by ESPN
I've been watching both CTV and NBC. I will give NBC props for great insight, good commentary and superb production. What I don't like is the network's decision to delay most of its coverage. Yes, some of it is live in prime time. Figure skating, Apollo Ono...etc...but much of it is taped and replayed for the prime time audience. I understand why they do this. For some viewers, it works. Not for me. I want to see it live, when it happens. CTV is live at every event. The taped replays are there also, to watch late at night or early the next day. The sappy features are there, to fill time between live events. Give the viewers choices. 21at Century technology allows viewing live/tape/on demand. Why can't NBC use it to the extent that CTV is using it? Of course, for NBC's West Coast viewers, none of this applies. In the west nothing is live, even though it is going on in the Pacific time zone. How stupid!
Hows the ratings, so far. Is NBC cleaning up on The Olympics Coverage so far.Ok I like what I see so far.But Bob got to smile once in the while,he has the straight face all the time.I see NBC is promoting some new reality crap shows that will be airing after the games are over.Just what we need.
WPPCProductions said:
The opening three nights of NBC's Olympics coverage averaged 28.6 million viewers, according to Nielsen....even with the boneheaded decision to delay the events by three hours in the western time zones.
Well, under the old system, there was just six months between the winter and summer games. But the (only) two-year gap between winter Olympic games in 1992-1994 was overkill for me, especially after all the highly overblown Nancy-Tonya drama. I know that they were in the process of shifting the winter games to the "off" year at that time, but would it have killed them to wait until 1998 before scheduling another winter Olympics? Two years was just too soon.Mediafrog+ said:
firepoint525 said:
Point taken - but a six-year gap would have deprived at least some young athletes of a chance to compete at all. If you're a figure skater, for instance, the age window of prime Olympic eligibility is awfully short.
Maybe the 1994 games should have been held in 1995 to space things out a little better, though that would have meant only a one-year gap between Lillehammer (or was that Albertville?) and Atlanta.
Same could be said about the successive boycotts of summer games. And that was a gap of eight years! But as I said before, the gap between winter and summer games has historically only been about six months. I was referring to the short gap between two successive winter games.Scott Fybush said:
firepoint525 said:I'm going to go ahead and say it. The new "We Are the World" is crap!
Yes! I saw it on YouTube this past Friday and it sucks! I like the original version a lot better than this crappy version. I didn't catch the opening ceremony but I did saw bits and pieces of it. Can wait for the closing ceremony at the end of this month.
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