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NBC's Olympics Press Kit Is Online: Will We See Fewer of Those Annoying "Up Close And Personal" Features??

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NBC's Olympics Press Kit Is Online: Will We See Fewer of Those Annoying "Up Close And Personal" Features??

NBC has posted on it's Media Village website (this is a PDF file) the network's press kit for the upcoming Winter Olympics in Turin/Torino.

There seems to be good news on pages 7 and 13 of the online press kit: NBC claims that they will continue a trend started in 2002 (Salt Lake Winter Games) and 2004 (Athens Summer Games) and present fewer of those "Up Close And Personal" features than in the past. Those "Up Close And Personal" features that are produced, according to the network, will be shorter in duration. The network promises that more of the "storytelling" will be given by the announcers at the event venues during coverage of those events.

By the way, ABC actually invented the idea of "Up Close And Personal" features during the 1960's; but I recall that there were only a couple of them each night and they seldom ran more than a minute-and-a-half each, if even that long. And when ABC did those features, they almost never descended to the level of flag-waving, soap-operaish segments that ran on and on, taking time away from the showing of actual Olympic competition, that this kind of feature has become since 1992.

Although I'll only believe it when I see it, dare we dream that NBC has finally gotten the message from angry viewers and has cut back on those syrupy "Up Close And Personal" features that have made the Olympics look more like "Days Of Our Lives" than a sports event??
 
Re: NBC's Olympics Press Kit Is Online: Will We See Fewer of Those Annoying "Up Close And Personal" Features??

> NBC has posted on it's Media Village website (this is a PDF
> file) the network's press kit for the upcoming Winter
> Olympics in Turin/Torino.
>
> There seems to be good news on pages 7 and 13 of the online
> press kit: NBC claims that they will continue a trend
> started in 2002 (Salt Lake Winter Games) and 2004 (Athens
> Summer Games) and present fewer of those "Up Close And
> Personal" features than in the past. Those "Up Close And
> Personal" features that are produced, according to the
> network, will be shorter in duration. The network promises
> that more of the "storytelling" will be given by the
> announcers at the event venues during coverage of those
> events.
>
> By the way, ABC actually invented the idea of "Up Close And
> Personal" features during the 1960's; but I recall that
> there were only a couple of them each night and they seldom
> ran more than a minute-and-a-half each, if even that long.
> And when ABC did those features, they almost never descended
> to the level of flag-waving, soap-operaish segments that ran
> on and on, taking time away from the showing of actual
> Olympic competition, that this kind of feature has become
> since 1992.
>
> Although I'll only believe it when I see it, dare we dream
> that NBC has finally gotten the message from angry viewers
> and has cut back on those syrupy "Up Close And Personal"
> features that have made the Olympics look more like "Days Of
> Our Lives" than a sports event??
>

But will NBC play the non-major games? I hate the NBC coverage because it is soooo biased towards Americans. Come-on...at least play some stuff on the canadians and brits and aussies on MSNBC. If they don't have a big shoe contract in the US, expect little or nothing on the player- while tons of coverage on anyone selling Dunkin Donuts.
 
Re: NBC's Olympics Press Kit Is Online: Will We See Fewer of Those Annoying "Up Close And Personal" Features??

> But will NBC play the non-major games? I hate the NBC
> coverage because it is soooo biased towards Americans.

I will not watch the Olympics because of this. NBC presents everything as if it was a Dick Cheney/Leni Riefenstahl co-production.
Do people even care about the Olympics anymore?<P ID="signature">______________
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Re: NBC's Olympics Press Kit Is Online: Will We See Fewer of Those Annoying "Up Close And Personal" Features??

> But will NBC play the non-major games? I hate the NBC
> coverage because it is soooo biased towards Americans.

Hey, in case you didn't get the memo...

1. NBC is an AMERICAN television network.
2. The money NBC puts up for broadcast the games (800,000,000 in 2004) is paid by American advertisers. When the Bank of Scotland wants to spend money in the US, I'm sure NBC will air what BOS wants.
3. American's don't care about curling.
4. Figure Skaters are wearing less clothes these days...and are hot.

Now hush or we'll invade you.
 
Re: NBC's Olympics Press Kit Is Online: Will We See Fewer of Those Annoying "Up Close And Personal" Features??

> > But will NBC play the non-major games? I hate the NBC
> > coverage because it is soooo biased towards Americans.

> I will not watch the Olympics because of this. NBC presents
> everything as if it was a Dick Cheney/Leni Riefenstahl
> co-production.
> Do people even care about the Olympics anymore?

In answer to this and the previous post.

I never cared.

I wish the media and our culture valued
intelligence-oriented accomplishments and
competition as much as sports.

My attitude on sports is that it's good as exercise
but boring as hell to watch. And a pointless
display of pseudo-nationalism. (Like your hometown
professional sports team gives a damn about you
and your city and wouldn't leave town
for a promise of a better stadium in 5 minutes.)

My analogy: Compare making love to a hot member
of the opposite sex (or same, if that's what
you like) to merely watching other people do it.
Which would you prefer?

I liked watching GE College Bowl Saturdays when
I was a kid. I actually learned about physics,
chemistry, history, etc, from that.
That's been gone at least 40 years.

OTOH, I may watch a little of the women's
figure skating, as mentioned. No cheerleading
competition? (As Jerry Lee Lewis said, "you
know what I like.")

Why do people who don't even bother to vote get
so hot about nationalistic exhibitions like the
Olympics? Maybe there's something to your Leni
Riefenstahl analogy, thought I'd bet that's a bit
obscure for most folks -- who are so ignorant of
history today. And why drag Cheney into it?

(I just switched my PC from Irish music to
Dietrich's Falling In Love Again -- to
set the mood. Who needs radio?)

73s from 954<P ID="signature">______________
Prairie Home Companion Coming To Miami in Feb! South Florida Radio Pages (since 1995)</P>
 
Re: NBC's Olympics Press Kit Is Online: Will We See Fewer of Those Annoying "Up Close And Personal" Features??

Curling can be found on CBC. 'Nuff said.<P ID="signature">______________
"If you never say NO, How much is your YES worth?"
</P>
 
Re: Curling

Actually, most of the curling coverage will be seen on USA, CNBC or MSNBC. And between them, they will carry more curling that NBC and it's cable siblings did in 2002.

There may be a little bit of it on NBC's broadcast network.
 
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