Western New York olympic 2010 viewers

[e-dawg]

For those people living in Buffalo or Watertown DMA markets area. Would you watch NBC olympic coverage or CTV's olympic coverage. Also will WGRZ NBC 2 in Buffalo loose viewers to CFTo for the 2010 Winter olympics?

 

[BobRoss]

I don't live in either market, but I recall when CBC used to carry the Olympics and I lived in an area where CKWS was carried on cable, the Canadians usually did a better job with the coverage. They show everything live, no matter what time it's happening... whereas NBC often tape-delays things so they can show what they think is most-deserving of prime-time coverage.

On the other hand, in recent years, it's been nice to see NBC using many of their cable channels to provide supplemental coverage, allowing you to see more events than NBC could ever carry on its own. For the 2008 Olympics, Time Warner in CNY even added some temporary extra HD channels offered by NBC.

But another question: is it just me, or does it seem like the 2010 Olympics aren't getting that much hype? I've barely heard anything about who's "hot" this year, which sports we're most likely to be winning, and so forth. Seems like there hasn't been as much "water cooler chatter" about these games, as compared to previous Olympics.

 

[SirRoxalot]

I've switched back and forth depending who was showing what sport, and who the announcers were.

 

[benwolf]

When it was NBC or CBC, definitely CBC. But I assume CTV will still trump NBC, which is really all canned, little live, and they have an annoying habit of picking a handful of American stars, making them celebrities and obsessing over them...very little attention is paid to anyone from other countries. Then are the gawd-awful athlete profile packages with violin music and the "hardship they're trying to overcome." Truly forced theatre.

It is true there's much less attention paid to the Olympics this time. It was the subject of a great report on NPR's Morning Edition Wednesday. They say the new archaic scoring system for figure skating has lost a lot of fans, among other things.

 

[BobRoss]

WSTM in Syracuse did an awful job on opening night. At one point, they started playing a local news promo in the middle of the Tom Brokaw piece. After a split second, they cut back, and then again to the promo, which then aired in its entirety. When the next local break came along, instead of replaying that promo or finding another :15 to fill the hole, they just sat on the random animating NBC logos for 15 seconds and then started playing spots.

Amazing how something like this would have been totally unacceptable 10 or 15 years ago, but today, "it's the computer's fault" and that's OK because the occasional automation gaffe is still better than paying a live master control operator to sit there.

 

[Mr. Kite!]

Amazing how something like this would have been totally unacceptable 10 or 15 years ago, but today, "it's the computer's fault" and that's OK because the occasional automation gaffe is still better than paying a live master control operator to sit there.

Sad but true. The NBC web streaming is a complete joke, also.

 

[jiminCT]

If you are in Watertown..the CJOH signal from Deseronto Ontario is an easier catch than WSTM-DT. That is...assuming you are using an antenna. ;D

CTV for hockey is much better...I like Emrick and Olczyk, but Pierre McGuire is painful.