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I watched the first week of Olympics on NBC and am now watching the second week on Murdock's Star TV from Hong Kong. While NBC had mostly zeroed in on only superstars and the commentators talking only about them sidelining athletes from the rest of the world, the Star TV's BBC and Australian commentators talked about competitors from all over the world. They also show all the medal ceremonies and I get to listen to the national anthems of so many countries. There are three channels showing most of the events round the clock and I dont mind the sleepless nights that it has caused. I have watched Kayaking, white water rafting, Taekwondo, wrestling, Shuttle Badminton, Table Tennis, Fencing et al. The womens Brazil versus Sweden soccer, Denmark vs China Volleyball and the Basketball and Water Polo matches were fantastic. I get to see everything, not the exploits of superstars only.
Cheers
Bill
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NBC used to cut to lengthy bios of almost every American competitor, right before showing the event.
So, the viewer's all exited about a major event; the event's ready to go ---- and ---POP
They cut to a drippingly sentimental story about the competitor's life and training. Always, the competitor was portrayed as overcoming some horrible roadblock, but angelically sticking to his/her training. Sickeningly emotional and boring as hell.
At least they've stopped that.
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Network 7 are copping it.
Luckily we have a pretty big team and so get a wide mix of sports - but no Aussie = no coverage sucks.
Cheers,
John K
That's why you don't see the anthem that starts every football and baseball game. Plus they can cram one more commercial down your throat.
I set WMDO as last channel when watching Formula One. Its a Spanish channel and they show the whole race commercial free. Most Euro countries are the same. We suck. We get less and pay more whether it's TV, cell or other phone or the Internet, health care and the list goes on.
ET
"If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do suck seed" - Curly Howard 1936
...gymnasts who nail their foot plants.
There's a lot to be admired in Despotism.
Oh the horrors!
Imagine an American TV network (NBC) broadcasting a sports schedule mainly aimed at a viewing public who are the primary purchasers of the products that are manufactured/sold by their advertisers. You know, the very companies that pay for all of this. Such gauche behavior by these greedy capitalists, and all free of charge to its viewers.
Stop whining and buy yourself a satellite dish.
Luckily the BBC shows every event live here on cable.
That said there is an annoying amount of channel mislabelling, it might say Taekwondo but it really shows Hockey.
A nephew of mine (by marriage) represented Britain in the Fencing. I had to keep my sister updated because german TV didn't show it.
...showing events over many hours ago starting at 8pm to midnight, saving the best for last.
I don't stay up that late.
Why not start at 7 and have the best at 10?
And so American-centric.
Lot of boring events like synchronized swimming.
r
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Many more events, channels in the NBC family like NBCSN, CNBC, MSNBC. Less commercials and more events live. The NBC network coverage at night does suck but its not as bad during the day when airing events in real time. There were surprisingly few commercials during the men's basketball today. Way less than an NBA or college game in the US.
ET
"If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do suck seed" - Curly Howard 1936
Edits: 08/19/16
There are more commercials then ever now on TV. I believe they're now up to 22 minutes of commercials per hour.
That's incredible. And, the cram even more for events such as football.
Nobody seems to notice. No one seems to care. Hardly anyone's voiced any complaints. Thus, free, over the air TV and cable TV are crammed with commercials - and they seem to increase them every few years or so.
I have no doubt that within a year or two, the ratio will be 30 minutes of commercials for every hour. From there, it'll probably go to even 40 minutes. Eventually, their all consuming greed may lead them to an inversion: 12 minutes of programming/48 minutes of commercials - the exact opposite of television programming back when it started.
I'll bet that nobody's going to complain.
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The first three nights of NBC coverage were swimming, swimming, swimming, swimming, gymnastics, swimming, swimming and more swimming.
I'd really like to see more events.
Maybe NBC should just show finals and skip all of the trials ?
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
They absolutely should. Nobody cares about the first of twenty heats of the 100 meter dash. I sure don't - and I'm a runner.
If they skipped the prelims, they could show more different events.
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