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Anyone else think NBC's coverage of Olympics was AWFUL?
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i was ok, too many non sport things tho. I remember when it was mostly sports and nothing else.
Ha, they put the spoilers up as soon as you opened the app!
Like one person said, he had waited all through work to come home and watch Shaun White to see if he won gold or not. Well, as soon as he opened up the NBC Sports App on Apple TV, they had thing that said "Watch Shaun Whites Gold Medal Run!" He was pissed off, and I do not blame him. You go all day avoiding anything that could spoil it for you, and then you finally get home and want to just relax and watch him snowboard but stupid NBC ruined it for him before he could even watch it. Terrible implementation, ESPECIALLY on the streaming side...which I have to do since I am a cord cutter and got rid of cable over a year ago for DirecTV NOW.
The only thing I pay Time Warner/Spectrum for is internet, and that is because they are one of the few providers (but most reliable/fastest) in our area, AND my condo building has a contract with them so even if I wanted someone else, they could not install in my building. No one can have a satellite dish or anything, it is either Spectrum or over the air channels, or use a streaming service like I do. Kind of sucks, but like I said Spectrum is the most reliable and fastest in our area, and along with Spectrum pricing, among the cheapest as well.
Quick PSA: Just in case some people did not know this, because Spectrum does not tell you this. If you were in an area that was say Time Warner before Spectrum, if you do not call up Spectrum and ask to be on their pricing plans, they keep you on Time Warner legacy pricing which is WAY MORE than Spectrum pricing. This applies to any area that was another cable company before Spectrum came around. I just used Time Warner as an example because that is who I had before Spectrum. I am still amazed at home many people I talk to that had zero idea about the different pricing schemes. Hope this helps some people lower their bill by quite a bit!
It's always bad, but this years made it painfully obvious that the Olympics needs to move on from selling exclusive coverage. Not only do they immediately lose the cord cutters, but then gouge you selling you terrible coverage that's little more than a highlights reel of 3 sports, endless inane prattling on by their hired airheads, yammering over the action about themselves, showing you the same 4 ads 40 million times even though you're paying for subscriber access, etc.
In this day in age, if the Olympics wants anyone to actually watch their moneypit circus, the only outlet that should be granted an exclusive is YouTube, so every event can actually get coverage and be viewed by anyone in the world. At very least if you're going to give one stupid company with an established bad track record total control over the coverage, demand that they then upload the events after the games conclude. There were loads of sports that took place over the entire duration of the event that didn't get a single minute of coverage. No reason why everyone in the country should be banned from seeing our people compete in them just because NBC wants to spend all their time looking at figure skaters.
Utterly dysfunctional, will not watch again until they fix it.
In this day in age, if the Olympics wants anyone to actually watch their moneypit circus, the only outlet that should be granted an exclusive is YouTube, so every event can actually get coverage and be viewed by anyone in the world. At very least if you're going to give one stupid company with an established bad track record total control over the coverage, demand that they then upload the events after the games conclude. There were loads of sports that took place over the entire duration of the event that didn't get a single minute of coverage. No reason why everyone in the country should be banned from seeing our people compete in them just because NBC wants to spend all their time looking at figure skaters.
Utterly dysfunctional, will not watch again until they fix it.
Honestly, you put it WAY better than I did!
I do agree with you about YouTube, or as I said earlier ABC, because ABC would be able to use ESPN's networks (ESPN, ESPN 2, ESPNNEWS, ACCNetwork, Big12 Network, and more...there are tons of them) and at least ESPN's App is good, and allows multicasting up to six different screens at once, etc...
ABC would have to revamp their app, and I am sure they would, or maybe just use ESPN's since it can get most any game on ABC as well.
Who knows, looks like we are stuck with NBC for another 12 years or so.
Edit: I hope they get things fixed by the next Summer Olympics, so I (and I assume most of you) can watch my favorite Olympics, the Summer Games. I have very little doubt things will actually get fixed, and if they do not, I will not watch!
*shrug* I must be in the minority. I didn't have any problem with the Games that I don't have with any other sporting event. I mostly watched on the NBC Sports app on my Apple TV, where I could choose the events I wanted to watch, whether live or previously recorded. I watched some of almost every discipline. The most annoying thing was that NBC didn't sell enough commercials for the streamed feeds, so I saw the same commercials over and over again; I'd much prefer the "commercial break in progress" text. But, as I mentioned, that's the same thing I experience with most streamed sporting events.
Many of the events that I watched didn't even have American commentators.
Many of the events that I watched didn't even have American commentators.
Best Olympics ever. But worst coverage ever. They made it impossible to watch. Commercials? Jesus H. Christ, how do those bastards sleep at night? They did not explain ANYTHING. Horrible crap reporting. An embarrassment of EPIC proportions. I was heartbroken as I really wanted to watch more and to know what I was watching.
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Not in America, but have to join in. In Japan, NHK had the Olympics coverage, no commercials because it's the national channel that benefits from the licence fee.
I was really annoyed as we had entire curling matches shown and a news flash would show at the top of the page that Japan had won a gold medal in Speed Skating or something, but the commentators wouldn't mention it and would continue on about what snacks the curling team like having during breaks etc. We also had endless replays of the same things, when we didn't have live coverage of the curling.
It was infuriating and I thought it was just Japan, but now I know about your situation, I feel slightly better. What wasted opportunities though... they could have cut away from live curling to show an exciting race in another sport, then come back and told us what we'd missed (probably nothing) in curling. Gah!
I was really annoyed as we had entire curling matches shown and a news flash would show at the top of the page that Japan had won a gold medal in Speed Skating or something, but the commentators wouldn't mention it and would continue on about what snacks the curling team like having during breaks etc. We also had endless replays of the same things, when we didn't have live coverage of the curling.
It was infuriating and I thought it was just Japan, but now I know about your situation, I feel slightly better. What wasted opportunities though... they could have cut away from live curling to show an exciting race in another sport, then come back and told us what we'd missed (probably nothing) in curling. Gah!
I doubt many people outside of the US are watching a US channel.
"People" hate Americans? Because of NBC's Olympic coverage??? I can't imagine I would think too much about people who base their hatred on corporate behavior or even government behavior. The masses have little or nothing to do with the actions of the few. It's like this guy I met in Oklahoma. He went on about those "fruits and nuts" in California as if "everyone" there is a "fruit" or a "nut". But Oklahoma is "god's country" he said. I'm from neither, but basing an opinion on an entire state's population due to the actions of only part of it...ridiculous.
Exactly, who are these people that "hate" Americans based on NBC's coverage? I thought most other countries had their own coverage and news people. How is it they're watching NBC's American coverage, anyway? Or do you just hate your own kind or are you visiting and watched American television and think NBC represents everyone here?
I spent a couple of months in Europe two years ago. I didn't detect seething hatred towards me anywhere. People were pretty friendly and I had a nice time. I've been to Central America and South America as well. Sure, business people are smiles when they think they're going to make money, but if they had uncontrollable hatred towards "all" Americans, I never sensed it. I always thought people were smarter than that. I don't like Putin. That doesn't mean I hate Russians.
Across the pond here in Blighty, the BBC coverage was Spot On ..... great informed commentary, NO ADS! no homophobia ....good personalities in the studio, dynamic, enthusiastic, all inclusive - profiling other nations alot too ..... partly because Brits are pretty crap at Winter Sports TBH ..... so coverage would be thin otherwise.
No other nation focuses like the Brits do on Bronze Medal winners! ..... but when we celebrate our country’s best ever Winter Olympic medal ‘haul’ ..... er ..... 5 medals only(groan) ..... with 2weeks tv coverage in the schedules .... the Beeb has no choice.
At least even the Bronze medal winners felt like celebrities for 10 minutes on the tv .... and the country had a smile on it’s face too.
Hat’s off to the Koreans for doing a truly GREAT job with the modern dynamic way they presented the opening/closing ceremonies .... impressive ...... perfect hosts ..... and made things run so smoothly.
Really opened my eyes to the dynamism and energy in Korea at the moment .... very inspiring.
No other nation focuses like the Brits do on Bronze Medal winners! ..... but when we celebrate our country’s best ever Winter Olympic medal ‘haul’ ..... er ..... 5 medals only(groan) ..... with 2weeks tv coverage in the schedules .... the Beeb has no choice.
At least even the Bronze medal winners felt like celebrities for 10 minutes on the tv .... and the country had a smile on it’s face too.
Hat’s off to the Koreans for doing a truly GREAT job with the modern dynamic way they presented the opening/closing ceremonies .... impressive ...... perfect hosts ..... and made things run so smoothly.
Really opened my eyes to the dynamism and energy in Korea at the moment .... very inspiring.