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Post by kchoya on Aug 1, 2012 13:56:10 GMT -5
I also hate that since I want to see the events "live," i.e., the first time for me, I have to stay away from all media, because somebody is going to say, well Missy won the backstroke, which takes all the suspense out of watching the race. Since I am a big fan of track and field, that will be especially true this weekend and next week, so I can see the races fresh, so to speak. Even the local NBC affiliate will tell you the medal count even before you see that day's action on the parent NBC, so you sort of figure out who won and who lost. How do you fix that problem? If NBC showed the events live during the day and repackaged them to show again during primetime, wouldn't you still have to stay away from all media?
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Post by thebin on Aug 1, 2012 14:06:08 GMT -5
"You're bitching because you can't watch it in delay when you want to and you can only watch it on delay when NBC wants you to. "
Ummm yeah. That's called watching tv in the 21st century. Funny how you think that is odd.
I'm not sure why this is complicated for you kchoya but in 2012 I don't expect major sporting events to be hidden from us by the broadcaster and then chopped up into little pieces and slipped into a nightly super-bowl length broadcast. No it isn't an option for me to watch on the internet live. And clearly many people do not have day jobs and do intend to watch the events live.
But keep fighting the good fight...NBC needs you looking out for their profit maximizing efforts to the annoyance of every sports fan in America. I'll just ignore the thoughts of every single person I've talked to about this, all of whom are bewildered at the way these games are being packaged. Well not all....some of them have just decided not to watch because they want no part of it because they can't possibly avoid the results during their work day and the idea of taped sports on NBC's schedule rather than their own is anathema to them.
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Post by kchoya on Aug 1, 2012 14:45:38 GMT -5
"You're bitching because you can't watch it in delay when you want to and you can only watch it on delay when NBC wants you to. " Ummm yeah. That's called watching tv in the 21st century. Funny how you think that is odd. I'm not sure why this is complicated for you kchoya but in 2012 I don't expect major sporting events to be hidden from us by the broadcaster and then chopped up into little pieces and slipped into a nightly super-bowl length broadcast. No it isn't an option for me to watch on the internet live. And clearly many people do not have day jobs and do intend to watch the events live. But keep fighting the good fight...NBC needs you looking out for their profit maximizing efforts to the annoyance of every sports fan in America. I'll just ignore the thoughts of every single person I've talked to about this, all of whom are bewildered at the way these games are being packaged. Well not all....some of them have just decided not to watch because they want no part of it because they can't possibly avoid the results during their work day and the idea of taped sports on NBC's schedule rather than their own is anathema to them. Just wanted to clarify that you don't care about actually wanting to watch it live. And if you put half the effort in to watching the games as you do bitching about it, I think you'd be happier. But that's your way, blow everything up. I fail to see how the Olympics are hidden from us. I watched several races at my desk yesterday. Just like I watch NCAA tourney games sometimes. The amount of consternation over something that's not a big deal is staggering.
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Post by thebin on Aug 1, 2012 15:23:43 GMT -5
"You're bitching because you can't watch it in delay when you want to and you can only watch it on delay when NBC wants you to. " Ummm yeah. That's called watching tv in the 21st century. Funny how you think that is odd. I'm not sure why this is complicated for you kchoya but in 2012 I don't expect major sporting events to be hidden from us by the broadcaster and then chopped up into little pieces and slipped into a nightly super-bowl length broadcast. No it isn't an option for me to watch on the internet live. And clearly many people do not have day jobs and do intend to watch the events live. But keep fighting the good fight...NBC needs you looking out for their profit maximizing efforts to the annoyance of every sports fan in America. I'll just ignore the thoughts of every single person I've talked to about this, all of whom are bewildered at the way these games are being packaged. Well not all....some of them have just decided not to watch because they want no part of it because they can't possibly avoid the results during their work day and the idea of taped sports on NBC's schedule rather than their own is anathema to them. Just wanted to clarify that you don't care about actually wanting to watch it live. And if you put half the effort in to watching the games as you do bitching about it, I think you'd be happier. But that's your way, blow everything up. I fail to see how the Olympics are hidden from us. I watched several races at my desk yesterday. Just like I watch NCAA tourney games sometimes. The amount of consternation over something that's not a big deal is staggering. Nobody complains about complaining more than you do, evidently without a hint of irony. Thanks for taking so much time out of your way to complain about the complaints others put on a board for which complaining is lifeblood.
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Post by kchoya on Aug 1, 2012 16:24:03 GMT -5
Just wanted to clarify that you don't care about actually wanting to watch it live. And if you put half the effort in to watching the games as you do bitching about it, I think you'd be happier. But that's your way, blow everything up. I fail to see how the Olympics are hidden from us. I watched several races at my desk yesterday. Just like I watch NCAA tourney games sometimes. The amount of consternation over something that's not a big deal is staggering. Nobody complains about complaining more than you do, evidently without a hint of irony. Thanks for taking so much time out of your way to complain about the complaints others put on a board for which complaining is lifeblood. You act as if the you're the only one complaining. Half my Twitter feed is filled with other babies whining. "I can't instantaneously watch a gymnastics event taking place on another continent on the hugh flat screen TV in my office." You're right, that's such a 2012 problem.
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Post by hoyainspirit on Aug 1, 2012 18:54:39 GMT -5
Nobody complains about complaining more than you do, evidently without a hint of irony. ;D
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Post by Boz on Aug 1, 2012 20:00:27 GMT -5
I would like to lodge a complaint against those who complain about other people making complaints that everyone is complaining.
Also, I didn't get a harrumph out of enough people here!
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Aug 1, 2012 20:52:21 GMT -5
I also hate that since I want to see the events "live," i.e., the first time for me, I have to stay away from all media, because somebody is going to say, well Missy won the backstroke, which takes all the suspense out of watching the race. Since I am a big fan of track and field, that will be especially true this weekend and next week, so I can see the races fresh, so to speak. Even the local NBC affiliate will tell you the medal count even before you see that day's action on the parent NBC, so you sort of figure out who won and who lost. How do you fix that problem? If NBC showed the events live during the day and repackaged them to show again during primetime, wouldn't you still have to stay away from all media? Yes, that is what I hate about it. I am newsless (is that a word?) for the day. It is almost as bad as in 1980, when I went to vote at 6 pm, and they announced the results of the election already.
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Post by hoyarooter on Aug 1, 2012 20:57:00 GMT -5
I smell a who complains the most contest in the works.
CAN'T WAIT!
And just for good measure, here's a harrumph.
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Post by kchoya on Aug 1, 2012 21:30:47 GMT -5
Nobody complains about complaining more than you do, evidently without a hint of irony. ;D Yes, but I do it in 78% fewer words than bin.
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Post by Boz on Aug 2, 2012 8:24:17 GMT -5
Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! I've got something I'd like to complain about!!!! So, who's the genius behind the archery coverage? The one who decided that the only angle we'd like to see is from IN FRONT of the archers?? How stupid is that? Especially when, as they show during replays, they are perfectly capable shooting from behind over the archer's shoulder? I don't know if this is NBC's fault, but I'm going to go ahead and blame them anyway. Still. Love the archery. It's like my curling for the Summer games. (Also, I resemble a lot of these athletes more closely than I do, say, Michael Phelps. )
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 2, 2012 9:53:26 GMT -5
A one arrow shoot off -- wow!
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Aug 2, 2012 11:27:08 GMT -5
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Post by jgalt on Aug 2, 2012 11:37:09 GMT -5
My Biggest gripe is that they have seven channels for olympic broad casts, but they still only show like 7 sports. Which is great if you like swimming, gymnastics, basketball, soccer, volleyball, handball, and water polo. The US doesn't compete in handball! There was even a point over the weekend where NBC and NBCSN were showing the same equestrian event at the same time!!!! I dont expect them to show more live stuff. They are showing as much as they can on the two networks they are showing it on (I am ignoring the other channels because they are dedicated to individual sports). But they should be showing more taped stuff. There is no Olympic coverage on NBCSN from 5pm on. I can understand not wanting to compete with NBC Primetime showing. But why cant you show taped stuff from 5 to 8?
Am I the only one that remembers past olympics being different? I remember being able to watch NBC and they would jump from one event to the next really quick so you could see a bunch at the same time.
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Post by thebin on Aug 3, 2012 13:48:47 GMT -5
What sport could possibly be dirtier than weightlifting? These are all of the gold medal winners for London 2012: North Korea, North Korea, China, China, China, Kazakhstan, China, Kazakhstan, North Korea, Kazakhstan.
And the men's heavyweight division starts at......169 pounds? 6 classes and 18 medals are awarded for women's weightlifting which by the way is more of a fringe hobby than an actual grass roots sport. But they couldn't live with 3 medals for baseball. This is just Olympic medals welfare for particularly slimy countries.
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Post by CTHoya08 on Aug 4, 2012 7:35:19 GMT -5
I've been a pretty passive observer of these Games (Winter Olympics are more to my liking) but it's time to join the chorus complaining about NBC. Last night they went to commercial in the middle of the women's 800m backstroke.
The race took about eight minutes. In fact, they kept reminding us that it was going to take eight minutes. But rather than setting up an eight-minute block of time between commercial breaks, they went to a commercial when the swimmers were around the 300m mark. And when they came back, they were at the 400m mark. They cut two laps out of the tape-delayed broadcast!
This isn't like cutting away for a couple minutes to check on another game during the NCAA tournament. This was an event that happened hours earlier. Most of the viewers surely knew the result; we were watching because we wanted to see the race.
And this is to say nothing about the excessively long piece about the 1996 women's gymnastics team to open the broadcast.
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Post by jgalt on Aug 4, 2012 11:15:27 GMT -5
I've been a pretty passive observer of these Games (Winter Olympics are more to my liking) but it's time to join the chorus complaining about NBC. Last night they went to commercial in the middle of the women's 800m backstroke. The race took about eight minutes. In fact, they kept reminding us that it was going to take eight minutes. But rather than setting up an eight-minute block of time between commercial breaks, they went to a commercial when the swimmers were around the 300m mark. And when they came back, they were at the 400m mark. They cut two laps out of the tape-delayed broadcast! This isn't like cutting away for a couple minutes to check on another game during the NCAA tournament. This was an event that happened hours earlier. Most of the viewers surely knew the result; we were watching because we wanted to see the race.And this is to say nothing about the excessively long piece about the 1996 women's gymnastics team to open the broadcast. Im guessing you went to be before they interviewed Shaun White about the men's trampoline final? He was very insightful with his comments about snowboarding during the Summer Olympics.
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Post by CTHoya08 on Aug 4, 2012 12:44:04 GMT -5
You are correct.
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Post by sead43 on Aug 4, 2012 14:08:07 GMT -5
I've been a pretty passive observer of these Games (Winter Olympics are more to my liking) but it's time to join the chorus complaining about NBC. Last night they went to commercial in the middle of the women's 800m backstroke. The race took about eight minutes. In fact, they kept reminding us that it was going to take eight minutes. But rather than setting up an eight-minute block of time between commercial breaks, they went to a commercial when the swimmers were around the 300m mark. And when they came back, they were at the 400m mark. They cut two laps out of the tape-delayed broadcast! This isn't like cutting away for a couple minutes to check on another game during the NCAA tournament. This was an event that happened hours earlier. Most of the viewers surely knew the result; we were watching because we wanted to see the race.And this is to say nothing about the excessively long piece about the 1996 women's gymnastics team to open the broadcast. agree completely. couldn't believe they went to commercial in the middle of that race. inexcusable.
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Post by SFHoya99 on Aug 4, 2012 15:40:41 GMT -5
They just went to commercial twice in the middle of the men's 10,000.
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