Olympics: Official bitch about NBC's coverage thread

[Daer]

Not sure if you can view it in america but all the canadian coverage can be watched online.

http://www.ctvolympics.ca/tv-online-listings/index.html

[Gandolfandiari]

Originally Posted by wiper

that site's good for a lot of *ahem* things.

yes yes it is

[wiper]

Originally Posted by Gandolfandiari

yes yes it is

sshhh, quiet you.

[Flow73]

Originally Posted by Daer

Not sure if you can view it in america but all the canadian coverage can be watched online.

http://www.ctvolympics.ca/tv-online-listings/index.html

Has anyone in the States tried this yet? I was trying earlier and wasn't getting a video unavailable notice. Nothing about not being from a Canadian ISP. Just wondering if it's worth my time to keep trying.

[esad]

**** you NBC

Three awesome rivalry games:

SUN,FEB 21
3:00 PM RUS vs. CZE TSN
7:45 PM CAN vs. USA CTV
12:00AM SWE vs. FIN CTV

The first game RUS vs CZE on NBC HD

Then
CAN vs. USA & SWE vs. FIN on MSNBC (No ****ing hd on my system)

Go to hell you douchebag idiots.

[AussieJack]

wow America sucks

[wiper]

more medals than y'all.

[jt217]

there are so many random olympic sports that i'd love to watch, but i dont think im even going to bother trying.

[wiper]

i will.

schedule of events in the newspaper today, i'll probably follow that, and be watching most coverage anyway.

[brick]

Originally Posted by Flow73

Has anyone in the States tried this yet? I was trying earlier and wasn't getting a video unavailable notice. Nothing about not being from a Canadian ISP. Just wondering if it's worth my time to keep trying.

Doesn't work for me either.

Pretty lame that so little video is available on NBC Olympics .com

I'd actually watch some commercials if they had it online. Easy to skip them with the DVR.

[oldgrandma18k]

I seriously blame NBC for doing this tape delay crap and THEN running far longer than their scheduled coverage on my DVR listings. FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU NBC, SERIOUSLY F U

[kidcolin]

Originally Posted by TimTimSalabim

Context is everything in sports. I generally find baseball boring, but I'll watch the World Series. If it was on tape delay though I wouldn't bother.

my feelings towards the olympics as well.

might be nostalgia, but I loved the olympics growing up, and winter olympics especially. I remember loving the **** out of speed skating and figure skating (cue gay jokes), watching it with my mom. Am I huge speed/figure skating fan? No. but it ruled in the olympics. same with most downhill skiing events.

But the past ~8-12 years of olympics has been worthless to me. It's too hard to watch stuff. My parents have the same complaint. It's all just human interest stories with very little of the athletics.

It's no surprise NBC is probably losing money on the olympics. Humans love love love athletic achievement. It's awesome, it's breathtaking, it's inspiring. That's why baseball boomed in the dingers era. That's why everyone was freaking about Bolt this past summer, and MJ back in '96. Remember how popular MJ was? How many olympic athletes get that kind of attention nowadays?

[kidcolin]

Originally Posted by Triumph36

this last statement is rather dense when you consider that infomercials are paid for - the entire thing is a commercial. i don't think it's particularly hard for a network to do the math on informericals versus running programming - now you may argue it's a penny wise, pound foolish strategy, and you're probably right - i remember the olympics just being ON as a child, even in the morning. i just think in today's media environment that it's a lot harder to program for an audience that's ostensibly not going anywhere, what with the twitter and the facebook and so forth.

you would think with twitter and facebook being live and present would be more important. Probably happens in plenty of sports, but I know specifically in basketball, fans are buzzing on twitter switching between games on league pass to watch the most intense/interesting games/moments. Why wouldn't NBC want to create the same environment with the Olympics? Now some reporter tweets from Vancouver, and no followers can jump in front of their TV to catch anything. it's pretty ridic.

[Bobo Fett]

Originally Posted by 72off

Actually CBC was shut out the Olympics, for the 1st time ever I believe. They aren't part of the CTV/TSN/RSN group with the rights. So it means no Jim Hughson calling games, which will lead to Gord Miller and Pierre Maguire (NOOOOOO!!!) or Chris Cuthbert and anybody (PLEASE!!!). CTV has all of the Canada games, most of the other good ones are on TSN, while RSN has the rest:

Quite right, my mistake...so used to it being CBC, I didn't give it a second thought.

[gusmahler]

Yeah, NBC's summer coverage was much better. On DirecTV, they had a block of channels showing nothing but Olympics. Not for these Olympics.

What's worse is that they censor their own Internet site also. Want to watch the ski jumping final? Nope, can't do that until they air it on TV. What's the point, especially since their site actually has the results.