http://www.nbcolympics.com/nations/nation=australia/ I wish someone had told me that we were located next to Switzerland before the end of the ski season.
Ratings information from the first (official) three days of the competition so far: http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Daily/Issues/2012/07/31/Olympics/Ratings.aspx Mark Lazarus giving his reaction to the tweets critical of NBC's handling of the Games: http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Daily/Issues/2012/07/31/Olympics/Lazarus.aspx
One of the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission, our version of the BBC) correspondents mentioned the other day that NBC has 2,700 employees in London covering the Games. They even have their own private Starbucks. I can't even imagine what they need that many people on the ground for.
I dunno, but the production values have been fantastic -- at least the money seems to be spent well. To me this is the best tape-delay Olympic coverage yet. Fewer up-close-and-personal fillers, for the most part Costas is moving bang, bang, bang from one venue to the next. The action looks and sounds great. Still too much focus on Americans, but no worse than at any other Olympics.
This Lazarus guy even has the face you would want on a punching bag. What a dick. He is in complete denial over the outrage of viewers regarding prime events being shown on tape delay in Prime Time.
That makes sense considering the number of people NBC has covering events. It's huge. They have more than just the Olympic feed. They have cameras on their people covering the events. Not sure how it works, but I'm sure at any of the major venues like gymnastics and swimming, NBC has 4-5 additional cameras along with the sizable crew in the trucks producing and directing. When doing Sunday night football I would not doubt NBC has in excess of 100 people working. Between the stadium and the studio crews.
Another case of NBC screwing up the programming yet again. To devote 1/2 an hour on Prime Time to Phelps on arguably one of the busiest days of the Olympics is not fair to the other sports that took place today. Nothing live on Prime Time. Nothing live from the track this morning or afternoon. Here are a list of events that took place 3 1/2 plus hours ago. 100m Men's Final 400m Women's Final 3,000m Steeplechase Men's Final Hammer Throw Men's Final Triple Jump Women's Final 400m Men's Semi Finals 1,500m Men's Semi Finals 400m hurdles Women's Heats High Jump Men's Qualifying Earlier in the day, but covered live the Women's Marathon. I did not like the course. It should not have been an 8 mile circuit and it should have ended in the Olympic Stadium assuming events were underway.
You shouldn't be defending NBC at issue is not that there are no events during Prime Time. That is to be expected 8:00 pm EDT is 1:00 am London Time. The issue is why aren't the events shown live at 5:00 pm . Rather than on tape at 8:00 pm.
I said nice things about them earlier but the prime-time coverage has been worsening as the Games go on, with ever-more insipid personality features, boring interviews, and (worse of all) retrospectives about previous Olympics. All the while as gold medals are being earned. Plus NBC has been showing about 1 1/2 hours of horsie per day over the weekend. Can't show judo, wrestling, shooting, boxing, field hockey, handball, badminton, table tennis, weightlifting, or taekwando. But 3 hours of effing dressage.
this past Sunday really captured what a shockingly poor job NBC is doing with Olympic coverage. There were 21 track and field events that took place Sunday. But all day on NBC and their other channels we saw other sports: volleyball, water polo, badminton, equestrian. Instead NBC delayed all the track and field until late at night. The 100m wasn't shown on the west coast until around 11pm. The rest of the night we saw some track and field but not even half of what took place that day. Stupid me..here i am thinking track and field was going to be on all day Sunday and i planned my day around it. Not only did NBC not show any track and field until late at night but they never let the audience know when the events would be broadcasted. Then when you tune in to their "primetime coverage" you have to sit through a 30 minute Michael Phelps interview and then some James Bond BS. Can we really be surprised by this though? The producer of the Olympics does not have any sports background. He's actually the producer of the Today show.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/olympi...ccount-suspended-after-network-complains.html OH my NBC complains and Twitter suspends the account of a Blogger because he listed the NBC email address for the president of NBC Sports. The person responsible for the tape delay to prime time of so many Olympic events. Critic of NBC has Twitter account suspended after network complains sports.yahoo.com Twitter and NBC should be embarrassed after the suspension of Guy Adams' account.
That was a shockingly bad show. I'm starting to think that Up Close & Personal ABC might even be an improvement. Shudder.
Every single day when prime time starts, it's diving. Every single day. All those sports and this same damn Chinese torture sport, always. I hate NBC.
Over the past two days I have recorded the track and field during the day. That's what my program guide says. Only problem is that the goddamn equestrian is always running over by 20 minutes in a 30 or 45 minute telecast. Dressage sucks! Talk about boring!!!!
You won't get much, as NBC rarely shows track finals live. Usually just a couple of heats, the rest is stored up for the 10 to 11 Eastern slot.
With their stupid little towels. What is up with using a hand towel when you come out of the pool. The level of absurdity reached new heights and it's not the 10m platform.
NBC has totally ruined this Olympics. They will hang their hat on the fact that the ratings are up. But they have a monopoly on the coverage so that argument doesn't fly. I still can't believe on a Sunday they refused to show the 100m live and made us on the west coast wait until after 11pm at night.
Like I said, get the Live Extra application and watch the entire program from the Olympic Stadium with only commercial interruption and some freeze ups during the most inopportune times.