NBCs Olympic coverage BLOWS!

[OY]

Just ranting as I am sick and tired of knowing ALL the results BEFORE they send the broadcasts on TV - soooo damn stupid!

[kane]

Yep, and how they are airing it sucks. The other day when the US played Canada in hockey that was probably one of the biggest events of the games so far and they aired it on MSNBC. You would think they would have put it on the main network channel. Instead the main channel was showing that sport where you cross country ski and target shoot.

[XPays]

and they wonder why they can't sell ads

[BIGTYMER]

Yep, and how they are airing it sucks. The other day when the US played Canada in hockey that was probably one of the biggest events of the games so far and they aired it on MSNBC. You would think they would have put it on the main network channel. Instead the main channel was showing that sport where you cross country ski and target shoot.

And because of that I missed that game...

[PR_Sebas]

Don't worry, we're hosting the games and the combo of TSN/CTV/SPORTSNET is terrible.

Give me CBC over any of these any day.

[96ukssob]

NBC is catching a lot of heat because of this. Their coverage is far below what anyone expected, but they blame it on the time zone and can't air coverage during the day as it will interfer with the 5pm to 8pm slot... who the fuck cares??

want to see the news, go on yahoo. want to see reruns of law and order, go the fuck online.

The online coverage is pathetic. they are using sliverlight from M$ instead of flash and brings almost any mid/low end computer to a crawl with the amount of processing.

Nice fail on this NBC... lets move to ABC or shit, at least FOX!

Don't worry, we're hosting the games and the combo of TSN/CTV/SPORTSNET is terrible.

Give me CBC over any of these any day.

What? keep that Canadian hoopla in Canada!

[flashfire]

Don't worry, we're hosting the games and the combo of TSN/CTV/SPORTSNET is terrible.

Give me CBC over any of these any day.

are you crazy? the combo has been great you can watch EVERYTHING live

and no doubt NBC is so stupid, especially not showing the hockey games which have been amazing

[Scott McD]

Apart from the hockey, most of the sports at it just seem ridiculous to me...

[SuzzyQ]

NBC is catching a lot of heat because of this. Their coverage is far below what anyone expected, but they blame it on the time zone and can't air coverage during the day as it will interfer with the 5pm to 8pm slot... who the fuck cares??

All their affiliates across the country who depend on local news/syndication to make money? Why do you think NBC has the Olympics spread out across all their cable nets?.
NBC does own more than just MSNBC and CNBC. I will admit, their coverage does suck.

[SuzzyQ]

and they wonder why they can't sell ads

ALL the inventory has been sold out for weeks on all the nets.

[Mutt]

the US TV ratings have been very good though - that's all that matters to NBC or any network. ABC has always done the same, never much live coverage of events, especially in the Winter Olympics where there aren't as many events going on. The most famous sporting event in US history is arguably the Miracle on Ice from the 1980 Olympics - that game was tape delayed by ABC by I think 6 hours.

[Mutt]

NBC's ratings are huge - up a whopping 27% from the last Winter Games in Turin Italy. Most people who watch the Olympics are very casual sports fans, they are your moms, your girlfriends, your sisters - they just want some nice human interest stories, some of the actual events be they taped or live and the medal ceremonies, and talking heads like Bob Costas.

The first full week of Winter Olympics coverage gave NBC its most-watched week since the 2008 Summer Olympics and its widest margin of victory in the prime-time ratings race during the official television season since the 2002 Winter Olympics.

With the Winter Olympics accounting for seven of the week's 10 most-watched programs, NBC averaged 24.75 million viewers for its prime-time programming between Feb. 15 and Sunday. Fox Broadcasting was second, averaging 8.68 million viewers, according to figures released Tuesday by the Nielsen Co.

NBC averaged 26 million viewers for the first 10 nights of Vancouver, Canada, Olympics coverage through Sunday, 27% more than the 20.4 million average for the 2006 Winter Games, which were held in Turin, Italy.

[dav3]

The Olympic coverage on GFY was better.

[SuzzyQ]

NBC's ratings are huge - up a whopping 27% from the last Winter Games in Turin Italy. Most people who watch the Olympics are very casual sports fans, they are your moms, your girlfriends, your sisters - they just want some nice human interest stories, some of the actual events be they taped or live and the medal ceremonies, and talking heads like Bob Costas.

The first full week of Winter Olympics coverage gave NBC its most-watched week since the 2008 Summer Olympics and its widest margin of victory in the prime-time ratings race during the official television season since the 2002 Winter Olympics.

With the Winter Olympics accounting for seven of the week's 10 most-watched programs, NBC averaged 24.75 million viewers for its prime-time programming between Feb. 15 and Sunday. Fox Broadcasting was second, averaging 8.68 million viewers, according to figures released Tuesday by the Nielsen Co.

NBC averaged 26 million viewers for the first 10 nights of Vancouver, Canada, Olympics coverage through Sunday, 27% more than the 20.4 million average for the 2006 Winter Games, which were held in Turin, Italy.

Mutt, Do you work in the industry also?

[Far-L]

FUCK NBC IN THE FUCKING EAR!!! Couldn't even find the US/Swiss hockey game on - because they had more... curling coverage!!!

Driving me nuts.

[OY]

the US TV ratings have been very good though - that's all that matters to NBC or any network. ABC has always done the same, never much live coverage of events, especially in the Winter Olympics where there aren't as many events going on. The most famous sporting event in US history is arguably the Miracle on Ice from the 1980 Olympics - that game was tape delayed by ABC by I think 6 hours.

Yeah, well, they only got good ratings because it is the ONLY place to see it in the USA - Personally I was listening to the 4xrelay Cross Country today on the RADIO via my iPhone from a Norwegian station LIVE - No need for me to watch NBC tonight, primetime or not....

[XPays]

ALL the inventory has been sold out for weeks on all the nets.

they reported losing huge dollars selling the ads below the cost to buy the rights. so even though the ads are sold, they are sold at a loss.

[seeandsee]

stupid sport news :D

[Mutt]

you can always find pirated live streams of sporting events somewhere on the Net

http://www.atdhe.net
http://www.channelsurfing.net
http://www.myp2p.eu

[garce]

FUCK NBC IN THE FUCKING EAR!!! Couldn't even find the US/Swiss hockey game on - because they had more... curling coverage!!!

Driving me nuts.

Odd. Today's US/Swiss game was on NBC here - or at least the Buffalo affiliate station carried it.

[SomeCreep]

NBC intentionally avoids filming crotch shots on any female athletes.

[CamTraffic]

Fuck them, i tried watching some last night, and there was commercials every 5 minutes in the middle of the ski race
Won't be watching it again, that's for sure

[SuzzyQ]

they reported losing huge dollars selling the ads below the cost to buy the rights. so even though the ads are sold, they are sold at a loss.

When NBC won the rights many years ago, no one saw the recession coming. NBC said they would lose about $200-250 million on the games.

[OY]

SuzzyQ - GOOD! Serves them right for ruining the Olympics for the Americans...

[Far-L]

Odd. Today's US/Swiss game was on NBC here - or at least the Buffalo affiliate station carried it.

I am in Seattle so I wonder if that had something to do with it... which it shouldn't.

[CDSmith]

Don't worry, we're hosting the games and the combo of TSN/CTV/SPORTSNET is terrible.

Give me CBC over any of these any day.

CBC dropped the ball and lost their Olympic contracts several years ago. They also lost all their great commentators, Brian Williams and Lloyd Robertson etc. Their coverage was great for all the years they did the Olympics, but you snooze you lose.

Sorry, I wholeheartedly disagree on the coverage being terrible. I find CTV/TSN/SNET's combo coverage to be quite the opposite actually. It's absolutely terrific. I've seen virtually every hockey game and every event I've wanted to watch, which is pretty much all of them. Most of them LIVE.

NBC has some good interest pieces on the athletes but yes, their actual coverage is spotty. Once in a while you hit on something good but too often they're just recapping and showing results from events instead of the whole event live.

[Naechy]

really bad, i am not satisfy at all

[OY]

CBC dropped the ball and lost their Olympic contracts several years ago. They also lost all their great commentators, Brian Williams and Lloyd Robertson etc. Their coverage was great for all the years they did the Olympics, but you snooze you lose.

Sorry, I wholeheartedly disagree on the coverage being terrible. I find CTV/TSN/SNET's combo coverage to be quite the opposite actually. It's absolutely terrific. I've seen virtually every hockey game and every event I've wanted to watch, which is pretty much all of them. Most of them LIVE.

NBC has some good interest pieces on the athletes but yes, their actual coverage is spotty. Once in a while you hit on something good but too often they're just recapping and showing results from events instead of the whole event live.

I think Hockey is the only thing they send live. I do not care about hockey, so I am clearly not getting any benefit from it.

Today I will try to NOT go on the internet at all during the day and then MAYBE tonight I will be able to watch some of the events (taped) without knowing the results.

Heh, whatever.....

[Axeman]

CBC dropped the ball and lost their Olympic contracts several years ago. They also lost all their great commentators, Brian Williams and Lloyd Robertson etc. Their coverage was great for all the years they did the Olympics, but you snooze you lose.

Sorry, I wholeheartedly disagree on the coverage being terrible. I find CTV/TSN/SNET's combo coverage to be quite the opposite actually. It's absolutely terrific. I've seen virtually every hockey game and every event I've wanted to watch, which is pretty much all of them. Most of them LIVE.

NBC has some good interest pieces on the athletes but yes, their actual coverage is spotty. Once in a while you hit on something good but too often they're just recapping and showing results from events instead of the whole event live.

Agreed, the combo of all 3 has been great. Rarely has there been an event I wanted to watch that wasn't live on the network. And the rare time to many events at once, they show it asap and usually within a 1/2 hour of it happening so you can not know the results.

I was worried with CBC losing the rights, but am pleasantly surprised with CTV/TSN/Sportsnet. Well with the exception of the douchebag Michael Landsberg doing his bits.

[Evil Chris]

NBC does suck.