Olympic Coverage - More Complaints (Page 2): Personally, I got a little tired of 2+ weeks of volleyball, basketball, field hockey, and diving! I would rather have seen more field and...

DickC Loc: NE Washington state

Personally, I got a little tired of 2+ weeks of volleyball, basketball, field hockey, and diving! I would rather have seen more field and track & gymnastics! And the ignoring of our shooting Gold Medal winners was disgraceful! NBC, et al suck!! IMHO

SteveR Loc: Michigan

DickC wrote:

Personally, I got a little tired of 2+ weeks of volleyball, basketball, field hockey, and diving! I would rather have seen more field and track & gymnastics! And the ignoring of our shooting Gold Medal winners was disgraceful! NBC, et al suck!! IMHO

Did I miss it or did NBC not show it? Wasn't the last track and field event of the Olympics always the Marathon with the winner entering Olympic stadium? I don't remember seeing that.

Los-Angeles-Shooter Loc: Los Angeles

NBC coverage ranges from from mediocre to garbage. But it also reaches the point of fraud. Eg., falsely listing the gold medal basketball game as starting at 11:15 am Pacific Time. Actually, what started at 11:45 was 35 minutes of endless b.s., talking heads, and profitable (to NBC) commercials. NBC chose to lie outright to cheat viewers into tuning in more than half an hour early.

As to the NBC-typical lousy coverage, that would take a book.

PhotoPhred Loc: Cheyney, Pa

The networks rake in gazillions on advertising and then they have the nerve to charge us to watch them. Gq figure.

Los-Angeles-Shooter Loc: Los Angeles

DickC wrote:

Personally, I got a little tired of 2+ weeks of volleyball, basketball, field hockey, and diving! I would rather have seen more field and track & gymnastics! And the ignoring of our shooting Gold Medal winners was disgraceful! NBC, et al suck!! IMHO

Kim Rhodes has won shotgun medals in SIX straight Olympics. NBC and the rest of the mass media, being violently anti-gun, has ignored her monumental achievement despite its unparalleled "caliber."

PhotoPhred Loc: Cheyney, Pa

My wife likes the equestrian events and their was very little coverage in this area. It is one sport where men and women compete equally. At one point, I'm not sure of the countries, there was a tie score. A 'jump off" was ordered by the judges and midway through this they cut to commercial and we never found out who won. When the coverage returned it was men's water polo.

fantom Loc: Colorado

FRENCHY wrote:

N B C = Nothing But Crap !!!

whitewolfowner

FRENCHY wrote:

I'm speaking for myself, but, being interested in shooting , I didn't see anything like that , had to go to a foreign site to found out about , and watch a few clip of the action

They mentioned the Lady who won the 10 meters air riflr Gold for the US , I guess the producer was reprimanded for that ...

NBC and all the rest are useful as an as....e with tastes buds !

Yeah, it was more important for NBC to show boat races, one after another that had no Americans in them than to show some American competing for and winning a Gold medal. There is so much to complain about their coverage, its pathetic.

MtnMan Loc: ID

FRENCHY wrote:

I'm speaking for myself, but, being interested in shooting , I didn't see anything like that , had to go to a foreign site to found out about , and watch a few clip of the action

They mentioned the Lady who won the 10 meters air riflr Gold for the US , I guess the producer was reprimanded for that ...

NBC and all the rest are useful as an as....e with tastes buds !

They did broadcast a little trap shooting. I saw some.

I thought they did pretty good except for fostering the hijab, the kissing women, and the Lochte thing.

I presume other countries had their own coverage. There certainly were plenty of cameras. No idea on what they did with the major investments in flying and tracked cameras: obviously each country couldn't have one of those.

whitewolfowner

MtnMan wrote:

They did broadcast a little trap shooting. I saw some.

I thought they did pretty good except for fostering the hijab, the kissing women, and the Lochte thing.

I presume other countries had their own coverage. There certainly were plenty of cameras. No idea on what they did with the major investments in flying and tracked cameras: obviously each country couldn't have one of those.

If each country had their own cameras, you couldn't have gotten within 1000 feet of anything. There was a set amount of cameras covering each event and the feeds were shared by the networks around the world and each had it's own commentators for the events they wanted to cover. It was the only way they could have done it. The multiple cameras you saw everywhere so they could cover all the angles.

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

I wonder if the people complaining about missing the less popular sports, do you just get NBC and not all the NBC associated basic cable channels? They ran the most popular sports in the NBC prime time show, but everything I wanted to see that wasn't on prime time could be found on the other channels. You just had to find the schedule. I like bicycle racing, and I found that. I had also heard about the American trap shooter who got medals in six Olympics, and had no trouble finding that coverage. Like others, I DVR everything and watch it later to zap the commercials. I could also skip sports I have no interest in, and I skipped all the heats, qualifications, and semifinals so I just saw the medal competitions. I just watched both the women' and mens' marathons this weekend. You just had to plan ahead and check the master schedule.

FRENCHY Loc: Stone Mountain , Ga

[quote=MtnMan]They did broadcast a little trap shooting. I saw some.

"A little " that was what I was talking about

But they didn't mind showing beach volleyball, for a day or more one thing I can't complain about , just for that I give them a 9 out of 10 just to piss them off !!

Jacksond Loc: Melbourne Australia

Speaking of chopped up coverage, has anyone tried to watch Fox News for more than five minutes? It seems like there is two minutes of news or commentary followed by ten minutes of "Fox Extra" nonsense. I guess their producers have attention deficit disorder.

FRENCHY Loc: Stone Mountain , Ga

Jacksond wrote:

Speaking of chopped up coverage, has anyone tried to watch Fox News for more than five minutes? It seems like there is two minutes of news or commentary followed by ten minutes of "Fox Extra" nonsense. I guess their producers have attention deficit disorder.

Expect worse , since Murdoch will step down, and one of his son ( liberal) will take reins !!

MtnMan Loc: ID

whitewolfowner wrote:

If each country had their own cameras, you couldn't have gotten within 1000 feet of anything. There was a set amount of cameras covering each event and the feeds were shared by the networks around the world and each had it's own commentators for the events they wanted to cover. It was the only way they could have done it. The multiple cameras you saw everywhere so they could cover all the angles.

A real logistical challenge!

I did notice some venues must have limited audiance cameras; e.g. diving. I didn't see even phone cameras. Others seemed to allow them: I heard the golf announcer ask the crowd numerous times to stop clicking.