Olympic Coverage - More Complaints
Aug 22, 2016 16:49:35 #
JohnSwanda wrote:
I wonder if the people complaining about missing t... (show quote)
Not everyone has cable and yet we all pay for the coverage one way or another.
Aug 22, 2016 16:59:24 #
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
We had a lot of gold medal winners that were completely ignored; not even mentioned! They should have filled NBC with all the final events our athletes got a medal in, not showing hours of the events leading up to the finals. Then they showed hours of events that we were never even in; what moron made these decisions, I'd like to know. The events that led up to the finals should have been on cable channels and available on the internet for those who didn't have cable or satellite and wanted to see them. It's not rocket science, it's just common sense, which as many older people have observed here in the USA has somehow gotten lost.
Aug 22, 2016 17:00:42 #
Los-Angeles-Shooter wrote:
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.
As to the NBC-typical lousy coverage, that would take a book.
Aug 22, 2016 17:09:32 #
PhotoPhred wrote:
The networks rake in gazillions on advertising and then they have the nerve to charge us to watch them. Gq figure.
You have no idea how much anyone who has cable or satellite is being ripped off; it's insane. I have no problem with a fair profit but when you pay over $100 for TV that is costing them less than $15, something is wrong. The TV delivery business has been a scam ever since I got into the business in the early nineties selling the big dishes. I remember when FX came out, Fox promised it would be free forever and within a year later they were charging for it. (Not all channels charge a fee for viewing their programming and they are doing just fine; they are the ones few watch too, so they get a lot less for their selling of adds; put 2 and 2 together and you are starting to see the picture). This industry has a history of one lie after another and it would take a book to tell all I know about. What do you want, it's the main stream media, everyone of them and run the show and rip us off more than anyone else; even top the owners of new car dealerships.
Aug 22, 2016 17:10:46 #
PhotoPhred wrote:
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.
I saw that, and they never mentioned it either.
Aug 22, 2016 17:17:26 #
MtnMan wrote:
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.
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.
Yes, the disrespect to the golfers was not only severely detracting to them (one gofer was just starting his swing on while on camera and had to stop; you could see he was not pleased and I don't blame him); but they were extremely disrespectful to the golfers. Here they are trying their best to compete and some as***le is trying to mess them up. And it was constant all the way through of the coverage I saw.
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