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Olympic Coverage is a joke.
Posted on 2/23/10 at 8:43 am
Posted on 2/23/10 at 8:43 am
Or should I say human interest story coverage. I thought these olympics were starving of action, but this story proves it. NBC needs to just hang it up.
I was watching the olympics, and they started on another human interest piece. I changed over to 24, which was just coming out of commercial break. I watched the WHOLE segment of 24, and half the commercial break. When I switched back to the "Olympics" they were STILL on the same story, about a guy that wasn't even in the olympics. This is fricking disgusting.
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I was watching the olympics, and they started on another human interest piece. I changed over to 24, which was just coming out of commercial break. I watched the WHOLE segment of 24, and half the commercial break. When I switched back to the "Olympics" they were STILL on the same story, about a guy that wasn't even in the olympics. This is fricking disgusting.
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An analysis of NBC's 3 ½-hour program Friday night showed that there were 56 minutes, 41 seconds of commercials over 24 breaks—that's three more minutes than actual event action that was showed. Ski jumping, which took up about 30 minutes of the broadcast, featured less than two minutes of action, compared with four minutes, 46 seconds of replays (there was, on average, more than one replay per jump). More than half the time during the compulsory-dancing segments showed action, but good luck getting into a rhythm watching the sport: A commercial break separated each routine.
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Posted on 2/23/10 at 8:47 am to TreeFiddy
yea iv never NOT watched the olympics but this past summer and this winter olympics blows
Posted on 2/23/10 at 8:52 am to WildTurkey101
It's sad, because the US is racking up medals, and it should be really fun to watch. This is just ridiculous. I just skipped the last two nights of it.
Posted on 2/23/10 at 8:53 am to TreeFiddy
i am liking the extended coverage of Curling though
Posted on 2/23/10 at 8:55 am to manwich
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i am liking the extended coverage of Curling though
I can't stop watchin. Its mesmerizing
Posted on 2/23/10 at 8:56 am to guedeaux
it's like pool, shuffleboard, ice skating, archery and fatty gazing all rolled into one but it doesn't suck. truly amazing
Posted on 2/23/10 at 8:59 am to TreeFiddy
NBC has annoyed me with this as well, plus they didn't bump ice dancing for hockey. 
I'm sick of the human interest stories...there is a place for it surely, but not during my 3 hours of coverage that I get in the evening because who is awake at midnight on a weeknight trying to watch the scary lady talk about MORE human interest stories?
I want to see COMPETITION!
ETA--loving the curling too, minus the fact that our two US teams weren't so good at all...well that or they just kept losing.
I'm sick of the human interest stories...there is a place for it surely, but not during my 3 hours of coverage that I get in the evening because who is awake at midnight on a weeknight trying to watch the scary lady talk about MORE human interest stories?
I want to see COMPETITION!
ETA--loving the curling too, minus the fact that our two US teams weren't so good at all...well that or they just kept losing.
This post was edited on 2/23/10 at 9:00 am
Posted on 2/23/10 at 8:59 am to guedeaux
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i am liking the extended coverage of Curling though
Except when they cut to a commercial break in the middle of the match and cut back in the middle of an end when you've missed half of the throws.
This might be my new pet peeve.
Posted on 2/23/10 at 9:15 am to TreeFiddy
Was anyone watching yesterday when Al Michaels was waiting on a dock for Bob Costas to fly in on a sea plane? I turned it on about half way through and it was one of the most confusing and awkward television scenes I've ever witnessed. I think Michaels said that the plane was flown by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Bob Costas walked off the plane and told Michaels he could have the rest of his peanuts from the flight.
Posted on 2/23/10 at 9:29 am to manwich
DVR is your friend.
Posted on 2/23/10 at 9:32 am to TreeFiddy
Have not watched much of the Olympics probably due to channel surfing and never knowing it's on because of commercials.
Posted on 2/23/10 at 9:34 am to TreeFiddy
That's NBC Sports coverage for you. They are trying to get as many households as possible, so they are targeting the female audience, which is why they have human interest stories and an emphasis on figure skating and gymnastics...
Posted on 2/23/10 at 10:19 am to Sophandros
Seriously. Curling kicks arse... and ice dancing is officially the gheyest thing ever created. And the fact that NBC didnt bump that shite for hockey really pisses me off. I told my wife she could watch ice dancing while I dvr'd the hockey game. Then when I went to watch he hockey I saw the f'in final score before I saw the game. fricking terrible.
Women and figs watch msnbc. Put the ice dancing on there.
Women and figs watch msnbc. Put the ice dancing on there.
Posted on 2/23/10 at 10:52 am to TreeFiddy
Tivo is your friend.
Posted on 2/23/10 at 10:53 am to TreeFiddy
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Then when I went to watch he hockey I saw the f'in final score before I saw the game. fricking terrible
that sucks.........how did you do that?
Posted on 2/23/10 at 10:53 am to LSUintheNW
Kevin Pearce story was good.
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