# NBC Screws America Before It Starts - Olympic 2010 **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 12, 2010, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-screws-america-before-it-starts-olympic-2010/528663 "2010-02-12T04:51:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-screws-america-before-it-starts-olympic-2010/528663/61 "2010-02-14T23:56:37Z")
> [@BMada](#): > > [http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck\_daddy/post/NBC-explains-its-ice-dancing-over-U-S-Canada-ho;\_ylt=AsxPnmRACqEgqMxcEPbkkfN7vLYF?urn=nhl,219149](http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_daddy/post/NBC-explains-its-ice-dancing-over-U-S-Canada-ho;_ylt=AsxPnmRACqEgqMxcEPbkkfN7vLYF?urn=nhl,219149) > > NBC isn’t going to be airing US vs Canada hockey game because the audience demographic is largely female. NHL stops it’s regular season midway and this is the thanks they get. A huge hockey game aired on MSNBC cable channel. If more people want to see ice dance than hockey (and they do) then it’s just common sense to show ice dance. Figure skating’s in a bit of a slump right now but it’s still the sport which draws the highest ratings of any Olympic broadcast. It’s silly to suggest that a less popular (and hence, less lucrative,) sport should be shown instead. Besides, you make it sound like you can’t see the hockey game at all. You can. It’s on MSNBC. It’s a -good- thing that we have multiple channels with multiple sports. If you didn’t have the MSNBC channel, you’d get even less hockey than you already do. This thread baffles me. NBC is showing more sports, more live sports, more hours of coverage, in more venues and somehow it’s a national tragedy because they can’t show everything live in prime-time on one channel. ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-screws-america-before-it-starts-olympic-2010/528663/62 "2010-02-15T15:48:36Z")
Be glad it isn’t 1952, when you had to wait for the Newsreel coverage to be shown in your local movie theatre. And if you were involved in the Korean War, you had to wait for _that_ to get requisitioned to the front line. ---
**Author:** ![zagoren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ad7895/32.png) [@zagoren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zagoren)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-screws-america-before-it-starts-olympic-2010/528663/63 "2010-02-15T18:12:30Z")
> [@Merneith](#): > > I don’t see how tape-delay is screwing anyone. I watch a lot of sports on tape delay (skating/riding) and it’s perfectly possible to avoid spoilers, if that matters to you. Without tape delay and editing we’d get to see far fewer events and less of them. NBC is broadcasting more hours of events overall. They couldn’t do that if it wasn’t for tape delay & editing. I’ll take more coverage of more events over three hours of live prime-time events, please. > > Besides, I’m just going to tivo everything anyway. Without commercials, the Olympics only take a couple days. Honestly - who here doesn’t fast forward past the Parade of Nations? Merenith…Do you work for NBC? Please. Why does NBC show cross-country skiing live and not the premier event, the Mens’ Downhill? Why can’t they show the full event live? How would that take away from ratings at night? Why can’t they show it in full length on CNBC? People will know the results from the web in either case. Being an Alpine Skiing fan I watch Universal HD and am able to watch the full race…every racer. With NBC you already know who is going to win by the way the cover it. You will see all the Americans. You will see most of the Canadians. And they you will see some people from other countries. These people will either crash or medal. There is no suspense other than…“Will this American do well?” I went to the NBC Olympic site and watched the Downhill training run. No commentary. Everyone raced. It’s criminal. ---
**Author:** ![beergeek279](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@beergeek279](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beergeek279)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-screws-america-before-it-starts-olympic-2010/528663/64 "2010-02-15T20:39:01Z")
> [@BMada](#): > > [http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck\_daddy/post/NBC-explains-its-ice-dancing-over-U-S-Canada-ho;\_ylt=AsxPnmRACqEgqMxcEPbkkfN7vLYF?urn=nhl,219149](http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_daddy/post/NBC-explains-its-ice-dancing-over-U-S-Canada-ho;_ylt=AsxPnmRACqEgqMxcEPbkkfN7vLYF?urn=nhl,219149) > > NBC isn’t going to be airing US vs Canada hockey game because the audience demographic is largely female. NHL stops it’s regular season midway and this is the thanks they get. A huge hockey game aired on MSNBC cable channel. Which for me will not even be available in HD, a huge personal annoyance. But to me, it makes absolutely no sense as a move. When ice dancing is a distant memory in May and June, NBC will be broadcasting the Stanley Cup playoffs, games which will be featuring players from these two teams…it’s a perfect chance to market your hockey coverage! Instead, they cut off their own noses for one night of supposedly better ratings. It IS NBC though, so it makes sense. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbc-screws-america-before-it-starts-olympic-2010/528663.md?page=3)