Curling starts on Tuesday. And before you ask, I looked that up on my own this morning.
Love, love, loving Olympic coverage.
It’s the epitome of what public service broadcasting was intended for. That and Pippa Middleton from 8 angles.
I think he means ‘concurrent’.
yay for socialized tv!
To which we Americans reply:
Rob Ford!
Oh Pippa!
oh…yeah.
Bring back Eddie the Eagle!!!
It was their coverage of the 1984 LA Olympics that convinced me not to watch the Olympics on TV.
It starts on Monday! Which will bleed over into Sunday night for anybody west of Central Standard Time.
The draw times for round-robin play are 11 PM, 4 AM, and 9 AM Central Standard Time. Unfortunately the only games which will be shown live on any American network are in the 4 AM slot–which is the least watchable for us in the midwest. (The games last about 2.5 hours, so you easterners can maybe get up early and catch the end.)
Games in the other draws will be shown later on tape delay but I believe on cable only.
I’ve honestly never noticed this and certainly have never been annoyed by it. Of course, it could be similar in nature to us of an ant with an erection floating downstream on his back yelling “Open the drawbridge!”
I’ve watched the first five minutes and I’m already appalled at the pseudo dramatic purple prose of the introduction.
I don’t have too much of a problem getting it to work with Firefox.
Nothing new about this - four years ago, I think it was the way the ice hockey tournament was set up. This time, it’s the new Team Figure Skating competition that forces them to start early.
Not the version I saw - there was definite contact between Budd and Decker. Decker could have forced the issue, but she said that had she done it, she would have been blamed for what happened, and any win would be added by, “Well, she only won because she pushed Zola Budd out of the way, but of course she’s an American so she got away with it.”
What do you expect? They can’t show every game in prime time. Be glad they’re on at all. (Some of us remember the 1992 TripleCast.) Besides - isn’t that what DVRs are for?
Considering how much money NBC paid for the rights, how much they had to charge the advertisers because of it, and the ratings they promised the ad buyers as a result, do you honestly think the opening (and closing) ceremonies won’t be aired in prime time?
Here’s one that lists the events, including who’s in what curling games are being shown.
The curling qualifying rounds have 3 rounds each day, alternating women-men-women and men-women-men, at midnight, 5 AM, and 10 AM (Eastern). They usually show one game per round; usually, the midnight game airs at 3 AM on NBC Sports Network, the 5 AM game airs live on USA, and the 10 AM game airs at 5 PM on CNBC. Note that there are no plans to show any games on NBC itself, although knowing NBC, if USA makes it to either final, I wouldn’t be surprised to see it air on NBC’s afternoon show that day.
So my wife works today, so I got up at 6 with her. I;ve been watching the men’s 5000 speedskating online on NBCs website and it’s great.
I’m absolutely laughing my ass off watching the BBC commentary of the 5000 meters speedskating. They’re making it out like the winner Kramer was all over the place and somehow ‘got back in the race’.
In real life, there was no problem in the beginning as the time they were comparing to was a Russian that crumbled in the last half of the race (but started quickly). In the interview afterwards Kramer explained how it was pretty much the perfect race, with almost the same lap time throughout the race… no drama at all.
I would think an average Dutch guy would do a better job than these two clowns.
ABC covered the 1984 Olympics, not NBC.
People have no sense of history. I’ve been watching the Olympics since 1972. The choice and availability of coverage today is far greater than it used to be. Instead of a couple of hours on prime time on one channel, you can now watch all day on four or five channels, plus every event is streamed live over the internet.
How about in 1980, when ABC’s then-new show Nightline promised nightly highlights from the Summer Olympics in Moscow, only to announce after one night that they could not air any highlights as, apparently, NBC still had the rights to them? I think the closest to “coverage of the Olympics” was (a) when Johnny Carson mentioned in a monologue that the USSR basketball team lost (little-known fact: after the 1972 game, there was only one game ever played between the USA and USSR, in 1988 (the CIS in 1992 doesn’t count as Lithuania wasn’t part of the team) - and the USSR won that one, too), and (b) a few pages in Sports Illustrated, mainly about the women’s gymnastics controversy.
Perhaps where you live, but this thread is about NBC and it coverage for American audiences.
Correction: it appears as if the entire ceremony will air from 8:30 to 10:30, followed by the premiere of Growing Up Fisher, with the entire closing ceremony airing again at 11:30 PM. (There is also a “Sochi Review Show” scheduled from 7:00 to 8:30, but I wonder just how much of it will be a review of what happened in Sochi.)
OK, here’s something strange. They’re showing a lot of events twice–that’s not the strange parts. A lot of stuff is showing live on NBCSports, then on delay on NBC itself.
What’s strange is that I just noticed tonight that for the ice skating competition, they’re using two different commentary teams–Scott Hamilton and friends doing the primetime commentary, and a B-team lineup doing it for NBCSports when it’s live.
Not sure if they’re both actually recording it live, or if the second group is doing it to video after the results are known.
My guess is, the second group does it after the fact, so they know what to point out.
I have a feeling the NBCSN commentators are targeting the people who are somewhat knowledgeable in figure skating (who else would be watching the NBCSN coverage?), while the NBC commentators are targeting the people who don’t know a Lutz from a Salchow, but “it’s figure skating at the Olympics, GO TEAM USA!!!”. (I also have the feeling the only reason Scott Hamilton mentions the “bonus” - BTW, Scott, it applies only to jumps, not to “all elements” - is because whoever is supplying NBC with the video feed has that clock at the bottom left of the screen that says “Bonus” and this keeps people from wondering what it means.)
Weird. I’ve been watching the B Team coverage I guess, for the most part, with Tara Lipinski, Johnny Weir & Terry Gannon. I guess I didn’t notice that there were two teams. I recommend the B Team, actually. Tara & Johnny are surprisingly articulate and good, both at explaining the technical stuff and not blithering non-stop. I much prefer them to older team. Also, Johnny speaks Russian and that’s a nice touch. I’ll have to go through the schedule and make sure I’m taping the B team as much as possible.