The Olympics are here with more than 100 sporting events to watch and enjoy. Pure sport. Pure competition. A plethora of sport to select and watch.
True, unless you live in the United States. And suffer under NBC’s monopoly on coverage. View the games NBC style or don’t view. That is the only choice.
With over 100 events in the winter games, NBC elects to show a select few and with a heavy dose human-interest coverage. Too much talk and too much analyst’s TV time. Not enough of the sport itself.
In years past I could turn to EuroSport or Sky Sports 1 for better and alternative coverage. Not this year. Those sights are blocked by NBC exclusive coverage rights for those living in the continental United States. Viewers who want to see something more of the Olympics beyond NBCs coverage are denied.
Even the official Olympics webpage requires viewers to select a coverage provider (e.g. Comcast, AT& T, Verizon, Youtube, Hulu, etc.) if you have an account with one of them, only to receive NBC coverage once again.
Viewers have no choice, other than NBC. And NBCs coverage sucks. The NBC coverage is not about the sport. It is more about the tangent connections to the sport. The USA centric viewpoints are also in direct conflict with the spirit of the Olympics. True sport lovers lose out and have little alternative.
Highly annoying, manipulative, and restrictive.
Joeinpa, I'm not an expert in the 'sport', but I'm pretty sure they offer both Ice Dancing, and Figure Skating - so exciting!!! Plus as GBO posted above, you get to learn about the plight of single parents getting up before dawn, to drive 75 miles, so their kid can have ice access.
Anyone have a VPN contract? Advice?
New content for me, and I need to learn more before diving in.
BTW, my wife can't stand the human interest stories either so I'm not sure it is selling with women.
lol. I'm sure you can come up with someone better than that
I'm pretty sure the snowboarders from every country are no different than the Americans. The sport still has a very young personality and a counterculture vibe, even as an Olympic event.
ExpressVPN supposedly works, but I have no intention of paying for a second VPN to get this to work.
Bob Costas would have nailed that.
Yeah, I remember hearing about it on WFAN weeks ago. Maybe on Joe and Evan?
Dan Patrick has alluded to this as well (to the extent that he can as a fellow NBC employee).
2. When has the coverage been any different ? Ever since I was a kid, Olympic coverage in the U.S. has been heavily tilted towards American athletes, events in which American athletes excelled, human interest stories involving primarily Americans and a shitload of commercials .
The 1980 Olympics which Jimmy Carter boycotted weren't even broadcast in America
Their guy goes Skiing in an empty resort. Says 'hey, I gotta tell ya, this ain't bad'.
I guess. Maybe he also likes mud wrestling out back at sobribor...in the ashes and none chips. What a sporting fella.
Later, he's at the boys Olympic dive training unit. Little north korean boys dive all day ..every day.
He asks his handler:
"gee. What if they get scared and don't dive?"
She gives him a dead look for the ages:
("Are Americans really this stupid?"
Yeah, ...we shoot the kid and leave his body right in front of the dormitory for the other urchins to see, then we drive to the nearest village and grab another starving little one.....idiot....what the fuck did you think we do? .")
If it makes you feel any better, the Olympic channel is showing hardly any actual Olympic events so far during the games.
I don't know about other providers, but FiOS has a fair amount of Olympics content available on demand too.
Even now closest are 8. something.
Snowboard half pipe. 17 years old. USA girls rock.
Bob Costas would have nailed that.
I don't think it's all that historically significant. They seem to do this every now and again. They marched under a unified flag at the 2000, 2004, and 2006 Games too.
Even now closest are 8. something.
Snowboard half pipe. 17 years old. USA girls rock.
You may want to watch closer or get your eyes checked. Her score was 93.75 not 9.375.
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.... I thought he completely whiffed on truly capturing the historical significance of North and South Korea marching side-by-side in Opening Ceremony.
Bob Costas would have nailed that.
I don't think it's all that historically significant. They seem to do this every now and again. They marched under a unified flag at the 2000, 2004, and 2006 Games too.
None of those games were IN Korea though, and, while NK has been a hot button politically for several years, it seems to be even more so now (although I concede that may be recency bias).
It's not a throwaway, IMO - there's some real significance to it this year.