NBC time shifting Olympic coverage....again.

[bcla]

CBC has a minimum 60% Canadian Content rule in 70s.

Would Growing Pains have been considered Canadian content?

 

[CPanther95]

US rights holders (especially pro leagues and teams) apply all sorts of odd black out rules. The NFL had local blackouts if a home game didn't sell out, although that's been rescinded.

It's still NFL Policy to blackout home games that didn't sell out.

 

[declansdad]

Would Growing Pains have been considered Canadian content?

No.

 

[bcla]

No.

Bad joke really.

 

[declansdad]

Bad joke really.

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[bcla]

It's still NFL Policy to blackout home games that didn't sell out.

I wasn't sure and found out the blackout rule was suspended last season and will be again this season. Before that, starting 2012, a team could set a threshold for all games where the blackout would be lifted, but any ticket sales above the threshold would be subject to higher league revenue sharing. So a team could try to tweak this number to minimize blackouts, but at the risk of losing revenue to the other teams.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000480822/article/nfl-suspends-local-blackout-policy-for-2015

Not only that, but the FCC enforced the blackout provisions, even though it wasn't any kind of government policy.

The Raiders closed off a section of the stadium to reduce capacity. I'd been up there before for a baseball game, and it was horrible. Half the outfield wasn't visible. For a football game the whole field was visible but still too far away.

 

[bcla]

????

I was getting that Alan Thicke was ostensibly Canadian.

 

[cabanafrau]

Seems a bit odd, knowing how protective NBC is. I did a bit of research, and traditionally they blacked out US shows to the CBC affiliate in Windsor, even though it shut out Canadian viewers. However, I suppose that Detroit stations reached Windsor. That was long before minimum Canadian content was mandated for CBC.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBET-DT

Actually the blocked out programming you cited was not in fact NBC programming, but syndicated programming purchased by the local NBC affiliate here in Detroit.

 

[bcla]

Actually the blocked out programming you cited was not in fact NBC programming, but syndicated programming purchased by the local NBC affiliate here in Detroit.

I thought it was all American programming that most CBC affiliates would broadcast.

I realize that preempting cable or satellite broadcasts can be tricky. I'm surprised that NBC doesnt flex its muscles to block any competition coming from Canada through American service providers.

 

[cabanafrau]

I thought it was all American programming that most CBC affiliates would broadcast.

I realize that preempting cable or satellite broadcasts can be tricky. I'm surprised that NBC doesnt flex its muscles to block any competition coming from Canada through American service providers.

The CBC affiliate in Windsor absolutely does not broadcast all American programming, far from it. They definitely don't broadcast NBC shows if that's what you thought. The shows cited in your link were syndicated programming like Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy. Since CBC Windsor is considered as being part of the Detroit market and WDIV in Detroit has the rights to those shows here, CBET was prevented from showing them.

Some sporting events would be things that carried on there that you might find on US coverage, however it would be things like skiing competitions and such, not the Super Bowl. I do know they also showed the Showtime series the Tudors, which was produced in partnership with a Canadian company and therefore meets their Canadian content standards. Other than that it's CBC series and documentaries that sometimes you may find repackaged for the US market, but not often.

 

[pryncess527]

I can't stand NBC's Olympic coverage. I was ticked off when they got their recent extension. Ridiculous time shifting and they skim what they consider the "cream" of many hours of events and package it horribly for their prime time coverage.

I'm as patriotic as the next guy, but I don't need them to edit the prime time so that it is ridiculously American-centric. Let us watch stuff as it unfolds and cut out all the fluff pieces.

But, but, but how will I know who to root for, and who has a really sad and uplifting story if they NBC anchors don't have time to provide me with proper context through fluff pieces? ;P

Just curious, but has anyone here attended a live event at the Olympics? I only did it once when I was a kid. It was during 1984 during the Olympic soccer tournament. It was a preliminary match between Brazil and West Germany at Stanford Stadium. They spread around the soccer venues to three stadiums outside of Southern California, including on the campuses of Stanford, Harvard, and the US Naval Academy.

The game I attended had a huge attendance - maybe 80,000, which set a record for soccer in the US. Tickets were dirt cheap too. I think the cheapest tickets were maybe $5. My dad said that he had someone (a friend working for the local ABC affiliate) who wanted to give him a pair of tickets to the semifinal at the stadium, but my dad thought it would be a mess. He actually gave us another pair of tickets after we'd already bought a pair, and we brought along some friends although we sat in two different sections.

These remote venues each had their own opening ceremonies where the Olympic Flame was lit.

I was at the Bronze Medal Soccer match for the Atlanta games in 1996.

 

[Julie's Haircut]

I thought that the Olympic stadium looked somewhat sad given that most of it was temporary and would be covered to a baseball stadium. Aerial shots showed it had that weird shape. The IOC apparently hated Atlanta. It wasn't simply that there was relatively little new construction (I call it "monuments to the Olympic Movement") but that transportation was a mess and they felt swindled when they figured out that the heat and humidity was brutal. At least in Rio, it's going to be relatively cool, even though it's tropical.

Since Home Depot was a major sponsor, I picked up a ticket application just to check the prices.

Many visitors and journalists from non-baseball countries were confused by the Atlanta Olympic stadium layout. I heard about transportation messes, but we didn't have a problem. The weather the day we visited was pretty good, sunny in the mid 80s, not really humid.

We sat in the upper level in the elbow behind where home plate would be. Very far view for track and field.

Our view was similar to this from another session.

 

[bcla]

Many visitors and journalists from non-baseball countries were confused by the Atlanta Olympic stadium layout. I heard about transportation messes, but we didn't have a problem. The weather the day we visited was pretty good, sunny in the mid 80s, not really humid.

We sat in the upper level in the elbow behind where home plate would be. Very far view for track and field.

It looked odd because the majority of track and field stadiums are symmetric or at least somewhat symmetric. The partial baseball stadium configuration was just funky. It was certainly a practical consideration for reuse as a baseball only stadium, but I'm thinking the rest of the world was looking at it like someone was on drugs while designing it.

Still - I guess it could have been something odd like the Birds Nest in Beijing. The cost of construction wasn't that much compared to some of the billion dollar stadiums we see today in the NFL. However, part of it was the lower cost of labor and materials in China, even though it was a European architect and construction made to European standards. That thing turned into one heck of a white elephant. The original plan was to have the local professional soccer team play there, until they realized that with an average attendance of about 10,000, it would look bad to have such an empty stadium. They reused the place by placing various amusement attractions on the field, but it really wasn't going to be near full except for big events (like the upcoming Winter Olympics).

I remember the IOC really didn't like Atlanta. It was the first time that the IOC President failed to give a speech that it was "The best games ever" which is traditional. The other thing was that you've got media from around the world and they were pretty rigid in their restrictions on smoking in certain places. Then there was the traffic messes, where quite a few events were delayed because the athlete and media transportation systems wern't getting them to the competition sites on time. Apparently a lot of bus drivers were brought in from outside the Atlanta area and quite a few got lost.

http://clatl.com/freshloaf/archives...ympics-were-an-unmitigated-transport-disaster

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

I wasn't sure and found out the blackout rule was suspended last season and will be again this season. Before that, starting 2012, a team could set a threshold for all games where the blackout would be lifted, but any ticket sales above the threshold would be subject to higher league revenue sharing. So a team could try to tweak this number to minimize blackouts, but at the risk of losing revenue to the other teams.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000480822/article/nfl-suspends-local-blackout-policy-for-2015

Not only that, but the FCC enforced the blackout provisions, even though it wasn't any kind of government policy.

The Raiders closed off a section of the stadium to reduce capacity. I'd been up there before for a baseball game, and it was horrible. Half the outfield wasn't visible. For a football game the whole field was visible but still too far away.

Good ole Mt. Davis. Ugly eye sore and it blocks the view of the hills as well.

 

[Colleen27]

So they don't black out Olympics programming? I would expect NBC to raise a huge stink over having exclusive rights to US households, although ey couldn't do anything about over the air signals leaking into the US.

I think there are probably two reasons NBC hasn't kicked up a fuss. First and foremost, the very limited penetration of CBC into US markets means any viewership loss is small. Even here, where I can get from my front door to Canadian soil in 10 minutes, only Comcast subscribers and antenna users can get CBC; Direct TV and Dish don't carry it. Second, I think NBC likely assumes (probably rightly) that most Americans want the American-centric coverage provided by a US broadcast team rather than coverage with more emphasis on the Canadian team.

 

[bcla]

Baseball also didn't want to follow the WADA doping system.

Baseball and softball now back for 2020. Karate, climbing, skateboarding, and surfing were added as new Olympic sports.

https://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-approves-five-new-sports-for-olympic-games-tokyo-2020

 

[declansdad]

Baseball and softball now back for 2020. Karate, climbing, skateboarding, and surfing were added as new Olympic sports.

https://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-approves-five-new-sports-for-olympic-games-tokyo-2020

Baseball may be back but MLB hasn't agreed to allow their players to participate.

 

[kilroy1966]

What time are the Pollution updates aired?

 

[Melissa_E]

I usually HATE NBC's coverage of the Olympics (and stated so earlier in this thread) but I may have to give them credit this year. I have Comcast and I can live stream on my TV coverage of events that are not being broadcast on NBC stations. I think that is terrific.

 

[King Schultz]

I usually HATE NBC's coverage of the Olympics (and stated so earlier in this thread) but I may have to give them credit this year. I have Comcast and I can live stream on my TV coverage of events that are not being broadcast on NBC stations. I think that is terrific.

I've enjoyed the coverage between the 4 different NBC stations I get more than past years, at least so far.


I would rather be able to watch SNL than beach volleyball, but it's a minor complaint.