NBC time shifting Olympic coverage....again.

[plutotek]

All NBC shows is Americans. Watching their coverage you would think that the USA was the only country competing.

You are mistaken. I watched several complete events yesterday that weren't American competitors.

I don't have an issue with the coverage on NBC. As always, you can't please everyone, especially armchair quarterbacks.

 

[declansdad]

You are mistaken. I watched several complete events yesterday that weren't American competitors.

I don't have an issue with the coverage on NBC. As always, you can't please everyone, especially armchair quarterbacks.

Then NBC must have turned over a new leaf.

Glad I don't have to rely on their coverage.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

You are mistaken. I watched several complete events yesterday that weren't American competitors.

I don't have an issue with the coverage on NBC. As always, you can't please everyone, especially armchair quarterbacks.

You must like coverage that flirts with mediocrity from the bottom side. The coverage on the satellite stations was pretty good and much got covered. But the prime time coverage was horrid. Their gymnastics coverage was Jingoistic, and completely fake drama was added. The only Japanese Gymnast we saw last night was 5 seconds of him flying off the high bar and 5 seconds celebrating after he redeemed himself on floor. We didn't see a single Russian or Chinese Gymnast. We did get to see Brazil. But predictably, they tried to over hype it as a feel good tear jerker. And it was well known they were well on their way to making it. But you wouldn't know that by NBCs coverage. "They're just hoping to squeak in in 8th." They've turned the Olympics into reality TV. And once again last night, what you watched was fake. It was well known the Americans were ahead of Japan in their group and as such would easily qualify for the finals. But you wouldn't know that by watching NBC. "Oh no. It's desperation time. They might not qualify here." All that was missing was a Make sure you sit right through the 10 minutes of commercials. You don't want to miss even a minute of the drama!!! Yeah right. They qualified second behind the Chinese who we didn't even see. It would have taken a disaster of proportions never seen for them not to qualify even with the trouble on horse. They finished a full 9 points. Nine whole points ahead of the last qualifier.

 

[Mrs. Ciz]

My city is blowing up right now on social media. DS's high school classmate, Townley Haas, is swimming the 200 Free heats today. The local NBC news has been all over it, broadcasting the heat schedule, semi final schedule, and medal race schedule, so we can all watch him swim. I tuned in today at 12:19 just as instructed and....they are broadcasting a bike race with 70 miles left to go. They finally switched over to the 200 Free heats for heats 5 and 6. Townley had already swum in heat 4. The local viewing public is furious!

He finished 5th in the heats, so we'll get to watch him swim in the semis tonight.

 

[plutotek]

You must like coverage that flirts with mediocrity from the bottom side. The coverage on the satellite stations was pretty good and much got covered. But the prime time coverage was horrid. Their gymnastics coverage was Jingoistic, and completely fake drama was added. The only Japanese Gymnast we saw last night was 5 seconds of him flying off the high bar and 5 seconds celebrating after he redeemed himself on floor. We didn't see a single Russian or Chinese Gymnast. We did get to see Brazil. But predictably, they tried to over hype it as a feel good tear jerker. And it was well known they were well on their way to making it. But you wouldn't know that by NBCs coverage. "They're just hoping to squeak in in 8th." They've turned the Olympics into reality TV. And once again last night, what you watched was fake. It was well known the Americans were ahead of Japan in their group and as such would easily qualify for the finals. But you wouldn't know that by watching NBC. "Oh no. It's desperation time. They might not qualify here." All that was missing was a Make sure you sit right through the 10 minutes of commercials. You don't want to miss even a minute of the drama!!! Yeah right. They qualified second behind the Chinese who we didn't even see. It would have taken a disaster of proportions never seen for them not to qualify even with the trouble on horse. They finished a full 9 points. Nine whole points ahead of the last qualifier.

Like I said, you can't please everyone, especially the experts on the the DIS. As for example, gymnastics is my least favorite sport, so lack of coverage is a goodthing.

 

[sam_gordon]

Didn't I read/hear somewhere that EVERY Olympic competition is being streamed?

There are too many events to show every heat/prelim/final in every event on NBC. That's why they're using Bravo, NBCSN, MSNBC, etc. IMO, the main network feed is going to be used for high profile events, and/or highlights centered around the Americans. It doesn't surprise me they didn't show Heat 4 of the Men's 200 Freestyle. If you show that, then you have to show even less of the gymnastics (for example) which pisses off someone else.

Interested in watching a specific event? Here: http://www.nbcolympics.com/live-stream-schedule

 

[Mrs. Ciz]

Didn't I read/hear somewhere that EVERY Olympic competition is being streamed?

There are too many events to show every heat/prelim/final in every event on NBC. That's why they're using Bravo, NBCSN, MSNBC, etc. IMO, the main network feed is going to be used for high profile events, and/or highlights centered around the Americans. It doesn't surprise me they didn't show Heat 4 of the Men's 200 Freestyle. If you show that, then you have to show even less of the gymnastics (for example) which pisses off someone else.

Interested in watching a specific event? Here: http://www.nbcolympics.com/live-stream-schedule

Once the complaints started rolling in, our local NBC affiliate started promoting the live stream. Problem is they should have promoted the live stream from the beginning vs promoting the heat race times. Had people known they couldn't watch all the heats on the regular coverage that our station promoted (including the swimmer's name!), they would have tuned in to the live stream. Now we know!

 

[sam_gordon]

Once the complaints started rolling in, our local NBC affiliate started promoting the live stream. Problem is they should have promoted the live stream from the beginning vs promoting the heat race times. Had people known they couldn't watch all the heats on the regular coverage that our station promoted (including the swimmer's name!), they would have tuned in to the live stream. Now we know!

That's the fault of your local news team however, not NBC network.

While I used your example in my post, I was also directing my thoughts at those who said "not enough gymnastics" or whatever other sport people wanted to watch. IMO, people are spoiled. When did NBC start using multiple networks (to say nothing about streaming) to show more of the Olympics? They show more than what's ever been shown live and people still jump up and down saying "you're not showing what *I* want to watch".

 

[Julie's Haircut]

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 and softball, good.

Karate, no opinion.

I have no idea what competitive climbing even is.

Surfing and skateboarding??? Oh, joy....more judged events. And how can surfing even be the least bit objective?

 

[Diznygrl]

I get the fact that they only have four hours in prime time in relation to the hundreds of things that went on during the day, but sweet lord do we have to have swimming and track(it will happen next week) dominate the entire freaking time block every single Olympics? I swear three out of the four hours was spent just on swimming last night. I know there are like a bazillion different events when it comes to swimming and track, but jeez. There ARE other sports, NBC.

Thank goodness for the other NBC channels and the live streaming app.

 

[King Schultz]

I get the fact that they only have four hours in prime time in relation to the hundreds of things that went on during the day, but sweet lord do we have to have swimming and track(it will happen next week) dominate the entire freaking time block every single Olympics? I swear three out of the four hours was spent just on swimming last night. I know there are like a bazillion different events when it comes to swimming and track, but jeez. There ARE other sports, NBC.

Thank goodness for the other NBC channels and the live streaming app.

The coverage of the diving is what kills me.

Unless someone hit's their head or belly-flops, they all look the same to me. . . and they show them over and over and over. . .

 

[rigs32]

No one will ever be happy with what is chosen to be shown on NBC. I am actually impressed with the app and streaming options this olympics. I got to watch rugby live and can rewatch anything at my leisure. The gymnastics feeds focus on an apparatus and you can watch them in real time - you could open several tabs at once to watch them all if you wanted.

I was also glad they kept the back stories and drama mainly to the prime time coverage. I've been watching lots of volleyball and the coverage has been pretty good.

 

[declansdad]

Up here in the North, CBC has the rights to broadcast. Not only have they been providing all day coverage on their main channel, they have an agreement with the two main sports networks to show their feeds plus there are about 21 different feeds available online.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

That's the fault of your local news team however, not NBC network.

While I used your example in my post, I was also directing my thoughts at those who said "not enough gymnastics" or whatever other sport people wanted to watch. IMO, people are spoiled. When did NBC start using multiple networks (to say nothing about streaming) to show more of the Olympics? They show more than what's ever been shown live and people still jump up and down saying "you're not showing what *I* want to watch".

Not enough gymnastics was not my complaint. My complaint is instead of gymnastics, we got a fake reality show with a few routines spliced in.

 

[bcla]

Baseball and softball, good.

Karate, no opinion.

I have no idea what competitive climbing even is.

Surfing and skateboarding??? Oh, joy....more judged events. And how can surfing even be the least bit objective?

It's climbing on climbing walls with artificial hand holds. Speed climbing is the most obvious, where getting to the top of a simple route the fastest means more points. The other two disciplines I don't get. There's lead and bouldering. The latter I sort of understand, with a sort wall and a set time to climb to the top many times. Lead climbing seems more complicated. There seem to be a bunch of rules, but the routes are supposed to be more difficult, and it's about how far one can get up and demonstrate control at particular hand holds. Or that's what I get out of it. I'm sure it will make more sense if I see it.

It's In Japan, so of course aka rate makes sense. I'm guessing the rules are way different than taekwondo.

Surfing will be interesting. Skateboarding won't be much different than snowboarding.

 

[sonnyjane]

Up here in the North, CBC has the rights to broadcast. Not only have they been providing all day coverage on their main channel, they have an agreement with the two main sports networks to show their feeds plus there are about 21 different feeds available online.

Yup! I live in WA but get CBC and it's great! I can watch things hours earlier than the stupid NBC coverage!

 

[Julie's Haircut]

It's climbing on climbing walls with artificial hand holds. Speed climbing is the most obvious, where getting to the top of a simple route the fastest means more points. The other two disciplines I don't get. There's lead and bouldering. The latter I sort of understand, with a sort wall and a set time to climb to the top many times. Lead climbing seems more complicated. There seem to be a bunch of rules, but the routes are supposed to be more difficult, and it's about how far one can get up and demonstrate control at particular hand holds. Or that's what I get out of it. I'm sure it will make more sense if I see it.

It's In Japan, so of course aka rate makes sense. I'm guessing the rules are way different than taekwondo.

Surfing will be interesting. Skateboarding won't be much different than snowboarding.

OK, as long as it's objective, I suppose climbing is fine. But it doesn't sound interesting to me.

I suppose if there are skateboard races, I'd be OK with it. But I'm pretty sure it's hot dog moves on a ramp or other course, a la snowboarding half pipe.

So is Olympic surfing supposed to be in the ocean? Or a giant wavepool?

 

[pryncess527]

You must like coverage that flirts with mediocrity from the bottom side. The coverage on the satellite stations was pretty good and much got covered. But the prime time coverage was horrid. Their gymnastics coverage was Jingoistic, and completely fake drama was added. The only Japanese Gymnast we saw last night was 5 seconds of him flying off the high bar and 5 seconds celebrating after he redeemed himself on floor. We didn't see a single Russian or Chinese Gymnast. We did get to see Brazil. But predictably, they tried to over hype it as a feel good tear jerker. And it was well known they were well on their way to making it. But you wouldn't know that by NBCs coverage. "They're just hoping to squeak in in 8th." They've turned the Olympics into reality TV. And once again last night, what you watched was fake. It was well known the Americans were ahead of Japan in their group and as such would easily qualify for the finals. But you wouldn't know that by watching NBC. "Oh no. It's desperation time. They might not qualify here." All that was missing was a Make sure you sit right through the 10 minutes of commercials. You don't want to miss even a minute of the drama!!! Yeah right. They qualified second behind the Chinese who we didn't even see. It would have taken a disaster of proportions never seen for them not to qualify even with the trouble on horse. They finished a full 9 points. Nine whole points ahead of the last qualifier.

Not enough gymnastics was not my complaint. My complaint is instead of gymnastics, we got a fake reality show with a few routines spliced in.

I agree about the mashed up prime time coverage -- I watched it, but only after streaming all the actual qualifying rounds so that I got to see all the teams. They even have an event-specific stream so you can turn on the Vault camera and watch all the vaults, with almost no chatter over the top.
Their prime time cable coverage is about the same as it has always been, but I've been very impressed with the streaming options. i've never gotten to see so much of the gymnastics before.

 

[pryncess527]

So is Olympic surfing supposed to be in the ocean? Or a giant wavepool?

IOC said it will be in an ocean

 

[declansdad]

The IOC has also said this decision is for the Tokyo Olympics and may not be binding on future host cities.