The Olympics on NBC

[Troy Goodwin]

Expect The Peacock to show most of the coverage on tape-like it does in the past. NBC's coverage still continue to suck-like it has been. Many sports fan would love to see the games shown LIVE-as it happens. Consider today, 8-8-8 your lucky day. The Flame lighting ceremony starts at 8:08PM Beiijing time; 6:08AM in Chicago, & 7:08AM  out on The East Coast. Viewers here in the states will have to wait tonight to watch this amazing spectacular. What Gives?

[Yeziknoradio]

The solution is to watch it on CBC. If you can't, don't be mad at NBC for how they chose to cover things.
Instead, be angry with the FCC or whoever it was that prevented the States from being allowed to have the CBC as a viewing option in this modern day 500 channel universe.

I believe people should have the right to choose which channel to watch the Olympic coverage on.

I'm very thankful to be in Canada, the true land of the free (   ) where I can choose NBC or CBC to watch the Olympics on.

(CBC is doing live coverage right now...this morning!!)

[PTBoardOp94]

The fact that NBC is promoting their coverage as being live is odd, although possibly not wrong.  I haven't caught them saying any specific activity will be live, so they could be planning to broadcast the Marathon on Sunday live.  Still ...

[Troy Goodwin]

Apparently, I went to CBC's Website, and it is unavailable at this point. Northernmost cities (Like Seattle, Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo) are quite lucky to pick up CBC and many other Canadian broadcasting channels, and they're the lucky cities to watch it LIVE. I might go to YouTube to watch the lighting of the flame. NBC has one more olympic coverage left in its contract (In Vancouver) Therefore, the next network  MIGHT plan to show the olympics-LIVE as it happens. Thank god. We're living in the 200+ Channel Universe.

There could be a possible speculation All The Olympic Coverage MIGHT go to Cable exclusively. We'll see what develops.

[BlueWanderer]

I was going to watch only the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympics but since I found out the opening was tape-delay (don't know about closing yet) I'm going to skip it. I figure this evening tape-delay would be edited extensively and also jam pack with video packages and lots of commercials, both regular and pop-up. Unfortunately, I can't get this CBC channel in my area.

[KTU_Fan]

Most of the NBC networks are showing alot of events live overnight and I just noticed that Comcast here has added the soccer and basketball HD channels which well also show live events.

[dustintv]

Well who the hell cares about the Olympics, I'm trying to get coverage about war unfolding between Russia and Georgia and all I get is how 8-8-08 is "lucky" and the John Edwards sex scandal.

[azumanga]

I was going to watch only the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympics but since I found out the opening was tape-delay (don't know about closing yet) I'm going to skip it.

If past Olympics are any indication, NBC will likely tape-delay the closing as well.

Ever since NBC has gotten the multi-olympiad rights to the Olympics (starting with the 1996 Atlanta games), NBC was practically tape- and fluff-happy with the whole event.

[liradioisbad]

The fact that NBC is promoting their coverage as being live is odd, although possibly not wrong.  I haven't caught them saying any specific activity will be live, so they could be planning to broadcast the Marathon on Sunday live.  Still ...

Thanks to NBC's influence, the swimming and gymnastics finals will be shown live in prime time, even though it will be 10 or so in the morning in Bejing. In fact, they said in a press release that 75% of events will be shown live in some form on tv and online. If judging the fact that every soccer game from the past 2 days are already up, they are probably going to put up everything on demand at nbcolympics.com.

Also, tape delaying the Olympics is nothing new. CBS and ABC have done it as well over the years. I remember one US gold medal skiing performance in 1998 on CBS wasn't shown on tv for nearly 24 hours. Also, the famous US-USSR hockey game in 1980 was also on tape on ABC, even though it took place in Lake Placid.

Too bad in spite of what NBC is going to do everyone still has the same complaints about their coverage.

By the way, NBC's Olympic contract goes through 2012, and ABC/ESPN and Fox are also in the running for future Olympics. If ESPN and Fox's coverage of other sports is any indication, I would rather see them on NBC.

[fortmill]

NBC has a brand new affiliate to broadcast the Olympics.  WMBF-DT/32 signed on in Myrtle Beach/Florence, SC (DMA 103) this morning.  Bye-Bye WIS and WECT on cable and satelite in that market.