Flames. Flames on the side of my face...

[mrv3000]

UGH. NBC talks about their shitty Olympics coverage.

See, I knew they'd point to ratings and say that they're doing everything right. Of course it completely ignores the fact that it's the only way you can get to watch the games. YouTube and the IOC all direct you to NBC's site. BUT you can only watch on NBC's site if you subscribe to paid cable. So guess what everyone has to do? Did you say watch broadcast NBC? OMG YOU'RE RIGHT. RATINGS.

This attitude right there is something we've put up with for years from Hollywood. Is it really any wonder I've got a natural hate for anything that's imported and "translated" for American audiences? Everything is processed and homogenized and Americanized and it makes me want to shred things into tiny bits.

Comments

[allisnow.livejournal.com]

I don't know, I don't think it's fair to say that NBC's coverage is crappy because it's been Americanized. I think it's crappy because it's crappy, and their ratings have been good because OMG THERE'S NOTHING ELSE ON.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Well, the Opening Ceremony was Americanized per NBC itself, and that was a big mess up. But yeah, most of it is scheduling and just being them.

[allisnow.livejournal.com]

Eh, I still think even the Opening Ceremony was just NBC'd. They didn't leave out anything because they thought their American viewers would turn the channel... they left stuff out so they would have more time to show commercials and Ryan Seacrest interviews.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

LOLOLOL

[frenchroast.livejournal.com]

This. They were just all "yo, we gots Ryan Seacrest and Michael Phelps together in the same room! You loved them 4 years ago! Love us! Please love us!"

[http://users.livejournal.com/_thirty2flavors/]

lmao I liked that Jon Stewart clip about it



NBC is the opposite of Batman but they have been that for a while.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I laughed at that whole segment. :D

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

OH GOOD LORD.

[frenchroast.livejournal.com]

You know, if they would just broadcast it live, that wouldn't be so bad. It's easy enough to mute the idiotic commentary.

[frenchroast.livejournal.com]

Good point. It really is stupid of them to be all "Tweet EVERYTHING!" and then get surprised that people are pissed they don't get to watch things live. It ruined the surprise of the women winning gold in gymnastics yesterday. I was trying to avoid the results, but they're basically unavoidable.

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

I'd probably pay a fee to watch the Olympics online. ALL THE OLYMPICS I COULD EVER WANT, YES!

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I probably would as well. I just dropped cable and I have no desire to get it back just for this.

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

I am glad we can get CTV for free with the antenna. It is one of the lovely benefits of living in a border state in a border county. The Canadians don't screw up the coverage nearly as much.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Ooh, very nice! I wish I had that.

[nic]

How? I am IN Canada but don't get CTV since they went digital. So I'm stuck watching NBC too. :(

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure how. We've always gotten it. I thought it was coming through the antenna, though my husband did just rig something into an old satellite dish a couple months ago... Also, icon love. I adore Payson.

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

We do have that little box and we do live less than an hour's drive from Vancouver, B.C. so that probably explains it.

[selenityshiroi.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry.

Have you tried watching the BBC stuff through a proxy? I wouldn't normally recommend that (because, you know, of the whole TV License thing and us having to pay for it and being rather protective of it) but the BBC Online footage is absolutely flawless. Their online viewer (which has been redesigned specifically for the Olympics) can switch between all 24 feeds (when they're all active) has tabs along the bottom (labelled with specific events/moments) so you can go back and catch up with things you've missed before skipping back to live footage and, because it works both live and as saved footage, won't skip if there is a lag-it'll just continue from that point.

The online stuff is so good I haven't even bothered watching it on my TV.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I tried doing that, but it installed weird things on my computer and annoyed me so I uninstalled everything. With much swearing. XD

[sesaworuban.livejournal.com]

So, is now a bad time to point out that we have 20+ dedicated channels, all advert-free, many in HD through which to watch all the sports events live?

(And people scoff at us having to pay £10/month TV licence...)

Sending lots of hugs though - sounds really really crap. :(

Can you not get some DNS hider software to allow you to watch BBC iPlayer? That's live.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

PTHTHTHTHTHTHT!!!!!

[stef-mg.livejournal.com]

I stopped watching because a) the internet/news coverage spoils every win, and b) they almost exclusively focus on the US participants only.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

It's pretty ridiculous, isn't it?