Hey, I have no dog in this race. Don’t much care about the Olympics, can’t watch much real-time live television these days (why should I, when I have my TiVo? But I digress…)
But everyone else seems to be weighing in on just how badly NBC is blowing their Olympics coverage — even as everyone else seems to still be watching anyway. Here’s a sampling of the dissonant coverage…
From the ‘get in front of the couch already & stop your bitching’ crowd
Update: Wednesday’s Olympics Coverage Tops ‘Idol’
Based on the overnight ratings, NBC’s coverage of the Winter Olympics on Wednesday night did not just beat “Idol” on Wednesday night– it trounced the previously unbeatable singing competition. It was the first time the still formidable “Idol” lost to any show on television in almost six years, ending a winning streak of an amazing 222 editions of “Idol.”
Why Dick Ebersol Can Tell You To Kiss Off
NBC is listening to your complaints. They hear…(blah blah blahs deleted)…
They’re listening to you, and they don’t care.Why would they? From the television ratings so far, there’s absolutely no incentive to change things. Every single primetime broadcast thus far has outperformed even the highest rated night from 2006.
And from the ‘why can’t I watch NOW‘ crowd
What Olympic tape-delay controversy? NBC still doesn’t get it
I did my best.
Called NBC Universal. E-mailed them. Got a guy on the phone. Struck out.
I was simply trying to make a point: Look, folks. I’m getting deluged here. Buried by e-mail, swamped with calls. Hundreds of them. All expressing outrage about NBC’s coverage of the 2010 Winter Games — particularly its decision to delay every major event to West Coast viewers.
NBC Ruins Olympics Men’s Downhill For Millions Of Fans
In a few years, thankfully, technology will have advanced to the point where it is pretty much impossible for a network to come between fans and an event, the way NBC is now. In the meantime, however, Americans who don’t want to arrange a proxy server and watch the event on another country’s Internet broadcast instead of their HD TVs, will be forced to wait until they know the winner to watch tonight in NBC’s primetime.
What do you think? Are you watching now, even as you bitch and moan? Why or why not….?
