NBC ruined Vancouver 2010 for the west coast. 3 hrs delay with the events happening in our own time zone. NBC sports are terrible, its all about some dumb personality driven, fake made up narrative they came up with .. and not about actual events. Its as if they decided I want "Olympics: The Reality Series" rather than the actual games.

An average hour of Olympics coverage in the U.S.: 20 minutes of commercials, 20 minutes of Bob Costas talking about the Olympics, and (if you're lucky) 20 minutes of actual Olympics.

I say it every year and of course everyone agrees with me. Give the coverage rights to Disney. Now I know that everyone is going to look at me like I'm crazy, but listen for a second.

Disney owns ABC and ESPN. ABC will show the mainstream coverage, such as gymnastics, track and field, volleyball, swimming, and other sports that are popular for some odd reason. ESPN will show everything else over their system of Networks, which means that ESPN U will not be show college football for at least a week.

NBC's coverage sucks because of the fact that they don't know who to do anything but news, which is also on a 3 second delay, so most of the stuff gets out to the general public before it happens.

At least let a network that knows about sports cover it.

Weirdnjfan1: I say it every year and of course everyone agrees with me. Give the coverage rights to Disney. Now I know that everyone is going to look at me like I'm crazy, but listen for a second.

Disney owns ABC and ESPN. ABC will show the mainstream coverage, such as gymnastics, track and field, volleyball, swimming, and other sports that are popular for some odd reason. ESPN will show everything else over their system of Networks, which means that ESPN U will not be show college football for at least a week.

NBC's coverage sucks because of the fact that they don't know who to do anything but news, which is also on a 3 second delay, so most of the stuff gets out to the general public before it happens.

At least let a network that knows about sports cover it.

ESPN/ABC tried but Comcast/NBC offered more money. So they get the Olympics until at least 2020.

bubbaprog: Actually, subby, every single Olympic event will be streamed live by NBC over the internet in the United States.

NBC executives decided to shift from their longtime philosophy and make every event available as it happens, convinced that the plan will build interest in the Olympics and not siphon off viewership from the traditional nightly broadcasts.

Continue your ignorant NBC-bashing.

And chances are, the only reason they agreed to that I'm sure is because they realized nobody wants to watch their crummy tape-delayed coverage when they can just go online and get results in real-time from various websites. The sad fact of all of this is: despite everyone knowing the events are tape-delayed, they will still probably get better TV ratings showing it in prime time compared to whatever re-runs or summer crap they would normally broadcast in the spot.

Generation_D: NBC ruined Vancouver 2010 for the west coast. 3 hrs delay with the events happening in our own time zone.

This.

mikaloyd: I DEMAND to see the womens 10 meter air pistol matches in their entirety live on broadcast TV. Because that south korean broad doesnt wear bras and her nipples are the size of lug nuts on a Kenworth.

Must See Tee Vee.

mikaloyd: I DEMAND to see the womens 10 meter air pistol matches in their entirety live on broadcast TV. Because that south korean broad doesnt wear bras and her nipples are the size of lug nuts on a Kenworth.

Kim Sum Poon, or the other one?

mikaloyd: The Smails Kid: mikaloyd: I DEMAND to see the womens 10 meter air pistol matches in their entirety live on broadcast TV. Because that south korean broad doesnt wear bras and her nipples are the size of lug nuts on a Kenworth.

Kim Sum Poon, or the other one?

Ho Nip Vu

The problem with this theory is you'll also have to watch the US women's air pistol team, Shamu and Mamu.

Hoda and Kathy Lee should cover as many events as possible.

/cuz that would be painful and awesome

My biggest complaint was only seeing the boring swimming, gymnastics and diving events. I wanted to see everything else.

Did fall in love with the womens volleyball team at 3am or so though.

teto85: And every second of every hour will be taped delayed for East Coast Prime time.

Fark you NBC/Comcast/Universal. With a sharpened bamboo pole dipped in runny bovine fecal matter.

Don't forget that it will also only be shown if an American wins a medal. fark all the losers, USA, USA, USA!

bubbaprog: Some Bass Playing Guy: When I was kid in the 70's, whichever major network had coverage pretty much only showed the Olympics. It was on day and night, preempting regular programming.

Yeah, just like how ABC showed the Miracle On Ice live as it happened at 5:00 in the afternoon.

Oh, wait, no they didn't. They tape-delayed it and showed it during prime time.

Uh, the game was in Lake Placid, NY. It was live on TV. I watched it, as did probably tens of thousands other farkers who could back this up.

mikaloyd: I also hope the US soccer teams get vaporized early on so the FarK Futball Fanatics wont be crybagging up all the Olympiad threads demanding respect and commanding fail.

Sucks to be you on that one.

Solution: Download Tor browser and only use non-US IPs. Access online coverage available outside of the US.

bubbaprog: Some Bass Playing Guy: When I was kid in the 70's, whichever major network had coverage pretty much only showed the Olympics. It was on day and night, preempting regular programming.

Yeah, just like how ABC showed the Miracle On Ice live as it happened at 5:00 in the afternoon.

Oh, wait, no they didn't. They tape-delayed it and showed it during prime time.

I remember watching that on TV, and every time they went to commercial they showed live shots of people celebrating on the streets of Lake Placid, and my mom said, "Oh, look! We must have won the game." While the game was still on TV.

Generation_D: bubbaprog: Some Bass Playing Guy: When I was kid in the 70's, whichever major network had coverage pretty much only showed the Olympics. It was on day and night, preempting regular programming.

Yeah, just like how ABC showed the Miracle On Ice live as it happened at 5:00 in the afternoon.

Oh, wait, no they didn't. They tape-delayed it and showed it during prime time.

Uh, the game was in Lake Placid, NY. It was live on TV. I watched it, as did probably tens of thousands other farkers who could back this up.

It was tape delayed.

You watched it, you watched a tape delay.

Unless you were in Canada, or nearby.

The Field House (capacity 8,500) was packed.[16] The home crowd waved U.S. flags and sang patriotic songs such as "God Bless America."[10] The game was aired live on CTV in Canada, but not ABC in the United States. Thus, American viewers who resided in or near Canadian border regions and received the CTV signal could watch the game live, but the rest of the United States had to wait for a delayed rebroadcast. Link

EnviroDude: dj_bigbird: You forgot the 5 minutes on the history & struggles of each American athlete.

More like 30, minutes leading up to the 30 second race.

NBC has destroyed the Olympics in the US with their crummy coverage.

More like 30 minutes leading up to the 30 second race which NBC knew the person would win because it's on tape delay.

And I'll second that NBC has destroyed the Olympics in the US sentiment.

She comes in colors everywhere: Generation_D: bubbaprog: Some Bass Playing Guy: When I was kid in the 70's, whichever major network had coverage pretty much only showed the Olympics. It was on day and night, preempting regular programming.

Yeah, just like how ABC showed the Miracle On Ice live as it happened at 5:00 in the afternoon.

Oh, wait, no they didn't. They tape-delayed it and showed it during prime time.

Uh, the game was in Lake Placid, NY. It was live on TV. I watched it, as did probably tens of thousands other farkers who could back this up.

It was tape delayed.

You watched it, you watched a tape delay.

My favorite tape delay was a few Olympics ago, probably 12 or 16 years ago. NBC was showing some sport, I forget what but then Bob Costas cut in for a "live shot of the US Women's soccer final." It was like early first half and about a minute later the US Women's team scored. As they celebrated the goal NBC cut back to whatever the hell was on. Awhile later NBC cut to another "live shot." This time it was 1-1 and miraculously in this live shot, the US scored within a minute again and then NBC cut away. Half an hour later or so and NBC cut back to another live shot of US Women's soccer and it was the last few moments before the whistle blew and they won the gold 2-1. The 5 minutes of "live" soccer NBC decided to show of a 90+ minute game allowed me to see both US goals and the final moments as they won. Thanks NBC.

bubbaprog: Actually, subby, every single Olympic event will be streamed live by NBC over the internet in the United States.

NBC executives decided to shift from their longtime philosophy and make every event available as it happens, convinced that the plan will build interest in the Olympics and not siphon off viewership from the traditional nightly broadcasts.

Continue your ignorant NBC-bashing.

The problem with the streaming on the net is it would be too easy to just switch over to porn instead of rubbin one out to some mildly sexy events like syncronized swimming, water polo or speed walking like a true American patriot.

They've had setups where they showed every single event in the US. If I recall correctly, they did that for the Atlanta games in '96. They had the Olympics running non-stop on three channels. While they didn't show every last event, they showed a lot of them.

No one watched them.

MyEnamine: Solution: Download Tor browser and only use non-US IPs. Access online coverage available outside of the US.

Or, you know, just watch the feeds we have in the US on your existing browser.

mjg: Hoda and Kathy Lee should cover as many events as possible.

/cuz that would be painful and awesome

Good God....the NBC Olympic budget would be wiped out if they did that...they'd spend all their money on Hoda and KLG's booze. But, hey, that train wreck may be better than watching endless taped viewings of the 25m fishstyle swim race

Generation_D: bubbaprog: Some Bass Playing Guy: When I was kid in the 70's, whichever major network had coverage pretty much only showed the Olympics. It was on day and night, preempting regular programming.

Yeah, just like how ABC showed the Miracle On Ice live as it happened at 5:00 in the afternoon.

Oh, wait, no they didn't. They tape-delayed it and showed it during prime time.

Uh, the game was in Lake Placid, NY. It was live on TV. I watched it, as did probably tens of thousands other farkers who could back this up.

Nope...US Hockey Miracle on Ice was tape delayed...not shown live. It was shown a few hours after it happened

bubbaprog: Actually, subby, every single Olympic event will be streamed live by NBC over the internet in the United States.

NBC executives decided to shift from their longtime philosophy and make every event available as it happens, convinced that the plan will build interest in the Olympics and not siphon off viewership from the traditional nightly broadcasts.

Continue your ignorant NBC-bashing.


I'll just reserve judgment until the US Open in two weeks. No one can absolutely ruin a major like NBC.

"Hey, Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy are tied with two holes left. But, we now cut away to Jimmy Roberts interviewing Johnny Miller about next week's LPGA coverage."

Nice that Canada is doing all that coverage....

However, it is usually blocked to US viewers online...so that still sucks

As for NBC coverage....ABC did the same thing when they had the Olympics all those years. NBC just copied what ABC did. Big difference is that ABC had Jim McKay as its host....and he was way way better than Bob Costas.

NBC should have kept Jim Lampley...and replaced Costas with him. Lampley did the late nite coverage for ABC when they carried the Olympics