FARK.com: (7139843) For the Olympics there will be over 5,000 hours of televised coverage available on several networks and online... in Canada. Americans on the other hand will get 100 hours of Bob Costas with a pretty gymnast and lots of flags

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		For the Olympics there will be over 5,000 hours of televised coverage available on several networks and online... in Canada. Americans on the other hand will get 100 hours of Bob Costas with a pretty gymnast and lots of flags (tsn.ca)		84
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bubbaprog		2012-06-02 01:38:58 PM

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

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

If you'd read the thread you'd know that everything being offered in Canada is being offered simultaneously and live in the U.S. by NBC. This is a non-story and the headline is completely wrong.

crotchgrabber		2012-06-02 01:43:13 PM

I'll reserve judgement until the games start. I am optimistic though... NBC sports has done a hell of a job with Indycar and cycling this year.

expobill		2012-06-02 01:58:03 PM

crotchgrabber: I'll reserve judgement until the games start. I am optimistic though... NBC sports has done a hell of a job with Indycar and cycling this year.

they missed covering the giro this year

The Smails Kid		2012-06-02 02:10:13 PM

mikaloyd: Just out of morbid fascination I looked up USA womens shooting team. dese gals got sharp knees

It goes downhill from the shotgun team, if you can believe it.

GypsyJoker		2012-06-02 02:20:47 PM

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

2.bp.blogspot.com

"Time for browse Internet."

crotchgrabber		2012-06-02 02:21:25 PM

expobill: crotchgrabber: I'll reserve judgement until the games start. I am optimistic though... NBC sports has done a hell of a job with Indycar and cycling this year.

they missed covering the giro this year

I enjoyed the ToC. I was just bummed that it didn't come to Monterey this year.

98K514		2012-06-02 02:22:12 PM

UCFRoadWarrior: 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

The US broadcast was delayed. Those who live(d) in border states with access to the Canadian station watched it live.

/Michigan
//watched it live

GypsyJoker		2012-06-02 02:23:57 PM

Americans on the other hand will get 100 hours of Bob Costas with a pretty gymnast and lots of flags

Hey, if the pretty gymnast is Nastia Liukin, it's all good.

images.teamsugar.com

Smeggy Smurf		2012-06-02 02:24:51 PM

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.

Do you really believe they'll not fark that up as well? Not enough servers, allowing beer near the servers, DDOS, using Norton Anti-Virus, etc.

If you want to see a conspiracy in it, the government will use the stream going down as an excuse to go all 1984 on the internet.

theurge14		2012-06-02 02:32:17 PM

Lafnlion: 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.

You're thinking of the Barcelona games in '92 with the Red White and Blue channels that NBC broadcast.

Yeah, it wasn't that the subject matter wasn't worth watching. It's that NBC farked it up on a monumental scale.

BigJake		2012-06-02 02:45:30 PM

Good. Most of the Olympics are more boring than whatever NBC would be running in its place anyway

drewogatory		2012-06-02 02:50:19 PM

theurge14: Lafnlion: 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.

You're thinking of the Barcelona games in '92 with the Red White and Blue channels that NBC broadcast.

Yeah, it wasn't that the subject matter wasn't worth watching. It's that NBC farked it up on a monumental scale.

Not if you had an illegal cable box they didn't. The triple cast was awesome.

intelligent comment below		2012-06-02 02:51:49 PM

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.

But the market has spoken. Why do you hate Capitalism?

TheShavingofOccam123		2012-06-02 03:33:31 PM

fark Bob Kostas. fark Visa. fark McDonalds. fark NBC.

I won't watch a farkng minute of NBC coverage.

ghare		2012-06-02 03:40:41 PM

They still have Olympics? You learn something new every day.

IAmRight		2012-06-02 03:54:31 PM

ITT: Either a bunch of liars who are pretending they give a sh*t about all Olympic sports or the five international fans of most Olympic sports.

They tell stories to give background - watching races with no idea whose competing is pretty much the most boring thing in the world. "Hey 8 people line up at the start and one of 'em wins! Congrats to that person. On to the next event. Another 8 people line up, and again, one of them is faster than the rest! Hope you enjoyed the coverage of 16 people you've never heard of and will never hear of again!"

BigJake		2012-06-02 03:58:39 PM

IAmRight: ITT: Either a bunch of liars who are pretending they give a sh*t about all Olympic sports or the five international fans of most Olympic sports.

They tell stories to give background - watching races with no idea whose competing is pretty much the most boring thing in the world. "Hey 8 people line up at the start and one of 'em wins! Congrats to that person. On to the next event. Another 8 people line up, and again, one of them is faster than the rest! Hope you enjoyed the coverage of 16 people you've never heard of and will never hear of again!"

Yup. In the immortal and slightly changed words of Kenny Powers, "I watch real sports. Not try to see who's the best at exercising"

Dumb-Ass-Monkey		2012-06-02 04:04:54 PM

NBC is the worst thing to happen to the Olympics since Munich.

Martonio		2012-06-02 04:12:34 PM

GypsyJoker: Americans on the other hand will get 100 hours of Bob Costas with a pretty gymnast and lots of flags

Hey, if the pretty gymnast is Nastia Liukin, it's all good.

[images.teamsugar.com image 395x500]

I'd do something Nastia to her.

Mrtraveler01		2012-06-02 05:16:01 PM

theurge14: Yeah, it wasn't that the subject matter wasn't worth watching. It's that NBC farked it up on a monumental scale.

When Cablevision gets involved, what else would you expect?

MFAWG		2012-06-02 05:16:02 PM

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.

I had a friend drive to Canada, watch a hockey game, and then drive back to catch it on TV.

Fortunately, this is NBC's last Olympics.

Mrtraveler01		2012-06-02 05:20:33 PM

MFAWG: Fortunately, this is NBC's last Olympics.

Got some bad news for you.

gas giant		2012-06-02 05:33:34 PM

Wait, there's a SUMMER Olympics too?!

mikaloyd		2012-06-02 06:11:07 PM

rickythepenguin: 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.

guess you didn't get the memo that the US men did not qualify for the Olympics.

Its a festivus miracle! Huzzah!

So soccer doesnt let all nations teams into the Olympics? That sounds more in keeping with World Cup Think than Olympic Spirit. Then again, is there a thing so perfect and wonderful that it couldnt be taunted and stained by the minds behind international soccer tournaments.

SVenus		2012-06-02 06:41:25 PM

I don't always comment in threads about televised shows that I don't watch, but when I do, it's because...

Well, I hate this stuff.

I dislike everything about the modern Olympics, from the manufactured synchronized pixies tossing around items normally found in a third grade gym class to the crass corporate sponsorship crafted to keep other corporations from advertising their corporate crap.

Every time, we have to tiptoe around the fact that this entire venue is a terrorist's wet dream. I bought one of the logo'd tshirts from the 1972 Olympics before the massacre, and wore it until it was thread bare. I hate the fact that a bunch of over achieving athletes are put in harms way simply to help a bunch of other people make money.

Good luck with all the Olympics. I hope it all works out.
Wake me when it's over.

_{/and get off my lawn}

Trackball		2012-06-02 07:22:03 PM

Ahh...the Olympics. Sport of the 1%...

\amidoinitrite?

The Smails Kid		2012-06-02 07:37:50 PM

IAmRight: ITT: Either a bunch of liars who are pretending they give a sh*t about all Olympic sports or the five international fans of most Olympic sports.

They tell stories to give background - watching races with no idea whose competing is pretty much the most boring thing in the world. "Hey 8 people line up at the start and one of 'em wins! Congrats to that person. On to the next event. Another 8 people line up, and again, one of them is faster than the rest! Hope you enjoyed the coverage of 16 people you've never heard of and will never hear of again!"

You carry the torch for arena football, of all things, and yet you're claiming the Olympics are marginal?

Get out of your mom's basement and visit another country, you stupid twat.

nyihockey		2012-06-02 08:38:40 PM

I believe I remember hearing that every event will be streamed live online in the States (as other have said above), and they will also be available to watch on demand online as soon as they end. The exception is that if NBC is going to be airing part of the event during their Prime Clip Show, that whole event won't be kept available online at all.

They were interviewing someone about this on the radio station I listen to the other day, which I thought was odd since I'm Canadian, and it is a Canadian station which is part of the Olympic Consortium. I have no idea what's going on in Canada (other than the fact that it should be like the past Consortium Olympic broadcasts) but they dedicated a solid 20 minutes to making sure we all knew what was happening in the States.

LLLeopold		2012-06-02 10:42:33 PM

NBC will show everything this time as noted by others above. The showed tons of coverage last time on a bunch of channels. You could watch the events live on one of the "other" channels and/or watch the NBC reality show they produced and aired in prime time.

As for all the love ABC is getting .... that's just rose colored memories. Their coverage was just like what NBC does now only on NBC. They never covered things any near as in-depth as NBC does when you take all the channels into account. The difference was that we didn't have an expectation of seeing everything live because we weren't used to having access.to it

Bonzo_1116		2012-06-03 12:39:37 AM

Smeggy Smurf: 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.

Do you really believe they'll not fark that up as well? Not enough servers, allowing beer near the servers, DDOS, using Norton Anti-Virus, etc.

If you want to see a conspiracy in it, the government will use the stream going down as an excuse to go all 1984 on the internet.

I remember that during this past Winter Olympics, I tried to watch it online from work, and it demanded Silverlight, and registering my account info from my cable provider at home....Which I think meant that if you didn't have an "approved cable distributor", you wouldn't be able to watch it on the internet feed no matter where you were.

So f*ck that shiat, I'm putting the rabbit ears up and watching the Tijuana broadcasts.

proteus_b		2012-06-03 03:31:28 AM

thank god i'll be abroad for the olympics; i might actually get to see something.

InfrasonicTom		2012-06-03 06:47:55 AM

It would be nice if they changed the on screen logo to pedobear during the gymnastics coverage. You know, for truthiness and all.

RminusQ		2012-06-03 12:49:59 PM

mikaloyd: guess you didn't get the memo that the US men did not qualify for the Olympics.

Its a festivus miracle! Huzzah!

So soccer doesnt let all nations teams into the Olympics? That sounds more in keeping with World Cup Think than Olympic Spirit. Then again, is there a thing so perfect and wonderful that it couldnt be taunted and stained by the minds behind international soccer tournaments.

There is not a single event in the Olympics that you do not have to qualify for. All nations had the opportunity to qualify for men's football at the Olympics, and the US U-23 team blew it.

IAmRight		2012-06-03 02:07:00 PM

The Smails Kid: You carry the torch for arena football, of all things, and yet you're claiming the Olympics are marginal?

First of all, I simply point out that Arena Football exists for all the people that miss football and are having to resort to watching sh*t like soccer and baseball.

Secondly, that has nothing to do with anything - I'm pointing out that no one gives a sh*t about who wins the 1000m speedwalking race or the hammer toss or any number of the countless pointless events in the Olympics, 90% of which are sports no one cares about except for two weeks every four years, where we all pretend we do, and then if we don't win, we don't.

The only Summer Olympics sport that should be more popular than it is is team handball. I have no idea why that doesn't catch on in America, it looks fun as hell. And Michael Vick missed his true calling with it not being popular here, because he'd be a juggernaut in that game. Tebow, too.

As for foreign travel, I've been to roughly a dozen foreign countries and for the most part, their sports suck. This thread was discussing American viewers, dipsh*t.

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