01Bear said:
mbBear said:
01Bear said:
Also for those down on the Olympics for not delivering this year, maybe it's time you stopped being so provincial and expanded your worldview a bit. Instead of letting NBC dictate what portion of the Olympic games you think is important (and therefore watch), which is usually dominated by sports where America is expected to win or at least medal, learn to enjoy other sports.
This past week I've been watching Olympic judo and taekwondo. The US won zero medals in judo and one gold medal in taekwondo. NBC has not covered any of this. But I've seen some really great matches between some of the highest level competitors out there. They've more than met my expectations (though, based on the camera angles used in the broadcast, the director of the taekwondo camera operators has probably never seen a match in his life prior to these games) and I've been thoroughly enjoying these Olympics.
Alternatively, since Cal has a stories rugby program that many of you like to pretend to care about, you could've watched the US men's rugby team achieve its highest ever placement in a global tournament. Heck, there's even a Cal connection, as former Cal Bear Danny Barrett competed for the USA.
If you watched, it's because NBC showed it. If you are making the distinction of being on the NBC Broadcast Network, and/or Prime Time, okay. But for those of watching off of the NBC app, it doesn't matter much.
FYI: USA Network is owned by NBC. There has never been this much live programming....
Umm, no. You are making an entirely unwarranted assumption and drawing an erroneous conclusion. I did not watch it on NBC's broadcasts. I streamed the contests in real time. NBC has not made that possible.
One of my (many) gripes about NBC's Olympics coverage is that it's still broadcasting the Olympics as if we're stuck in the 20th century where streaming is not an option. Yet, how many of you have watched a Cal game streamed live? Nevertheless, NBC chose not to make this an option. However, other broadcasters from around the world chose to do so. (I was fortunate enough to be able to view some of these streams.)
Then you are out of the country, and you are right, that's a wrong assumption.
Just fyi: unless you are on a bootleg outlet in the US (which I have not head about) then the video is controlled by NBC. I have watched only streamed content so far, as I am watching everything off of my Roku at a 2nd home.
NBC is the complete rightsholder in the US. The production on many events come from what is called the "international feed," meaning a set of cameras shooting an event and providing that feed to various global outlets, and then NBC can cut to their own cameras where they have set up in addition to the feed.
The biggest difference in this Olympics for NBC is how much production they are doing out of Stamford, Ct. (where I am proud to say my daughter is working 12 hour days) vs. how much on site. You have a few on-air folks in Tokyo, but an awful lot of the "voicing" is being done live out of a booth in Ct.
I hate the time difference, but, for those of us who can still remember Olympics from many years ago, I am still a bit in awe that you can see as much as you can live. Yes, the improvements of technology are amazing, but the fact that NBC can make the dollars work when the games are on the various NBC TV outlets as well as us folks watching the streaming, is also a sign of the times.