Posted on 08/22/2016 6:26:47 AM PDT by C19fan
NBC came under fire Sunday night after frustrated viewers took to Twitter to complain about the closing ceremony being aired on an hour delay. Tweets poured in from across the United States as viewers slammed the network for choosing to air the closing ceremony at 8pm, rather than 7pm. Typically, a network will delay a broadcast due to time difference.
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I only watched the events via internet streaming. There were no talking heads or politics - just coverage of the event I was watching - generally with Aussie sports announcers. I watched them one day later than the event and avoided (not hard to do) any “news” of who won.
I don’t give these degenerate bastards the chance to piss me off.
I do it by NEVER watching NBC and only watch Baseball on ESPN.
Strangely enough, there are no queers in Baseball.
Which is probably why it was banished from the homo themed oylmpics.
I heard a man won the womens 800M!
I wish ABC would get the Olympics back. I know, they're as Left as the other networks, but I have such fond memories of '72 and '76 (except for the massacre, of course). Although all the old announcers I remember (Jim McKay, Howard Cosell) are gone now.
A little off topic, but I was disappointed in coca cola’s ad showing “America The Beautiful” sung in several different languages by different peoples and cultures. Nice try for PC but ended up with me for one being PO’d.
NBC had to use tape delay to make sure no statements of faith leaked onto the screen!
Similar here with the time delays.
I recall in one of the Winter Olympics around 2004, I discovered Curling. Never heard of it previously, but watched and got interested. Every day and every night they showed some Curling event. Curling, Curling, Curling.
Then, during the men’s final for gold, the network (NBC, IIRC), followed the whole thing until the final 3 stones. The Network cut away to some other event. If they ever did return to the men’s curling final, it had to be late in the night.
Since then, I have never bothered to watch the time delays. With internet, I previously did watch some events live. This time, I haven’t really watched anything.
To me, it is too much hype and too many ‘professional’ players anymore. And half or more of the events are hardly even mentioned outside of Olympics.
Several days ago, I did hear news commentators going on about how many women’s events were being shown on the NBC channels and few men’s events. Likely, that is part of the reason I haven’t bothered to track down when certain events (men’s gymnastics, for example) are even shown on NBC.
Franz Klammer’s run to this day is my favorite Olympic moment.
I used to be into the Olympics... Tokyo in the 60’s a few others. But over time access to televised bits became harder and harder to view. Now this. I haven’t seen anything this go round and I doubt I will.
Also... I recently watched a PBS documentary on the 1936 German Olympics which brought to light the pageantry associated to modern day Olympics all started as a result of the 1936 pageantry which was designed to show the world the accomplishments of the Nazi party and what a glorious thing it was to behold.
That alone... put me off. The history after 1936 is purely a copy of the 1936 template, heck the whole travelling torch to ignite the burning flame was a Nazi idea!
I would dearly love to see a “simplified” Olympics not a demonstration of super-power prowess, for other political nonsense. But that is what it has become.
Track and field, swimming, weaponry and combat sports. Rowing... anything that brings a competitive spirit to skills that can be directly associated with warfare.
Water polo doesn’t fit, neither does water ballet, or basketball, racket-sports, golf, baseball, volleyball... etcetera... ad nauseum...
And that’s my 2cents
Somehow the old tricycle rider who keeps falling over from the old LAUGH IN keeps coming to mind.
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