Posted on 08/16/2004 6:52:01 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
NBCaC --- Nothing But Couric and Costa
The Sydney games broadcast was just awful.
Every 5 minutes another stupid Human Interest Story.
This year there are far less. Maybe it's what the people want?
At least the frequent commercial breaks are not very long.
Not their fault. This is the most boring Olympics I have ever casually watched.
I love the Olympics, but I am afraid I might have to see Katie Couric.
The problem is the Olympics stopped being the Olympics when it became a professional tournament instead of an amateur competition. There's no longer any excitement in it, no longer the sense of people with an ordinary background doing their best to become champions. When you're a pro, the achievement just not quite there. They'll never get back to where they were but when you play to empty stadiums and ever dwindling TV viewers, you've got a problem. The IOC may just be too hide-bound a bureaucracy to deal with the crisis in world sports.
When I want to view an event, I want to watch all of it. Every single athlete as they compete.
Highlights and human interest stories are not what I want to view.
She hasn't been anywhere since the opening ceremony.
Why would I want to watch reruns narrated by leftists like Costas and Couric? I'd rather watch live events. In fact, if the price weren't too high, I would pay to be able to watch events live without cutting from one event to another just to see the American competitors. I really don't like having to just see the highlights.
Knowing the results makes me not care a whole lot about watching the games. NBC should be showing live events when they happen. If they want to package up some off hour stuff for prime time I can understand that, but with seeing results on the net, the suspense of the events just isn't there...
They've cut down on the human interest stories tremendously.
I haven't watched anything on NBC in more years than I can count.
I looked in for the first time today and it was a women's field hockey team with Japan vs. Argentina. I didn't know people played hockey on grass, and if they're going to start putting in everything, a Frisbee Throwing event would be more interesting.:)
Granted, maybe it was because I was in college at the time, but I was more absorbed back in 1984. Since then, I've watched some in the summer, but I think I've watched more winter stuff.
TS
They had a pay-per-view package like that in 1992 that NBC lost over $100 million on. I personally paid for that package and enjoyed the coverage. I really don't understand why that cost so much to do considering that the camera crews already cover all the sports for the various TV networks around the world. I would much rather see the live events than the overly processed reruns.
Guess why? It's boring. Who wants to watch an hour of synchronized springboard jumping together with underwater shots. (Wow! Underwater cameras?) Who wants to watch more basketball when they see it all year long? Idiotic, ignorant, intrusive commentary, commercial breaks on top of commercila breaks. Oh what fun!
The Olympics doesn't start until next week when the athletics gets going.
No offence to the very fit people participating in synchronised diving, and beach volley ball - but in fairness, it's not exactly 'faster, higher, stronger'.
Well, at least not for me.
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