Posted on 02/18/2010 7:57:24 AM PST by C19fan
With a six year winning streak at stake American Idol kept the streak alive, easily beating out the Olympics every half hour between 8p-10p with both adults 18-49 and total viewers. Between 8pm-10pm Idol averaged a 9.1/22 rating share with adults 18-49 and 24.64 million viewers. During that same period NBC averaged a 5.1/12 rating/share with adults 18-49 and 19.74 million but for the whole night (8p-11p) NBC averaged a 5.4/14 and 20.41 million viewers
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This morning Mat Lauer mentioned two more events; perhaps those two are scheduled for today?
Last night was so fun.I fell asleep before Shaun’s 2nd run but my husband said it was great.
An excellent viewing nite.
What’s to figure on why they are on an island?
Perhaps you should stay tuned longer?
Men’s freestyle skating and women’s downhill and slalom. Go USA!
The womens downhill was really good stuff to watch.
Today, Lindsay competes in the Super Combined, which is a run down the downhill course, combined with a run down the slalom course.
Other events are the Super-G (Super-Giant slalom essentially a downhill with a few more turns), Giant Slalom and Slalom.
I didn’t realize that Von uses men’s skiis—and that other women Olympians have tried them but can’t cut it. Word is they excel on those icy conditions of yesterday. Just reach that the women’s slalom is going to be rescheduled.
I just read she have four more events she could enter with two this week.
Except when that poor Swedish girl flew off the last jump, bounced a few times, then slid across the finish line...on her face. *shudder*
At least she wasn’t seriously hurt. But I’ll bet she’s feeling it this morning.
That would be funny...if it had any relation to what I said. It wasn’t the gayness that was important to my comment, it was NBC’s force feeding us puff pieces and taped events instead of showing actual live competition. They think that’s what viewers want despite repeated efforts to inform them otherwise.
I stay far away from the “main” broadcast, which is all figure skating and “human interest” stories. The cable feeds tend to be good though, less cooked up drama, more sports.
The XGames coverage (Spike or Verus channel) last month was much better quality than the NBC Olympics
He dominates that sport as much as anyone has ever dominated a sport. It’s not even close, he was going at least ten feet higher in the air than the nearest competitor.
NBC pays all that money to be the sole US broadcaster of the Olympics, than won’t even show them during the daytime. What, soap operas are now some kind of sacred cow??
What a waste.
I don’t know why, but I am amazed this time around by the short track skating. Pretty intense stuff.
I totally agree. He was truly amazing. I really don’t know how the things he does are even physically possibly.
The failure of NBC to stream the events live has cost them tons of viewership and revenue.
Nothing against taped events, broadcast them in the evening for those who wish to watch, but why wouldn’t you stream the events live with sponsorship over the net as they occur for those who want them?
Schedule the big things to be live during your broadcast times, that’s fine, but no reason not to stream everything live. And no, I don’t think needing to sign in with your ISP service provider to watch CURLING life is effective streaming.
I have Comcast as my cable provider but have no idea what my COMCAST user account is... and no I’m not going to go find out to log into your sight, I’ll just watch it by proxy through some other method or not watch at all.
Who thought that genious idea up should be shot.
There was a show about Shaun the week before the Olympics on the National Geographic channel. It was a documentary about how he built a half pipe at 12K feet somewhere in Colorado, having blasted the snow into a valley, and then proceeded to develop the moves we saw last night.
At first, he launches himself into a huge tub of foam, until he gets the feel for the move, then takes into the half pipe proper.
Those snowboarders live a bit further out on the edge than do most of us.
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