Fortunately for 2016, the events are in Brazil, so we’ll get things closer to real time. The 2020 Olympics will need a sea change in approach to media coverage, or there will be a lot of unhappy American viewers. By then, I suspect media is going to look a lot different anyway. NBC and the rest will probably have multiple streaming options by then vs traditional broadcast/cable networks. The speed of change in media is going to be great between now and then.
Mexican TV did a better job of covering interesting events.
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Pirate video streams.
I forgot that NBC even existed.
And mostly boring. Every time I turned in NBC was either showing basketball, boxing, or volleyball. I can watch that and the NBA thugs anytime.
Guess it was too hard or too expensive to take their cameras outside of the dome. Why not more coverage of the sports one only sees every 4 years: kayaking, archery, skeet shooting, dressage, canoeing, decathlon, badminton, table tennis, etc.?
The Winter Olympics are more exciting and coverage is usually a lot better.
Would have been interesting to compare the BBC coverage of their Olympics.
NBC will tape-delay very little coverage of the 2016 Summer Olympics because Rio de Janeiro is only one hour ahead of Eastern time.
Maybe so, but all but about one hour of my Olympics watching was online and live. Watched about one hour of NBC coverage of a competition I missed seeing live.
Amen! I think I watched about 15 minutes of it all told. Worst coverage ever. Hopefully someone who is more adept at responding to what the public wants will broadcast the Winter Olympics.
Please...no more diving!
The other channels may have shown a lot of stuff live, but they never showed track and field.