Do you work for NBC ? lol
I did a good bit of DVRing. In fact saved about 25GB of Olympic shows. I still maintain that the lesser sports were not adequately covered. Maybe I just missed the coverage or could have checked the schedules better, but my DVR footage is still mostly volleyball, boxing, water polo, wrestling, lot of soccer, traditional stuff - and not that much of what I would call the exotic sports you only get to see every 4 years.
I really enjoyed the rafting, canoeing, shooting (bow and gun), dressage, decathlon, and biking - which I feel NBC did not cover adequately. Usually just the highlights were presented in those sports. I know, you can’t please everybody. NBC just didn’t fill my bill.
London put on a good Olympics. Still curious how the BBC presented it.
LOL, no. I certainly wish the Olympics were covered by a competent organization. That said, they do use their cable channels to pretty good effect during the games. I saw judo, tae kwon do, badminton, table tennis, fencing, equestrian, cycling, kayak, etc., while flipping between channels. And again, all of it was available online, mostly in "raw" feed format, with no commentators at all.
But as far as primetime goes, that's where they're going for the big ad bucks, and they choose to show what they think will draw the most eyeballs from the target audiences. As a male outside of the 18-35 demographic, I don't think that's me. ;) We can argue whether or not they are making the right choices, but they're more interested in their bottom line than they are about showcasing sport.
Some of the field events (plus the decathlon) felt like Wide World of Sports summaries. I can understand editing out the stretching, bouncing and running around trying to find his shirt like one athlete did, but they skipped too many athletes and too many rounds. I would like to see every jump in order of the pole vault instead of four vaulters with skipping half the rounds.