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.
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.
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.
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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.
NBC= Nothing But (Olympic) Clips!
Their coverage is sporadic and splattered over half-a-dozen cable channels (which are not on all cable services). It is difficult to find and keep up with what's going on.
Their NBC network is recorded. Their cable stuff may be live.
You would think that they could have at least one Internet streaming feed.
Watching the Magic Johnson and company basketball fiasco was the end of the Olympics for me. I was embarassed to admit those fools were my fellow citizens. Talk about an ugly American moment!
1. Stayed in the best available hotel sweet, no Olympic village for them
2. Showed up at the court just in time to play and rake in the medals
3. Trounced third world nation's amatures into the dirt
4. Bumped traditional field of US players who should have had a chance to compete
As others have mentioned, those human interest stories are downright unbearable. I never knew there was so much tragedy out there, until I noticed that every olympic participant was a candidate for worst possible tragedy of the decade, all stars!
Then they managed to top it all, with Katie Kourick and Bob Costas. I'd rather take a shovel and have my wife hit me with it rather than watch this drek.
The last reason I don't watch, is that I hate what the olympics has become so much, I find myself almost rooting that our team won't win.
That's when you know it's time to pick up a ball, any ball, and go outside for a higher level of sport than you'll see on NBC.
Unfortunately, like all of American television it's all aimed at the lowest common denominator. Just watch an hour of it, watch the commercials and take an easy guess who their target audience might be...
How about we combine the Olympics with Christmas?
Olympics? Did the games begin already? And who is NBC?