The big problem with the human interest stories, over and above being girly, is they’re a waste of time. The Summer Games are literally the largest sporting event on the planet, hundreds of hours of sports happen every day for 17 days, and yet most of the prime time coverage isn’t showing any of the sports, it’s blathering on the soap opera of the people. The prime time show should be the ultimate high light package, condensing everything that happened that day into a 4 hour Sports Center. Unfortunately they know their primary audience are not sports fans, it’s women that only watch the Olympics every couple of years. Thus human interest stories instead of sports. The biggest travesty is that they have all these channels but they focus everything down in prime time, they should use one of the channels to do the Sports Center version.
That's not what I have been experiencing. It's mostly 90%+ sports and 10% human interest.
Lettuce be real, you can only watch so much soccer, basketball etc without being bored to tears. Swimming, gymnastics etc that have as short, competitive time span are different...way more interesting..of course I have a very short attention span.