Posted on 07/28/2012 2:42:49 PM PDT by matt04
NBC wants viewers to know: The kickoff of the London Olympics was just too complicated to watch live.
The network is fighting back against intense criticism of its decision to black out the opening ceremony on Friday, instead offering a taped version hours later in prime time. Viewers reacted with disgust when they tried to watch live coverage of the event on TV or online but could only find a few bootlegging sites carrying the feed in the U.S.
"We are live streaming every sporting event, all 32 sports and 302 medals," an NBC spokesman wrote in an email to Show Tracker. "It was never our intent to live stream the Opening Ceremony or Closing Ceremony. They are complex entertainment spectacles that do not translate well online because they require context, which our award-winning production team will provide for the large prime-time audiences that gather together to watch them.
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I noticed that NBC has pulled some of the videos of events that happened earlier today. Those are events that they will replay via delay on NBC tonight.
Example: Men’s (USA) gymnastics. They competed earlier today, but the video is unavailable.
You oughta sell that bridge to yourself as a self-punishment for not getting the joke!
I thought NBC did a pretty good job of the with the opening ceremonies. Maybe a little too much splainin from the talking heads.
Internet coverage of every event is nice.
Which is, of course, the problem in a nutshell. They screwed up from the start.
We sat through the entire introductory “program,” and it was simply...incoherent.
So, was the US flag dipped or not? I tried watching the opening ceremonies, but I turned it off before the parade of athletes.
translation: you're too stupid to know what you like
I noticed that the further they got into the broadcast the less Meridith Vierra was allowed to say. At the end it was matt and costas.
i just went through my weekly tv watching. i don’t watch a single thing on nbc, only CASTLE on abc. it’s usa, tnt, and cbs. some local news but no national tv news or taking airhead shows.
The opening ceremony was boring.
No it was not.
Well... that is much further than I got.
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