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Posted on 08/05/2012 9:06:34 AM PDT by JimWayne
NBC has calculated that the TV audience for the Olympics in the US is 56% female, and this conditions what it calls its "storytelling model" of presentation.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
There is exactly one team of broadcasters at the Olympics for NBC that are professionals. They are the team from Versus that broadcasts the Tour de France. Now that NBC owns Versus I guess they will be replaced by idiots shortly. When you start saying Dude and reporting on twitter comments you know your hopeless.
They’ve carried tons of events live. But remember by the time our prime time rolls around London is saying hello to tomorrow. It’s not possible for them to show anything live in prime time because there’s nothing happening live during prime time. Now 2AM through about 4PM lots of stuff is live.
I’m retired, but my wife is still working. I know the results of every event usually at the time they happened. My wife has threatened me with severe consequences if I tell her who won what. So I have to sit through the events knowing the result without being able to tell my wife. Keeping these things delayed on weekends is especially ridiculous.
My kids go to school with one of the girls on the table tennis team. We had to watch her event live on the computer. We tried to even find coverage of it on the NBC coverage, and couldn’t find anything.
At least there was the computer!
I actually missed watching a few Olympics because of the human interest stories preceding every darn event. "Joe Blow is playing this Olympics for his second cousin twice-removed who went to the hospital for a torn hangnail." Then they'd show a scene of Joe weeping over his cousin's dreadful torn hangnail. That got tired real quick, and I figured out that they were doing it for the female audience.
You are so correct. We were just talking about this the other night. ABC had far superior coverage. Roone Arledge knew how to broadcast an Olympics.
I especially loved watching EVERYONE receiving their medals during the awards ceremony, not just the Gold Medal winners. On the big events they used to show the winners walking into the arena, having the metals placed around their necks and having the announcer say each of their names.
It's interesting that this comment is coming from Al Michaels,(whom I adore). He was a part of that old ABC team., remember, "do you believe in miracles!"
I so agree with you! There is plenty of Olympics coverage on other channels, but I’m just so taken with the behind the scenes stories, and not just the Americans. I love watching.
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.
Sounds like here. Bummer for me is there is some home network glitch.
Our PC systems are the same in most of the important respects but NBC live stream cuts out on hers at random off and on. Mine holds fine. She is hooked on laff a lhmpics and has to watch every thing that is streamed or aired.
I careth not at all for any of it and don’t think I ever did.
It’s not 90% sports, it’s maybe 25% sports, the rest is yabbering. Even when they’re showing the sports they’re doing it stupid with that “as if live” thing that makes them show lots of stuff that didn’t matter, and they know it didn’t matter cause the game already happened. Highlight package. Or at least hire some guys from the NFL channel that do the Replay, they know how to condense a 3 hour game into an hour in a way that maintains a solid narrative, skips the stuff that didn’t matter AND adds in some insight using the post game interviews.
Can’t figure these guys out. They will show “hours” of 1500m swim prelims and ignore medal events in other sports that are running simultaneously
Well, London IS 8 hours ahead of us (Pacific).
When you were watching last night, it was probably 5AM in London. Everybody is still in bed.
Of course you got a tape delay.
Doesn’t excuse NBC from not coming on at 4AM east coast time (7AM west coast) to show it to you live, though. Or are they doing that...I don’t know.
NBC is owned by Comcast, the most vile, greed driven company on the planet, like a true dictator, Comcast feels they know what’s best for it’s customers; however, Comcast knows very little, it’s why they are tucked in at night by Obama himself! Comcast is an upside down pyramid, and I hope for the sake of it’s customers, it is pushed over by the competition!
This female viewer is torqued off because there was only about 5 minutes of coverage of equestrian events.
Ahhh you are missing the point. When they left for commercial break the score was like 9-6 when they came back from commercial break the score was like 17-11 They didn't show 13 scores AND THEY WERE ON TAPE DELAY! If they were live I could understand it. THEY WERE ON TAPE DELAY. That means they could have shown the points scored they just didn't want to. They wanted to instead tell me stories. I want to watch the sports if I wanted to listen to gossip I would watch the freaking "WE" channel.
If you have an “On Demand” feature on your TV, try that. We wanted to see more of the fencing competition, so I went to On Demand, and lo and behold! The entire competition (so far) was right there! NO commercials!
Best,
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