Not to mention that NBC not showing the proper flag for Taiwan as they reached third place overall gold medals.
I’ve got better things to do than to watch state-sponsored selective narratives.
Why does NBC make it so difficult to watch the Olympics?
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#12As the last person in America with an antenna, I will note that their broadcast coverage is pretty much exactly what it has always been through the years. You turn it on and watch it.
The OTA broadcast is fine if you want to watch exactly what they want to show. But there’s tons of other, arguably more interesting, events as well.
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#13Best experience watching the Olympics: a hotel lobby in England. Complete coverage, no chatter, no delays, and no commercials.
My coach was saying she preferred the tell-it-like-it-is British commentary ("That's a devastating defeat for the xxx who has been improving and really expected to place") to the candied-up American commentary ("all that work paid off for yyy")
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#14I feel like NBC took a huge step back from the Olympics app from 5 years ago. It had a good organization of sports with schedules and the ability to watch replays or live events. AFAIK, streaming-wise, Peacock is the only want to watch them this year and the interface is terrible for this. Just trying to browse what is available made me decide to skip attempting to watch the games, I was willing to subscribe to Peacock too.
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#15I've had similar frustrations to the author. We tried watching the broadcast coverage. Though I didn't time it, it felt like 60% advertising. This sounds hyperbolic, but it was really blocks of ads interspersed with highlights of events and (awful) commentary the majority of the time, and then occasional full events focused on very specific sports (swimming and gymnastics). I was shocked by how bad it was. So, wantin…
Honestly I cannot agree more. NBC is garbage and the olympics should be the one event in the world that is all access and all rights.
I cannot even find a video recap of the Tunisian swimmer winning.
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#16It's especially difficult to watch without paying. Over the air (or locast) is about the only option but that only provides highlights or coverage of shorter events. No broadcasting of football. There was supposed to be a free tier on Peacock but everything I've seen, outside of 2-4 minute clips, requires Peacock Premium.
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#17In Australia we have the 7Plus, or 7+, app which works with Android TV and allows you to choose from various sports that are currently live, plus replays.
The app requires sign in via email address, which normally would turn me away, but it's worth it to burn a throw away email address for the sake of the Olympics.
There's probably a geofence, butt if you can get an Australian exit node VPN then give it a bash.
These sports have been converted so far:
3x3 Basketball (great energy!) Table Tennis Badminton Rowing Skateboarding Gymnastics Swimming Equestrian Soccer Hockey Basketball Softball Handball Volleyball Tennis Water Polo
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#18sports is all wrapped up in exclusive contracts brokered by these media guys who are all buddies. you wanna watch international sports you gotta get a euro VPN because in the USA our rich power brokers dont care about most sport.
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#19Just let me send you $20 for an Olympics "pass" and give me access to multiple streams so I can pick which events to watch — without commercials.
Is that bad business?
Because I'm afraid I am sitting out the Olympics this year. :-(
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#20If you're good enough at blocking competition, it doesn't matter how poorly you do the actual job. The "AT&T" philosophy. Last Olympics I paid any attention to was because I had a C band satellite dish and could browse the backhauls and unattended camera feeds. Must have been '96 in Atlanta.
The "competition" isn't other broadcasts of Olympics. It's netflix, xbox, twitter and other sports options. It definitely does matter how well they do their actual job, and right now they're failing.