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As 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.
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In my view, if a tech-savvy person putting significant effort in still can't find a way to view the coverage, even if they have a subscription, NBC is doing a poor job.
Searching for an app that lots of people already have installed doesn't seem like "significant effort" to me. If people don't want help or advice with this I don't see the point of this thread.
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I suspect it would cost more than $20 to bypass the ads
Even at an inflated rate of $50 per 1000 impressions (which is higher than most broadcast TV charges), $20 should let you bypass 400 commercials. It doesn't seem unreasonable to me.
'Just pay 100 merits to skip..Oh you've used all your skips this hour.'
Beeeeeeeeep 'Resume viewing, resume viewing.
So they have that to deal with. But that doesn't excuse the ridiculous amount of zoom calls from D-league commentators and celebrities who waste valuable time that could have been used to show events to instead gush incoherently about "what the Olympics mean to me."
Really, nobody cares. And if they did care, we have social media for them to express their opinions.
You must be a youngster. NBC has been fucking up the Olympics broadcasts since they started back in 1988. They've always been overly USA-centric, they refuse to air the broadcasts when the events happen, insisting on time shifting everything, and loading so many commercials into the thing, it is impossible to watch. I pretty much quit watching 3 or 4 olympics ago. Today, as I tune through the channels, I always see t…
All I want to enjoy the olympics is a schedule of events in my local time and the ability to watch said events LIVE if I choose to. I tried searching for this when the olympics started and I gave up entirely. Is there any ability to get this?
Just 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. :-(
Doesn't the NBC Sports app give you pretty much what you are asking for?
https://www.nbcsports.com/live
It also mentions Peacock, so I would be confused where to go.
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I suspect it would cost more than $20 to bypass the ads
Even at an inflated rate of $50 per 1000 impressions (which is higher than most broadcast TV charges), $20 should let you bypass 400 commercials. It doesn't seem unreasonable to me.
So one day of watching?
A regular one-hour-long TV show has about 4 commercial breaks, each with about 10 commercials, so that's 40 commercials an hour. If one was really into the Olympics, they might have their TV on for at least 10 hours during the day (while sometimes doing other tasks). 10 hours * 40 comercials an hour = 400 commercials a day.
Sports broadcasts usually have more commercial breaks of shorter varrying lengths, but I'd estimate it averages the same, if not a higher commercial count per hour.
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> “Has become”? That’s international standard until Taiwan truly declares independence. Quote Wikipedia: If Taiwan does declare independence, the PRC will start a war over it about 5 minutes later. Or at least there's a high enough chance of a bloody, crippling (for Taiwan) war that a declaration would be foolish, even if it's what Taiwan really wants. Citing one of the many compromises made because of that fact does…
China might be tougher recently but the this compromise was made years ago when China was weak and poor. In any way it’s a complicated 40+ years matter that has nothing to do with what China does recently.
The PRC has been poor, but it's never been weak. Remember: it fought the US and its allies to a standstill in the 50s.
And this "compromise" was made when China was on the upswing and was beginning to have the ability to force the international isolation of Taiwan.