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Why does NBC make it so difficult to watch the Olympics?
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#272Earlier quoted context omitted.
nbc's website has both of those, thats what i've been using anyway
It is not clear to me that even paying for the online streaming option gives you the ability to watch any Olympic event at any time. I assume NBC does not want to give away everything online without a subscription to a cable/satellite TV provider, hence the obfuscation. https://www.peacocktv.com/sports/olympics > Can I watch the entire Tokyo Olympics on Peacock, including Opening and Closing Ceremonies? >Peacock will…
>> Can I watch the entire Tokyo Olympics on Peacock, including Opening and Closing Ceremonies?
No. Between Peacock and the NBC "family" of channels (NBC, USA, NBCSN), I can see a fair amount. That included the opening ceremony live and repeated in prime time.
Peacock does not have everything. It also has a screwed up schedule. (For example, looking for the replay of the women's cycling road race, it says it was earlier today, 26 July, when it was actually yesterday.)
Even worse, when watching a "replay" of an event, it will switch to something else. (I was watching a replay of the Japan-USA women's water polo match and it switched over to softball, twice.)
Peacock did have good Tour de France coverage; so, they know how to do some things right. I don't know why they dropped the ball on the Olympics.
Re: Why does NBC make it so difficult to watch the Olympics?
#273Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have signed into the "NBC Sports" app on Roku with my basic package Dish Network credentials, and that allows me to view any event live or on replay. This is in USA. I'm not sure what else we expect NBC to do here. I have watched canoeing, cycling, rugby, equestrian, TKD, sailing, etc. Of course their headline/primetime coverage is shit and doesn't know sports other than swimming and gymnastics exist. They have the…
Dude that is what I find the most annoying. Like, there is equestrian competitors, bike races, all kinds of crazy stuff. Nope. Swimming and gymnastics. And for winter it is 80% Figure skating with a dash of ski and snowboard.
Have you changed the channel? USA Network and NBC Sports network are 24x7 obscure Olympics, as is CNBC nights and weekends. Judo, women's weightlifting, the men's bike road race, badminton, ping pong, handball...
Re: Why does NBC make it so difficult to watch the Olympics?
#274Re: Why does NBC make it so difficult to watch the Olympics?
#275You 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…
Advertising ruins everything.
Lol, advertising is the only reason the Olympics are even possible to exist
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#276If you have cable TV, you can watch everything at nbcolympics.com/schedule so it’s actually quite accessible. I believe you can watch 30 minutes of content without signing in using your cable account. Also, the author is wrong. NBC broadcast the opening ceremonies at 7am [0]. The author must have seen a rebroadcast. [0] https://sports.nbcsports.com/2021/07/23/when-do-the-tokyo-ol...
I don't know if it's available outside the country. But the CBC is streaming everything online, no login required.
They have streams with commentary for the major events that they are televising but you can also watch the raw international streams with no commentary for everything else.
The streams are recorded and available at any time too.
If it's available in the US, or you have a VPN, I'd look into that.
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#277Earlier quoted context omitted.
ATT is not comparable to NBC. ATT has a structural monopoly, without which society cannot communicate. NBC is a glorified ad broker, and they could fall off the face of the earth and no one would notice. Of course, they are owned by Comcast, who is in similar position as ATT, so I assume Comcast is just milking these legacy companies for all they are worth. My solution is to simply not watch. If consuming entertainme…
Problem is there are enough millions of people satisfied with this delivery, that NBC will make enough money and keep their anti-competitive monopoly. Quite a lot of the content is only available with their Peacock app. Free if you have Comcast/Xfinity, but still ads. If you pay maybe you also get ads, not sure. But the app is terribly slow, next to unusable. Click navigation buttons on the remote and its multiple se…
uBLock Origin appears to work to make Peacock usable by blocking all the ads. I do recall that initially I had to do some extra blocking because they had a way around it but now uBlock appears to just work out of the box.
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#278Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, and my experience with the <10 minute clips I did try to watch on Peacock turned me off from the service and the games in general.
It really is a mess. I subscribed to Peacock to watch the Tour de France and planned to the cancel when it was finished. The TdF coverage was good, so I decided I would keep the subscription to watch Olympic events. I wanted to watch USWNT last Saturday morning so I startup Peacock and find out it is not available on Peacock. I do some googling and find out it is on NBC Sports Network. I install NBCSN app and discove…
This cool invention called "cable tv" would have let you watch the entire Tour and women's soccer and you wouldn't even have to download any apps!
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#279Who cares about the olympics? Seriously, who is watching this? Who is the target market?
Lot's of people. Just because you may not care about sports doesnt mean massive amounts of people around the world don't. Several countries will win their first gold this year. That's a national achievement. Several sports will be included for the first time this year. That is a whole set of people who get to see their favorite hobby included in the games. Many new world records will be set which is an example of tec…
Worth $20 billion though? with what will end up being completely wasted resources/buildings etc by August? No olympic venue has actually done any where near the amount of good and improvement to a city anywhere near the cost.
Re: Why does NBC make it so difficult to watch the Olympics?
#280Earlier quoted context omitted.
Lot's of people. Just because you may not care about sports doesnt mean massive amounts of people around the world don't. Several countries will win their first gold this year. That's a national achievement. Several sports will be included for the first time this year. That is a whole set of people who get to see their favorite hobby included in the games. Many new world records will be set which is an example of tec…
Worth $20 billion though? with what will end up being completely wasted resources/buildings etc by August? No olympic venue has actually done any where near the amount of good and improvement to a city anywhere near the cost.
Sure. Could we spend that $20 billion better every four years? Absolutely. Would we? Not a chance.