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Why does NBC make it so difficult to watch the Olympics?

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Re: Why does NBC make it so difficult to watch the Olympics?

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Post by listenallyall »

cmurf wrote: post #218
lotsofpulp wrote: post #71

Earlier 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…

The Olympics are the monopoly. They are the ones who auction off U.S. television rights to a single entity. NBC is simply the company which won that auction.

I'm curious what you think NBC is doing wrong here. Should they call up CBS and offer to share the coverage that it just spent hundreds of millions for? Should it invite randos to Tokyo with their iPhones to stream the games on Twitch? Should it just make the entire Olympics pay-per-view?

As always, if you don't like it, start your own world-wide athletic contest.

Re: Why does NBC make it so difficult to watch the Olympics?

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Post by listenallyall »

TchoBeer wrote: post #288
listenallyall wrote: post #278

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

Cable TV doesn't play every event: it can't, they overlap

Who said it did? He mentioned the Tour de France, and US Women's Soccer. Both extensively covered.

However... if he did have a cable subscription, he could have logged into the NBC Sports Network's app and not be stuck with a 30 minute limit. That app seems to have just about everything -- you want 5+ hours of preliminary badminton matches? They've got you. Want Serbia vs Kazakhstan water polo? Done. Can't wait for the archery finals? The entire round of 64 is live streaming.

Re: Why does NBC make it so difficult to watch the Olympics?

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Post by listenallyall »

matheusmoreira wrote: post #285
listenallyall wrote: post #275

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lol, advertising is the only reason the Olympics are even possible to exist

Then it should stop existing.

Don't you think that's a bit selfish... to suggest eliminating the opportunity for thousands of athletes to fulfill a lifelong dream, just because you personally don't approve of advertising?

Re: Why does NBC make it so difficult to watch the Olympics?

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Post by brokenmachine »

matheusmoreira wrote: post #73
JKCalhoun wrote: post #19

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. :-(

Paying $20 to watch something that should be freely viewable anyway just makes advertisers pay even more to get your attention. They won't ever go away until advertising literally becomes illegal.

Feel free to not watch. Fortunately that's not illegal, yet.

Re: Why does NBC make it so difficult to watch the Olympics?

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Post by brokenmachine »

BLKNSLVR wrote: post #17

In 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…

Is it crappy 25fps progressive scan like most of those streaming apps?

I just can't bear to watch sports at 25fps, it's like watching a slideshow.

Re: Why does NBC make it so difficult to watch the Olympics?

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Post by sophiaaaa »

listenallyall wrote: post #291
cmurf wrote: post #218

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

The Olympics are the monopoly. They are the ones who auction off U.S. television rights to a single entity. NBC is simply the company which won that auction. I'm curious what you think NBC is doing wrong here. Should they call up CBS and offer to share the coverage that it just spent hundreds of millions for? Should it invite randos to Tokyo with their iPhones to stream the games on Twitch? Should it just make the en…

That’s not the point BEFORE we used to be able to see All the Countries complete not just the USA NBC has done a shit job at showing all athlete and only show the “popular” sports who win medals. Did you know that in the Tokyo this year in Germany’s Women’s gymnastics wore shorts instead of leotards, NO All they Showed you in “prime time television” was Simone Bilies this Simone that, and then every so often they show Russia who ended up doing better then the usa

I don’t know about you but it literally sucks that so many of these athletes work hard and because they didn’t place in medals or are not a favorite sport you have to try and stream on peakcock which has been down since the 1st day of the Olympics

Literally during the 1500m swim race while lidecky was racing for gold they aird commercials in the middle of a meddling race and gave some stupid story on how all the miles she swam in her life she could swim from Dc to Tokyo like they ruin the fact that it’s about the worlds sports and show casing everyone’s hard work not cutting out what they think is unimportant

Also they sport commentators literally sound bored

People have the right to be up set who are you to shit on them

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Post by WhyNotHugo »

afavour wrote: post #130
WhyNotHugo wrote: post #125

Given that the event is in Japan, I'm curious why someone would hire a US-based service to stream it rather than just a Japanese based one. Actually, I'm surprised the Olympics themselves don't have a direct subscription for streaming the entire event where people can sign up and stream it. I'm under the impression that the event is designed for the PHYSICAL audience first, and streaming it is kind of a poorly though…

> Actually, I'm surprised the Olympics themselves don't have a direct subscription for streaming the entire event NBC (and other networks around the world) pay incredible amounts of money for those rights. And the arrangement makes sense for both parties: NBC can use it to boost viewing figures of their own shows in a way the Olympics couldn't/wouldn't. And they have surfaces to advertise coverage that the Olympics d…

These things never cease to amaze me. Basically NBC can buy the rights so that people can't just go and buy the stream from the source, but *must* go through this middleman.

Image if you could buy the rights to bread, and anyone wanting to sell/buy bread *must* go through you.

I honestly can't fathom how we'd decayed into societies that allows this kind of nonsense.

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Post by WhyNotHugo »

bananapub wrote: post #144
WhyNotHugo wrote: post #125

Given that the event is in Japan, I'm curious why someone would hire a US-based service to stream it rather than just a Japanese based one. Actually, I'm surprised the Olympics themselves don't have a direct subscription for streaming the entire event where people can sign up and stream it. I'm under the impression that the event is designed for the PHYSICAL audience first, and streaming it is kind of a poorly though…

? because the IOC prints money every four years by selling geo-restricted rights in every country in the world.

Do they really raise more money by selling to a middleman rather than to consumers directly?

Re: Why does NBC make it so difficult to watch the Olympics?

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Post by drewber »

To start with nbc is a bunch of leftists. So, to start, it never shows any shooting sports on TV. NBC announced this anti-gun move years ago. So, when there was no streaming, there was no shooting to be found. Second, because they are leftists, they push coverage of more interesting sports to show endless women’s soccer. I know soccer gets more popular in the US each year. But, women’s soccer is not a sport the majority of people want to watch, especially since so many on the team hate the US.
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