Why does NBC make it so difficult to watch the Olympics?
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Why does NBC make it so difficult to watch the Olympics?
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#2If 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.
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#3As 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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#4It'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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#5I've been watching on the "site where you can actually watch live. And they have replays… of preliminary matches" and I've found it to be really good. You can choose any sport to watch live, or to watch the compilation broadcasts that they show on TV. You can pause and rewind broadcasts. Many of the sport titles do have the competitor or country names in them. And each stream does have a button the side to view the rules of the sport.
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#6I'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, wanting to watch actual events, we paid for NBC's online service. It's an incoherent mess with login loops, and it still doesn't seem to include links to many of the full events, just the same highlight reels. It may be there, but after 20 minutes of searching we just gave up.
NBC has butchered this event.
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#7As 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.
Lol yep, it was not very difficult to tune into NBC and watch, though it was a little swimming and gymnastics heavy. I understand why, but would have preferred like 10% less, maybe just highlights from some other sports, or maybe having triathlon come on like 5 minutes earlier.
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#8Best experience watching the Olympics: a hotel lobby in England. Complete coverage, no chatter, no delays, and no commercials.
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#9Best experience watching the Olympics: a hotel lobby in England. Complete coverage, no chatter, no delays, and no commercials.
BBC have lost the rights this year, sadly. They can only show a few things and Discovery have the majority of them, so I and am pretty sure many people I know will not be watching.
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#10Best experience watching the Olympics: a hotel lobby in England. Complete coverage, no chatter, no delays, and no commercials.
International coverage is lightyears better than US.