The article makes a good point that cable-cutters have to do some extra work. Another separate issue is that MSNBC's (or the General Electric News Network, as I call them) really did a poor job on the coverage. I thought that a few of the announcers were consciously dissing on non-USA athletes. Isn't the Olympics supposed to be about good will and respect for athletes from around the world? Another issue was in the c…
Agreed - As someone who got rid of cable and even ditched the OTA antenna (in the US), I couldn't watch any live coverage.
Since the news broadcasts (which are plentiful for cord-cutters) left the actual event-centric coverage to the NBC streams, most of the coverage I saw was of non-event specific news, primarily negative.