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Greg Storey wrote recently on Airbag about the disaster that is NBC’s Olympic coverage. There are any number of problems with their coverage. The special features replacing such other content as events, time trials and more events. The incessant commercial breaks. Bob & Katie. Did I mention the lack of events?
Nestled where I am, just west of the sweet bosom of Windsor, Canada, I have the particular joy of Canada’s CBC broadcast. In a half hour period I can expect one — maybe two — events on NBC. Over on the CBC, it’s constant athletics. NBC was all about the USA vs. Puerto Rico basketball game, CBC was broadcasting the Men’s 200m Swimming time trials with the lane 3/lane 4 competition between Michael Phelps and Ian Thorpe.
Without the CBC I don’t know if I’d even like to watch the Olympics. Here’s to the day when international sports aren’t for sale to the highest bidder and we can all enjoy as we’d like to.
1 → Darice de Cuba – (Aug 15 2004, 2:44 PM)
Here in Holland we get to see only the highlights of the day. I remember back in Sidney 2000 I would wake up at 6am to see a match and they wouldn’t show it. They should set up special olympic channels with 24/7 broadcast.
3 → Dan – (Aug 15 2004, 4:01 PM)
CBC has been my savior for 8 years now—ever since the olympics left the US. NBC just doesn’t cut it, even though its on a ton of channels (I must say that so far Bravo has had the best coverage—doubles badminton? wow.)
4 → Shane Cavanaugh – (Aug 15 2004, 6:19 PM)
It’s funny how Canadia snuck up on us unsuspecting United Statesians and became the cooler country in so many ways.
5 → Tom Szynwelski – (Aug 16 2004, 10:29 PM)
I’ve been a great fan of CBC Olympic coverage since the days of the Lillehammer Olympics and find myself flipping to channel 99 every morning over my cereal. However you must give NBC some credit by using their cable stations to broadcast the best thing about the Olympics, the sports you won’t see/care about until four years from now (i.e. table tennis, hockey, sailing).
6 → Hols – (Aug 17 2004, 11:52 PM)
I agree that NBC’s Olympic coverage does leave something to be desired, especially the utterly inane commentaries accompanying most all events, but I will give NBC credit for providing better coverage than that of the Sydney games. For those of us enjoying the uselessness of hundreds of cable channels, NBC is showing the less popular events but equally enthralling events on CNBC and Bravo. Granted all the good equestrian events come on at 5am, but that’s what taping is for.
And just for the record, Michael Phelps is the most awkwardly built man on the face of the planet.
7 → Roz – (Aug 18 2004, 4:20 AM)
As I have moved to China, the olympic coverage is much different this year than it has been for past games. I get to see most of the typical American-covered sports, but also random ones like badminton, fencing, archery, shooting, and table tennis. It kind of rocks. Except for not being able to understand anything that’s said, as I don’t speak Chinese. But I suppose you can’t win them all.
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