CANADIANS - Are you watching the Olympic coverage on NBC or CBC? Which do you think is better?

Question

This question pertains only to Canadians.

Answer 1

CBC for sure it shows live events majority of the time, and the website is cool you can watch 5 diff sports with the different streams

Answer 2

CBC...

They're less biased than NBC is...

Now if only the CBC would be less biased toward the Leafs when it's hockey season... A Leafs player could Bertuzzi someone and it's a clean hit... If a Leafs player falls for any reason, than it's a 'cheap shot'...

Answer 3

Well, I'm not Canadian but I'm going to answer anyway. Where I live, I get CBC and I found it to be very fair and unbiased. I like Ron McLean "Hockey Night in Canada."  I'm glad I can get CBC because I can see athletes from countries that the US ignores. And usually CBC has the coverage, at least the same "live" coverage that NBC shows a few minutes earlier so I can surprise everyone with my Olympic predictions.

Answer 4

Surprisingly, I find that the CBC coverage is much better.  I've done a lot of comparing the last week and I find that the CBC coverage focuses more on the positive stories while NBC likes to stir up controversy.  There was a particular swim race I remember last week that i watched on NBC and the announcers were going on about of one of the female swimmers is now dating a former swimmers boyfriend.  Both ladies were in this race and it just seemed that NBC was just looking for a storyline.  Also NBC only has the live broadcast from 10:00 AM to 100 PM  and a few hours at night which is really pitiful for such a major station.  CBC and TSN have combined to have almost 12 hours of live sports for the entire olympics.  The only thing NBC is dominating in is commercials, they have a lot better ones than in Canada :)