Do you agree this is the worst U.S.A. coverage of Olympics?

Question

Everything is poor; camera angles, commentary, events, background of athletes, and a very poor feeling generated by NBC. Was there little to no budget for this?

Answer 1

Well the worst is yet to come.  If timezone is to blame for the awful coverage,  imagine the 2012 London games where our afternoon = USA's midnight, and London's night games (after 8pm) is about 3-5am in the morning.

Answer 2

no, but i do think that is a hassle trying to find out what channel an event will be on, on a particular day

Answer 3

I Agree

Answer 4

YES I AGREE!

mmm...the camera angles really bugged me!!!  They keep getting things slightly off the screen!!!

Oh and the commentary, I was thinking...COME OM JUST SHUT UP YOU DON'T NO WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT!!!

ya...wasn't happy

Answer 5

i would say a BIG yes b/c nbc didnt show the full event. they just showed a little bit of the event. they would cut to another sport event. i sure hope fox gets the chance to air the 2012 summer games, or more tv networks like fox/espn/espn2/abc/cbs/cnbc/fx and usa network

Answer 6

I agree. And the commentaters were so so annoying and always giving things away since they knew the outcome and had watched it before commenting on it in the tape delayed televising. Like one of the worst comments was during a gymnastics event when the guy fell but the commentator was like "later when he does the xyz (bars or whatever the other event was) he will redeem himself and do this and that" I was like shut up already, don't show off that you've watched it and rub it in that it's tape delayed. It was so annoying to get that type of commentary, especially on the diving, they kept saying how they were going to dive before they even jumped off the board. I had it on mute more than once to shut them up. Or when we're trying to watch a dive or like one of the floor gymnastic events, there will always be one commentator who will just not shut up, saying the tiniest thing like he was doing this or that wrong when I'm trying to concentrate on what the gymnast was doing but couldn't put it on mute cuz then their music gets muted out too for their number. Urghhhh sock it commentators.

Also I thought it was retarded how the US had so many really old athletes that did very poor, as if they had connections or something to compete. Like the female US diver who came in last place and made the hugest splashes on every one of her dives and looked like she was almost 40,  and got beat by the 15 year old Chinese who scored 10's - during the interview she said she wouldn't have done anything different and all this garbage - I bet the US had way better divers but I could tell she was the selfish type to have one more shot to be in the Olympics. I don't think other countries would tolerate that.

Also in the past they aired it round the clock, and this time it was only early morning or late evening with the regular c**p network programs in between. I didn't get the Olympic feel this time around. And I agree the camera angles were very strange and awkward as if done by amateurs who were outsourced from villages who had never handled a camera before lol. Hey they're in China where everything else gets outsourced to, why not the Olympics too. Where does the billions and billions of dollars the Olympics make from selling television rights, get spent? I have no friggin idea whose pocketing the money and showing no returns for it. Plus all the scores were biased in favor of the Chinese athletes in every event to the point it got ridiculous. The only highlight was when the brave wrestler threw his medal on the ground - that summed everything up nicely I thought!

Answer 7

Without a doubt, it was almost non existent. I have never seen such biased coverage.

Answer 8

i do not think so. Because direct tv had 5 channels for the Olympics and you really did not miss and event. Most of them were replays because we are usually sleeping when it is going on.

Answer 9

NBC and DirecTV made an amazing team to make the DirecTV customers happy!

I had this cool special olympic menu that kept me up to date with the events, medals and Trivia! I saw almost every event, international games as well, thanks to DirecTV. And I had the choice to listen to commenting from China for International viewers (so that it was not biased).

The commenting was semi-decent depending on the person. I liked the coverage in general.

Answer 10

I mostly avoided the prime-time "wrap-up" show, unless they were cutting to live events.

The morning and afternoon coverage on the cable channels was excellent, though, because the focus was on events and not all the clutter, with a selection of things that are not necessarily popular in the U.S.

The boxing coverage stood out, especially the commentary and collection of fight replays with clearly showed the corruption scandal that tarnished the event.

Answer 11

I missed like every thing because of the time difference!

Answer 12

I felt Korea was worse, not that Atlanta was better. The nationalism was wretched

Answer 13

Idk. I haven't watched any of the events at all.

Answer 14

No I thought the coverage was great. I you saw any of the diving, the camera angles where incredible. I have enjoyed watching every night. I would set the DVR to record and then start watch about an hour after the games began to by pass the commercials. other than that we had a great time. Sorry you didn't enjoy it more.

all though I will say the first time I saw the commercal of the guy hitting the old ladys green car I thought it was funny, but after the 150th time of seeing it. Even on DVR I wanted to take that purse and hit her up side the head.  

Answer 15

No, not the worst.

But neither was it the best.

The advantage of website replays has added greatly to the coverage. I think that is going in the right directions.

Yet I know that they have the potential and are capable of doing better.  Give'm a Silver at best but likely a Bronze.

Still happy with what I got, just more would have been better.

Answer 16

Definitely. I watched CCTV in China and then I came to the US. BIG difference and not for the better! I mean come on!

the commentators don't know what they're talking about and are mostly just distracting hindrances,

NBC doesn't bother showing sports that the US isn't good at, only ones that lots of people watch,

And practically nothing is live!

Pushing back opening and closing ceremonies to make more money? I think it would be much handier if we could just watch it at 8 AM instead of staying up till 2 AM.

The whole point apparently of covering the Olympics is not, as we thought, so we can watch brilliant athletes, but so that NBC can make money. what a shame.

If the media coverage is to be believed, the dream from "One world, one dream" is wealth. now really?

Answer 17

everyones just bein g*y and focusing on michael phelps

they did good for the camera for phelps

Answer 18

I think it depends on what kind of cable or satellite provider you have. I have cable with the HD channels and I got great coverage. These were the channels where I live. We have Time Warner with HD.

NBC: Ch. 13

NBC HD: Ch. 1441

USA: Ch. 39

USA HD: Ch. 1039 & 1445

CNBC: Ch. 29

MSNBC: Ch. 28

Oxygen: Ch. 73

Universal HD: Ch. 1046 & 1506

The NBC Olympic Basketball Channel (HD): Ch. 1444

Olympics Soccer HD: Ch. 1443  

Answer 19

WHAT??? This one was great! But to be honest, maybe I do like the Athens Olympics (2004) just a tad bit better. I think the coverage was geat though

Answer 20

It was the worse.

Answer 21

yeah it was. they didnt show the whole event. they always broke away from the event to show another event and they said coming up next and it would really be in a few hrs