Why only show 1 quarter of the Australian mens basketball match, yet almost the entire dream team game?

Question

We're in Australia, not America. Show the games involving our athletes.

Answer 1

Because channel 7 are terrible at showing the olympics. This is the worst they have done in a long time.  

Answer 2

it seems like it would make sence to broadcast the whole game in australia. i dont know why they would do that.

Answer 3

Yes why only show the 3rd quarter of the Mens Basketball Match and tell us the score as well and don't see any more of the game. But then show the dream team game, which they should be called the USA basketball team. Channel 7 only show it for the rating because the dream team are good side and have super stars in it. Yet australia has one big super star in the team but that doesn't matter. Australia people like to watch sport with Austalian playing in it.

Answer 4

Which quarter of the Australia game did they show?  They were getting crushed by Croatia.

Answer 5

Thats stupid.I don't know why they wouldn't show the Australian team's games in Australia.

Answer 6

Because the Boomer suxs, it is a waste of time watching they play anyway.

The dream team rules man, it is more entertaining than the Boomers, so of course they would televised the Dream Team rather than the Boomers.

What p**s me off is that people stayed up to watch the Dream Team but Channel 7 have Ads in every timeout they called.

The time for ads is actually longer than the actual play they showed, which suxs.

Show us more USA games, and less ads.  

Answer 7

It's c**p, you wait up to see the game until after midnight,only to be shown very little. I wonder if they showed all the Australian game in the USA, not even a chance. Get it right 7 or are you going to wreck it like the footy.  

Answer 8

Guess nobody like Australia j/k I'm really not sure but i would also be mad if i were you.

Answer 9

http://www.nbcolympics.com/basketball/re...

go to that link if u want to watch the Australian game. you will need to download microsoft silverlight and you can watch the whole game for free with no commercials

kind of weird that they showed the usa game instead of australian

Answer 10

Man that is wierd.  I would think it would depend on which network you used to view the games.  It doesn't make any sense whatsoever that an Australian network wouldn't have full coverage of your national team.  Make sure your using one of your local channels and not one of the larger media outlets like the BBC,MSNBC etc that are just going to show the most popular sporting events.