Comments on: #NBCFail: spoilers feed prime time, ‘silent majority’ happy, NBC says

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 20:39:16 +0000

““No one’s ever done this much simultaneous live streaming before.”

“There are so many events going on, you physically cannot do everything live.”

Ummm…. no. There are 24 dedicated BBC Olympics channels in the UK (48 if you want to count both the SD & HD channels seperately). Also, the BBC are streaming every event live on their website.

We don’t have any ad breaks either. But that’s a whole other thing…

By: TonyP

TonyP — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 19:59:27 +0000

*COUGH* BBC operates under a government charter and is funded through a mandatory television license fee.

Perhaps you’d like to pay an additional yearly fee to the US government to get the same kind of coverage?

By: Matthew Scott

Matthew Scott — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 03:13:21 +0000

thats just utterly ludicrous.

By: Stephen O'Connor

Stephen O'Connor — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 04:45:29 +0000

I can not believe what I DIDN’T see tonight (and I am not staying up till 1am in the hope I might see a snap replay), not a single mention of the women’s 10,000m final (the Ethiopian Dibaba defended her title from Beijing and is a living legend), nothing from the early rounds of the 400m, nothing from the velodrome….this is getting beyond a joke. Interview with a snowboarder, the life story of every american swimmer and gymnast, but not even the last lap of the 10,000m What is going on! I have lived in and watched the Olympics in Ireland (’80, ’84), in Swaziland, yes, Swaziland (’88 and ’92), the UK in 2000 and 2008, I attended Athens in person in 2004 and was in the US working a summer in ’96, and I have never seen worse coverage. Even from a US perspective it is pathetic. If you live in Swaziland you will see (and enjoy) Michael Phelps, Gabby Douglas and the other US athletes, no doubt, but if you are here…..the other night in women’s team gymnastic final the camera would stay on the US team even if they were sitting aorund doing nothing, just waiting their turn. Oh, and when I was here in 1996, well I struggled to get any news at all, in rural Penn it was like it wasn’t even happening. Sorry, you guys and particularly Mr. Gunts just don’t get it. I have heard many many people here in the US complaining that they just don’t feel they are getting a feeling for what is going on over there in London, and that’s coming from people who are of course most interested in the US team…… Pathetic. As for Mr. Gunts’ comments about ‘ratings’….what, does he think we are dumb, if you control what people see and they have NO CHOICE you hold the cards and of course your ratings will be high…..I thought freedom of choice and variety were the american way!
I have never, ever not seen the 100m final live…..it is one of those true shared experiences the whole world enjoys, why are you keeping the US isolated from the rest fo the world? It is live in the afternoon on a Sunday. Wake up people.

By: Vasken Hauri

Vasken Hauri — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 19:22:42 +0000

Back in 2008 I was watching the 3-hour delayed feed from the West Coast, when it was interrupted by a real-time feed of Phelps popping out of the water AFTER winning his record-setting medal. Needless to say, I had no interest in watching the delayed full version 3 hours later.

By: John Doe

John Doe — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 00:40:42 +0000

The “silent majority” is silent because they have little (zero) choice in what NBC feeds them by way of coverage.

Those who have the ability/knowledge to see the quality of expansive coverage offered by the BBC (and even the CBC) know how monumentally pathetic NBC’s coverage is by comparison.

By: AntiSlice

AntiSlice — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 23:28:46 +0000

“Their” is a generally accepted gender-neutral pronoun to use these days. Would you prefer “his/her”, “hir”, “zir”, “one’s”?

“[H]ave one’s point of view” is not that bad, actually.

By: A S

A S — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:19:48 +0000

If you have spent any time online, you know that the silent majority of people on the Internet are lurkers. They don’t usually speak up. But that doesn’t mean they are all happy and satisfied. They do leave, in hordes, when they find a better choice. They make their choices heard with deafening silence of departure. Ask Digg.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 20:00:49 +0000

Truthfully, I doubt they will ever be live as they don’t know what the word live means. Especially if you’re like me out on the West Coast. Where NBC always screws us.

By: Jeff Putz

Jeff Putz — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 19:46:36 +0000

They’re still “using their clickers” because they don’t have any choice. NBC has everything so locked down that if you want to watch, you have to do it the way they want you to. It’s like being in a remote town with one pizza shop when you want a pizza. What else are you going to do?