I don't know about you, but I stopped really caring about the Summer Olympics when the Dream Team fell apart. It is long, often boring and flooded with too much commentary. SHUT UP! I just want to watch the athletes do their thing!Well it turns out I must be the only one complaining, because NBC plans on covering 3,600 hours of Summer Games across multiple networks. That is literally 150 days of continuous coverage. Five months of non-stop Olympic action. Almost half a freakin' year of Olympics? That may be a bit too much.
I understand that the 2008 Beijing Games are going to be groundbreaking and exciting, but 3,600 hours sounds like overkill. In contrast, NBC only gave the 2004 Athens Olympics 1,210 hours of coverage and only a bit over 400 for the Sydney Games in 2000. It seems like the less people are interested in the Olympics, the more NBC is willing to shove down our throat.
In addition to the 2,200 hours of steaming online content, NBC will be broadcasting on USA, MSNBC, CNBC and Telemundo for you Español hablo-ers out there -- see I'm cultured. So out of 3,600 hours, how many will you be watching?
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8-07-2007 @ 3:28PM
Fuzzy said...
Honestly, I think the only reason there were so few hours of coverage for the Sydney games is because they were so many time zones away. I mean, honestly, how many people are going to stay up to watch the Olympics after Leno?
..well, I did, but that's not the point.
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8-07-2007 @ 3:52PM
Cody said...
Crap I'm gonna have to get a couple extra Tivos to hold all that data.
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8-07-2007 @ 7:07PM
stephen.boro said...
In addition to the 2,200 hours of steaming online content,
It will be hot, but I think you meant 'streaming'....
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8-07-2007 @ 4:07PM
TVGenius said...
That's going to be their problem again, that a lot of stuff will be happening while we're asleep. But they get stuck between whether to run it live when nobody's watching or delay it and let the internet and other TV networks play spoiler.
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8-07-2007 @ 4:55PM
ross said...
I too lost interest a long time ago. They're just too painful to watch. The announcers talk and talk and talk and then show us highlights of events they talked over. Like you said, "Shut Up and show us the games!!"
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8-07-2007 @ 5:38PM
Ian said...
If this means less Jim Cramer then that's good right?;)
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8-07-2007 @ 5:53PM
jds65 said...
But now you can watch the sports you actually you want to. No longer at the mercy of some network programmer who decides that everyone wants to watch the decathlon and not the shooting.
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8-07-2007 @ 4:57PM
Val said...
personally i love the Olympics! i see it as a good thing it only comes around every 4 years it should be an all encompassing thing until it ends..
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8-07-2007 @ 4:58PM
Val said...
i like the commentary too.. i like to know about the competitors i don't have digital cable that picks up Croatian water polo
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8-07-2007 @ 8:20PM
Lampbane said...
I love having so much, because it means I get to watch the sports *I* want to watch. Awesome.
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8-08-2007 @ 1:51AM
Michael said...
I agree with others here. First, it gives me an opportunity to watch exactly what I want (I love swimming, diving, and track) and I don't have to worry about NBC switching over to something I don't like, such as povolt, shotput, or something else.
Second, I agree the time zone difference is a problem. I hated it when I'd hear or read who had won something. Yahoo even made it on their homepage where you could click an option so that every time you went to their homepage, it would hide results. I can't wait for winter, though, because I'm in CA, so same time zone as Vancouver. While I actually hope to go there to watch, at least things will happen more or less in real time.
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8-09-2007 @ 11:42AM
Michael Schmitt said...
So, of the 3,600 hours of Olympic content... how many of them are dedicated to gay programming that GLADD will accept?
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