NBC Olympics: Live Olympics TV Coverage & Schedule - Twitter Rage NBC's Olympics Coverage and Schedule, both Live TV and Taped, of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games is being slammed despite great ratings for the Peacock Network, and judging by the Twitter rage the critique of NBC is only starting.
The network which has paid about $2 Billion for the right to host Vancouver 2010 and London 2012 relies heavily on pre-taping and not showing many events Live on TV . Choosing to forgo the Live coverage in favor of taping events so that can be shown tape delayed in Prime Time has created a firestorm on sites like Twitter and Facebook
The Facebook page demands NBC provide more Live TV Coverage of the Olympics in its TV Schedule.
Viewers living on the west coast are particularly hit hard because Vancouver is in the Pacific Time Zone events are long over, medals handed out by the time NBC chooses to broadcast those events in Prime Time. NBC says it is losing money perhaps $200 million on the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games. Now it seems NBC is losing Olympic fans who are more interested in following the Olympics as the Games unfold instead of searching the internet using terms like NBC Olympic Coverage, or NBC TV Schedule, or NBC Live Coverage just find out when to catch their favorite event live on television. From Olympic viewers to industry observers like Henry Blodget the rage seems universal
...like every other connected sports fan on the planet these days, we know exactly when the Olympics is taking place and what's happening there--in real time.
So, right now, for us, NBC isn't the network that brings us the Olympics. It's the network that prevents us from watching the Olympics. And we hate NBC for that.
There is some good news for NBC and its Olympic Coverage: the ratings
Monday's primetime portion of the Vancouver Games on NBC averaged a 7.2 rating/18 share in adults 18-49 and 25.5 million viewers overall.
">Variety reports the overall primetime audience for Monday's Olympics coverage matched the combined numbers of ABC, CBS, Fox and CW...
To protest NBC's lackluster and poor coverage, I plan to stay away from my television during the Games. Instead, I'll watch on the Internet, using proxy servers to tune into live streams offered by broadcasters in other countries. I'm taking matters into my own hands because I refuse to allow big corporations like NBC to decide what I get to see and when I get to see it.
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Allie Keegan (not verified)at 07:57 on February 19th, 2010
Today: 10am CTV: Olympic Daytime CoverageNBC: The Ellen DeGeneres Show 11amCTV: Men'sSuperGNBC: Rachael Ray 12pmCTV: Men'sSuperGNBC: Local News/Jeopardy! 1pmCTV: Ladies 15K PursuitNBC: Days of our Lives 2pmCTV: Olympic Daytime CoverageNBC: The Dr. Oz Show Please select the best response. NBC's coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver...[ ] A. bites[ ] B. blows[ ] C. sucks[X] D. all of the above
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Sphen (not verified)at 16:15 on February 19th, 2010
Once again, NBC has successfully ass'd up the coverage of the Olympics. How many hours of the same 2 or 3 sports over and over and over again, day in and day out. unbelievable! And of all the sporting events the dildo's of NBC see fit to cover, they focus on women's hockey, cross country skiing and curling. WOW! That's all I can say. I haven't heard one discussion about the games taking place among ANYONE. No "did you see this last night, or that".......... nothing. why?? because no one's watching. Hey NBC, you wonder why your programming has garbage ratings and you're loosing all of your top talent to other news organizations? You have a golden goose with the olympics rights and you can't even get that freebie right. bunch of tards.
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JohnMP (not verified)at 20:58 on February 19th, 2010
Glad to read that many like myself are very, very disappointed with NBC's coverage. It does not try to encompass depth of these games that bring so many athletes together to compete. The judgement used by producers and executives at NBC is quite different than coverage in past games where ABC covered the Olympics. The obvious limited coverage that has been overloaded with commercials has been driven by the price paid by NBC to get the games__a whopping 820 MILLION DOLLARS. This has resulted in an event that requires an intolerable amount of viewer patience to see what amounts to highly abbreviated event coverage (due to editing for broadcast)__ frequently interrupted by long commercial segments. NBC WILL NOT change its format or lack of coverage. There is way too much money involved. Perhaps NBC forgot that we are a land of immigrants who came from many of the countries represented in the games. The abbreviated and biased coverage of most or all the events creates a real problem for viewers who would prefer to see most of the competing athletes in an event. Remember the opening ceremonies of these games that allowed us to view the athletes from 80+ countries? It would have been nice to have seen more of them as well. NBC's ethnocentric broadcast of the 2010 Winter Games rates a "poor" score and will probably be reflected in lower than expected Nielsen Ratings. NBC expects to LOSE 250 MILLION DOLLARS. Perhaps this will convince them to not bid for the Olympics again.
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Thanh T (not verified)at 01:55 on February 20th, 2010
NBC coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics has been HORRIBLE, for the following reasons:- *VERY* little coverage of actual competition- no LIVE coverage?! The Olympic games are happening in PST - which is *my* time zone but, I have to wait for bits and pieces of competition if I am trying to watch the Olympics on NBC?! What the heck?- too much Bob Costas (I like you, Bob, but can you please let me watch some actual Olympic competition instead of reviewing and rereviewing what's been happening? Let me see for myself what's happening!) - too many Olympic moment montages- too many super-tiny glimpses into athletes' struggles with overly dramatic music playing in the background- way too much commentary from NBC commentators, outside the actual competition- coverage of just a few of the many Events happening at the Winter Olympics. Yes, I like to see Americans medal, but I also want to see those events that might not even have a single American competing (if it's ok with you, NBC)- lots of commercialsNBC, take a lesson from ABC. Show the events live. Fill up air time with actual competition instead of all that other fluff (outside commentary, video montages, review and rereview of just a handful of events over and over, artificial bits of drama, commercials, etc). Please...
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cantstandit (not verified)at 22:56 on February 25th, 2010
I cannot imagine a more horrible online experience than nbc olympics online. If you think their tv coverage is bad, you'll feel much better after trying their online full replay videos! Gets errors all the times, have to restart the browser, it talks to you as if you're using windows regardless of your computer (press F5???).I want this to be the last Olympics covered by this moronic network nbc.Where's an American to speak up about this? Know anyone at the international olympic committee?
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TV Producer (not verified)at 19:55 on February 27th, 2010
Get more commercials. Give me a break, you're going to loop Vick's and P&G 12 times in a row?Are the interns handling the online coverage for the BRONZE medal match? I guess you get what you pay for.NBC, the reason why you feel dizzy is because you're circling the drain.