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Post by sweep on Jul 30, 2021 13:33:33 GMT -6
True thirteen hours is an issue, but the ratings are far lower than both NBC's and the advertising industries projections. The Opening Ceremony rating was also down almost 40% and that's across all delivery services. There is a general apathy about these games.
Before you ask, the 2016 Rio games had much lower ratings than the 2012 London Olympics. So it isn't like 2016 set some sort of record viewership.
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Post by 00hmh on Jul 30, 2021 21:22:59 GMT -6
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Post by sweep on Jul 31, 2021 8:04:48 GMT -6
US men's basketball had a game that started at 8am this morning, So I dug around to find the broadcast and after about five minutes of searching finally watched it on firetv from the NBC Sports app. I thought it was odd the game wasn't on any NBC affiliated broadcast channel so I checked the NBC network coverage and found they were instead airing a tape delayed broadcast of NZL vs. France women's rugby. What a strange event to air on a Saturday morning................
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Post by chirpchirpcards on Jul 31, 2021 10:23:05 GMT -6
I saw Biles pulled out of two individuals already.
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Post by williamtsherman on Aug 2, 2021 17:46:17 GMT -6
Meanwhile in woman's soccer: Purple haired, anthem-disrespecting attention hound denied chance at gold by man pretending to be woman.
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Post by rmcalhoun on Aug 2, 2021 18:20:05 GMT -6
Meanwhile in woman's soccer: Purple haired, anthem-disrespecting attention hound denied chance at gold by man pretending to be woman. I have to ask did the bitch really have to play against a transgender? I'm not sorry I can't stand her |
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Post by halftime on Aug 3, 2021 3:39:12 GMT -6
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Olympics
Aug 3, 2021 6:39:54 GMT -6
via mobile
Post by 00hmh on Aug 3, 2021 6:39:54 GMT -6
Great points in the article.
Incoherent coverage and no plan.
Watching delayed tape of an event where you know the result is no fun. Only a very few live events you can watch (golf for example) that make sense and are of mediocre quality coverage.
It's too big an event to cover without some kind of organization of the broadcast so viewers can understand it.
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Post by rmcalhoun on Aug 3, 2021 8:19:37 GMT -6
So kinda like a day on our little message board
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Post by williamtsherman on Aug 3, 2021 10:33:07 GMT -6
It was off putting how the weather at the track kept going from sunny to rainy and back to sunny for (on TV) consecutive races.
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Post by 00hmh on Aug 3, 2021 11:41:38 GMT -6
So kinda like a day on our little message board Makes us look like the NYTimes in comparison. |
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Post by 00hmh on Aug 3, 2021 11:43:02 GMT -6
It was off putting how the weather at the track kept going from sunny to rainy and back to sunny for (on TV) consecutive races. Yeah, covering the rain they did a better job than when you could never tell what race, what day, who was running, what was interesting about the field and so on. |
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Post by villagepub on Aug 3, 2021 21:19:09 GMT -6
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Post by sweep on Aug 4, 2021 16:16:32 GMT -6
Well you couldn't watch men's basketball live, but NBCSN is currently showing men's marathon swimming live. That's right two and half hours of watching people you have never heard of swim in a lake. Hard to believe ratings are a disaster.
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Post by williamtsherman on Aug 5, 2021 8:59:03 GMT -6
So, it seems like the Biles saga exceeded everyone's attention span. A few days back she was the #1 story in the Olympics, if not the entire sports world. Then she comes back to win a bronze in the beam and I'm not seeing or hearing anything about it.
By the way, I was only vaguely aware of her before and had a negative impression due to all the hype and skin-color-based talk in the media. But over the course of these games, I have come around to liking her. From what I've seen, she has consistently displayed a classy, humble attitude. |
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