What Olympics?

I posted previously about the craptastic job of covering and tape delaying the olympics by NBC, so I won’t harp on that too much, but, where did the Olympics go this year?

I think I saw, well, curling (only thing streamed online) and the USA/Canada Hockey game.  I know there was other coverage, but when you get one run of bobsleigh and then five figure skaters and then 1km of cross country, it’s hard to stay on the same channel.  Whenever something came on that I didn’t want to see, I just flipped the channel, typically not returning to NBC at all.  I’m not sure if this was common to other TV watchers, but the Olympics just weren’t enjoyable as they were presented in NBC’s ADD format.  I know it’s hard to broadcast such a huge variety of events, but with a network like NBC that has many many channels, it can’t be that hard.  How many people really watch MSNBC anyway?

Suck it NBC

I like the olympics.  I like the olympics quite a bit actually.  Even the winter olympics interest me because there are sports like skeleton, snowboard cross and curling.  NBC clearly doesn’t give a crap about what I want, however. Not only are the not showing me the events in Vancouver live even though I’m on the SAME part of the country, but they aren’t even showing very much on their other affiliates.  Why not do what they did with the summer olympics and throw live coverage on USA or MSNBC?  Instead I get screwed.  I have to watch the crappy taped coverage that skips over most of the athletes and only shows about 5-10.  How is that in the olympic spirit?  What about the athletes that aren’t medal contenders, but may be the only ones representing their country, don’t they deserve some recognition?

There is one really easy solution to this problem.  They could provide the coverage they obviously have going on (given the range of sports we only get 3 minutes of during the primetime broadcast) online.  Do they do this?  No way!  NBC could give a crap about how well they cover the olympics, but if they force you to watch TV at primetime, they make loads of money on advertising (none of the ads are any good in case you were wondering).

So I’m calling for an official suck it NBC movement.  We need to boycott NBC’s crappy coverage of the olympics until they give us live streaming online of all events (not just hockey and curling).  I don’t even give a crap about the commentary. I’m not that smart, but I think I can figure out if one person’s time or score is better than the previous one.  All I want is cameras on every event, especially the ones like cross country, which are rarely if ever televised.

If my demands are not met, I will not watch another olympics on NBC.  I will resort to using a proxy server and watching olympic coverage LIVE through other countries.

You’ve been warned NBC.