The Olympics begin next week. NBC says they are going to cover all sports on 7 Networks. Nice if it works
NBC Olympics

1200 hours of coverage 24/7. Wow!

I like the summer Olympics but I really like
the winter ones better.

Watch out for angry skaters with clubs!

That seems like a lot of coverage time but it's actually rather pathetic. Probably only about 120 hours of actual event coverage and the rest is just highlights, in depth interviews about people who we do not know and the history about that person competing and training for years and years to get to this event. Then we see the tape delayed event in which there is that same person we just saw an in depth interview and history report on in one of the top three positions.

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In Europe they have 12,000 hours of coverage where as NBC will only show 1,210 and that will be clips of key events and brief daily highlights. Even though they have twelve thousand hours in Europe they still can't cover all of it. So what is one tenth compared to that?

Which brings me to BBC's live online coverage of the Olympics which we as Americans cannot/not allowed to watch because the big NBC media conglomerate has a contract with the organizer of the Olympics for our territory and does not want us to have any other access to the Olympics other than their specific narrow view upon it. It's what, 793 million that got NBC this territory we call America? How petty is that, when this social event is restricted and they wonder why the youth of today are not watching as much? And instead are increasingly watching the X Games? Limiting access to it is the same as destroying the social and cultural meaning of the Olympics all together. All this done so the organizers of the merely commercialized Olympic Games does not hurt the value of TV rights. Where a big media powerhouse like NBC has domain rights for the land of the free and home of the beloved corporations.

Watching the opening cerimonies

Me too. Did you see the drum TOR?

A whole bunch of drums

Real stuff live on CNBC at 2:00 am EDT
Shooting, rowing and other goodies
Opening Ceremonies are a good excuse to collect a premium for tickets

I think I missed it. I was scanning the skies with my dish looking for a wild feed of it.

And just like with Salt Lake City in '02, all I'm getting on CNBC is international programming instead of the olympic feed.

Check the NBC Olympics link the next Cable channel is Bravo. Later it's CNBC then USA. Telemundo seems to run soccer a lot

The Olympics just don't mean anything anymore. To me anyway.

The HD "coverage" is the most pathetic of all. They were/are touting the Olympics in high definition. Right now they think the clearer pictures is enough for me to watch. The image is impressive, but they are showing seriously tape-delayed coverage on a loop. On Sat, they showed the opening ceremonies for 27 straight hours! To say the HD coverage is disappointing would be an understatement.

I don't know. I think they believe that anyone that would spend 3 grand for a HDTV would think 27 hours of loop reruns is swell

This is why the Olympics don't mean anything anymore. It's all just a big advertisement for everything. "The official douch of the 2004 Summer Olympics." No one seems to be as into it as they used to.

I certainly haven't been.

How about the X Games?

Nope. Sorry.

Oly-Tutu games?