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NBC Tries to Salvage a Difficult Olympics
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I know a lot of people who would love to watch it. But they don't wanna have to get other people's cable info to watch nbc sports. Peacock has shit.
So they just don't watch it at all.
So they just don't watch it at all.
Not gonna get any better in a couple months once Beijing rolls around.
How about just showing the Olympics kind of like C-SPAN, as in generally without commentary but showing everything?
Remember, we live in a time where we aren't allowed to see the IIHF games in the US at all without a cable subscription of some sort. Basically every other country but the US is allowed to show all of the games straight through Youtube with no issues.
NBC and their coverage is sadly just one part of how fucked it is that the US covers sports and competitions in general.
Remember, we live in a time where we aren't allowed to see the IIHF games in the US at all without a cable subscription of some sort. Basically every other country but the US is allowed to show all of the games straight through Youtube with no issues.
NBC and their coverage is sadly just one part of how fucked it is that the US covers sports and competitions in general.
Have no idea where the live events you wanna are in a easy way. Then just to realize you need USA network to watch those not on the channels. Then, Peacock's Olympics page is pure shit.
I have like 4 different channels for coverage. it's been a bit confusing but I'm not lacking for content
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Gotta say I'm usually pretty psyched to watch 2 weeks of my favorite Olympic events but this year I just haven't felt compelled to watch it. No offense to the amazing athletes but the last year and a half have just been way too real and my enthusiasm has been severely dampened.
The NBC sports app that half the content uses on the Xfinity DVR is straight garbage. For the first 3 days or so of the olympics it wouln't load at all. They work most of the time now, but they just run 8 hour streams for a lot of stuff (like sailing) so it will just be a shot of the harbor without anything going on for an hour at a time.
PS: Watch olympic sailing
PS: Watch olympic sailing
That's what you get with sticking to a tv focused model in 2021. The relative lack of spectacle is certainly a significant factor but the main thing is just how hard it is to watch anything. When people are steadily cutting cable you have to follow them or your numbers are going to struggle. It has a multiplicative effect too, the fewer people that are able to watch it easily, the fewer people there are talking about it which draws in fewer low interest viewers.
This is pretty much what nbcolympics.com is. Just ignore the channel broadcast unless you know they are live and go straight to the sport. You have to login with a cable or streaming subscription though.
You can watch everything live, on either the NBC Olympics site or one of the channels. Not much NBC can do about the time difference.
This is imo the most baffling decision of their entire coverage operation. They've got this fledgling new streaming platform they want to perform, they have the Olympics — why not stream everything on Peacock! I do not get it.
i found a channel in my country that it displays everything that the country is currently playing, if there's more than one sport they divide the screen or they select the most popular or that has more chances. i watch on my notebok pic in pic while i play something or do other stuff
best way for me so i dont have to bother searching when or where,
best way for me so i dont have to bother searching when or where,
1) They refuse to let people know when things will air live.
2) The hiding of basketball and other sports on Peacock was a disastrous decision because it comes off as shady.
3) Figuring out when anything is going to air is a chore.
For the average viewer, it's a complete mess.
Because they can charge way more for ad time on network TV. I'm almost positive this is the reason.
2) The hiding of basketball and other sports on Peacock was a disastrous decision because it comes off as shady.
3) Figuring out when anything is going to air is a chore.
For the average viewer, it's a complete mess.
Because they can charge way more for ad time on network TV. I'm almost positive this is the reason.
nbcolympics.com has been the best place to watch everything. On TV, you have to juggle between NBC, USA, NBCSN, CNBC, etc..
They've fucked over their affiliates by spreading their coverage across so many networks, too.
Yep.
Yep.
The coverage is stuck in some sort of middle ground hellscape between making everything easily available and trying to do their typical 'Primetime' show that's all tape delayed stuff.
The problem is that the 'Primetime' show is mostly events with Americans that have had the outcomes spoiled, even though some stuff during that timeslot could be shown live instead.
Then the streaming is a jumbled mess of highlights, replays, 'featured' feeds, etc. It has a lot of stuff there (in fact maybe most everything), but the organization is a mess. Doesn't help that it's really confusing as to where you can watch what.
NBCSN has been okay at least, I mean it's showing the 50k speed walk right now which is hardly the most popular sport...
The problem is that the 'Primetime' show is mostly events with Americans that have had the outcomes spoiled, even though some stuff during that timeslot could be shown live instead.
Then the streaming is a jumbled mess of highlights, replays, 'featured' feeds, etc. It has a lot of stuff there (in fact maybe most everything), but the organization is a mess. Doesn't help that it's really confusing as to where you can watch what.
NBCSN has been okay at least, I mean it's showing the 50k speed walk right now which is hardly the most popular sport...
Maybe I'd like to see a full event, hell maybe the chance to see a whole event live without having to bust out a fucking day planner. Maybe having event footage superseded by a fucking ad isn't enjoyable.
Maybe watching the olympics should be more than watching a god damn clip show.
Maybe watching the olympics should be more than watching a god damn clip show.
i dunno, maybe because my phone dings all the time and tells me what happened before it airs? Maybe they need to invest in olympic CHANNELS, and just air everything live on those, while doing whatever bullshit they want to do with primetime on primetime channels.
This is a big part of it. There's not a good clear schedule or uniform programming. Evne on streaming you can't tell whether you're about to watch highlights, straight events or what. "Olympics Coverage" with no description means nothing.
I've just been watching NBC OTA every night and on weekends. That is more than enough Olympics for me, and I see most if not all what I want to.
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The answer is so obvious. Stream every event and let the viewers pick which ones they want to watch. The next Olympics that Facebook gets exclusive rights to or whatever will do this and make a billion dollars.
It's confusing to try and find out where to watch things, and secondly fan-less sporting events simply draw lower TV ratings, we've seen that with virtually every other major sports league, not sure why the Olympics were going to be different.
Also in this day and age let people watch things freaking live. Tape delay like we're living in the 1980s isn't going to fly.
The IOC should have set aside a "group" of several thousand professional "cheer" crowds who are fully vaccinated and regularly tested to come in and fill some of the empty seats if possible.
Also in this day and age let people watch things freaking live. Tape delay like we're living in the 1980s isn't going to fly.
The IOC should have set aside a "group" of several thousand professional "cheer" crowds who are fully vaccinated and regularly tested to come in and fill some of the empty seats if possible.
I heard sports people that don't know where or when to watch shit. The sports podcasts i listen too just been fuck it and just wait for the print stuff
I think it's been great. On Comcast you can access tons of live events by using the Infinity remote. It'll then stream the the cast after an advertisement.
It's been a well used feature and allowed me to watch games I'd normally miss, I feel it wasn't marketed well at all though.
Hated watching the Primetime recap of events, too many commercials and too much hype of American athletes and pumped up drama. Maybe that's the format that put people off?
It's been a well used feature and allowed me to watch games I'd normally miss, I feel it wasn't marketed well at all though.
Hated watching the Primetime recap of events, too many commercials and too much hype of American athletes and pumped up drama. Maybe that's the format that put people off?
Having a paywall behind the Olympics seems insane to me.
Here in Japan you can watch everything live on TV (the main public channels split the content), or you can watch all the live streams and ALL the events archived with either JP or EN commentators on the NHK website, again, for free and without any need to register. Many events don't have JP commentators but all the stuff I've watched had EN ones. I imagine they limit the JP ones to the stuff that has been aired on the NHK channels.
Also, NHK doesn't have advertising at all, it's pretty great.
I wonder if the page is region-locked :
Here in Japan you can watch everything live on TV (the main public channels split the content), or you can watch all the live streams and ALL the events archived with either JP or EN commentators on the NHK website, again, for free and without any need to register. Many events don't have JP commentators but all the stuff I've watched had EN ones. I imagine they limit the JP ones to the stuff that has been aired on the NHK channels.
Also, NHK doesn't have advertising at all, it's pretty great.
I wonder if the page is region-locked :
NHK北京オリンピックサイト～Beijing 2022
NHKの北京オリンピック特設サイトです。オリンピックの日程・結果、動画などを掲載しています。大会期間中はライブストリーミングや試合の速報など、オリンピックの「今」をお届けします。
sports.nhk.or.jp
For all the complaints about what to watch where, and the streaming format, I really think the problem is Covid.
It really just sapped the steam out of this year's olympics: a year delay, plus rumors of maybe further delays or cancellations right up until the games actually started. Empty stadiums, reports of infections, and on and on.
It just doesn't have that triumphant feeling that it would in a normal Olympic cycle. I think people actually just aren't as interested as they would be if things were "normal".
It really just sapped the steam out of this year's olympics: a year delay, plus rumors of maybe further delays or cancellations right up until the games actually started. Empty stadiums, reports of infections, and on and on.
It just doesn't have that triumphant feeling that it would in a normal Olympic cycle. I think people actually just aren't as interested as they would be if things were "normal".
It has been an unbelievable shit show. I feel like the streaming aspect is worse than Beijing and that was 13 years ago. If you're a cord-cutter, you flat out cannot watch outside of OTA local NBC affiliates. Half the stuff isn't even live and nothing is what it claims to be; this channel says it has equestrian, but it's beach volleyball. Meanwhile over on diving we have race walking. And if you're going to paywall things on Peacock, at least put out full event replays for everything, not 3 minutes of highlights showing fuck all. The incompetence on display has been staggering.
Also this.
Also this.
its too fucking hard to watch. they stop in the middle of a sport and switch to a new one before its over. the channels arent labled properly with what sport is currently on. peacock app? its clips with spoilers in the titles, and a burden to navigate. i dont have cable so i cant watch on the nbcolympics site.
it should be easy to have an olympics hub for anybody to watch in a format like Twitch with a Tennis category, a Swimming category, Archery, Track, Field, etc categories and individual match streams within, but they just have to make it complicated because money. i was looking forward to watching but had to give up because of the maze of shit i have to wade through. it's bad enough that its late at night, and i dont blame anybody for that aspect. i just need it to be easy to watch full reruns, not clips, without event swapping.
flipping through the channels should be an olympic sport on its own. you need so much training to do it
it should be easy to have an olympics hub for anybody to watch in a format like Twitch with a Tennis category, a Swimming category, Archery, Track, Field, etc categories and individual match streams within, but they just have to make it complicated because money. i was looking forward to watching but had to give up because of the maze of shit i have to wade through. it's bad enough that its late at night, and i dont blame anybody for that aspect. i just need it to be easy to watch full reruns, not clips, without event swapping.
flipping through the channels should be an olympic sport on its own. you need so much training to do it
This. I go back and forth between the various streams they have going on while I'm at work. Granted, it's only because I've got my parents' DirecTV account that I'm able to.
This plus the nonstop ads during competition, fucking mid competition they'll cut to a commercial.
I have an Olympics channel. It plays mostly reruns though it did have tennis and wrestling live.
The way usa, cnbc, nbcsn dipped in and out of live and packaged, you never knew what to look forward to.
The way usa, cnbc, nbcsn dipped in and out of live and packaged, you never knew what to look forward to.