The coverage during prime time on NBC of all the Olympic alpine skiing events is an absolute disgrace to the entire genre of television sports coverage.
I am sitting here watching their coverage of Super Combined. Here is a list of the things that are absolutely ridiculous about the coverage - enough to make it laughable for anyone with half a brain.
- First of all, the announcer off screen and on screen talk as if the event is actually happening now, when it was over some hours ago. Did they ever hear of the Internet?
- They showed SEVEN men running the Downhill portion of the event. Last time I checked, there were about 40 guys in this event. This destroys the drama of waiting for a skier to come down and take an important finishing time.
- The commentators are reading a SCRIPT! They are not responding to the event as it happens! They are armchair quarterbacking in hindsight. They sound so stupid! They even say, "We'll be back," going into commercials!
- When Americans ski, they enhance the crowd cheering - they make it louder of add canned cheering to the soundtrack.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ... they just went to ice dancing! We see every second of these dancers in corny costumes dancing to corny country music!
...more later when skiing comes back on... I need a drink.
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I completely agree. On the night of the men's downhill, I avoided the internet all day and then sat down to watch the taped coverage after putting the girls to bed. I was 20 minutes late and had missed the whole thing. Universal Sports (owned by NBC) takes two hours to show a world cup downhill event, but NBC does the whole Olympic downnill in less than 20 minutes. Incredible.
Unfortunately, it does not look like things will change. According to this article, NBC is very proud of themselves and think they have offered us a great product. Maybe I will go on vacation in Canada during the next Olympics.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/olympics/2010/writers/richard_deitsch/02/22/nbc/
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