I also read the SI article Kurt Bray referred to. Read a little farther and
you get this:
"As long as (network) televison tells the human stories, that's what they
want. If they care about the individual athletes, they'll figure out what
the sports are about."
Then comes this comment:
"But on
Kurt Bray, quoting from an NBC advertising supplement in Sports Illustrated:
"'Our Olympic telecast is not about results,' Lax says, 'It's more about the
sacrifices of the athletes.'"
Precisely the right attitude to have. This is what has always bothered me about
Saturday afternoon college fo
Kurt Bray said:
> We've long observed from the broadcast content that NBC was much more
> interested in showing tearful features than the competition, but now they
> are boldly admitting as much out loud.
>
> In a special advertising supplement in the recent Sports Illustrated there
> is a piece
We've long observed from the broadcast content that NBC was much more
interested in showing tearful features than the competition, but now they
are boldly admitting as much out loud.
In a special advertising supplement in the recent Sports Illustrated there
is a piece about the producer we can
