Re: [TV orNotTV] NBC's Unforgivable Sin [Was: I tried watching the Olympics...]

2016-08-17 Thread Tom Wolper
On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 9:42 AM, Bob Jersey wrote: ...meanwhile the men's gold-medal soccer/football match, for which they've > blocked *three hours*, precedes the SN's race coverage. > In a league game where teams can tie, two hours is enough time. That's 90 minutes

Re: [TV orNotTV] NBC's Unforgivable Sin [Was: I tried watching the Olympics...]

2016-08-17 Thread Bob Jersey
daniel anderson, to PGage and David Lynch: > > I wonder how NBCSN will handle the NASCAR race from Bristol on Saturday > Night? that might conflict with the "Dream Team" > > > Basketball will have reached the medals level by the final weekend of the Games, with the women cashing in during the

Re: [TV orNotTV] NBC's Unforgivable Sin [Was: I tried watching the Olympics...]

2016-08-16 Thread David Risner
I believe it will be on USA network. That's what they didn't last week at least. -- David > On Aug 16, 2016, at 6:10 PM, daniel anderson > wrote: > > I wonder how NBCSN will handle the NASCAR race from Bristol on Saturday > Night? that might conflict with the

Re: [TV orNotTV] NBC's Unforgivable Sin [Was: I tried watching the Olympics...]

2016-08-16 Thread doug
PM Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] NBC's Unforgivable Sin [Was: I tried watching the Olympics...] To: TVorNotTV I wonder how NBCSN will handle the NASCAR race from Bristol on Saturday Night? that might conflict with the "Dream Team" On Tuesday, August 9, 2016 at 1:04:57 PM UTC-4, P

Re: [TV orNotTV] NBC's Unforgivable Sin [Was: I tried watching the Olympics...]

2016-08-16 Thread daniel anderson
I wonder how NBCSN will handle the NASCAR race from Bristol on Saturday Night? that might conflict with the "Dream Team" On Tuesday, August 9, 2016 at 1:04:57 PM UTC-4, PGage wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 9:35 PM, David Lynch > wrote: > >> One interesting thing from

Re: [TV orNotTV] NBC's Unforgivable Sin [Was: I tried watching the Olympics...]

2016-08-14 Thread daniel anderson
The interesting thing is that they had to delay the Busch race to finish the basketball game between Brazil and(cant remember the other team) because it went to double overtime. On Tuesday, August 9, 2016 at 1:04:57 PM UTC-4, PGage wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 9:35 PM, David Lynch

Re: [TV orNotTV] NBC's Unforgivable Sin [Was: I tried watching the Olympics...]

2016-08-12 Thread Adam Bowie
On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 6:42 PM, PGage wrote: > The online feed definitely has a lot of non US commentators. The > gymnastics seem to be American (but not the ones on NBC) though I guess > they could be neutered Canadians. The Rugby and Archery seem British to me. > > A bit

Re: [TV orNotTV] NBC's Unforgivable Sin [Was: I tried watching the Olympics...]

2016-08-12 Thread PGage
The online feed definitely has a lot of non US commentators. The gymnastics seem to be American (but not the ones on NBC) though I guess they could be neutered Canadians. The Rugby and Archery seem British to me. On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Doug Eastick wrote: > I was

Re: [TV orNotTV] NBC's Unforgivable Sin [Was: I tried watching the Olympics...]

2016-08-12 Thread Doug Eastick
I was watching some sport (I can't remember) on TSN4 or TSN5 here in Canada and commentary was by aussies. Then later that day I watched an event or two using the online feeds. Seems the commentary is default host broadcaster. Perhaps the host broadcaster has brought in default

Re: [TV orNotTV] NBC's Unforgivable Sin [Was: I tried watching the Olympics...]

2016-08-12 Thread PGage
The reports from Adam on UK and Chris on Canadian Olympic coverage are UCB appreciated. I think the key in comparing this to US coverage is distinguishing between NBC's prime time coverage and most other coverage on NBC outside of prime time and on cable channels. NBC prime time relies on either

Re: [TV orNotTV] NBC's Unforgivable Sin [Was: I tried watching the Olympics...]

2016-08-11 Thread PGage
So after their shameful approach to broadcasting the men's team gymnastics events, NBC took a higher road for the men's all around. Even though it was clear early that no American would be threatening for a medal, they stayed with the entire event in prime time, and did a pretty good job of

Re: [TV orNotTV] NBC's Unforgivable Sin [Was: I tried watching the Olympics...]

2016-08-09 Thread PGage
On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 10:10 AM, Joe Hass wrote: > The immediate thought that came to my mind as I read this: "What would ABC > have done had the Miracle On Ice been a 10-3 Russian blowout (which was the > score of the exhibition game played less than two weeks earlier)?" >

Re: [TV orNotTV] NBC's Unforgivable Sin [Was: I tried watching the Olympics...]

2016-08-09 Thread PGage
Addendum: I did not schedule a recording of the Ryan Seacrest show last night, so when Bob Costas told us that they were going to show the rest of the Gymnastics on the midnight show I was at first screwed (it was already 1:00 am my time when I got to that). I would like to know how much of the

Re: [TV orNotTV] NBC's Unforgivable Sin [Was: I tried watching the Olympics...]

2016-08-09 Thread Joe Hass
The immediate thought that came to my mind as I read this: "What would ABC have done had the Miracle On Ice been a 10-3 Russian blowout (which was the score of the exhibition game played less than two weeks earlier)?" On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 12:04 PM PGage wrote: > On Mon, Aug

[TV orNotTV] NBC's Unforgivable Sin [Was: I tried watching the Olympics...]

2016-08-09 Thread PGage
On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 9:35 PM, David Lynch wrote: > One interesting thing from tonight: the medal round for men's team > gymnastics, normally a marquee event, didn't start airing until well after > 11:00 ET and was partly pushed to late night. Of course, it was kind of >