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

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

> It was a 5:00 PM ET start, so the game was in the books when McKay went on > the air at 8:00. Both games were in the same rink, so they'd have had to > have time to reset the building for the nightcap. Thanks, Joe. I'll stand by my assertion that if the game had been another 10-3 Soviet win, it

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

Daniel... Right, but these are some of the best known announcers covering events for NBC. I believe, even though Doug mentions "the NBC online feed", he is referencing the online coverage that NBC is linking to on its web page (and, at least via Comcast, on its "On Demand" menu), which is for the

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

I know that- Al Trautwig has covered gymnastics since he was at ABC in the 80s, and Marv Albert has done the NBA since NBC last had the NBA rights-he's done the NBA for Turner for years. Dan Hicks has done swimming since 96. Tom Hammond has done track since 92-and he is one of NBC's best

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

And didn't the BBC used to share its coverage with ITV? And I've been looking lately at a site on Australian television--in 1956 the Melbourne Games were on BOTH Melbourne TV stations at the time--HSV-7 (which was independent back then because there were no networks yet established--they're now

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

On 8/12/2016 12:57 PM, Chris Neuman wrote: In Canada, for as long as I can remember, we have been able to see both the US feeds and the Canadian feeds which, for the most part, have been broadcast on CBC (except for a few years where CTV pipped the rights). I'd also like to point out

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

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 4:49 AM, Adam Bowie wrote: > And the presenters are nearly all sports presenters - not breakfast show > presenters for example. > This is also something that I'll give NBC a lot of credit for: As far as I know, all of the people doing coverage of

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

In Canada, for as long as I can remember, we have been able to see both the US feeds and the Canadian feeds which, for the most part, have been broadcast on CBC (except for a few years where CTV pipped the rights). All cable packages had the closest local US feeds (I know more about Spokane than I

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

It was a 5:00 PM ET start, so the game was in the books when McKay went on the air at 8:00. Both games were in the same rink, so they'd have had to have time to reset the building for the nightcap. On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 12:55 AM JW wrote: > > I would strongly disagree that

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

I've been sitting here quietly watching the talk about NBC's coverage, and I thought it might we worth comparing and contrasting NBC with what the BBC is doing in the UK for these Olympics. The main channel - BBC1 - is just about all Olympics all the time. The only exceptions are for the news,

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

> I would strongly disagree that they weren't building to that game. Here is > part of Jim McKay's introduction: There's a lot I don't remember 36 years later, like what time the US-USSR game actually started. If the second game started at 8:45, then the first game must have been very late, if

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I would strongly disagree that they weren't building to that game. Here is part of Jim McKay's introduction: "It's very important tonight, I think, to tell you that from the time I went out of my hotel room at 11 o'clock this morning and walked down Main Street, there was a feeling of joy and

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

Which needs to be pointed out that today, P owns Gillette, the "Cavalcade of Sports" people, boxing in particular (so prevalent that when boxers used to come out on talk shows, the band would play the Gillette jingle) and that manly-man brand Old Spice, so NBC would be getting P's money

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

> 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)?" Maybe shown a couple of highlights, including goals by the plucky college