An interesting question is if the USA television ratings are perceived to
decline because of the tape delays, will NBC in 2004 show the weekend events
live in the afternoon ( USA afternoon = Europe evening) or still tape to
show everything in prime time. The last comparable situation was the 1992
Olympics but I had triplecast. Does anybody know what they did in 1992?
Ed Koch
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Date: Monday, September 18, 2000 8:16 PM
Subject: Re: t-and-f: Ratings don't compare well with past Games
>Conway writes:
>
>>And the worst thing is NBC
>>seems to hold everything even longer trying to build drama or something ..
>>I
>>mean the big swimming finals didn't come on til somewhere close to 11pm
>>Saturday night .. When the evening telecast had started at 7pm !!!
>
>I'm noticing a trend so far: NBC shows swimming finals in which Americans
do
>not win the gold at around 8:00 PM, but if a US swimmer wins (or at least
>contends mightily) it is not shown until about 10:30 or 11:00 PM. We will
>probably see this same pattern for the track broadcasts, meaning that, even
>if we avoid reading results on the net, we can perhaps predict whether say
>Marion Jones wins gold number 1 or 2, etc. based on how long they delay it
>in the telecast.
>
>Kurt Bray
>
>PS: I haven't seen any comment, but I assume all US viewers have seen that
>great Nike ad featuring Suzy Hamilton running from a chain saw murderer.
>Look for it if you haven't - It's hilarious.
>
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