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 <east...@mcd.on.ca> wrote: > 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 > English-speaking commentary and that's what the online event-feeds use? > > and I'm guessing that's what TSN4 or TSN5 fed me on TV that day? > > Wondering if PGage and others have similar observations on the NBC online > feed, or Adam on the BBC ifeed. > > > > On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 1:01 PM, PGage <pga...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 taped and heavily edited coverage of events like gymnastics, or >> heavily biased live (in the Eastern Time Zone) coverage, both with an >> extremely US-centric, exceptionality bias. Non-promoting coverage in the >> US sounds pretty much like UK and Canada - much of it is live or "lavish", >> if there are US medal contenders they get most of the focus, but non US >> medal contenders get their fair share, and of course many of these events >> have no US contenders. I have loved the Rugby coverage, for example, most >> of it live,, with most contenders in the Southern Hemisphere. >> >> It is the 4 or 5 hours of coverage in primetime that generates most of >> the criticism (this is a small fraction of the total Olympic coverage I >> watch) and it is because this is where NBC has to earn the meat of its >> income to pay the heavy rights fee. The commercial per hour ratio seems >> unusussually high (I record and time shift everything, so I just FF >> commercials, but I find I have to watch primetime with the remote always in >> my hand ready to "zap"), and they pander to the jingoism and sentimentality >> of non sports fans. >> >> I find I have been watching more online coverage this year, partly >> because Comcast has made it so easy to watch on my tv. I got into the >> archery, and rather than just watch the few preliminary matches and medal >> rounds they showed on cable, I watched the whole thing from the online feed >> (though the commentary is pretty minimal, and I re-watched the ones on >> Cable to get more context). >> >> On Friday, 12 August 2016, David Lynch <djly...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 4:49 AM, Adam Bowie <a...@adambowie.co.uk> >>> 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 the individual events are >>> retired athletes or broadcasters who work full time on sports, and many of >>> those broadcasters are specialists. There's a whole army of play-by-play >>> announcers and expert commentators who are on their umpteenth Olympics but >>> who I only ever hear for two weeks every four years in the sports that only >>> get a lot of attention during the Olympics (e.g., swimming, diving, and >>> gymnastics,) in addition to the people who cover the pro game week in and >>> week out moving over to cover the Olympics in sports like golf, basketball, >>> and tennis. At worst, the US coverage seems to pair a generalist >>> play-by-play announcer with a former athlete. >>> >>> We do have breakfast show presenters involved, but they're doing the >>> opening ceremony and hosting the studio portions of the broadcast, which >>> essentially amounts to serving as traffic cop and doing the occasional >>> interview, none of which really requires a lot of deep knowledge about >>> sports. >>> >> >> >> -- >> Sent from Gmail Mobile >> >> -- >> -- >> TV or Not TV .... 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