NYC marathon on TV?

I believe the race will be shown live with coverage starting at 9:00am and finishing at 2:00pm here in the local NY area on NBC channel 4. Let me know if you would like me to tape it for you? Try Yahoo TV for your local area to see how much of the race they are going to show.

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If you get directv and get the National East Feed of NBC you can see the race. I get directv and got them to give me this channel and now I can watch the marathon (ignoring the fact I live only 3.5 hours away and could watch it in person, but tv is great).

You will get a 'summary' of one hour (1/3 of which will be commercials and perhaps another 40% showing 'special' situations or personal interviews and other stuff involving 'charity' or Phiddipeses-type runners) and, if lucky, maybe 10-15 minutes of actual race footage.

Once upon a time they covered it live, but the ratings apparently just aren't there. Go figure: NASCAR gets ratings (watching crashes, near crashes and fights & feuds between drivers and crews) and people watch machines going 'round in a circle for hours, but marathons/road races do not.

Once upon a time they covered it live, but the ratings apparently just aren't there. Go figure: NASCAR gets ratings (watching crashes, near crashes and fights & feuds between drivers and crews) and people watch machines going 'round in a circle for hours, but marathons/road races do not.

So, perhaps we need to have the runner rumble on 4th? Maybe a fist fight between Meb and Tergat? Perhaps one of the leaders spins out on the Queensboro Bridge and falls over the side?

A more interesting note is that track and field telecasts have in recent years outdrawn tennis on tv, but guess which sport gets more tv exposure - yep, unless it is the Olympics, tennis will get coverage before athletes running on the track in world leading times.

Let me know if you are interested in buying a DVD copy of the NYC Marathon. It is on NBC and it will be 5 hrs of coverage here in the NY area. I could make anyone who is interested a copy and mail it out the next day. Just email me if you are interested.

john3818 wrote:

Let me know if you are interested in buying a DVD copy of the NYC Marathon. It is on NBC and it will be 5 hrs of coverage here in the NY area. I could make anyone who is interested a copy and mail it out the next day. Just email me if you are interested.

Let us know when you are going to quit spamming the board dickwad.

Go crawl back in your hole and die.

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Let us know when you are going to quit spamming the board dickwad.

TViewer wrote:

You will get a 'summary' of one hour (1/3 of which will be commercials and perhaps another 40% showing 'special' situations or personal interviews and other stuff involving 'charity' or Phiddipeses-type runners) and, if lucky, maybe 10-15 minutes of actual race footage.

Once upon a time they covered it live, but the ratings apparently just aren't there. Go figure: NASCAR gets ratings (watching crashes, near crashes and fights & feuds between drivers and crews) and people watch machines going 'round in a circle for hours, but marathons/road races do not.

honestly, you needledicks complaining about auto racing as though it is some sort of either/or proposition with regard to roadrace coverage are clueless. not all race fans are mouth breathers. some of us have mechanical/scientific/technical backgrounds and love all auto racing for being the fascinating (to us) exhibition that it is.

if you want to talk about some BRAINLESS s*** that inexplicably gets watched by millions ("instead" of athletics) why not cite the plethora of "reality" shows or garbage like lost, or csi, or oc, for which i have seen numerous threads on this very site.

you may hate racing because you don't understand it and are overly attuned to hillbillies and crashes, but that has nothing to do with marathon coverage or the lack there of. open your mind a little bit.