Does NBC suck all life from worlds coverage or what??!

Hammond in the steeple just now: "And the Indian runner has a big lead." And then silence.

Insightful.

INCOMING 400 METERS WORLD RECORD!!!!

Lewis Johnson is one of the worst interviewers of all time as well. His questions to Gatlin after the 100 final were terrible. He's another former track guy who is an idiot when it comes to doing his current job.

What coverage?

NBC's ratings suck? Well, there are so many Internet alternatives to them, most of them involving British site links,. that...why would you watch NBC if you had a choice?

NBC ruins every sporting event they cover. Olympics coverage SUUUUUUUCCCCKKKKSSSSS and I've been saying that since I can remember noticing - maybe 1996?

They'd rather show fluff pieces and commercials than the actual sporting event.

I still do not understand why they refuse to do picture in picture during events to show commercials....you know, like every other network in the world

The Stache wrote:

I still do not understand why they refuse to do picture in picture during events to show commercials....you know, like every other network in the world

Omma no see dissa so many

EXHAUSTED wrote:

Hammond, Bolden, Masback...these guys are unconscionably, dreadfully boring. Just inane. How you broadcast that much track and field for that many years and have that little insight?

Moreover, how could Bolden, Masback have spent that much time as elite athletes and have so little to add? Are they that out of touch? ...

They should fire everyone but Dwight Stones and start all over. There has to be someone out there who can speak to American audiences and actually demonstrate some insight.

Larry Rawson was a punchline on this site for years, but he is 100% a step up from this misery.

I like Ato Bolden. He's knowledgeable and enthusiastic and Dwight Stones is fine. Lewis Johnson is tolerable. He asks obvious, cliched questions, but since the athletes are usually primed only to give obvious, cliched answers it usually doesn't matter.

However, Tom Hammond is terrible and a boob. Craig Masback makes me want to go to sleep and only says the most obvious things. To me he's the guy who sucks the life from every distance race. He and Larry Rawson are equally bad just in different ways.

Hutchings and Cram would be a big improvement.

The Guy Who wrote:

NBC's ratings suck? Well, there are so many Internet alternatives to them, most of them involving British site links,. that...why would you watch NBC if you had a choice?

Maybe because people with jobs have to record the meets in order to watch them?

Obviously we don't always have a choice.

I will watch a British internet feed if it's practical, but those have their own problems...jerky, blurry, etc.

and just to show you how we have been trapped in purgatory with this garbage for going on 25 years...

Honestly, can you tell ANY difference between then and now?!

UGH. GET RID OF THEM NBC.

My $.02 worth wrote:

[quote]EXHAUSTED wrote:

He asks obvious, cliched questions, but since the athletes are usually primed only to give obvious, cliched answers it usually doesn't matter.

Exactly and a good reason to not even bother listening to post race interviews. Farah has this down to perfection, he has about 3 stock cliches and just rotates through them irrespective of what the actual question was.

Watched a streaming of British coverage of the worlds and those announcers were awesome. They actually had some insight into every event. They repeatedly broke away inbetween heats for field event action (similar to golf). They even talked about what was going on in the race outside the top 2 runners.

Oh and they sounded like they wanted to be there.

NBC is televising the WC? Really? On which channel?

Yes, they do...always.

:(

At least the mofo Dwight Stones wasn't around to talk about the runners being in a peloton. Probably getting his hair styled somewhere.

Seriously, what coverage? Weekend highlight shows?