Major issue with Worlds boadcast that NBC needs to fix.

(1) “Look, I always say, if it's a track meet and I"m not broadcasting it, I'm going to complain 9 times out of 10 about the announcing, but I'd bet my life on it.”

What???

(2) “But SRR and Ato are calling it off what they see so it's very confusing as the timing isn't right.”

What???

(3) “ Waiting a second or two is fine but he waits like 4 (2+2) and that is bad.”

4 is 2+2. Okay.

(4) “I"m”

Oh okay

(5) “I was watching the monitor, heard Hassan fall, looked at the track and it was long over.“

What???

(6) “A half second dealy isn't bad but multiple seconds is.”

What???

(7) “The fall is most obvious but even on Lyles call Leigh says, "Watch the clock" but he says it when Lyles is already at the finish line and it's clear it's not a WR.(”

Oh okay

They're in the stadium, so they can see what's happening in front of them. I work in television and saw this happen during the Tour de France where the announcers were slightly delayed from the video. Here is likely what's happening.

The announce team is in the stadium, but the production crew is back in Stamford likely working out of one of the control rooms from their studio (as opposed to sending a full production crew to Budapest). So for the announce team to see everything, the signal on their monitors has to travel from Budapest back to Stamford and out to Budapest again. Hard to sync all that without delaying the audio/video coming back from Budapest in which case everything would be out of sync.

The issue is more where their control room is, not what feed the announcers are. They're obviously looking at the track, not a monitor, so that's not the reason they're out of sync. It's just the delay in getting their audio back from Budapest.

Rojo has some crazy ideas, but I gotta say, he really blew the case wide open here!

Thanks again for the coverage so far.

Wow thanks Sherlock

Oh man, glad the international feed is what we get in Canada!

We don’t care

our sport is just top of the line

You want a Fix? World Athletics won't even pay the athletes what they deserve.

Well, Sonja and Ato are watching the track cause they called a bad baton exchange we couldn't see on screen. And then Leigh called the ending delayed.

So just watched my first race live since the report, oh my god it is so obvious.

Of course, NBC probably does not give a crap about the true track fan. This is probably just a contractual obligation to televise, comes with the Olympics contract?

To be honest the TV product for track WC is not good. Only reason I had patience all week to watch is because of a COVID case, so been bored out of mind.

Can we just have an all finals WC, dump the country entries and just go off rankings. No relays, no marathon. Stop making this like an Olympics format.

His problem is he tries to be a play by play and color commentator at the same time. He has one job...report the race itself and let the others pontificate about what is happening.

NBC coverage has been bad for years. Even I use a vpn at this point. You're downgrading your experience if you watch on nbc.

Excellent observation. I noticed it but had no idea why the delay was happening. Rojo nailed it.

Seriously, I would pay $500 to have ROJO, WEJO, and Gault to the play by play during the Olympics or World Championships.

This lines up very well with the observation made a few times on the international broadcast, that athletes were looking up at the stadium screens and being misled about who was around them due to a delay. Presumably they and Diffey are on the same feed.

Diffey definitely 1-2 seconds late always. Producers on this show are not pros.