I met many international fans in Eugene last summer who had a great time. Their near universal question was, “Where are the American fans?”. While I think that Tracktown is missing the mark in some areas (mainly overpriced tix), the high cost of travel and accommodations did not scare off Euro, African, and Caribbean fans. If they can make the trip, why couldn’t exceptional Americans do it?
Face facts - Americans are shi**y fans, cheap AF, and lack passion. We will kill the sport here.
No publicity in the US. No established TV broadcasts. Nothing on the local news broadcasts. Almost all "Posterized Photoshop Pictures" and smiley picts on social media instead of action snapshots. Its as if Hungary had an international TV blackout for the past 2 weels.
No publicity in the US. No established TV broadcasts. Nothing on the local news broadcasts. Almost all "Posterized Photoshop Pictures" and smiley picts on social media instead of action snapshots. Its as if Hungary had an international TV blackout for the past 2 weels.
You forgot the biggest problem...The website crashing daily. What were they using a Commodore 64 to host the site? I've haven't seen that kind of internet ineptitude in a decade. I thought we were well past that being an issue.
Except for the excessive commercials at times, the Peacock coverage was pretty good and the price is reasonable.
It is now a streaming world. The Peacock coverage was really good. I have Peacock for golf, track, tennis and a couple of shows and the odd movie. Putting it on network TV does not really mean much anymore as most everyone is now streaming and network TV has been losing audience share consistently year over year.
The broadcasting in the US was inundated with ads and had far too many feature stories. Further, the announcers operated on a 2-3 second delay and their commentary was insipid. but thats only a problem for the small American audience. (though I can't help but wonder whether the sport would be more popular in America if it had more exposure. really the issues for the US come from USATF sucking.) From a competition aspect, however, the races were all exiting. However, another world record or two would have been nice.
Good grief, I've been hearing that since the 1980s. I still remember Track and Field News doing a big apocalyptic cover story with the headline, "What if they gave a track meet and nobody came?" They quoted athletes and coaches who played up variations of the "track is dying!!!!" theme.
That was almost 4 decades ago. The sport is still around. It'll still be around 4 decades from now. It'll just never be big mass consumption entertainment. And that's okay. It doesn't need to be.
World Athletics should only sell if the broadcaster is going to show it all - at least all night sessions on broadcast - and every single competition on streaming, just like the Olympics had a dedicated channel for every event that was taking place at the track or field. 1 dedicated channel/streaming channel for long jump, another to high jump, another for track, another for pole vault and so on.
Nothing better than have 4 TVs turned on at the same time so you lose nothing.
This was the first worlds I watched with a vpn. The coverage I viewed was outstanding. I can't speak to NBC's coverage, but that's not Sebastien Coe's doing. I've found fault with the nbc coverage in the past enough times that it would take a lot of reccomendations for me to choose them going forward. In the past it seemed they tried to script their coverage and didn't know how to properly cover the events when something unexpected happened, had too much human interest (oft exaggerated tales of hardship), and were too national focused as opposed to impartial. The coverage I viewed had none of those issues.
No publicity in the US. No established TV broadcasts. Nothing on the local news broadcasts. Almost all "Posterized Photoshop Pictures" and smiley picts on social media instead of action snapshots. Its as if Hungary had an international TV blackout for the past 2 weels.
I love the US but the US is not the world. It makes up 4% of the World’s population. I haven’t seen any complaints from the other 96%.
No publicity in the US. No established TV broadcasts. Nothing on the local news broadcasts. Almost all "Posterized Photoshop Pictures" and smiley picts on social media instead of action snapshots. Its as if Hungary had an international TV blackout for the past 2 weels.
It was NBC everyday
It was on NBC only on three days. (Day One, Two and Nine.) OP must be one of those people who have neither cable nor satellite. CNBC and USA network must be out of reach for him.
As for making the headline on the mainstream news, Moon and Kennedy surely did.
No publicity in the US. No established TV broadcasts. Nothing on the local news broadcasts. Almost all "Posterized Photoshop Pictures" and smiley picts on social media instead of action snapshots. Its as if Hungary had an international TV blackout for the past 2 weels.
You forgot the biggest problem...The website crashing daily. What were they using a Commodore 64 to host the site? I've haven't seen that kind of internet ineptitude in a decade. I thought we were well past that being an issue.
Except for the excessive commercials at times, the Peacock coverage was pretty good and the price is reasonable.
They might still be using Triple Tre or something like that. It's from Italy. NCAA schools are migrating from CBS's 20 year old content management system to AI cooperative web from Microsoft, Adobe, Google, etc. in 2024. I think pro sports is adopting the AI initiative too.
I might suggest that for those of you wanting a stadium experience in your living room just face it and figure out how to get there. Otherwise, develop the VR tech or total recall tech to gain some satisfaction. However, I think this sorry lot just likes to complain randomly.
I WILL side with you on the nbc anouncers in that they are just horrid. As a longtime athlete, coach, fan of the sport, their droning perspectives, constant, untimely yelling, lack of understanding etc...is boring and not appealing to the casual or interested viewer. Dan O'Brien obviously knows his $hit....Names, abilities, achievements, technical expetise and so on. The 3 main announcers, Bolden who is pretty opinionated and narrow minded, Richardon who doesn't know enough to cover events she hasnt participated in and communicate effectively and just another British guy accent to add false sophistication. Terrible.
No publicity in the US. No established TV broadcasts. Nothing on the local news broadcasts. Almost all "Posterized Photoshop Pictures" and smiley picts on social media instead of action snapshots. Its as if Hungary had an international TV blackout for the past 2 weels.
I watched every single event final live on my TV on NBC, CNBC or USA.