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I've brought up NASCAR and TdF coverage as examples for T&F to emulate before. The thing that really makes me batty is that those are put on by NBC. The producers are probably right down the hall! How hard is it to get these guys in a room together for a couple of hours?

It's not about getting things for FREE as many of the opposition on this board keep saying. Look I can watch ANY sport imaginable and get GREAT commentary on it for FREE all day on cable. No issues. I just want the same for track and field. Why the F do I have to buy a $20/month or more subscription just to watch or get decent track coverage? In no other sport do I have to shell out extra money to watch it. Cable or satellite subs should cover it like every other sport out there.

You are assuming that connection speeds and services will be available. "Team USA" has shut down the public wi-fi in the past. What stops them from taking this to the next level? NBC will do what they want and that's all there is to it.

MM3307 wrote:

I've brought up NASCAR and TdF coverage as examples for T&F to emulate before. The thing that really makes me batty is that those are put on by NBC. The producers are probably right down the hall! How hard is it to get these guys in a room together for a couple of hours?

I'm not a NASCAR follower or fan, but if I'm bored at home I'll tune in to the a race here and there. I did not like NBC's coverage of last night's Daytona race. They used camera shots that were too low and too zoomed in on the leader for you to see any of action that didn't involve the lead car. I'm sure FOX's coverage has it's detractors too, but at least when there is a move for 10th place or something (which makes a difference for scoring points) they point it out and I get to see it.

They also spent a ton of time in split screen where one box was a ride along camera pointed AT a driver. So the actual race action was shrunk to a very small size so that the audience could REALLLLY appreciate that the drivers check their mirrors and make tiny steering corrections all the time.

Hockey, SNF, and TdF, that's all I'm giving them as successes right now. My favorite Olympic coverage is when they just take someone else's coverage of less popular sports and put that online (long track speed skating at Sochi was like this).

I make note of telling NBC that I sometimes choose not to watch because I'm frustrated with the coverage. I often would rather read updates here.

Right now the NBC app has 5! different broadcast to choose from from the most recent race but we can't get an entire 10k without commercials, breaks for other events, and athlete stories.

good announcer wrote:

Who was the announcer for London 2012 for track and field on YouTube? That's an example of a good announcer.

"The might of East Africa!" is a memorable phrase as they were all making the turn for bell lap.

Clerk wrote:

The commentary style of Horse Racing that was embraced when Tom Hammond was first brought to the team is not appropriate for real, human athletes. Listening to commentators treat the race without personality is turning my off from tuning in to the sport I love.

It's so dumb when Hammond painstakingly recites who is first through 5th when they are all in a pack mid-race, as if the exact order matters at that point. But then as if the middle of the race doesn't matter at all, will show a taped bio package of an athlete in an entirely different event.

Here is my submission to NBC. I am sure some of you without children will flame me for this. I don't care :-)

To Whom it May Concern,

I learned the word "damn" from a playground bully.

Tonight, my 7 year old son learned the word "damn" while watching the Olympic Trials on NBC. Specifically, the song playing during the promo for women's gymnastics used the word very clearly. I understand that not everyone is offended by that type of language, and that as swear words go, "damn" is fairly vanilla. However, the Olympics should be a program that our family should be able to view without the need to preview language.

To clarify: I would understand if, during a live broadcast, an upset athlete uttered an expletive (which I assume could be bleeped out, anyway). If a word did slip through in a moment of frustration, I could use it as a teachable moment with my son about the need to control emotion. This, however, is a different story. NBC had DAYS to prepare this promo piece, and there is plenty of motivational / inspirational music to choose from that is expletive-free. What can my son learn from that?

Please acknowledge receipt of this comment, and attach NBC's official stance on the matter.

Thanks so much for your time.

All the best,

Jeff

Hammond is absolutely terrible. He's bad with names and you can tell that he's not even a fan of the sport. Tonight in the men's I heard it was "___________ is starting out good." That's not even proper English.

Craig Masback is knowledgeable, but he is so boring and monotone. Listening to him is about as exciting as watching paint dry. It pains me to listen to those two. I'm really about half tempted to watch without sound.

Seriously, track and field needs some new blood. Hammond needs to stick to horse racing or just retire.

If we were to bring in Hutchings and Cram to do commentary on the U.S Trials it would so be worth the money.

At one point he called Vashti 'the SON of..." a former pro football player

That's a weak argument. NBC must hear from parents on a daily basis who don't like the four letter words they hear on sitcoms or live sports broadcasts.

What we are struggling for is complete coverage of our sport not a PG rating of the incomplete coverage that that are giving us now.

Leave It to Beaverton wrote:

Hammond is absolutely terrible. He's bad with names and you can tell that he's not even a fan of the sport. Tonight in the men's I heard it was "___________ is starting out good." That's not even proper English.

Craig Masback is knowledgeable, but he is so boring and monotone. Listening to him is about as exciting as watching paint dry. It pains me to listen to those two. I'm really about half tempted to watch without sound.

Seriously, track and field needs some new blood. Hammond needs to stick to horse racing or just retire.

If we were to bring in Hutchings and Cram to do commentary on the U.S Trials it would so be worth the money.

Hammond was talking today about how great someone looked in 2nd place…and then Ato had to try to cover for him again by saying that he let up before the line and was actually in 3rd place. Yea. Sure Tom.

If NBC cared about track they would of fired Tom Hammond about 20 years ago. They never did. He is still here. Carol Lewis is not here.

Ato with Hutchings would be OK. I like both of them.

Tom must leave right now.

I am not kidding.

I can't stand it any longer.

Please stop it Tom!

Seriously people? The 10K? I'm a rabid track fan, but the only thing worse than watching a 10k on TV is the race-walk. Deal with it people, your event is boring as hell and it's horrible TV. I totally agree that NBC's track coverage is terrible, but not because they don't show a full 30 min race.

oopsIcrappedmypants wrote:

Seriously people? The 10K? I'm a rabid track fan, but the only thing worse than watching a 10k on TV is the race-walk. Deal with it people, your event is boring as hell and it's horrible TV. I totally agree that NBC's track coverage is terrible, but not because they don't show a full 30 min race.

It's fine if you think it's boring; many people think soccer is boring for the same reason: it is 90 minutes of largely nothing happening. HOWEVER, you have to watch the whole 90 minutes or you are going to miss when the goals happen. Do you think anyone would be satisfied having a soccer game on tv where they left the coverage when goals happened and then just showed the first 3 minutes and the last 3 minutes and figured that was enough because you still saw who won? In the 10K, the race could be won (or at least narrowed to the top 2 or 3) on lap 17 when some guy surged. That is the equivalent of the goal in soccer.

Baseball and football are 3 and a half hours with approximately 15 minutes of action yet they show roughly 2 hours of it live.

I would love to see 2/3 of the race.

Exactly. Great analogy.

Bumping this thread after just catching up with the day's action.

Interruptions in every 3k steeple and 5k heat. They did use picture in picture during an interview and heat 2 of the 5k.

Please email your complaints. Tell your friends to complain. Make noise.

NBC is just terrible. Absolutely the worst track coverage I've ever seen as a fan since the 1980s.

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