NBC "story" vs. international feed "race"

NBC is a vampire gripping the sport's neck and bleeding it dry.

Nothing good has ever come of its rights $$$. That all went nowhere, improved nothing. Stop selling broadcast rights and people will start watching again.

They even manage to get youtube to geoblock all replay content but theirs. This should not be a thing in the internet age, video hosting is not broadcasting.

If WA would just let the international feed be shared far and wide, they could gain plenty of revenue from ad placement within the feed.

Hutchings had a big advantage because he also called the European Team Championships 5000 the prior weekend. In that race he misjudged Laros' finishing kick and briefly called the other guy home free in the middle of the final turn. Hutchings wasn't going to make that mistake again.

That's an anecdote. But big picture the British guys and that telecast are simply much better than NBC and Leigh Diffey. It's just too bad that Paul Swangard wasn't ready or well prepared when they tried him in the Diamond League play by play role circa 2019 and 2020. Swangard is better than Diffey right now but at that point he took too much for granted and wasn't prepared at all when second or third tier runners were in contention. I've mentioned the upset laden Diamond League men's 1500 in which Swangard didn't call one name over the final 200 meters because he didn't know who any of them were. NBC quickly scrubbed that video from the internet and went looking for a play by play replacement.

Leigh Diffy is horrible and needs ro be dumped

It's not always NBC Hollywood. NBC has fillers from indie sources.

Lewis Johnson never asks a real question. His interviews are a waste of time. "Take us through the last lap" is not a question. I turn the sound off when he comes on the broadcast. Imagine LETSRUN.com's Jonathan Gault doing the postrace interviews - we can dream!

Also, the personal athlete stories need to stop. Sad but no one really cares. Same thing over and over again. Just stick to the races please.

the so called main stream media make up stories to follow a narrative prior to events of any kind. actually the mainstream is not main, its faded away except for a few niches. baby boomers still suck it up that diatribe here and there,

experts? they don't care.

at a critical moment in a race, they routinely cut to an event of no interest or run an inane side clip, why? it's incompetence! its outrageous, its bla bla.

no....

they don't care

its been the same thing for 30 years

blojoes keep complaining and they nbcabccnnfbicia keep on truckin ..

they don't care

about the time

about the winners name

did i mention they give no fuccccs?

etc,

make your own track network, get some baseball player with a billion dollars to back it

anyway great meet, great camera work, and fantastic coverage letsrun.

Stop attributing these filers to NBC Sports Hollywood. It's by indie producers who buy empty network time slots.

Their target audience seems to be the non serious fan, and their tactics for that are losing the real fans as there is a better product out there. One wonders if they will somehow work to prevent the use of vpn to access geographically blocked material. Money talks.

Is there a recording of the men’s 10k available?