American Track Coverage vs. European Track Coverage

you do realize it's impossible to edit false starts out of LIVE TV?????? and that the general populace has no interest in wathing KB go around a track for a half an hour though there may be like 50 people here who want to see it.....and if they showed the 10k M+W they would have room for like 4 more events...rahter than showing every other event on the track and thus attracting more viewers.....most of the dead time in coverage would be eliminated if meets were run more efficiently....then they'd have no choice but skip the interview and keep showing races...but get this

ITS LIVE...THEY SHOW WHAT's HAPPENING ON THE TRACK, YOU CAN't EDIT IT

The main difference is our broadcasts tend to be live, and theirs tend to be taped. NBC can't control the runners false starting and can't control the meet's athlete introduction. It also harder than you think to announce a sprint race; especially in this day and age where every athlete seems to wear the same Nike singlet.

However, if all the events are shown on tape delay (which they have been in the past), then Letsrun would complain about the lack of live coverage.

Lack of distance coverage is a sore spot, but understand that televising distance events over two miles is very tough. If you televise the men's and women's 5000, that's 1/4 of your broadcast "wasted" on an event not many care about. It'd be worse for a 10k. I would love to watch an uninterrupted distance race, but understand the need to cut to field events or compress the taped coverage. Nothing exciting has ever happened on lap three of a 10k...we don't really need to see it.

The full-time announcers like Joe Buck, Armen Ketayan, etc. have face time contacts that put them ON-camera so many minutes per show. The wannabe part-timers like studdering Louis Johnson, cliche-boy Dwight Stones, etc. want face-time to build up their tape collection which they will use to make it to full-time gig at a local station, etc. Then to the next 2nd tier gig (ESPN, FOX, local TV in NYC CHI SF ATL), then to the astronomical top paying media gigs (LA local TV, NBC/CBS/ABC national TV). Producers know this and low-ball the wannabes in exchange for more face time. Lead ups are prepared weeks in advance so it's easy to just play the tapes at the studio in Hollywood to fill up the minutes. Most shows are now remote produced in Hollywood to minimize travel and logistics coats. Also most of the TV talent lives in Hollywood.