Men's 1500 on at 2:15 a.m. Eastern

This is crap. They advertised it as being on between 8-12. 2:15 was not listed as a possibility, so I didn't even DVR it. Fortunately, I caught it on Telemudo.

I usually don't pay attention to the channel a given show is on, but I won't watch NBC after 8/24.

Further, their overnight show was listed to be from 12:30 to 2:00, which is what I recorded. I also will not watch NBC after Saturday night, and I will send a note to them about my feelings.

Remember when the mile used to be referred to as the "glamour event?"

Not anymore.

I'm so glad I wasn't dumb enough to sit through 2 hours of men's showering and synchronized hand-holding only to discover that they weren't showing the final of the 1500. I DVR'd the 8-12 broadcast, watched a pretty sweet movie ON DEMAND during that time, and then FFwd through everything after watching my movie.

This is Lagat and Webb's fault.

The US had its best crop of 1500m runners ever and no one made the final.

The men's 1500 may wind up being the only track event without an American in the final.

No red white and blue - no prime time coverage.

mens 1500

once glamour race of the games

now, late night filler

Was the 1500m even televised? If so, my Tivo didn't pick it up.

I didn't get the TV turned on until about 8:15. Then I watched the whole broadcast until midnight waiting for the 1500...the gymnastics, the diving, all of it. And I already knew the gymnastics results because the afternoon paper in my small town put the story on the front page of the sports section. When the 1500 never came on, I assumed it had been shown between 8 and 8:15.

I think if Lagat makes the final, the 1500 is a marquee event in the prime time coverage. NBC's Olympic coverage isn't about the sport, it's about the individual personalities and stories.

I was wondering why I couldn't find it this morning as I replayed the night's recordings.

That is so pathetic. I guarentee the CBC covered it at a reasonable hour. The 1500 is still a premier event, apparently though not to NBC if an American isn't running.

NBC, in case you were just born yesterday, I should let you know that Olympic Track and Field centers around three events: the 100m, the "mile" (1500), and the marathon. These are the glamour events, like them or not. Broadcast them during primetime and spare me the boy's synchronized pederass showering competition.

Ha ha ha ha ha

CBC showed it live, with commentary from Dave Moorcroft.

Sorry USA.

If it makes you feel better, though, your country is better than ours at averything else (except hockey and Celine Dion).

I suffered through a few days of NBC while on vacation in America. Now I am back in Israel and can watch the events live with barely any commercials on two channels: one in English and one in Hebrew. Basically NBC is an embarrassment to the USA. I suggest that in 4 years people go on vacation to any country in the world outside of NBC's reach during the Olympics.

Canadian Viewer wrote:

Ha ha ha ha ha

CBC showed it live, with commentary from Dave Moorcroft.

Sorry USA.

If it makes you feel better, though, your country is better than ours at averything else (except hockey and Celine Dion).

I wouldn't consider having Celine Dion making you better at something.

Israeli wrote:

I suffered through a few days of NBC while on vacation in America. Now I am back in Israel and can watch the events live with barely any commercials on two channels: one in English and one in Hebrew. Basically NBC is an embarrassment to the USA. I suggest that in 4 years people go on vacation to any country in the world outside of NBC's reach during the Olympics.

thats actually a pretty good idea. jump over to canada while the track is on.

Indeed, all finals are shown live. The men's 10k received about 20 minutes of coverage - pretty good I think. To give you an idea of how good CBC is I was disappointed this morning that they only showed 2 of the 800m heats(both live).

As for, "If it makes you feel better, though, your country is better than ours at averything else (except hockey and Celine Dion)", don't be such a dork. I will not detract from any country and their results (there are way too many losers doing that on other threads), but keep in mind that the US has 10X the population, China 1.3 Billion to choose from... apples and oranges.

I guess I was lucky that I just hit record before going to bed, rather than tape the advertised time of the late night show. So I got to see it. Tom Hammond could not have sounded more bored doing the voiceover. Memo to Tom: if you loathe our sport that much, have the self respect to decline the paycheck and let someone else try; you can't need the money that bad.

Bob Costos had the nerve to say Bolt wasn't showing respect for track when NBC has shown nothing but contempt for track the last week.

same here wrote:

I usually don't pay attention to the channel a given show is on, but I won't watch NBC after 8/24.

I haven't watched anything (maybe a rare sports event) on NBC in years. Based on their commercials for the upcoming shows on their network, that won't change after the olympics.

i waited until 1a.m., at which point i saw that bmx bike racing has now become more important tho nbc than the 1500. this isn't the x games... what the f***? i don't care if no americans make the final, i want to see this event and get a decent amount of sleep. at least nbc found it in their hearts to put the video on their website.