Yet, the event is at 3:50 PM central US time on a Sunday. The 3000m SC is right before the 100M final, at 3:25 PM US central time too, and of course, there in no track and field of any kind shown until NBC primetime, at 6 PM central time.
Yet, the event is at 3:50 PM central US time on a Sunday. The 3000m SC is right before the 100M final, at 3:25 PM US central time too, and of course, there in no track and field of any kind shown until NBC primetime, at 6 PM central time.
NBC shows very little live. Especially the "popular" events. They want them in Prime Time.
They won't be showing the 400m live either, instead on prime time.
Just make sure you guys stay off of lets run those days. If Evan Jagger medals, someone will make a thread.
This is unbelievable. Over here we have too many options to choose. Is there no American equivalent of the red button?
The olympics only come around every 4 years, how can they fcuk this up so much?
NBC paid the money for the broadcast rights. Why didn't they make the primitives in England hold the 100M at 5 PM Pacific Time in Hollywood.
lol from the uk wrote:
This is unbelievable. Over here we have too many options to choose. Is there no American equivalent of the red button?
The olympics only come around every 4 years, how can they fcuk this up so much?
whats the red button?
they fcuk it up because most americans don't care. supply and demand.
You really think the network that has been in last place for about a decade knows what it's doing?
Everything is live online. That's what I'll be watching and maybe by the Rio Olympics, the NBC suits will have finally gotten into the 21st century.
Get a VPN. Problem solved...
Judging by the outrage on twitter it seems that a lot of Americans do care.
I suppose DirectTV would be similar to the red button.
Basically what the BBC have done is made every event available live no matter when it is on or how many other events are on at the same time. If you want to watch the qualifying rounds of the rhythmic gymnastics it will be on somewhere.
It's all available online too.
UPDATE.
Here are the events NBC will NOT be showing live.
100m Final
3000 SC Final
400m Final
1500m Final
800m Semi (last chance to see some americans run)
800m Final
200m Final
5000m Final
Again, NONE of these will be live
NBC will be showing LIVE
10000m Final -> 3:15 PM US central
Mens Marathon -> 5 AM US central (no rerun)
I excluded women's events and other events that us distance runners don't care about.
I'm staying the hell off of the internet during this week.
I'm not going to have any spoilers from people watching it on their laptops.
NBC is going for the 99.99% of the audience instead of the 0.01% that visits the letsrun.com board. And the 0.01% likely is very generous.
you guys know you can watch it all live online...
I would rather watch a very important race with my family on my giant HD TV than on my laptop in my room, with ads that need to buffer and video freezing on a tiny screen.
I'm actually fine with it because it will expose the country to our athletes during prime time. Lots more eyeballs will be watching that way. BUT for us die-hards that must have it live there is the new invention called the internet and it is live there. Both are satisfied.
Admin wrote:
I would rather watch a very important race with my family on my giant HD TV than on my laptop in my room, with ads that need to buffer and video freezing on a tiny screen.
Not everyone's laptops are tiny screened. And doesn't tv have ads too? What ads need to buffer? Also, my track videos never freeze. What are you talking about?
NBC is showing EVERYTHING live. You just need to know where to look.
Over/under for NBC showing Bolt scratch his balls before he gets into the blocks = 15 minutes...funny though that they won't show an uninterrupted 5,000m race of roughly the same length of time.
Probably need to make sure no one fails a drug test first.
I'd rather see it live no matter what-