Joe Roberts wrote:
NBC Sports Gold is easily worth the $70. Many many meets/races throughout the year. You get to see everything with no commercials. Can watch every attempt in the field events. It's a great deal
Not really IMO. Obviously depends on your focus, but I think all things considered with the exclusives, getting yearly Runnerspace + FloPro accounts is more worth it than NBC gold.
First of all NBC gold usually only broadcasts meets that are (in some capacity) also on NBC / NBC sports, so the national TV portions are always available for free online. Also for DL meets the international announcers are typically better than the NBC ones anyways, and those are all on the IAAF youtube channel.
It does suck for USATFs because this is the one meet that you truly do need to pay to watch, at least for prelims -- but tomorrow the main events will all be online so it won't be that bad. I was hoping that Runnerspace or Flotrack would rebroadcast the prelims again this year "for Canadian IP addresses only" but no dice.