70 dollars to watch Nationals

Plus you get the 8 remaining DL meets, Berlin, and various domestic events (Peachtree, 5th ave mile, etc.). If you are paying the $70 and only watching nationals I don't think you really care about that much about the sport anyway.

It's on USATF/IAAF to grow the sport. NBC's job is to make money. As it is, I think it's fairly reasonable for what you get (even in a non-championship year).

I prefer it to ESPN since I don't have cable. Cable is the real expensive part.

Saturday and Sunday, aka most of the finals, are live on NBC from 4-6pm. You're not going to ever see prelim action capture a large audience, so it doesn't make sense for NBC to devote valuable time to it. Some semis are available on delay tomorrow night from 11pm-1am on NBCSN.

$75 for a season isn't bad. Some interesting points are raised which make me wonder what the options will look like in 10 years as streaming options are plentiful and old broadcasters are old. Around my house if I said, "hey turn on NBC", my kids would ask "whats NBC?". If I said "lets watch some USATF" they would say, "great, track, where is it streaming".

NBC Sports Gold is expensive and they don't do as good of coverage as Eurosport or BBC (usually). But you can't watch us nationals anywhere else. Its less expensive than a month of cable tv though.

Kvothe wrote:

NBC Sports Gold is expensive and they don't do as good of coverage as Eurosport or BBC (usually). But you can't watch us nationals anywhere else. Its less expensive than a month of cable tv though.

What are you talking about dont do as good as Eurosport or BBC? When you watch the NBC Gold you have the option of the international AD FREE which is the same (with the same announcers ) as the BBC would be.

NBC Gold is a great deal

not growing the sport wrote:

Its nice of NBC to drop the yearly price from 75 to 70 with the season almost over. No wonder we can not get anyone to care about Track.

My God track and field fans are the cheapest SOB's

yeah it's not 70$ for one meet, you get a full years worth of access to just about all major international track meets and road races with no advertisements and good announcing (as good as you can get with track anyways). I'm a poor college student and still think its totally worth it

There's no way that I'm ever going to pay corporate thieves for stealing from me.

Either coverage is free, or I do something else.

If you're a cable subscriber, like I am, you already get all the diamond league meets. So, effectively, you're paying 70 dollars for today's coverage. The only finals are the 10k's. It's a complete ripoff and I hope the subscription rate is so low that they have come up with something else.

everybody has to pay and pay.

bladerunner wrote:

If you're a cable subscriber, like I am, you already get all the diamond league meets. So, effectively, you're paying 70 dollars for today's coverage. The only finals are the 10k's. It's a complete ripoff and I hope the subscription rate is so low that they have come up with something else.

Most people don't have cable anymore. Sorry it's a bad deal for you but I'm glad the days are over when you don't have to pay thousands of dollars to watch the one TV channel you want.

Why doesn't someone pirate it and stream it like every other major sporting event?

73 years old wrote:

Kvothe wrote:

NBC Sports Gold is expensive and they don't do as good of coverage as Eurosport or BBC (usually). But you can't watch us nationals anywhere else. Its less expensive than a month of cable tv though.

What are you talking about dont do as good as Eurosport or BBC? When you watch the NBC Gold you have the option of the international AD FREE which is the same (with the same announcers ) as the BBC would be.

NBC Gold is a great deal

Until it goes down during the race you paid to watch. Reliability still not up to broadcast or cable standards.

Hardloper wrote:

bladerunner wrote:

If you're a cable subscriber, like I am, you already get all the diamond league meets. So, effectively, you're paying 70 dollars for today's coverage. The only finals are the 10k's. It's a complete ripoff and I hope the subscription rate is so low that they have come up with something else.

Most people don't have cable anymore. Sorry it's a bad deal for you but I'm glad the days are over when you don't have to pay thousands of dollars to watch the one TV channel you want.

so you can get nbc gold without paying an internet monthly fee?

Hayduke wrote:

Hardloper wrote:

Most people don't have cable anymore. Sorry it's a bad deal for you but I'm glad the days are over when you don't have to pay thousands of dollars to watch the one TV channel you want.

so you can get nbc gold without paying an internet monthly fee?

You can watch it on your phone and (at least I believe) you don't need anything but a standard smartphone data plan for that. So to answer your smartass question, yes.

I got it a while ago for 70- I watched the first two Diamond League Meets on replay then a couple more and now Nationals.

So far, it's about 15 bucks per meet. That will go down as I watch the rest of the Diamond League plus the marathons they show.