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NBC your Olympics coverage sucks (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by reddig33@lemmy.world to c/television@lemmy.world

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Not that I should be surprised, but trying to watch it today and it’s just talk talk talk talk. Commercials. More talk. Overhead shots of the stadium. People walking around in the rain. Talking head. Cut away to footage of Carl Lewis bitching about something. Instant replay of something they already showed. People hugging. Stadium shot. Human interest story. Commercial. Shot of Eiffel Tower. Promo for actual sports being shown on Peacock. Etc etc.

Meanwhile you can see there’s sporting events going on because they are showing them on the Jumbotron in the stadium shots. Really no excuse for this since most of this coverage is pre-recorded anyway.

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[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

not sure what event you were watching but over the last two weeks i thought the coverage was actually pretty good. yes there is human interest stuff but i don’t think it has been egregious. some commercials side by side with live action, but also not too egregious.

that being said i am mostly watching live events during the day on youtube tv, not on peacock. also bouncing around between USA, E!, and the extra olympics channels. maybe it’s worse on NBC prime time and everything prerecorded.

incidentally youtube tv’s multiview has been clutch for the olympics.