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A Black Falcon said:
NBC is showing other things during the day, such as volleyball (beach and indoor), track/swimming heats, water polo, rowing, etc etc, the daytime show has had lots of stuff. They've run Olympic programming from 11am or noon until about 6pm every weekday so far, and from 9am (or earlier) on weekends. Then of course the primetime stuff goes from 8 to midnight, and then there's a latenight Olympics show from 12:30 to 1:30 as well. And that's just NBC itself, not any of its cable networks.

So no, I think that NBC's decision is reasonable. It puts stuff that not as many people care about watching on during the day, and the stuff that the most people want to watch on at primetime. If you run the major stuff twice, then when do you run all that other stuff? Only on cable or something? That'd be unfortunate...
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Well the BBC has 49 channels for the Olympics (24 SD, 24 HD and 1 3D), so the least NBC could do would be to have a few live channels and then still have their delayed "primetime" show on their main channel for the people who can't watch the events live.
 
Napoleonthechimp said:
I am certainly not 100% sane and fully acknowledge that, but I also don't seem to share in the majority's belief system when it comes to this specific example. When you spend your formative years "on the outside looking in" when it comes to social groups you begin to wonder why people do the things they do and as a result you become disconnected (to a small extent) from the main social/cultural narrative.

However, like in many instances in my life I will have to pretend that I believe in the things that others believe because doing otherwise makes you the "crazy one". Ironically, living that lie on a daily basis makes me legitimately crazy.
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I really don't understand the outside looking in thing. One, I have spent the last two years deep in China with no real western influences that can be found in the bigger cities. I don't play table tennis but I know that it is popular there so I understand why they would be excited about it. The running thing isn't cultural though, its a human event.
 
A Black Falcon said:
NBC is showing other things during the day, such as volleyball (beach and indoor), track/swimming heats, water polo, rowing, etc etc, the daytime show has had lots of stuff. They've run Olympic programming from 11am or noon until about 6pm every weekday so far, and from 9am (or earlier) on weekends. Then of course the primetime stuff goes from 8 to midnight, and then there's a latenight Olympics show from 12:30 to 1:30 as well. And that's just NBC itself, not any of its cable networks.

So no, I think that NBC's decision is reasonable. It puts stuff that not as many people care about watching on during the day, and the stuff that the most people want to watch on at primetime. If you run the major stuff twice, then when do you run all that other stuff? Only on cable or something? That'd be unfortunate...
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The 100m is the most famous event of the Olympics and it doesn't take much time, and they still have more than one channel.
 
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DanteFox said:
don't be fooled. It's a small, vocal minority of people who are complaining. Most people have stuff to do during the day, then get home and watch the tape delay events at night.

edit: although for those of us who have no lives the bbc stream is way better, though I can't seem to find events on the site older than a day, which is where nbc has them beat.
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Go to the BBC Olympics Website. At the top right, on the yellow banner, select Olympic Sports and choose the sport you want. You'll then see a schedule box under that (Pink arrow). Go back to the day you want, and the list below that (orange box) will update showing you the highlights of all the events on that day

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Napoleonthechimp said:
I'm wondering why everyone around me is borderline crazy.

I also wonder if there is some biological drive to have a belief in something greater than yourself which explains why secular people worship celebrities. I do remember there was a study which proved there is a portion of the brain devoted to social conformity... maybe my years of social isolation (and being beaten by other human beings) has stunted the development of that part of my brain.
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We aren't sitting here worshipping bolt, or putting the 100m on a pedestal. It's generally recognised as the blue riband event in athletics. Ok, fine. That isn't diminishing other achievements. You seem to be the only one over reacting
 
Does anyone know why the Canadian horse was disqualified? They say there was hypersensitivity. How does that happen?
 
The longer the games go on, the sadder I am that I only got tickets to two events.

Once in a lifetime.
 
Linkified said:
So apart from the 4 remaining cycling events can we easily win anything else or is it time to pack it up?
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A fair few boxing hopes, equestrian, men's triathlon maybe, outdoor swimming, bmx, mens/womens 400m hurdles, a few more surprise athletic medals.

there's still a long way to go, and they're well on track to beat beijing.
 
Linkified said:
So apart from the 4 remaining cycling events can we easily win anything else or is it time to pack it up?
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Edit - oh team GB

Lots of boxing hopes, we're expecting 3 - 5 medals there but it's looking even better with our Female boxers.

Lots of Sailing to come, Triathlone and Modern Pentathalon we're expecting medals in. 1 - 3 Taekwondo Medals, Couple of good medals chances left in Equestrian and Open Swimming, Diving and and Caneoing medal chances.
 
Kikujiro said:
The 100m is the most famous event of the Olympics and it doesn't take much time, and they still have more than one channel.
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I don't have full cable so I can't watch any of their cable networks (they do have 7 cable channels running Olympic programming too, though one of those is Spanish language, so it's six in English), but the ads on NBC claim that some of the tape-delayed events are shown live on the NBC Sports Network, for people who get that... "16 hours a day of coverage on the NBC Sports Network", etc. They do hold some things back for just the main channel however, yeah. Oh, and of those 6 cable channels, apparently one does soccer, one basketball, one boxing, and one tennis, and the other two (NBCSN and MSNBC) a variety of things. There's also 3D programming on .. .something or other, I think. I don't know where.

PaulLFC said:
Well the BBC has 49 channels for the Olympics (24 SD, 24 HD and 1 3D), so the least NBC could do would be to have a few live channels and then still have their delayed "primetime" show on their main channel for the people who can't watch the events live.
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As I said above, they do have cable channels showing some stuff, though certainly not anywhere near that many. NBC can't just invent channels just for this, they have to use the ones they have... Some things they do only show on NBC, probably in order to maximize ratings and such, though; more people watch networks than cable channels, of course.

And of course, they also stream everything live online, for people with cable (you have to get several of the NBC-affiliated cable channels in order to get nbcolympics.com for free, so I can't watch that unless I paid).

Brazil said:
Aren't there like half a dozen different NBC networks? They definitely have room for everything.
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There's only one broadcast network... and what are they going to do, completely shut down all non-Olympics programming on all six or seven of those cable channels?
 
Kikujiro said:
The 100m is the most famous event of the Olympics and it doesn't take much time, and they still have more than one channel.
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Indeed, but those who want to watch can still do so using NBC's online stream through a myriad of connected devices. Sadly, the massive ratings that NBC has pulled these Olympics will convince them that this strategy has been successful.

To be honest I've been fine with NBC's coverage this Olympics. The recap at the end of the day is nice when I couldn't pay attention while at work, and if I truly wanted to see an event live it was easy to do so using NBC's website or iPad app.
 
Oxx said:
The longer the games go on, the sadder I am that I only got tickets to two events.

Once in a lifetime.
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I'll be sure to buy tickets to at least 20 events in 2016.

A Black Falcon said:
There's only one broadcast network... and what are they going to do, completely shut down all non-Olympics programming on all six or seven of those cable channels?
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I meant channels, yeah.

And, yeah, they could shut down two or three of those channels. That's what the networks do here and in other countries I've been to during events like these, and they even open up temporary channels exclusively for the Olympics.
 
Oxx said:
The longer the games go on, the sadder I am that I only got tickets to two events.

Once in a lifetime.
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I feel the same. Had the chance to perform (Dancing is my passion) for the Opening Ceremony but thought I'd be too busy to go. Biggest regret of my life.
 
There are tickets for the football in Manchester, I'm tempted to get one but I don't know if it'll feel like "really" going to the Olympics with it not being in London. Hmm...
 
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