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Originally Posted by fredr123
That "live" thing caught me on Saturday. I was watching NBC with my inlaws (Shaw channel 16) waiting to see Phelps go for his 8th gold medal. "Live" was superimposed in the top right corner of the broadcast.
Well, it's getting close to midnight and I'm getting sleepy. I log on to CP to pass some time and try and stay awake. Lo and behold the results are already plastered all over the Beijing Olympics Thread. That's when I recall the NBC time delay discussion from earlier and realize I wasn't about to watch history unfold live before my eyes.
NBC is subscribing to the live as in "Cheers is taped before a live studio audience" live. Piss off.
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NBC's main mistake is..they treat the Olympics not as a live sporting event (like the NBA Finals or the World Series) but as a primetime tv show. Using your Cheers example, Cheers can be seen at 9pm Eastern/8pm Central AND 9pm Pacific.
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For the baseball/softball thing cities were complaining that nobody in Sydney, Athens and Beijing went to the game and the baseball/softball facilities could not be reused because nobody in those countries play the sports so it was a waste.