On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Mark J. <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Feb 18, 1:26 pm, "Kevin M." <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm just curious, considering there has already been a televised > > Olympic death, that they haven't decided to time delay the sporting > > events -- or are we still pretending sports is news? > > All of the events held during the day are live on cable and taped and > edited on NBC prime time. > > Whatever's held at night can be shown live, since Vancouver's the same > time zone as LA--and I bet they start the figure skating at the times > NBC wants it on (because CTV will want it on at the same time). Shown live to the East Coast - even though it is happening in our time zone, they tape delay it here of course. Just to make sure there is no creation of a false memory here, NBC did not televise an "Olympic Death" live, so tape delay was not an issue with that episode. It is unlikey some unsuspecting family with children would have been exposed to the (very brief) footage of the accident that lead to the athlete's death, as NBC had a very long lead up to showing it, then gave a very explicity warning about what they were going to show, and then never showed it again after that first day. Of course, in any live sporting event there is always the possibility that someone might die - either from some kind of natural cause like a heart attack, or from some injury incurred during the event. I think any sporting event where the probability of a death occuring reaches anything like 1 in 100 would be illegal (again, that relates to the concerns about the speed of the luge track this year). Even car racing, boxing and football (the most dangerous US sports I can think of off the top of my head) have a risk of serious injury much less than 1 in 100 (in the 40 years I have watched the NFL I can only think of a handful of really serious acute injuries, and a couple of boxing deaths in televised bouts. I don't watch car racing, but I doubt there have been more than 5 - 10 fatal accidents in televised auto races in the last 40 years. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
