Having live events in prime time doesn't really matter to me. They can be highlights of the days events for all I care. It's just that I want the events to be carried live somewhere and not be hidden by NBC until prime time.
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 10:01 AM, David Lynch <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 14:53, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > > To be fair, NBC has not done a kind of canned, taped "Wild World of > Sports" > > approach for a while. They run some events live (in the East Coast, of > > course) when the time zones permit, and other events are on tape after > only > > a relatively brief delay, either because they were pretty much > simultaneous > > with other events, or to allow them to put a bigger event at the end of > the > > show. > > However, we probably aren't going to see a single live event in prime > time until Rio in 2016 (1 hour ahead of New York) because of the time > differences. London 2012's organizers have been given a strict > midnight (7 PM Eastern) deadline because the London Underground wants > to shut down for the night around 01:00, and Sochi 2014 is eight hours > ahead of New York, so the sun will be rising towards the end of the > broadcast. > > -- > David J. Lynch > [email protected] > > -- > 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 > -- +++++++++++++++ Joe Coughlin http://www.twitter.com/inturnaround -- 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
