On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Joe Coughlin <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. >> > I feel the same way, and as you point out, Lazarus has committed to this ("We will make every event available, on one platform or another, live," said Lazarus). I m hoping this means on one of their cable platforms, but I am afraid he means he will stream it online (which will work ok for me in the summer, but for the winter games I would rather be able to record the live event whenever it happens and watch it when I am ready). This will be an interesting test - Ebersol seemed to believe that showing an event live early in the day would undercut primetime ratings; I always thought that most of the primetime audience (judging by my wife, who almost always wants to know the results before watching something - but then watches it anyway) would not be diminished, and if it is a big event with a dramatic outcome, showing it early might even pump the ratings up. -- 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
