On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote:
> Let us start a thread for all the things NBC will do wrong in its > coverage of London 2012 games. First, right out of the gate, NBC's > online team posted a tweet from the official Olympic Twitter account > containing a link for viewers to watch a bootleg live feed of the > opening ceremonies. One would think if NBC wanted viewers to watch it > live, they'd have broadcast them on their network as they happened. > Seems odd that NBC would intentionally redirect viewers away from the > network and towards a rival. > > http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/27/nbc-olympic-opening-ceremony/ > At first I thought you meant that NBC had posted the link themselves, but as I read the article I see you mean just that they allowed someone else to post the link on their feed. From what I have seen the twitter posts are pretty much real time, though I suppose NBC could have deleted it (can they do that?). In any case, I don't think that is the mistake here - as the author of the article points out, the mistake was that NBC was itself giving a blow by blow description of the event, even while keeping most of its US audience, who cared enough to follow the tweeting, waiting to watch until primetime. I also agree that a much better move would have been to show the damn thing live, and then show it again in primetime. But I would rather compliment NBC for basically following this strategy with the actual events for the rest of the games. I don't give much of a damn about the Opening and Closing Ceremonies. I will probably have it on while doing other things, but I would watch the synchronized swimming semi-finals over the Opening Ceremonies if given the choice. But I am very much looking forward to being able to watch so many events live (or, at least, time shifted under my own control via DVR, no matter how clunky and inconvenient that process is going to be). It will be very interesting to compare NBC's primetime ratings with previous years in which the coverage was delayed. -- 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
