The Tour De France iPad apps featured different announcers than the usual trio (one barely awake guy who is possibly not sober). Ultimately, it comes down to a licensing deal. There is NBC coverage of events, then there is coverage sold internationally or for online consumption by multiple outlets (which sometimes NBC uses and adds its announcers over). Just as there are pool photographers at White House press conferences, they do the same at sporting events, too. At day's end, NBC has no interest in sweetening online content, preferring you watch one of their channels instead. I would also guess there are some instances when the announcers do not record live as events happen, so the live web feed couldn't include them.
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 10:59 AM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > Not exactly a blunder, but I was a little disappointed last night (I guess, > early this morning) when I started watching events live online that they > don't have any announcers. At least this was true for events like badmitten > and the shooting events that I watched. I guess this is understandable, in > that they would have to have a hell of a lot of announcers to have some at > every single event, but while I don't really need announcers for football or > basketball or baseball, I do for most of the (to me) arcane Olympic sports > (and the main point of the Olympics is to watch arcane sports). > > Then I found that the NBC Sports channel, which had the monster 13 hour or > so feed that I recorded overnight, had many of the same events, with > announcers. Why not make them available online? The shooting in particular > made a lot more sense one I was able to hear the announcers explain things. > In any case, it looks like my main Olympic TV strategy will be to record one > or both of the main overnight feeds, which covers most of the day time > activity in London except the main events they will show on the prime time > show. Then I guess I will FF through that feed during the day as I have time > to watch whatever strikes my fancy, supplemented by watching events live > that are shown during the day here in the PT zone, and maybe watch a few > premium events live online during the day - though I think in many cases I > will be happy to just watch the primetime package for that - for example, > rather than go through the effort to watch all of the men's gymnastic stuff, > I decided to just watch the package tonight. > > Michelle Beadle seems to be handling a lot of the anchor duties on the > overnight show - I guess I have been out of the loop, as I did not realize > she had left Bristol. I find that a little of her goes a long way, though > she can be amusing. > > -- > 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 -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- 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
