To pile on, I opted to tape the overnight repeat, which was roughly two hours shorter than the original airing. I expected that the parade of athletes would be mostly gone for time, and it was.
What pissed me off were two things. The inclusion of that lame Michael Phelps interview (if you're cutting for time, non-ceremony stuff should be top of list). The cutting of everything after the Chariots of Fire segment but before the parade (including the Tweet referenced in the Mashable piece). I am assuming Macca played more than the closing bars of The End and a pretty toothless Hey Jude. If so, it was missing from the overnight airing. What video NBC is making available from the ceremony is just clips. And while it's via YouTube, good luck finding those clips on YouTube. David ________________________________ From: Joe Hass <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2012 3:54 PM Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] NBC's Olympic blunders... Mashable nails the fact that NBC and the IOC have effectively decided that, if you didn't actually watch the Opening Ceremony, you're shit outta luck. http://mashable.com/2012/07/27/nbc-ioc-share-olympics/ On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 7:43 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/ > > -- > 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 -- 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 -- 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
