On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 2:57 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > > Obviously the criticism is not that NBC is showing taped coverage in > primetime – because of the time difference that is the only kind of coverage > that can be shown in primetime in the US. So the criticism is really that > NBC is not showing Type 1 and 2 coverage of certain popular events > throughout the day, and instead is embargoing them to (in NBC’s words) > “drive viewers” to the primetime coverage, which is partly Type 3 and partly > (mostly?) Type 4. I share this criticism, but only in a limited form. >
An excellent example of Type 4 occurred last night during the Womens Gymnastics finals. Russia went next to last, and the US went last. The Russians laid a major egg, making the US performance almost perfunctory to win the gold. However, NBC did two things: edited out the Russians performance and neglected to integrate their performance into their broadcast, including identifying their performance when it came to the scores. If you went solely off the broadcast, you would assume that the Americans were battling for a gold medal. In fact, they were all but assured the medal when the Russians faltered. But that would remove the drama, so NBC just decided to ignore the fact. http://deadspin.com/5930817/the-us-already-had-gold-locked-up-after-this-floor-disaster-from-russias-world-champion-so-nbc-didnt-show-it-to-you I'm unable to get the video to load off nbcolympics.com to see if that broadcast is the full feed or the edited one. -- 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
