To give the devil its due, that is a 6 hour race; I time-shifted it (and all of my Olympics viewing) a bit, so I am not sure where the race was when you sampled the coverage, but it did get better towards the end, and I think we got a pretty good feel for what turned out to be a really interesting and then exciting race. They covered the cobblestone part of the race pretty extensively, and the last 2 hours or so almost continually. I did not mind when they switched to live coverage of other events, but switching to the taped bits was inexcusable. Also, while I understand they probably charge a premium for commercials, I don't understand why they can't do a race box in on the side or at least in a corner. It seems like something like that would only increase retention for the commercials.
I imagine "the demo" for the Olympics is not the usual young adults, but more broadly non-sports fans, and maybe particularly adult women. I would like to see some detailed analysis of the actual research on this demo; my own selected sample of adult women suggests that, given some context and explanation of the rules, most non-sports fan women are likely to get interested in the straight competitive stories in the Olympics, and would rather see the actual event than stories about how sad they were when their puppy died last year. On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 5:39 PM, Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > Around 11 this morning I thought I'd check in and see how NBC was doing. > The event was the cycling road race and they would only show about 3 > minutes of the race between commercial blocs. It didn't take long for me to > get frustrated and give up. > > Plus after seeing coverage of the World Cup and Euro championship I > thought US TV would have moved beyond their Americocentrism in covering > international competitions. Nope. > > -- > -- > 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 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
