On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 10:28 AM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 would have stuck with the broadcast if they would have done a 3 minute update on the road race and then cut to another sport. instead they just kept going back to commercials. It's true that they charge a premium for commercials but probably not for Saturday at 11 AM. > > 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. > I think the target demo of adult women is for prime time broadcasts. Weekend afternoons could easily be ceded to sports fans and events covered accordingly. -- -- 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.
