Have to disagree with you. ABC had the better venue announcers and production back then, and Jim McKay or Frank Gifford were better in the studio than Costas. Plus ABC did a lot more coverage(only pausing for the evening news if I remember correctly.
On Sunday, August 7, 2016 at 3:48:57 PM UTC-4, PGage wrote: > > I resist the argument that ABC was better with the Olympics than NBC, but > only when evaluated in context. I think ABC was more Ameri-centric in its > coverage, and they invented the sappy, "Up Close and Personal" pieces that > NBC has developed into a full-on fetish. But even Roone Arledge had not > fully found the balls to turn sports coverage into a reality show (which > did not really exist as a concept then), so ABC's Olympics do seem to have > a little more sports integrity by default. > > On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 12:24 PM, daniel anderson <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I thought that ABC in LA in 1984 did a better job- they didn't pander to >> the female audience and they switched around a lot- an example was Jeff >> Blatinck's gold medal match in wrestling-they cut out of the men's >> gymnastics all around final to show that live. >> >> >> On Saturday, August 6, 2016 at 8:39:07 PM UTC-4, Tom Wolper 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] >> <javascript:> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] <javascript:> >> 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] <javascript:>. >> 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.
