Have to agree with you- Costas is the better host, but ABC's venue voices were better than NBC's with a few exceptions like Dan Hicks, Tom Hammond and Marv Albert. Hicks is better on swimming than Jim Lampley, and Albert is better than Keith Jackson on basketball. Now on some sports it could be a tie-Russ Hellickson was better on wrestling than Jason Knapp, and Jack Whitaker was better than Al Trautwig on gymnastics.
On Sunday, August 7, 2016 at 7:20:18 PM UTC-4, PGage wrote: > > The simple claim made by you (Daniel) that "ABC did a lot more coverage" > than NBC is false on its face. ABC last broadcast the Summer Games in 1984, > airing 180 hours; for the 2016 Summer Games, NBC will "broadcast" 6755 > hours. > > But such a claim is nonsense; it is the epitome of comparing apples with > oranges. The mutli-channel universe we inhabit did not exist in the 1970s > and 80s. Still, by any measure I think it is obvious that NBC is providing > as much or more access to the games, even if we just limit it to their NBC > outlet, as ABC did. Which only makes sense, considering how much they are > paying for it. ABC paid $225M for the rights to the 1984 Summer Games, > which is about $522 million in 2016 dollars. NBC paid $1.23 billion for the > Rio Games, so of course they are going to try to get their money's worth > (debatable if they ever do). > > Not to mention of course that every single minute of every single event > can be viewed live on the NBC Olympic website. > > Also, sorry, I hated Jim McKay (though props for his excellent work during > the Munich tragedy). Costas, though he has had to compromise himself, > sometimes significantly, on the Olympics, is the gold standard of a > television sports studio host. > > I am no NBC apologist, I am plenty critical of how they present the games. > But I always try to remind myself that their sports department is much > better than the old ABC Sports (another debate of what the Olympics would > look like on ESPN-ized ABC), and that most of what I hate about NBC would > have been worse on a modern ABC. > > > daniel anderson <[email protected] <javascript:>> > 2:23 PM (1 hour ago) > > to TVorNotTV > NBC isn't devoting it's entire resources to the Olympics- They are doing > the NASCAR race today also on USA Network-has a network done anything other > than the Olympics during the 16 days? > > On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 1:16 PM, daniel anderson <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> 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] >>> > 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 .... 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