On Monday, August 8, 2016 at 6:09:50 AM UTC-4, JW wrote: > > Responding to a few things: > > > I guess the prime time is actually live on the east coast (we still get > > treated like Donald Trump's pool boy out here on the west coast with a > tape > > delay)? > > According to this piece, which was linked in the Jenkins column, even us > Easterners got the opening ceremonies on an hour delay so NBC could > "curate" them: > http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/olympics/NBC_wont_broadcast_Rio_Olympics_opening_ceremonies_live.html > > > 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. > > Not coincidentally, those shows were the only place that events were > shown. And even then, a lot of "curating" went on, like the USA-USSR hockey > game being shown on tape delay in 1980. > > > 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? > > In 1988, the one thing NBC interrupted their Olympic coverage for was the > baseball Game of the Week. (I miss that broadcast network devotion.) > You could also add the NFL games, which NBC had back then. But they had > guys like Ray Scott, Curt Gowdy, Merle Harmon and Chuck Thompson filling in > for the regular broadcasters who were in Seoul. Len Berman(then the WNBC > sports anchor) filled in for Costas on their pregame show. > Sunday night's Antenna TV Carson show was from 1978 with Bruce Jenner, who > mentioned that he and O.J. were both set to be hosts of NBC's Moscow > Olympics coverage. 38 years later, all of that is an amazing historical > artifact. >
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