So after their shameful approach to broadcasting the men's team gymnastics events, NBC took a higher road for the men's all around. Even though it was clear early that no American would be threatening for a medal, they stayed with the entire event in prime time, and did a pretty good job of telling the main stories even though they focused on non-Americans. FOr Week 1 at least (not sure how Track and Field will play out) I suspect this was the most sustained prime time NBC will devote to a non-US story. Though I should say they did also spend a good amount of time on diving earlier this week with to US competitors.
One story they touched on but still did not really explain was why in the team event the Ukranian team only sent 2 of 3 gymnasts up to compete. Their star, Oleg Verniaiev, said it was because their third went to the hospital at the last minute and was medically unable to perform, and it was too late to substitute. But NBC had said at the time (I can't remember now if this was on the main prime time coverage, or on the Internet coverage) that they could have put up a substitute. I found some reports on the Internet that the Uranians were staging some kind of protest, or maybe they were trying to conserve energy for the later events (but this seems unlikely to me, since their main star did compete in the team competition). -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- -- 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.
