On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 4:49 AM, Adam Bowie <[email protected]> wrote:
> And the presenters are nearly all sports presenters - not breakfast show > presenters for example. > This is also something that I'll give NBC a lot of credit for: As far as I know, all of the people doing coverage of the individual events are retired athletes or broadcasters who work full time on sports, and many of those broadcasters are specialists. There's a whole army of play-by-play announcers and expert commentators who are on their umpteenth Olympics but who I only ever hear for two weeks every four years in the sports that only get a lot of attention during the Olympics (e.g., swimming, diving, and gymnastics,) in addition to the people who cover the pro game week in and week out moving over to cover the Olympics in sports like golf, basketball, and tennis. At worst, the US coverage seems to pair a generalist play-by-play announcer with a former athlete. We do have breakfast show presenters involved, but they're doing the opening ceremony and hosting the studio portions of the broadcast, which essentially amounts to serving as traffic cop and doing the occasional interview, none of which really requires a lot of deep knowledge about sports. -- -- 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.
