On Sun, Aug 1, 2021 at 11:49 AM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > I am up early (3:00 am PT) to watch the Men’s 100 M semifinals and finals > live. The Women’s 100 M was on live in Primetime last night, but I guess > the men’s did not work out to have in the morning in Tokyo. I’m not > complaining about that. > > While I am happy there is a way to watch this and every Olympic event live > on nbcsports.com, using what per Adam I am now is the OBS (Olympic > Broadcasting Services) feed, and have been using this a lot for both live > and delayed viewing, I am wondering why NBC does not just air its own > coverage live, and then replay it for Primetime? > > It seems like the Primetime coverage of events like gymnastics and Track, > even when taped from earlier in the day, is “Live to tape”, and the NBC > talent fir these events is on site in Tokyo and doing their jobs as the > event takes place. Or do they go back and edit and even sweeten or re-do > parts? > > I didn’t care that much fir the gymnastics, but I like the NBC crew fir > Track, and am missing them. > > This all sounds curious. So am I correct in assuming that when some events that don't fall into US primetime go out live - e.g. athletics in the middle of the night PST - the commentary feed you're getting is the OBS world feed, and not with the NBC team? It's only when those same events get packaged for perhaps Today or evening primetime that the NBC talent is added to the mix?
I get that NBC can package things up a bit more smoothly, dropping in interviews and features, removing heats that don't have US competitors involved, and generally tightening things up for later in the day. But why wouldn't you use the same commentary teams throughout? In Europe we're sort of in the same boat, with much live action taking place overnight. I wake up each morning to a phone full of alerts (aka "spoilers") about which medals were won overnight during Tokyo-daytime. But if I do choose to stay up late and watching live, the same BBC commentators are calling the action that I'll see later on. The only time OBS commentary feeds are used is if the BBC is including their own commentators at all (e.g. Mountain biking). Certainly, by the time we get to an evening package, which is *all* highlights given the timezone differences, everything is packaged much more tightly, and they've collected a bunch of post-event interviews, but the fundamentals are the same as if I had been watching at 4am. As long as nobody is still "re-ordering" things to create "better" narratives as I know has been done in the past... :-) Adam -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAD_sJGAQtobKJ%2Bi1%3DsygF1yMkOLmvZNBVSP9GyiQnF_tXMK6tQ%40mail.gmail.com.
