Fyi... The CBC web on-demand viewing of events (i.e. select "archery"), and probably even live, is the OBS feed . I have not watched enough to completely say it's true.
On Mon., Aug. 2, 2021, 6:37 a.m. Adam Bowie, <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAD_sJGAQtobKJ%2Bi1%3DsygF1yMkOLmvZNBVSP9GyiQnF_tXMK6tQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CAK5Q1BpsxKuH4wS654zXdneB%2BeqGD_KEQUz%2Bv2%2BBdtCsoH_LyQ%40mail.gmail.com.
