NBC screws up Olympic coverage. Again.

[neadods]

NBC screws up closing ceremonies. In other news, water is wet.

In theory, they're showing the closing. In reality, it's ads mixed with "and our team won this medal! And that medal! And this other one!" At this point, I'm starting to think that we will get no part of the actual *closing ceremonies.*

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[longtimegone]

Yeah, they are hyping it as the CLosing Ceremonies, but my DirecTV guide tells me it's something called "London Gold". I'm showing that the ceremonies start at 7:30 central time, if that helps! Not that there will be any less commercials of course.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

It was 7:20, because God forbid they not jerk us around.

[big-wired.livejournal.com]

Hah hah, I saw it on CTV all cool and stuff... well, my niece did, and she said it was great.

Love being Canadian.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

What NBC is deigning to show is, of course, cut to ribbons. I'm buying either the Canadian or British highlights DVD when it comes out.

[nonelvis]

I'm watching something else until they actually start showing the ceremonies, but even then NBC probably won't allow me to do what I really want to do: listen to the music while muting Ryan Seacrest.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Surprisingly, they're not blabbing all over the music.

...very much.

[tiggerallyn.livejournal.com]

Except for the acts that were cut (Ray Davies, Kate Bush), it's Elbow during the athletes' precession that suffered the most. You could hear them, but it sounded like it sourced from mike on the ground, and then Al Michaels and Bob Costas chattered inanely over what could be heard.

Elbow gets no respect on American television. :-/

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

They cut Ray Davies?! Aww, man.

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

The sound quality during Madness and the Pet Shop Boys was also very poor. I don't recall it sounding that bad before.

[bentleywg.livejournal.com]

My schedule says the closing ceremonies start at the half hour, not at the hour. You're watching Olympics Gold.

EDIT: oh look at that. They started at 20 minutes after.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

They're jerking us around, as usual.

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure how much the actual closing ceremonies are going to make sense even given that NBC has been doing a hatchet job throught out the Games. I'm visiting relatives, and they turned on the tv right about the time the giant inflatable octopus showed up...

[faireraven.livejournal.com]

We watched it in the afternoon when BBC had it streaming live, with minimal commentary.

We then watched it again when NBC ran it.

Oh good god did they butcher it to pieces. One of the things that pisses me off is that they cut out the section where the Men's Marathon runners were given their medals, something that typically happens at closing ceremonies. The Ugandan won gold, first time Uganda's won anything in 40 years, and they skipped it entirely.

They cut out entire swaths of the ceremonies, and then postponed an hour of it until after they'd showed their latest sitcom and the news.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Oh good god did they butcher it to pieces

Sums up their approach. I didn't know that they showed *more* after that stupid show; I went to bed.