NBC screws up Olympic coverage. Again.
Aug. 12th, 2012 07:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neadodsNBC 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.*
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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Date: 2012-08-13 02:20 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2012-08-13 11:40 pm (UTC)Sums up their approach. I didn't know that they showed *more* after that stupid show; I went to bed.