Current Events > Olympics ratings hit rock bottom, about half as many viewers as 2016

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MaddenDude-- posted...

Because they are impossible to watch properly. They only broadcast a few sports that they think people will want to watch and they spend most of their time trying to hype up that chosen broadcast.

In an ideal broadcast, they are going all day long, on multiple channels, flipping through at least most of the sports, kinda like NFL Redzone. And after that day is done, by the next day they need to upload replays of everything online.

The coverage is atrocious. Every time I sat down to watch in the evenings after coming home from work, 40% of what I was watching was commercials, 40% was them artificially hyping things up, and maybe 20% of it was the actual sport. I gave up at a certain point and switched to online streams and it was significantly more enjoyable.

I'm old school when it comes to the Olympics. Track and Field, boxing, a little swimming and a little gymnastics.

It was a chore to find them and IDGAF about the backstories of 95% of the people in the other sports.

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INTERWEBUSER posted...

Matt Gaetz for President 2032

Why does TC support a pedophile?

Cord cutting, maybe? The Olympics used to just be something I'd put on in the background, but I only have a few streaming services now so that's not even an option.
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Did you wear your shredder arm guards while typing this?

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brestugo posted...

Yes.

What a loser lmao

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The commercial breaks was the worst I seen in my entire life of watching sports. They regularly did it in the middle of the action for stuff like volleyball and water polo. It is terrible and I can give lee way for when they did it for long races and soccer.

But that was fucked up for volleyball. Imagine a basketball player going for a three and they cut to a commercial in the middle and come back after 10 points have been scored. They did that constantly for volley ball. I thought it was generally accepted when the players take a break that when the broadcast should take a break not in the middle of a point attempting to be scored.

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Wait, the Olympics aren't streamed? I pretty much never watch cable these days.

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MrMallard posted...

The ratings still did better than your political career did

ah so thats who TC is. lmao

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Error1355 posted...

NBC made it as difficult as possible to watch what you wanted to watch.

This is my reason for not bothering. My life is too busy to try and figure out what time certain competitions are going to air. They should just have a playlist on Youtube or something that just lets you watch everything at your leisure. Instead they just put out copyright claims on everything, so I don't care to put in the effort.

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The IOC would never let coverage of their games be streamed on a platform like YT or Twitch without a fee attached or significant advertising. They are so strict with it that even if I posted a highlight video from NBC, it has anti-embedding and wouldn't play here.

With that said, if you really wanted to watch everything, you could. I had 0 problems with the combination Xfinity & NBC's Olympics 2020 App, which housed all live events as they were happening for mobile/tablet users. If you have Xfinity's X1, all you'd have to do is say the event in your voice remote and you got it live, with maybe a Toyota ad here and there.

Same on their app, which has been fantastic for watching events live since they launched it for 2012's Games. For Tokyo, all you had to do was confirm your provider and boom, you got it all at no additional costs. And it even included stream providers, not just traditional cable. So if you have Hulu TV, YoutubeTV, Fubo, Sling, etc...just confirm your account info into the app (or website) and you got every event at your fingertips. The NBC app also had on-demand, so if an event happened at 5am, you could watch it in its entirety anytime you wanted. You could setup reminders to send push notifications when an event is going live.

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EnterTheTekken posted...

The IOC would never let coverage of their games be streamed on a platform like YT or Twitch without a fee attached or significant advertising. They are so strict with it that even if I posted a highlight video from NBC, it has anti-embedding and wouldn't play here.

With that said, if you really wanted to watch everything, you could. I had 0 problems with the combination Xfinity & NBC's Olympics 2020 App, which housed all live events as they were happening for mobile/tablet users. If you have Xfinity's X1, all you'd have to do is say the event in your voice remote and you got it live, with maybe a Toyota ad here and there.

Same on their app, which has been fantastic for watching events live since they launched it for 2012's Games. For Tokyo, all you had to do was confirm your provider and boom, you got it all at no additional costs. And it even included stream providers, not just traditional cable. So if you have Hulu TV, YoutubeTV, Fubo, Sling, etc...just confirm your account info into the app (or website) and you got every event at your fingertips. The NBC app also had on-demand, so if an event happened at 5am, you could watch it in its entirety anytime you wanted. You could setup reminders to send push notifications when an event is going live.

Even the Youtube vids were horrible. They would show a 30 second clip to a 3 minute or under race. Made me wonder why not just show the full race on youtube.

Im guessing NBC thought if we spoil the results in the title and only showed a clip people would still want to go to Peacock or wait until prime time to see the whole thing.

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