OT- NBC Olympics Fail (No Spoilers)

Yeah, but they are purposely not showing stuff live on TV to make people wait until primetime.  It makes no sense to do that and then tell everyone what happens before you show it. 

Why would other news outlets -- who have no financial interest in delaying the results -- choose to hold back such information.  By broadcasting the results, they are actually hurting NBC -- one of their competitors.  Hence, CNN, ESPN, etc want NBC to fail -- so they are even more incentivized to break the news when it happens.  Now, if NBC just broadcasted the events live on TV and then re-aired them at evening for those who have to work during the day, they wouldn't have to put up with all these problems.

necessarily avoiding technology as much as its avoiding other people with technology.

It is not easy, but avoiding information can be done.  During this time I tend to avoid major sites like yahoo, cnn, etc.

It is actually people at work who ruin it for me.  They come over and tell me I just saw on Yahoo that _______ happened.  Then I give them the stink eye.  

I think the OP's point was that even if you avoided spoilers all day long then sat down to watch the events without knowing the results, NBC announced all the results right before the rebroadcasts their audience was going to watch.

"Stay tuned for women's swimming! But first, here are all the results you spent the day avoiding."

I don't watch TV all day long, but since I spend a ton of my day in my car, I do listen to the radio, where Olympic spoilers are reported as well.  Getting Olympic spoilers isn't a big enough deal to keep me from listening to the radio, but hearing them sure has kept me from watching Olympics at night.  Just now, I went to MGoBlue.com because a thread said the roster was updated, and the Ryan Clary news was spoiled for me. 

Point is, it's almost impossible to not hear the spoilers, and it has all but ruined the Olympics for me. 

Hey that's my idea.

That was always the benefit of living in MI or other northern USA states. You usually had the availability of watching Canadian CBC coverage, which seems to provide better coverage. Granted you had a focus on Canadian athletes, but they tended to show as much live as possible, and you could always flip back and forth between US stations.

 (How is the Canadian coverage now Clarkie?)

2014 World Cup will be in primetime as well.

I still find it strange that Rio is hosting the 2016 summer Olympics . . . in the middle of winter. It's just not right, to me, that they aren't adjusting when the games start to actually starting in the summer where the games are being held.

There will still be a ton of tape-delayed events in 2016.  There were in '96 in Atlanta.  The time zone is only part of the issue.  There are too many events to air live, so some have to be delayed.

The point of the Olympics is to showcase sports that aren't just the typical four or five that are widely popular world wide.

And if people could do that they would. I don't like the Olympics but, you don't have to be a Rich Rod loving asshat. Sorry to all of the Bacon ass kissers, but it's my opinion.

I feel bad now. I'm kind of an Olympics hater but I agree. The rings are cool; I can't think of an event that more stresses a combination of strength and muscle control.

The slo-mo cams on the rings are intense.

Or if you are gay that is fine too.

Vancouver.

But the CBC did get the bid for the rights to 2014 & 2016. I was disappointed that I finally have them in HD and they're not carrying it.

There are far fewer events in the Winter Olympics than the summer.  That's why we were able to see everything.  In the Summer Games, there are so many events that they have to make choices.

What I don't like is that NBC has reserved one whole channel for basketball and one for soccer, using up two of their networks for only two sports.  They then air, and re-air, the same games all day on those two, while NBC itself gets overloaded and they're giving us bits and pieces.

NBC has 3 stations (NBC, MSNBC, NBCSN) broadcasting the Olympics non-stop from 8 am to 5 pm every day.  The coverage is great--limited interruptions for human interest stories or host country profiles.  All sports, all the time, 3 channels.  Most of it live.  The only problem with the NBC coverage is from 8 pm to midnight.  They turn the event broadcasts into highlight shows, rather than giving the sport the opportunity to build its own drama. 

If you haven't been able to watch the daytime coverage, though, take the time to do it this weekend.  Everything that is of any interest at all (except the "major" Olympic sports like swimming and track & field and gymnastics) will be shown on the NBC daytime broadcasts, and many of those events will be shown in their entirety.

You know what I hate?  Parsnips.  When I was a kid my parents made me eat those damn things and even today the very thought of them makes me gag.  Jesus I hate parsnips.

Parsnips < hundreths

To add something and get to say you win the internet today. Maybe for the whole Olympics.

I understand where you're coming from, and think it's unreasonable to think that news organizations should refrain from reporting events as they happen. The result has been, at least for me, an avoidance of national news outlets in favor of googling specific subjects of interst in google news ("israel AND iran" if anyone's interested in the most important news story right now).

The problem is that I enjoy watching competition as it unfolds, and the reporting by national outlets has me avoiding them like the plague. The ideal soluton would be for the national media to offer sanitized websites: www.nytimes.com/nolympics

The demand it seems is for is a modicum of decency by Americans on social media as well as some accommodation from the national media.