NBC feh

[owlmoose]

So Beijing is 12 hours ahead of the East Coast, which puts it 9 hours ahead of California. This means that all the events that the US negotiated with China to have in the late morning -- Michael Phelps's swimming finals, gymnastics events -- so that they could be shown before midnight on the East Coast could actually be live on the West Coast during prime-time -- 7pm, 8pm. Sounds perfect, right?

Except that the programming genuises at NBC decided that it would be oh so much better to tape-delay coverage so that we're on the same schedule. So we wait, and dodge spoilers on the Internet, and it's way irritating.

I wonder how they'll work it with London in 2012? I suppose they'll figure out some other phenomenally stupid way of doing it.

Comments

[furitaurus.livejournal.com]

Speaking as your typical London pessimist, 2012 will be a fucking disaster, we didn't want the olympics until we heard france would get it in the first place. None of the opening ceremonies will work correctly and half of the renovations and building works will be incomplete and EVERYONE OF THEM WILL BE BILLIONS UPON BILLIONS OVER BUDGET, they already are far exceeding initial projections. And as an added insult to injury if crime rates carry on where they have been for the last 10 years most of the tourists who come here for the olympics will be pickpocketed, mugged, stabbed and probably left bleeding in the moonlight.
As a resident of this once great country i beg all people considering coming here for the olympics to stay the fuck away for their own safety.

[i-iambe.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that. I rarely pay attention, though I do remember all of the hype about getting to see the Olympics "live during primetime". But now that I know it, I'm very annoyed. So I sent off a pissy email to NBC that will be completely ignored. I did ask that it get forwarded to the brain donor who's idea it was, and I like to pretend that will actually happen and make him feel a little bad for fucking us over.