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

[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.