An Olympian Effort: NBCUni Plans 5,535 Hours Of Coverage For London Games

COMMENTS (9)

• I hope this time theres no Bob Costas and none of those annoying stories that drag on. Just show the Olympics and shut up

  Comment by joe — Wednesday May 23, 2012 @ 10:21am PDT  Reply to this post

  • Your comment is right on! Costas and his crew get more time then the actual games. Why not make a channel for teary athlete profiles for those who want to see that and let the rest of us see all the events.

    Comment by Carl — Thursday July 12, 2012 @ 9:33am PDT  Reply to this post

• God there is nothing I hate more than the NBC olympics hoopla. 30 Rock must be empty since they seem to send everybody and their mother over to “cover” the Olympics which ends up being nothing more than Ann Curry and Matt Lauer bringing a new chef on the air each day and then not letting him actually explain how to make anything.

  Comment by stop — Wednesday May 23, 2012 @ 11:52am PDT  Reply to this post

• About time. I had just subscribe to some proxy net service based the UK, so I could watch the BBC coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics, because NBC had a bunch of events taped delayed.(the BBC has every event live and free. They suck at winter sports and were actually excited because they finally had a medal winner.)

  So at least now NBC will make everything available live. Now if there is a way to avoid having to watch Bob Costas from ruining every Olympic opening event by yapping to much. He has gotten more tolerable in 2008, but he really did ruin a lot of the previous opening ceremony coverages by constantly talking over the events.

  Comment by JD2 — Wednesday May 23, 2012 @ 12:25pm PDT  Reply to this post

• 5,355 hrs?!? Good heavens I’m exhausted just reading that.

  If Pippa Middleton is going to be doing Olympic jello wrestling then fine, but otherwise, this years’ game seem devoid of any compelling story lines.

  Comment by Seth — Wednesday May 23, 2012 @ 1:46pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Since NBC has no better (programming) to fill the public airwaves with, the Olympics will serve that purpose. And Comcast needs to show some “value’ for the absurd amount of money they’re spending to broadcast, cable cast, and all the other distribution methods they using to get the “double handed javelin throw” out to the three people who really care. Time for some big management changes at the Peacock…top to bottom! Or better still kill the bird entirely and save a whole lot of money!

  Comment by charles bachrah — Wednesday May 23, 2012 @ 10:28pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Will NBC dare to show the Opening Ceremonies live on the afternoon of July 27th (starting at 2:30 P.M. EDT; 11:30 A.M. PDT) as well as a taped replay in its entirety that evening in prime-time??

  Comment by Joseph — Thursday May 24, 2012 @ 4:04pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Some of it will air “live” – London time, so we will have to DVR it at night and catch up. And it will be on the other NBC channels. I remember when I was a kid, they seemed to air every single sport, one after another. I guess people would rather watch Snooki or whatever, rather than real role models.

  Comment by gogole — Monday May 28, 2012 @ 3:31am PDT  Reply to this post

• NBC stop the agony. We gave up dinner out with friends because my wife wanted to watch because she missed the China opening 4 years ago. She just left to go to the grocery. This is worse than the Miami halftime shows. If this cost $42million somebody got ripped off.

  Comment by taylor harper — Friday July 27, 2012 @ 6:09pm PDT  Reply to this post