NBC's just pissing everybody off

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Choreographer angry that NBC cut segment: http://summergames.ap.org/article/choreographer-angry-nbc-cut-segment

US goalkeeper Solo rails against NBC's Chastain: http://summergames.ap.org/article/us-goalkeeper-solo-rails-against-nbcs-chastain

NBC slammed for not showing Phelps-Lochte duel live: http://www.mercurynews.com/entertai...ed-showing-phelps-lochte-duel-live?source=rss

NBC ripped for not livestreaming opening ceremony of Olympics: http://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...s-2012-nbc-streaming-20120727,0,4289232.story

NBC lambasted over banal butchering of opening ceremony – and rightly so: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/us-news-blog/2012/jul/28/nbc-olympics-opening-ceremony

NBC Acknowledges Live-Stream Problems, Working On Fix: http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2012/07/28/nbc-acknowledges-live-stream-problems-working-on-fix/
 
When you only have one network that covers the Olympics for years upon years and years they end up giving $hity coverage because they have a lock on it and you get what you get. No longer is the custom always right.
 
But this is all that counts

NBC's coverage for the opening to the 2012 London Games delivered the best overnight ratings ever for an Olympics held outside the United States and a 7 percent uptick over ratings from the Beijing Opening Ceremony in 2008. The huge 23.0 rating validates the network's oft-criticized strategy to tape delay the Opening Ceremony in prime time on both coasts and to not even stream the event live on the Internet.
Although NBC proudly boasted that the 2012 Olympics would be streamed live from start to finish on the network's website, it chose to make the Opening and Closing Ceremony an exception to that. NBC attempted to justify that decision on its Facebook page Friday night, explaining that all competitive events will air live but the Opening and Closing Ceremony are "entertainment spectacles" best shown "at a time when friends and family are able to gather together to watch."
Critics blasted the decision to submit U.S. viewers to local news while the rest of the world watched James Bond parachute into the stadium or David Beckham arrive via speedboat, but apparently the decision proved worthwhile. Not enough fans watched live via bootleg feeds or skipped the Opening Ceremony altogether to make NBC regret its decision.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/olymp...ny-turns-ratings-gold-nbc-153513638--oly.html
 
Whatever. I've been watching it and enjoying it. I watch what I can live online and then we all tune in as a family in the evening.
 
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