NBC drops Who performance from closing ceremonies...

F5

Couldn't believe NBC decided America could live without watching The Who perform during the closing ceremonies. What a joke.

Bennyorr4

I'm not surprised, I mean they only showed sports that the USA were competing in. NBC should really pull their head out of their asses, there are other countries in the world. Maybe if Lady Gaga or Brittney Spears were on they would have kept it in. I agree, what a joke.

demetrios

And I thought CTV's coverage with horrible disturbing commercials was bad, NBC not showing the Who performance till after their new sitcom, Animal Practice, get's air first. Really?

JimNastics

I find the whole treatment of the Olympics by US broadcasters completely depressing and somewhat astonishing... it's still the greatest show on earth you know, even when it's not being held in your own backyard :nono: America seems to be losing touch with the rest of the world more and more as each day goes by.

dimitrispearljam

Reading the thread at AET forum,i saw that whole cover of the games from nbc was so bad

eddiec

Bennyorr4 wrote:

I'm not surprised, I mean they only showed sports that the USA were competing in. NBC should really pull their head out of their asses, there are other countries in the world. Maybe if Lady Gaga or Brittney Spears were on they would have kept it in. I agree, what a joke.

I think it's the same in most countries. The usually highlight their own athletes. On top of that the US has so many top athletes competing for medals that NBC isn't going to show you some guy from Kazakhstan in a canoe slalom.

dimitrispearljam

eddiec wrote:

Bennyorr4 wrote:

I'm not surprised, I mean they only showed sports that the USA were competing in. NBC should really pull their head out of their asses, there are other countries in the world. Maybe if Lady Gaga or Brittney Spears were on they would have kept it in. I agree, what a joke.

I think it's the same in most countries. The usually highlight their own athletes. On top of that the US has so many top athletes competing for medals that NBC isn't going to show you some guy from Kazakhstan in a canoe slalom.

Here in greece we had 3 national channels that cover all.the one had all swimming and athletics.whena greek atlete was in an event we could see his attempt.but we saw al the event at swim and athletics.the rest 2 chanels we saw the rest of sports.cos of alot of events the same time they play some later.they did great job..no censorship.all great

sparky_fry

I think it also has to be said that the performance was pretty stellar, or I thought anyway

eddiec

dimitrispearljam wrote:

eddiec wrote:

I think it's the same in most countries. The usually highlight their own athletes. On top of that the US has so many top athletes competing for medals that NBC isn't going to show you some guy from Kazakhstan in a canoe slalom.

Here in greece we had 3 national channels that cover all.the one had all swimming and athletics.whena greek atlete was in an event we could see his attempt.but we saw al the event at swim and athletics.the rest 2 chanels we saw the rest of sports.cos of alot of events the same time they play some later.they did great job..no censorship.all great

Yeah, I watched most of it on BBC here in Ireland. You did have a choice of sports(on the red button ) I didn't see any of the coverage on NBC but have watched many Olympics in the past in the States and always thought it was great coverage. Maybe they got it wrong this year.

FrankieG

I saw this announced on Facebook that they were playing, then watched the rest of the ceremony specifically for this performance. :evil:

Indifference71

Really??? Shit. I recorded the last hour so I could watch The Who performance. That sucks.

I didn't think the NBC coverage was that bad.....they had coverage on like 5-6 different channels. The whole tape delay thing sucked, but I can't really blame them for waiting until prime time on weeknights to air the big events instead of airing them live at 2-3pm....most of the world is working. On the weekends though, I don't see why they wouldn't air everthing live.

AlbertaGirl70_

dimitrispearljam wrote:

eddiec wrote:

Bennyorr4 wrote:

I'm not surprised, I mean they only showed sports that the USA were competing in. NBC should really pull their head out of their asses, there are other countries in the world. Maybe if Lady Gaga or Brittney Spears were on they would have kept it in. I agree, what a joke.

I think it's the same in most countries. The usually highlight their own athletes. On top of that the US has so many top athletes competing for medals that NBC isn't going to show you some guy from Kazakhstan in a canoe slalom.

Here in greece we had 3 national channels that cover all.the one had all swimming and athletics.whena greek atlete was in an event we could see his attempt.but we saw al the event at swim and athletics.the rest 2 chanels we saw the rest of sports.cos of alot of events the same time they play some later.they did great job..no censorship.all great

Ya it was pretty much the same here in Canada,lots of other nations events shown,I got totally sucked into the Japan/Korea volleyball final lol

bluegrace

Yeah, it was a stellar performance from The Who. Wasn't surprised when they were announced since I thought they would be, but it was fun to watch.

cincybearcat

NBC had lots of different channels showing a lot of different countries. Hell, they had a Soccer channel and a Basketball channel. And basically used another channel for boxing. I saw a lot of different competitors. And it is not surprising that they showed more US athletes in the US, to think otherwise would be crazy. That's what the viewing public wanted.

bootlegger10

cincybearcat wrote:

NBC had lots of different channels showing a lot of different countries. Hell, they had a Soccer channel and a Basketball channel. And basically used another channel for boxing. I saw a lot of different competitors. And it is not surprising that they showed more US athletes in the US, to think otherwise would be crazy. That's what the viewing public wanted.

Exactly. The USA won the most medals, so there are a lot of events to show with US competitors. If you are a country that won only 5 medals, it would be depressing to only watch your country's events (and you would miss out on a lot of finals).

People like to complain. For all the complainers, I wonder how many could have actually got out of work to watch the events live in the afternoon.

cincybearcat

bootlegger10 wrote:

cincybearcat wrote:

NBC had lots of different channels showing a lot of different countries. Hell, they had a Soccer channel and a Basketball channel. And basically used another channel for boxing. I saw a lot of different competitors. And it is not surprising that they showed more US athletes in the US, to think otherwise would be crazy. That's what the viewing public wanted.

Exactly. The USA won the most medals, so there are a lot of events to show with US competitors. If you are a country that won only 5 medals, it would be depressing to only watch your country's events (and you would miss out on a lot of finals).

People like to complain. For all the complainers, I wonder how many could have actually got out of work to watch the events live in the afternoon.

Most likely, most of the complainers were at home and that's why they were pissed that they weren't on live. I have some friends that are teachers and they were really pissed about it. I said "Guys, I wouldn't see a single event except on the weekend. Not everyone is home." It's understandable since they could see it they wanted to. But the majority would have missed it all.

Zoso

and advertize the who playing 'teenage wasteland' and 'my generation'.. NBC you failed again.

Bandog

The coverage was actually very good. All you had to do was log into NBColympics.com and you could find out exactly what time and channel the sport you wanted to watch would be on. I'm a wrestler and I got to see tons of great coverage on MSNBC and NBC Sports. If you really wanted to see everything live all you had to do was watch it online. (By the way we had two Gold Medalists!)

The prime time coverage on NBC is more for an audience who just wants to see our own guys and gals winning medals in more main stream sports. It's not always perfect but if you're in NBC's shoes I think it's about as good as you can do it. As for dropping the Who, I see their point as to dropping them. The top priority for a network has to be trying to launch a show that could potentially make them a lot of money (although the show looks really lame). It's not showing a performance by a forty year old rock band, even if it is one as legendary as the Who.

chaslil

They also edited out Ray Davies, Kate Bush and Muse (singing the official Olympics song no less!)

It pissed off a lot of people.
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/13/sport ... index.html

mfc2006

Costas needs to retire. That's all I have to add.

Mamasan23

mfc2006 wrote:

Costas needs to retire. That's all I have to add.

I wholeheartedly agree with this statement!!!

Nitro

Mamasan23 wrote:

mfc2006 wrote:

Costas needs to retire. That's all I have to add.

I wholeheartedly agree with this statement!!!

I think Bob Costas is awesome, and I mean that.

mfc2006

Nitro wrote:

Mamasan23 wrote:

mfc2006 wrote:

Costas needs to retire. That's all I have to add.

I wholeheartedly agree with this statement!!!

I think Bob Costas is awesome, and I mean that.

to each, their own.

helplessdancer

what did the who play? anyone know?

TN70407

I think the worst part was that all during the closing ceremonies the announcers kept saying things like "..and stay tuned later for the who." It wasn't until the last minute that they said it was part of some post ceremony show an hour later.

NBC Fail

dimitrispearljam

helplessdancer wrote:

what did the who play? anyone know?

Baba
See me Feel me
My Generation

DewieCox

I think NBC did a pretty good job aside from the deal with the gymnastics where they switched around the orders to add drama for those that didn't already know the outcome.

The US led in medals so it's gonna seem like they only highlighted the sports where the US were the focus.
I saw plenty of Usain Bolt. Did other countries highlight Michael Phelps' run the way NBC did for Bolt? None of the basketball games, probably the biggest stars in the Olympics were shown in primetime.

Last time The Who had a major tv performance, at the Superbowl, it was abysmal. I was looking forward to catching the performance but I can't say I was that let down by it not being shown.

I don't see what's so bad about Bob Costas. The Olympics aren't his forte, but for something as big as the Olympics it's tough to get somebody as well known.

Indifference71

Mamasan23 wrote:

mfc2006 wrote:

Costas needs to retire. That's all I have to add.

I wholeheartedly agree with this statement!!!

Really???? I love Costas. One of thsoe guys you rarely hear anything bad about.

I am still wondering why the hell Ryan Seacrest was involved with the olympics. They sports broadcasting greats like Dan Patrick, Al Michaels, and Costas and then we have to listen to Ryan Seacrest?!?!? That was brutal.

josevolution

Those closing ceremonies sucked ass how could they have the kasier chiefs play a who song i found that to be a slap in Pete's face ......

cincybearcat

josevolution wrote:

Those closing ceremonies sucked ass how could they have the kasier chiefs play a who song i found that to be a slap in Pete's face ......

Why exactly?

PJINFLA

And why Queen would let Jessie J sing We Will Rock You I have no idea, that was just awful!!

I had heard rumours of a Pink Floyd reunion instead we get Nick Mason with Mike Rutherford
and others. Sounded OK but quite a letdown.