NBC Olympics TV Schedule

[18.99s]

Wow, they're actually showing something live on US TV! Women's soccer USA vs. New Zealand completed less than an hour ago, and now they're showing Brazil vs. Japan.

[Conor Dary]

Wow, they're actually showing something live on US TV! Women's soccer USA vs. New Zealand completed less than an hour ago, and now they're showing Brazil vs. Japan.

Welcome to the real world. All week they have been showing live stuff all day long.

[jazzcyclist]

So far NBC has shown all the distance finals live - men's and women's 10,000 and men's and women's steeplechase. I presume we will get to see the 5000's live, but I wonder if they will shown the men's 1500 final live today.

[bruce3404]

So far NBC has shown all the distance finals live - men's and women's 10,000 and men's and women's steeplechase. I presume we will get to see the 5000's live, but I wonder if they will shown the men's 1500 final live today.

Sure they will......online. On TV, seriously doubt it. That's prime time stuff.

[jazzcyclist]

So far NBC has shown all the distance finals live - men's and women's 10,000 and men's and women's steeplechase. I presume we will get to see the 5000's live, but I wonder if they will shown the men's 1500 final live today.

Sure they will......online. On TV, seriously doubt it. That's prime time stuff.

The men's 10,000 was primetime stuff IMO. That was more exciting than the women's 100 final which got tape delayed.

[bruce3404]

The men's 10,000 was primetime stuff IMO. That was more exciting than the women's 100 final which got tape delayed.

I agree, but my guess is that the programming execs correctly feel that no one in the US cares about races that last nearly 1/2 an hour even with an American contender; but the mile or its metric equivalent still has some allure amongst the general public and thus will be saved for later.

[Alan Shank]

Sure they will......online. On TV, seriously doubt it. That's prime time stuff.

The men's 10,000 was primetime stuff IMO. That was more exciting than the women's 100 final which got tape delayed.[/quote]

For you, for me, but not for NBC's primetime audience. The show I saw came into the M 10,000 just after 5K.
Cheers,
Alan Shank

[Alan Shank]

Here's a link to an opinion piece published in today's Sacramento Bee about the Olympics, NBC, the BBC, etc.:

http://www.sacbee.com/2012/08/07/469964 ... ccess.html

Cheers,
Alan Shank

[tracknut2012]

It was to my surprise I heard that MSNBC showed the mens 200m heats live this morning.

I had no clue that track was being shown on any station other than the main NBC station.

[jazzcyclist]

The show I saw came into the M 10,000 just after 5K.
Cheers,
Alan Shank

The showed the whole thing when they aired it live.

[Alan Shank]

The show I saw came into the M 10,000 just after 5K.
Cheers,
Alan Shank

The showed the whole thing when they aired it live.

I missed both the live stream and the live TV. On the NBC station where I live, it was to be shown at 16:15. I was down at my daughter's in Boulder Creek, and I had her DVR 16:15-17:00. However, her NBC station showed it LIVE, actually live, not West-Coast-three-hours-delayed live. So I was screwed both ways.

The first half was not very interesting. Actually, I thought the whole race was somewhat disappointing, as nobody really tried anything major before the last lap. After 14:05+, I kept remembering the 12:57 last 5000 in Paris and Tadese making K Bekele run 26:46 in Berlin.
Cheers,
Alan Shank

[CKuykendall]

Okay, I'm starting to get annoyed here. Early on Tuesday afternoon, Central Daylight Time, August 7, when NBC conceivably could have shown live track & field on the TV coverage, instead it was volleyball, the U.S. women against the Dominican Republic, in a quarterfinal. The Americans won in three sets. NBC after two cycling races then switched to women's beach volleyball semifinals, and so their was no live TV of men's 1500 and women's 100 hurdles finals. NBC then goes off the air, we have game shows, etc. At 7:00 p.m, Olympic coverage returns, and its the other women's beach volleyball semifinal. I did the streaming the day of the men's steeplechase final. It kept getting stuck.

[guru]

Sooo now NBC is inserting episodes of it's new fall shows into the primetime Olympic coverage.

Ugghhh

[tracknut2012]

It is now 11pm and NBC is just deciding to show the mens 200m final a freaking 7 hours after the race was run.

[Conor Dary]

I watched about 10 minutes of the prime time last night, just so I could watch Bolt. I figured it would come on in the last hour or so and I was right. Even that was almost too much.

[jazzcyclist]

I wonder if NBC will show the 5000's live like they did the 10,000's.

[az2004]

they have the w5k annouced at LIVE on main nbc

still nbcolympics.com has been perfect for e

[Alan Shank]

NBC says 5K live -- but what kind of "live" on West coast? Sometimes the local NBC channels in a given time zone don't show "live" at the same time. I lost the live men's 10K because the Santa Cruz NBC channel showed it "really live", and I waited until 3 hours later, while my DVR at home was recording at "really live" and they delayed it 3 hours. Bastards!

re the live streaming. I have been going down to my brother's apartment at 11 each day, because his Internet connection is much better than mine (out in the boonies). However, on his computer the Flash player crashes every ten minutes or so. On my iPad, the special app for NBCOlympics never crashes, so I'm watching that.

Another issue: yesterday, on the iPad they had a "throws feed" and a "jumps feed", with nothing but those events, no commentary. But there is no "track feed" where you get nothing but the track action; there is only the "main-evening-session" feed, where they break away from longer races to show field-event action. So, I'm concerned that they will break away from today's W 5000 to show hammer/pole vault attempts. I would like to have just the running on one device and two others with "throws feed" and "jumps feed".

But, hey, this is so much better than we've had before, isn't it?
Cheers,
Alan Shank

[Pego]

However, on his computer the Flash player crashes every ten minutes or so.

We have tried Chrome, Firefox and IE. IE was by far the most stable as far as the crashing goes.

[tgs3]

Another issue: yesterday, on the iPad they had a "throws feed" and a "jumps feed", with nothing but those events, no commentary. But there is no "track feed" where you get nothing but the track action; there is only the "main-evening-session" feed, where they break away from longer races to show field-event action. So, I'm concerned that they will break away from today's W 5000 to show hammer/pole vault attempts. I would like to have just the running on one device and two others with "throws feed" and "jumps feed".

Is what is offered on the Ipad different? Looks like the main NBC site offers 4 different feeds both yesterday and today, and one of those is a track only feed. I prefer the feed with the (BBC?) commentary on it, but I can see a purist wanting all three feeds in different tabs/browsers.

[Alan Shank]

Another issue: yesterday, on the iPad they had a "throws feed" and a "jumps feed", with nothing but those events, no commentary. But there is no "track feed" where you get nothing but the track action; there is only the "main-evening-session" feed, where they break away from longer races to show field-event action. So, I'm concerned that they will break away from today's W 5000 to show hammer/pole vault attempts. I would like to have just the running on one device and two others with "throws feed" and "jumps feed".

Is what is offered on the Ipad different? Looks like the main NBC site offers 4 different feeds both yesterday and today, and one of those is a track only feed. I prefer the feed with the (BBC?) commentary on it, but I can see a purist wanting all three feeds in different tabs/browsers.

Well, today on my iPad they DID have a "track feed", to which I switched for the 5000, because I was afraid they would interrupt the race on the "Main-feed" channel. Did they?
Cheers,
Alan Shank

[James Fields]

tracknut wrote:

I had no clue that track was being shown on any station other than the main NBC station.

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2012 Olympic news from GBR has appeared on five NBC outlets:
1. NBC
2. CNBC
3. NBC Sports
4. Bravo
5. MSNBC

Three, but not all five, have been used simultaneously for Olympics content which can require having multiple TV screens to avoid missing events. Even so, an annoying amount of track and field has not appeared -- even specific events headlined on a channel's opening screen but not subsequently shown. One notable exception: women's marathon.

Instead, much viewing time has been given to basketball, cycling, diving, gymnastics, soccer, swimming, tennis, and volleyball (both surfaces -- sand, wood floors) plus interviews. Combative events such as boxing, fencing, shooting, and wrestling have also appeared and some attention has been given to rowing which uses its brief air time efficiently.

Note that local outlets need and use time, not least for local advertising and news (plus viewer-favored shows) that is thus not available for NBC network feed.

Overall, track and field appears to be evolving toward an ever smaller portion of Olympics TV programming in USA.

[tgs3]

Well, today on my iPad they DID have a "track feed", to which I switched for the 5000, because I was afraid they would interrupt the race on the "Main-feed" channel. Did they?

They broke away about half a dozen times, but not in the last few laps.

[Alan Shank]

Well, today on my iPad they DID have a "track feed", to which I switched for the 5000, because I was afraid they would interrupt the race on the "Main-feed" channel. Did they?

They broke away about half a dozen times, but not in the last few laps.

Thanks for the "track feed", NBCOlympics! That's a great idea. Now, if they will just let me direct the camera work! >:-)
Cheers,
Alan Shank

[Pego]

Yes, thank you NBC. I promised not to say one word of criticism toward the NBC if they provide live streaming and Pego is a man of his word. No matter how bad things get, I will keep my mouth shut.

[lonewolf]

Yes, thank you NBC. I promised not to say one word of criticism toward the NBC if they provide live streaming and Pego is a man of his word. No matter how bad things get, I will keep my mouth shut.

I agree, Pego. I bitch about the commercial timing and I had to get up five hours early some days but I saw about 99% of Olympic T&F for free.. probably more than most/all of those who were there in person...and was never more than 15 feet from a bathroom