View Full Version : NBC does not have exclusive olympics rights
beechbone
08-06-2008, 03:20 PM
In epic fu today it was stated that NBC has exclusive rights to the Olympics. This is utter crap, as I know for a fact that the BBC is covering the games and I expect that they're not alone. Link to proof of bullshit (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/live_action/default.stm). NBC may have exclusive rights in the US (I don't know if this is the case) but the US is not he world and revision3 podcasts are watched all over the world.
Sorry for the rant but I get pissed when americans act like the US is the only country in the world.
Beechbone
comhcinc
08-06-2008, 04:05 PM
not the only country in the world, but the only one that matters :D
beechbone
08-06-2008, 04:14 PM
Aparrently a lot of rev3 agrees with you and that drives me nuts. I just wish that people would use "in the USA" ocassionally.
tokenuser
08-06-2008, 04:14 PM
Sorry for the rant but I get pissed when americans act like the US is the only country in the world.I live in the US, and despise the coverage you get.
I am an Aussie, and was back in Australia for the opening of the 2000 Olympics, but back in California before the closing, so got to see the Australian Olympic coverage AND the US Olympic coverage.
The difference? The Australian coverage showed all sports. Didn't matter if an australian was competing or not. The didn't show "athelete profiles" while the final race of an event no American was competing on was running.
The US might have raised the bar in terms of sports coverage, but the bias stinks. At least with NBC having multiple stations, we might get events on one station that aren't shown on another - even if it is SD vs HD.
Oh - and in case you didn't guess it, the world does in fact cease to exist if it is not in the continental US (no love for Alaska or Hawaii either), and unless world news coverage involves an American, or an American company/person overseas ... it wont get coverage. Thankfully we get the BBC World News Service to balance things out just a little.
comhcinc
08-06-2008, 04:22 PM
Aparrently a lot of rev3 agrees with you and that drives me nuts. I just wish that people would use "in the USA" ocassionally.
i was just ragging ya. more likely is they just don't think about it. don't think of it as a sign of elitism but more of a sign of humility. they don't realize they are reaching such a wide audience.
when one of them wakes up and gets to work and reads this they will be shocked that you are from another country!
beechbone
08-06-2008, 04:28 PM
I hope they're not that ignorant :P There are plenty of non-american geeks in the world!
comhcinc
08-06-2008, 04:32 PM
not ignorant. humble.
masherscf
08-06-2008, 04:38 PM
In epic fu today it was stated that NBC has exclusive rights to the Olympics. This is utter crap, as I know for a fact that the BBC is covering the games and I expect that they're not alone. Link to proof of bullshit (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/live_action/default.stm). NBC may have exclusive rights in the US (I don't know if this is the case) but the US is not he world and revision3 podcasts are watched all over the world.
Sorry for the rant but I get pissed when americans act like the US is the only country in the world.
Beechbone
The CBC also have broadcast rights. http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/
I think you should relax a bit. It sounds to me like you have a serious chip on your shoulder about this minor exclusion.
mikec
08-06-2008, 05:02 PM
First of all, the show is produced in the US. If you asked a person who lives in say Rome what network is carrying the Games, they would respond with the Italian network, they wouldn't say " well, in the US it's NBC, in Canada it is CBC, etc.."
token, I do agree that NBC sometimes has their collective heads stuck somewhere else. It would be interesting to see their coverage should some name athletes get bounced in preliminary rounds.
We apologize. We make sure to be as global as possible in every episode... featuring news, artists, and musicians from all around the world.
Jason's commentary was using NBC as an example of how internet users have to be careful about posting content from the Olympics and raising a discussion around copyright, etc -- in an age of new media -- where many conversations now happen through video.
We most certainly do not think the US is the center of the world. We have a rainbow coalition working behind the scenes to make sure of this. ;)
Again, we apologize if anyone became upset. Our intention is to spur conversation -- not hate.
tokenuser
08-06-2008, 09:07 PM
Again, we apologize if anyone became upset. Our intention is to spur conversation -- not hate.Well ... it served the purpose of spurring conversation.
You can ignore the angry Brit though ... they have felt marginalised since they lost the Revolutionary War ;)
comhcinc
08-06-2008, 09:18 PM
Well ... it served the purpose of spurring conversation.
You can ignore the angry Brit though ... they have felt marginalised since they lost the Revolutionary War ;)
and pretty much every other war since unless we came and bailed them out. USA USA USA USA USA USA :D
nextgenxbox
08-09-2008, 03:55 AM
America... Fuck Yeah!
There's a link to the Campfire discussion about the Olympics here:
http://mix.epicfu.com/forum/topic/show?id=699622%3ATopic%3A145154
Also, a lot of talk about this very same topic is popping up all over now:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/09/sports/olympics/09nbc.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/news?slug=afp-oly2008ceremonyusmedia&prov=afp&type=lgns
quantumfreak
08-10-2008, 06:44 AM
I live in the US, and despise the coverage you get.
I am an Aussie, and was back in Australia for the opening of the 2000 Olympics, but back in California before the closing, so got to see the Australian Olympic coverage AND the US Olympic coverage.
The difference? The Australian coverage showed all sports. Didn't matter if an australian was competing or not. The didn't show "athelete profiles" while the final race of an event no American was competing on was running.
The US might have raised the bar in terms of sports coverage, but the bias stinks. At least with NBC having multiple stations, we might get events on one station that aren't shown on another - even if it is SD vs HD.
Oh - and in case you didn't guess it, the world does in fact cease to exist if it is not in the continental US (no love for Alaska or Hawaii either), and unless world news coverage involves an American, or an American company/person overseas ... it wont get coverage. Thankfully we get the BBC World News Service to balance things out just a little.
To be fair, networks know that Americans don't give a shit about sports we're not playing in. The ratings prove it. The networks probably wouldn't have to focus on Americans if baseball wasn't nearing the playoffs and the NFL wasn't getting underway. For far too many, the Olympics is like political party conventions. It's just something else that screws with our favorite show's schedule every four years.