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NBC Cuts Short Closing Ceremonies for Reality Crapfest


Endless commercials, truncated coverage, Bob Costas counting medals every five minutes, and now NBC using the closing ceremonies to pimp some stupid reality show.

What a joke. The Olympics deserve better.

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The higher ups at NBC are idiots. I hope the network tanks.

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NBC SUCKS! They speed up the closing ceremonies as well and put on Jerry Seinfeld's stupid show! And NBC wonders why no one is watching their network! They make me sick!

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Cold Case is on CBS...that's were I will be! I hate NBC!

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Good call to wedge the Marriage Ref pilot into the top rated show of the night. That way, if it's good, it will soar, and if it sucks, we'll all know about it. I love Seinfeld and so I watched, but it sucked so seriously badly that we all now resent such a bad effort from taking away from the Limpix closing ceremony. Marriage Ref won't last!

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I agree, Jerry Seinfeld is great but did not care for this show.

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If you guys stayed to watch it, NBC continued the Closing Ceremonies at 10:30 here.

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I didn't really pay attention to the closing, but is it normally that corny? I thought the athletes would be highlighted a lot more, but they just had all this lame singing and dancing. I was excited when Shatner and Michael J. Fox were there, but that silly parade with those jumping snowboarders singing Vancouver and the maple leafed people running out looked so stupid. Also, someone who is Canadian can answer this, I have a question about how Canadians see themselves, they seem to be openly and visibly proud of their stereotypes, like totally embracing it as part of their identities, how do you feel about that as a Canadian?

I didn't tune back into the show, because alls I heard was that Avril Lavigne, Nickelback, and Simple Plan were there. Didn't seem worth it.

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I'm Canadian and I thought the stereotype fest was funny. Canadian's don't tend to take themselves too seriously and enjoy self-deprecating as a past time; that's sort of what the ending ceremonies showed, a laid-back, fun loving sort of people
The opening ceremonies was more "cultural" while the closing was more typical-a-Canadian

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I was at the closing ceremonies and the whole crowd was in a euphoric state esp after winning the hockey game. We have no problem with seeing sterotypes of ourselves because we are proud of where we live and who we are.

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That's when the new reality show came on. And afterwards, at midnight, NBC just reran what they had already shown,without showing anymore.

Lindsey Vonn is on the "Tonight Show with Jay Leno" tonight. I wonder how Leno feels interviewing an athlete on the same network that cut off the end of the closing ceremonies to preview some stupid reality show.

And why did they have to preview it last night? It's not scheduled to be on Sundays!

I hope NBC gets raked over the coals by the critics.

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After the Marriage Ref, they show the news, and then at 10:35 p.m. here in Phoenix NBC continued the Closing Ceremonies with Nickelback, Avril Lavigne and other Canadian Artists.

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The IOC awards the broadcast rights to the highest bidder. I'm not sure they have any other criteria for awarding them. If they were willing to take less money, they might be able to place more conditions. This is one more thing (out of many) I blame on them. From Avery Brundage to Juan Antonio Samaranch, they seem to be a bunch of Fascists (and I mean that in the literal sense as well as the figurative). Brundage was a Nazi sympathizer and and Samaranch was a Franco crony. They both seem to have been anti-Semitic (promising for a decade to dedicate an Olympics to the Israeli athletes the IOC helped get killed, Samaranch broke his promise every four years). Brundage, though American, was effectively anti-American. He was vehement about preserving the "amateur status" of athletes in the capitalist countries, while winking at all the subsidies in the Communist bloc which made their athletes basically paid government employees. There's a history of financial corruption, too, at the IOC that may or may not have ended.

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. Gandhi.

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But honestly, kudos to NBC for cutting out right before Nickelback.

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But honestly, kudos to NBC for cutting out right before Nickelback.


Indeed, at least the US was not subjected to that

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Marriage Ref was pretty crappy, and I'm not excusing breaking away for it but I was a lot more disappointed with the overall coverage of the olympic/events than cutting away early at the end. I guess cutting away was pretty much just the cherry on the turd, and very much in step with their style of 'coverage'.

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-they seemed to just be repeating what they showed between 7:00 and 10:30. (I'm in the Southern part of the U.S.)

They did that every night. After the news there would be one more hour just summarizing what happened, then they'd repeat what they showed in primetime.

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