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NBC quite interupting the commercials!!


For the last couple of weeks every night NBC has been showing a four hour long commercial sadly they keep interrupting the commercial with something called the OLYMPICS. I wish NBC would quite disrespecting their advertisers in this despicable way. At times the Olympic segments are almost as half as long as the advertiser segments. Gods above they must be loosing tons of money hand over fist. Why don't they show a solid half hour of commercials then interrupt for a 30 second station ID and Olympic medal count.

In case you haven't caught on I'm P.O.'d at NBC for they way they have treated the OLYMPIC GAMES. When I was a kid the OLYMPICS was a big deal no network would dare treat them the way NBC has. People back then remembered the "Heidi-Bowl" debacle that NBC created. Back then they would not dare interrupt a race for a commercial. Back then there would have been near rioting in the streets and studio exes lives would have been in danger.

Frankly people should be fired over this and NBC should be sued by every sports fan on the planet, maybe then they would do it right like they use to. At the very least NBC should be banded for life.

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Get use to it, because NBC paid $4.4 billion to have exclusive broadcast rights until 2020 and then paid another $7.75 billion to extend that out through 2032. Unfortunately we are stuck with NBC for the next 16 years. That is 16 more years of Matt and Meredith translating English into Moron.

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That is 16 more years of Matt and Meredith translating English into Moron.

Don't forget Bob Costas, he's the worst of all of them. At least this year they didn't have that old blonde bitch (I've deleted her name from my memory) interviewing swimmers after each race. She would say the most asinine things to them like "You were favored to win this race, but you came in third, do you think you let your fans down?". Nice kick in the teeth to somebody who already feels like crap. Hated her.

Chthonic gods have set their sights on making me a slave to their ways.

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Originally Posted by Dragonflye:
Don't forget Bob Costas, he's the worst of all of them.
Yeah, I'm no fan of Costas. After watching the closing ceremony, add Mary Carillo, Mike Tirico and Ryan Seacrest to the list of people translating English into Moron.

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I too, am not happy with the way they are commercializing the Olympics. I was watching something (I think synchronized swimming) and they cut out to do a few ads and when it came back on all I saw was the last 15 seconds of the routine. Especially as these are being televised all over imagine the ire that other countries may feel about most of the coverage being dominated by U.S. Teams or athletes. I was watching show jumping one day and they only showed a few (very few) of the competitors from other countries and there were over 30 people who competed. Even when I have tried to look up results on their website, it has always led me to the NBC site and its darn hard to navigate an answer to my questions. I'm sure they put a lot of work and money into all of this but they aren't making it enjoyable for all to watch. I think of all the runners whom were crushed when one false start shut them out from racing. Why? To save time as the sponsors only want their ads shown during certain events and therefore time constraints limited the time allowed for the competition. We need a fair independent site to watch ALL of it. Not just the newsworthy and the Americans. Limiting the fluff pieces would allow more time to watch the actual events.

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If you watched the NBC broadcasts in the live streaming app, then you would've seen a lot fewer commercials. Whenever there was a commercial break, it would simply show "the sport event will resume shortly". But some commercials would still show.

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