The World Is Live. NBC’s Olympics Should Be Too.

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3 lazy polar bears 385x240 The World Is Live. NBCs Olympics Should Be Too.

I was ranting on Friday’s Kevin & Bean show that we must pull together collectively as a nation and never allow NBC to host the Olympics again. Their insistence on tape delaying live sporting events, sometimes by as much as 12 hours, just doesn’t make sense in our modern world.

Unless you were willing to avoid all radio, TV and internet during the entire 16 days of the Vancouver WInter Olympic Games you had results spoiled for you.

Now, something called TechCrunch has analyzed 20,000 Tweets and 5700 blog posts and forum comments for a report they call “How We Hate NBC’s Olympics Coverage: A Statistical Breakdown.”

It’s no surprise that the tape delay was the #1 complaint among these social media users but click MORE to see all the other ways that NBC is fail.

 The World Is Live. NBCs Olympics Should Be Too.

Additionally, “sentiment analysis for the NBC Olympics” broke 73 percent negative and 27 percent positive. Click here to see the whole report.

Here’s some rare good news though. In a decision announced Friday, the USA vs. Canada Men’s Hockey Gold Medal Game will actually air live today at noon Pacific Time. Yes, believe it or not, NBC was planning to tape delay it by three hours, like they did with the USA-Switzerland game but somebody woke up and smelled the future.

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  • Chris

    I totally agree. F*ck NBC. First they screw over Conan O’Brien, Then they tape delay the whole Olympics. Thank God they’re gonna show the hockey game live.

  • B Cuz Im Awesome

    I believe it should be on ABC/ESPN plus they have they have ESPN 360 and my school gets that for free.

  • Marko

    I agree with the delay.

    it sucks! I would imagine it being live like the World cup, like even though in Japan is noon is like 4AM here, so what? put it live! then do re-runs as time goes

  • charliedont

    Haha! The Ceremonies have already concluded in Vancouver and NBC is pretending they are happening right now. Can they not do anything right?

  • ivan

    wait a minute!!!! what about cutting the closing ceremony right in the middle to show some dumb a- – show about a ref in peoples marriage. could they have not just showed the whole damn thing. it only happens every 2 or 4 years JESUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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