I’m a little bit pissed off at NBC at the moment.
Kate and I spent a bit of time yesterday watching the Women’s Individual Sabre Semi-finals yesterday. I was very happy at the coverage that was being given to it on Bravo. We watched the two semi-final matches and the bronze metal match. They said that the gold metal match would be shown that night in prime time on NBC. Fair enough, show the gold metal stuff in prime time on the primary network.
When the time came for them to show it, the wonderful coverage that had been shown on Bravo was replaced by a quick showing of 5 maybe 6 passes of the match. They spent longer showing the metal ceremony for the event then they spent showing the gold metal round for it!
I think they could have dropped the several minute “story” they had on the Olympic Village later in the evening and shown me the damn match. Or, if they didn’t want to take time in prime time to show the match, fine. They could have shown it with the other fencing that they showed on Bravo.
Good lord I wish ABC has the Olympics.
