I don't own a TV, and I don't want to own a TV. But every two years, for 16 days, I wish I had a TV. Yes, the Olympics: always one of my favorite events. And wow, how cool, it's in Vancouver. My time zone! Cool! I can watch everything live, it's all right there! No horrible tape delays, it's live!!
Oh. No. No, it's not. The Network TV (does it really matter which one?) won't show it until 9. So if you're on the east coast, you get to see it live, but if you're on the West coast - where it's happening - you get a 3-hour tape delay.
Pardon me while I go beat my head against a wall. You want me to sit through 3 hours of crap from my local news stations to get through your commercial-riddled, crappy commentary show, just so I can watch my beloved Olympics?
You do realize, you're not helping sell TVs or put more money in your pocket, don't you? But having overpaid for this Olympics, NBC, not to mention having to pay off Conan O'Brien and that whole debacle, I guess you really better squeeze every last dollar out that you can.
What did I do? I left and went home. Turned on the computer, and got a live stream off the internet. Remember that NBC: it's not a monopoly anymore. There are options! But don't worry me about me; I'm still the minority. For now.
2 comments:
Hey, where did you find a live stream?
I found live stream of the opening ceremonies just by googling... since then it has been rather harder to come by. It's great: if you don't have cable, you can't live-stream (or watch full replays) on the NBC olympics site... a NETWORK channel, mind you. And the other sites I've found are either waaaay waayyyy too sketchy, or else NBC is watching like a hawk and shutting down anything that gets going. Nice, really. I did send them a snarky-gram... don't I have some kind of constitutional right to access???
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