NBC televising the Olympics

[fg]

In 1992, NBC and the future Altice USA televised the Olympics Triplecast, an experimental PPV that covered the 1992 Summer Olympics over THREE PPV Channels and each event was shown live. It was a massive failure.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympics_Triplecast

Fast forward to 2020 and now we have Internet streaming, NBC owning a lot more channels than they did in 1992, do you think that NBC should do something similar and show all The Olympic Games LIVE and show them on channels like the Olympic Channel, NBCSN on the Internet etc in addition to showing them in prime time on NBC (some Olympic Games were repeated In prime time on NBC)?

[r.]

I'd be happy with a single streaming website, I can pick the sport I wanna see and simply watch it.

[DiBiase is Good]

After their disgusting decision not to show the 7/7 tribute from the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony, they shouldn’t be allowed to televise the Olympics again.
Never mind the victims of a terror attack that happened a day after London was awarded the Olympics, here’s an interview with Michael Phelps instead.

Oh and the irony of not knowing who Tim Berners-Lee was and telling viewers to google it. You just couldn’t make that shit up.

[sfvega]

Oct 7, 2020 20:06:51 GMT -5 r. said:

I'd be happy with a single streaming website, I can pick the sport I wanna see and simply watch it.

YES! For the love of god, given the money they pay for the rights to the Olympics and given it's the age of streaming, it shouldn't be a huge ask to have a site that says X sport live: Y channel or Y feed, Z time.

[rocket]

Peacock debuted around the time Tokyo was supposed to happen, and I believe that would've been the strategy anyway.

I remember the hype over the Triplecast given I was in a Cablevision area and Cablevision was a co-investor. Yet the price tag was too high.

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Oct 9, 2020 1:42:43 GMT -5 DiBiase is Good said:

After their disgusting decision not to show the 7/7 tribute from the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony, they shouldn’t be allowed to televise the Olympics again.
Never mind the victims of a terror attack that happened a day after London was awarded the Olympics, here’s an interview with Michael Phelps instead.

Oh and the irony of not knowing who Tim Berners-Lee was and telling viewers to google it. You just couldn’t make that shit up.

Or the 2016 Olympics, which was just an excuse for the ever intoxicated duo of Kathie Lee and Hoda to lush over the physiques and giggle at how some countries are pronounced in English.

[fg]

Oct 9, 2020 9:38:18 GMT -5 rocket said:

Peacock debuted around the time Tokyo was supposed to happen, and I believe that would've been the strategy anyway.

I remember the hype over the Triplecast given I was in a Cablevision area and Cablevision was a co-investor. Yet the price tag was too high.

To date, the Triplecast is the longest PPV event of all time. (13 days long. Three channels. Viewers had the option of buying one day or some days or all days.) Given how PPV is a dying breed slowly but surely (at least according to WWE), no PPV will top the Triplecadt’s record. My old cable system due to lack of channel space had to preempt two extra channels. Channel 96 which had three channels all of which are now defunct. (CTN [not the religious service of the same name], a local ad channel and a local onscreen TV listings guide [not the cable shannel that became the Pop channel). Channel 99 which had WNJU (Telemoundo) and the future MSG Plus 2 channel [then known as Sportschannel America].
However my Aunts cab,e system had space for the two extra channels.

[Sam Punk]

Should be fun!

[Triangle Lancer]

They tried with the Gold app in 2016, damn thing was in a constant buffer. (Only thing I cared about was women's tennis.)
But you'd get the ads pushing the Premier League crystal clear...if you pay for it.