POLL: What Do You Think of Olympics TV Coverage?
NBC faces some criticism about using tape delay to show major Olympic events on television.
Social media plays a big role in the coverage of the Summer Olympics as athletes, reporters and fans post in real time. This is causing some controversy for the television audience since they don't get to view events as they happen and may not want to know the outcome before they get the chance to watch. Yahoo featured an AP report that said NBC is facing all sorts of critics on Twitter for not showing many events live on television. Although there was Twitter four years ago for the last Olympic Games, it wasn't such a big part of mainstream culture. Twitter users have even created the their own hashtag to express their displeasure with how the network is handling the coverage: #nbcfail. NBC said they wait until prime time to air the big …
Liz
9:28 pm on Thursday, August 9, 2012
I don't understand why most if the coverage has been focused on diving, volleyball of all types and swimming. There are a ton of sports that the athletes train for 4 years to showcase and I've hardly seen any of it due to this coverage on NBC. I'm so over days and days of the same ol same ol and not seeing more of all of the events in the Olympics. Very sad that NBC doesn't honor more athletes by… more ›