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Post by IdahoBoy on Aug 20, 2008 17:27:05 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2008 20:58:24 GMT -5
Beach volleyball, that is.
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Post by bownlovingfreak on Aug 20, 2008 21:09:35 GMT -5
He'd rather see more Phelps than a sport? What a fruit.
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Post by rogero1 on Aug 21, 2008 1:31:17 GMT -5
Sounds like he's a polo man or something like that.
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Post by cardfan15 on Aug 21, 2008 1:34:15 GMT -5
Sounds like he is some shock jock who makes empty assertions thinking he is speaking for everyone. There is no way to prove his "inflated ratings" assertion and if this guy were to get out of his 5th Avenue office he'd have a better idea of what's going on in the world. Just another idiot who thinks no one is interested about anything other than what white men do.
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Post by robertmotley on Aug 21, 2008 13:41:42 GMT -5
what a moron...check out my nice comment
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Post by mikegarrison on Aug 21, 2008 13:49:19 GMT -5
A lot of non-volleyball fans have been complaining about how much NBC has been showing beach volleyball. Here we complain because they don't show all the volleyball, but there are a lot of other sports out there.
Personally, I would rather see more sailing, archery, team handball, judo, track cycling, and stuff that we just don't see on TV every weekend. I think beach volleyball probably was over-shown on the main NBC show.
What this really demonstrates, though, is that the old paradigm of a national network showing their own version of the Olympics to their own country has got to go. There is no reason all of these events can't be streamed live, worldwide. Instead, we have the situation where NBC is tape-delaying stuff and then refusing to stream it until the tape-delay has played. And they have agreements to block streaming from other countries if you have a US-based IP address. Very annoying.
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Post by hammer on Aug 21, 2008 13:53:36 GMT -5
Mike Ozanian appears (or use to appear) regularily on the show "Forbes on Fox" which airs 8am every Saturday on the West Coast. I would categorize him as a right-wing, free market bull. I don't think he has the background to competently comment on this issue. He's ok when comparing Toyota to GM, or Proctor and Gamble vs. Kimberly-Clark.
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Post by Phaedrus on Aug 21, 2008 13:54:54 GMT -5
Find someone to outbid NBC. Think about how annoyed the other countries are, they get to see all the American athletes too, but not their own because NBC won the bid for the entire feed.
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Post by The Bofa on the Sofa on Aug 21, 2008 14:04:43 GMT -5
A lot of non-volleyball fans have been complaining about how much NBC has been showing beach volleyball. Here we complain because they don't show all the volleyball, but there are a lot of other sports out there. Volleyball may or may not have had too much coverage, but it is by far not the worst, which is clearly boxing. Yeah, NBC shows a lot of volleyball when the US teams are playing, but CNBC has basically been all boxing, all the time, and all the competitors. We are talking about matches like Turkey vs PRK. They could be a showing a lot of other things instead of that. |
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Post by volleyballer4life on Aug 21, 2008 14:10:46 GMT -5
He's a "National Editor" at Forbes. Is it just me or does the sentence: "During the years beach volleyball television ratings in the U.S. stink." not make any sense? Good lord. Where is grammarnazi!  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2008 14:14:53 GMT -5
Is boxing popular?
NBC has all these channels at their disposal. Why don't they use them? I suppose their sponsors want to make sure they are watching their commercials.
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Post by The Bofa on the Sofa on Aug 21, 2008 14:25:44 GMT -5
NBC has actually been using the other cable channels. MSNBC, CNBC, and even USA have been showing olympics. Not during primetime, of course, but during the day they have, even when the network has stuff (for example, team handball was on MSNBC yesterday at the same time as the men's volleyball match. CNBC had boxing, of course). I wouldn't mind them moving volleyball to CNBC if they wanted.
Shoot, I even saw some gymnastics replay on Oxygen the other day (of course, at night on Oxygen they sell sex toys).
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Post by tim01 on Aug 21, 2008 22:20:52 GMT -5
Find someone to outbid NBC. Think about how annoyed the other countries are, they get to see all the American athletes too, but not their own because NBC won the bid for the entire feed. This is simply incorrect. NBC has the media (broadcast, Internet, etc) rights for the USA only. The IOC divides the rights around the world. The countries that own the right control what they broadcast. All but the smallest broadcasters have their own hosts and announcers, too. For example, the BBC held the rights for the United Kingdom. In each country, the rights holders broadcast the events that they believe will be of greatest interest (or whatever criteria they choose). At nearly $900 Million, NBC/GE's payment to the IOC for the USA rights to the 2008 Games is more than the rest of the world's combined rights fees. Because they pay so much more than anyone else, they get to stipulate that some of the premier events are contested at times that are best for US live broadcast (swimming, gymnastics, beach VB). For more info on which broadcasters own the rights around the world, click this link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Summer_Olympics_BroadcastingAll this being said, ESPN is expected to provide strong rights competition for the 2014 and 2016 Games. They have publicly stated that they will broadcast more events live, no matter where the Games are held, citing their early-morning and late-night broadcasts of World Cup and Euro 2008 as recent examples. |
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Post by Vball818 on Aug 22, 2008 16:31:22 GMT -5
I was reading some of the comments on Ozanian's blog and several fans claim that the bleachers were full at the beach volleyball venue and I'm wondering, 'oh really?', because when I looked there was quite a lot of empty seats, but then the matches I was watching were pool(premliminary) matches. Of course when it come to m/w semi-finals and final matches the venue was packed. No one is satisfied that the sport they're a fanatic of isn't getting their share of TV coverage on broacast or even on cable. Like I said in anoother post just be glad that volleyball is getting TV coverage because the sport handball doesn't get any and that doesn't sit too well with handball fans. |
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