NBC Responds: We Removed The Opening Ceremony Memorial To Terrorism Victims Because The Tribute Wasn
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Wow I remember when people first found out they cut the tribute, people on here came up with all these rational and fair reasons why they cut the tribute.
Then NBC come out and officially make themselves look like dicks.
[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;37008836]If you're close enough to the Canadian border, you could get CTV's coverage OTA. They carry the majority of ours, and Rogers' channels (such as OLN and SportsNet) carry a small bit too.[/QUOTE]
CTV's coverage is pretty good too, not just Canadian Athletes.
[QUOTE=lavacano;37008810]alright you know what fuck it
Can US users access the BBC's streams or do I need to go find a UK proxy? I'm tired of NBC's bullshit, I want the real Olympics.[/QUOTE]
One way to find out
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/2012/[/url]
[QUOTE=yawmwen;37008767]I don't think NBC should be allowed to broadcast the Olympics in the future, or at least shouldn't be allowed to have a monopoly on the Olympic broadcasts.
Why is it that NBC is the only company that is showing the Olympics in the states?[/QUOTE]
NBC paid 3.5 billion dollars to broadcast the olympics from 2000-2012
I want to hijack whatever NBC's source streams are on the Olympics and make them public.
[QUOTE=lavacano;37008810]alright you know what fuck it
Can US users access the BBC's streams or do I need to go find a UK proxy? I'm tired of NBC's bullshit, I want the real Olympics.[/QUOTE]
I don't think US viewers can watch BBC streams but it's not that hard to get around it
[editline]30th July 2012[/editline]
I'd recommend it, the BBC's coverage of it has been pretty good
[QUOTE=smurfy;37008898]One way to find out
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/2012/[/url][/QUOTE]
whoop, need a proxy
[QUOTE=smurfy;37008898]One way to find out
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/2012/[/url][/QUOTE]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/zK7wS.png[/img]
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[QUOTE=lavacano;37008810]alright you know what fuck it
Can US users access the BBC's streams or do I need to go find a UK proxy? I'm tired of NBC's bullshit, I want the real Olympics.[/QUOTE]
Try a UK proxy and go on BBC's website.
[QUOTE=JenkinsJ;37008823]Fuck them. Just fuck them. I've always assumed american television has this self-important opinion of itself. Not america related tribute? Cut it. Want to import a successful TV show? Remake it with americans, got forbid people can't understand [i]foreign[/i]. Most of the american podcast hosts (i.e. new media not television) hold the same view as everyone else seems to - it's fucking a ridiculous attitude, but TV still stays with it.[/QUOTE]
I absolutely agree with this.
NBC shouldn't be allowed to broadcast the Olympics; supposed to be our greatest ally and yet they disgrace us in the most disgusting and fowl way.
Fuck them; the US media is beyond awful in it's ridiculous always-political agenda. They make a mockery of Journalism and the divine purpose it holds to humanity.
Sorry that you have to put up with these guys, US. We know it's not all of you.
[QUOTE=Lambeth;37008904]NBC paid 3.5 billion dollars to broadcast the olympics from 2000-2012[/QUOTE]
So their contract's up for renewal? Hopefully the IOC tells them to suck a dick after this
Edit: [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympics_on_NBC]Nope![/url] They got a second contract until 2020
I think this sums it up
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Guys, please don't let the media speak for us (ironic but bare with me).
America actually is a good place, we're just represented by the worst people. I swear if you were to come to NYC to hang with me, you'd have a baller-ass time.
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;37008917]
I'd recommend it, the BBC's coverage of it has been pretty good[/QUOTE]
Pretty good? They've been hilarious and so enthusiastic it's like they're up for the medal themselves. All of them professionals who know everything about their sports.
[QUOTE=Carnage2323;37008997]I think this sums it up
[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/1343688182220.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
What? I don't get it, are the panels on the right a separate thing or what, they don't seem to fit
Well done NBC, add more fuel to the fire, fucking morons.
[QUOTE=KingKombat;37009003]Guys, please don't let the media speak for us (ironic but bare with me).
America actually is a good place, we're just represented by the worst people. I swear if you were to come to NYC to hang with me, you'd have a baller-ass time.[/QUOTE]
We're cool man, our quarrel isn't with you; but with your media.
[QUOTE=smurfy;37008898]One way to find out
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/2012/[/url][/QUOTE]
I'm sorry, we can't show this content in your area.
UK Proxy here I come.
Well the UK proxy isn't working. Since the US has no acceptable coverage of the Olympics, I might be forced to torrent.
I don't know why the BBC blocks this sort of thing, afaik they never sell DVDs of it or anything so what's the point. I can understand actual TV shows but sports and news seems weird to me
[QUOTE=KingKombat;37009003]Guys, please don't let the media speak for us (ironic but bare with me).
America actually is a good place, we're just represented by the worst people. I swear if you were to come to NYC to hang with me, you'd have a baller-ass time.[/QUOTE]
Americans are some of the most hospitable people I've ever met. You're cool, bro.
[QUOTE=smurfy;37009106]I don't know why the BBC blocks this sort of thing, afaik they never sell DVDs of it or anything so what's the point. I can understand actual TV shows but sports and news seems weird to me[/QUOTE]
Might just be they never bothered to set up internal categories, and the thing that blocks US users from iPlayer (or whatever you call it) can't tell the difference between Top Gear and the US v Argentina basketball game.
fucking nationalism.
[QUOTE=smurfy;37009106]I don't know why the BBC blocks this sort of thing, afaik they never sell DVDs of it or anything so what's the point. I can understand actual TV shows but sports and news seems weird to me[/QUOTE]
Because we're made to pay a television licence. That funds the BBC, and all it's radio shows, and it's website. Tory twats tend to moan about it because they're all about the free-market but I think it's up there with the NHS. The lack of advertising pressures means we get quality programming as opposed to pandering programming. I mean you wouldn't get TV shows like Sherlock on an ad-funded network. "You want an hour and half, and only 3 episodes? What. No." - so the reason it's not available in the US is that our licence fee it's stretched as it is, imagine all the bandwidth it costs to stream all this stuff, we can't just go giving it away. And frankly I get a bit of a smug sense of "Well they don't deserve it", especially after things like this.
This whole thing has been one big fuck-up by NBC. We should give someone else the rights to broadcast it next year, and perhaps it would be helpful to remind them that there are nations competing in this [I]other than America![/I] Even being the corporate sideshow that it is, at the very least the athletes deserve some damn respect.
To those who keep saying that the UK is failing at the Olympics.
It isn't, and here's why.
[B]Olympic bronze medal breaks in shower[/B]
This is nothing even to do with the Olympics, it could have been any other race and any other medal; the guy was a dumbass for wearing it in the shower but should still, and probably will get it replaced. It isn't the fault of the UK or the Olympics, nowhere close to being so; these Olympics aren't a failure in any sense of the word.
[B]London 2012: While seats are empty, 10 000 people are sent home because too many tickets were sold[/B]
Tracable back to ONE MAN, NOT THE ENTIRE COUNTRY
[B]The Olympic Flame Dies; Gets Unceremoniously Relit By Old Guy On a Cherry Picker[/B]
Standard security and safety procedure to move it out of the damn way, the gas was turned off to make it safe to move. The ceremony is the ceremonious part, hence the title.
[QUOTE=Cypher_09;37009178]To those who keep saying that the UK is failing at the Olympics.
It isn't, and here's why.
[B]Olympic bronze medal breaks in shower[/B]
This is nothing even to do with the Olympics, it could have been any other race and any other medal; the guy was a dumbass for wearing it in the shower but should still, and probably will get it replaced. It isn't the fault of the UK or the Olympics, nowhere close to being so; these Olympics aren't a failure in any sense of the word.
[B]London 2012: While seats are empty, 10 000 people are sent home because too many tickets were sold[/B]
Tracable back to ONE MAN, NOT THE ENTIRE COUNTRY
[B]The Olympic Flame Dies; Gets Unceremoniously Relit By Old Guy On a Cherry Picker[/B]
Standard security and safety procedure to move it out of the damn way, the gas was turned off to make it safe to move. The ceremony is the ceremonious part, hence the title.[/QUOTE]
Even with those three incidents out of the way, they're still several thousand in the negatives.
[QUOTE=Carnage2323;37008997]I think this sums it up
[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/1343688182220.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
no.
it doesn't.
NBC, you're a bunch of cunts. Seriously.
[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;37009196]Even with those three incidents out of the way, they're still several thousand in the negatives.[/QUOTE]
How can anybody take what you just said seriously
[QUOTE=Cypher_09;37009266]How can anybody take what you just said seriously[/QUOTE]
With all the security fuckups, this, and people just flat out not using their tickets, something's [b]very[/b] wrong.
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