Olympic Folly

This is about the third or fourth time I've tried to write this post. I can't seem to get the words out, but seeing the replay of the day's events at Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics gave me the urge to try one last time.

Watching the Olympics is extremely frustrating. When the Summer games were in China, I didn't think much of the delayed broadcasts because of the big time difference, the everything now data/digital age was just starting to grow and there were actually some events shown live even if it was at one or two in the morning.

But now the winter games are here in North America, hell even in the pacific time zone, and everything is still being delayed for primetime. The problem with that is throughout the day you can easily hear on the radio or tv news updates that say "_____ wins gold" in events that happened in the morning or afternoon but we can't see any of it till the evening! And when they save events for prime-time, that means not showing anything big until about 8pm (there is a short afternoon block I believe) and the new content ends up going well past midnight.

I know the website offered live coverage during the Summer games and I haven't checked if the same for this Winter games but I'm just disappointed that I can't pick a channel in NBC's family of networks and not have at least one on the Olympics at any time. I think I'm at a crossroads with at least the TV broadcasting of the Olympics. There are events I enjoy at the Winter games and I just get frustrated that I miss them completely or don't get to see enough of it.

BTW, rant aside and on a much more pleasant note, it was htbthomas' bday earlier today! Happy Birthday! ♥