NBC Olympics

NBC - Why on earth would you interview the US flag bearers as they are walking in the opening ceremony? It distracted their experience, took away from their fellow athletes and ruined it for anyone watching from the US. Here's an idea … interview them another time. Seriously, this was another example of stupid media! # fail

This year, NBC did not measure up to its usual excellence in the Olympics. Too many personal opinions and not enough emphasis on the techniques of each Olympian. Plus, favoritism showed. Hope next time, will be less biased with focus on the games not the politics.

Rebroadcasts and Repeats. Split screen commercials so you can't hear commentators let alone able to see a competitor's score. I am going to scratch NBC off of my viewing list. The want you to pay for Peacock. I would have given zero stars if I could have. This has to be a complete embarrassment for NBC. Couldn't even follow the schedule of what order events would be on. Just horrible!

2/15/22 the Today show said that women's figure skating would begin tonight at 2000 ET. NBC ran adds during the day today saying the same thing. The women's figure skating was not broadcast at 2000 ET but men's bobsledding. Lying, sorry people. I hate it when people don't tell the truth just to get us to turn on the TV. Bob Costas would not have done that.

Why is NBC putting sports on USA in the afternoon and the same broadcast in NBC later. I dont know anyone that does not have recording. If it was worth seeing, they can record it. There is no reason to watch NBC Primetime. Today for instance there was Luge and now it is on again tonight on NBC. They had Long jump on toady and then rebroadcast it, like that has a huge following. Just terrible coverage. So many different sports and they play the same ones over and over. Then the same nauseating people announcing and covering every Olympics. How about some new people.

We are trying to watch on SATURDAY NIGHT AT 8 pm! Prime time… watching repeat of Mens giant slalom that we just watched 10 minutes ago! Even the same commercials! WTF is wrong with your producers? This is beyond embarrassing! Is the SUPER BOWL really that important? You have totally dropped the ski!, the stone, the board, the skate! NBC should be ashamed!

The outdoor P. A. volume totally drowns out your event analysts with loud, echoing, often foreign jiborish. Some of your indoor analysts just babble on and seem bored with their event. (eg womens hockey) Constant reruns don't make for interesting viewing, and going to split screen muting olympic coverage for commercials while events are taking place is frustrating and inexcusable. Savannah and Hoda with jackets and hats in their NY studio doesn't really add authenticity or interest. As a lifelong Olympic junkee, this was/is an embarassment. I feel sorry for the athletes.

You suck NBC - I want LIVE Olympic coverage - Thanks to NBC trying to make more money, the rest of the world gets to watch the Olympics live, but we in the US get stuck with 12 hour delayed coverage.

It's so annoying - on the official Olympic website: http://en.beijing2008.cn/
If you are from the US you are prevented from watching the live videos from other countries. This is such crap. I hate you NBC.

Anyone know any ways around this? (other than moving to another country =)

Absolutely worst coverage I have seen in a long time. Will quit watching any further Olympic events going forward. Mikaela Shiffrin skies out a second time in a row and NBC stops coverage of all other competitors?! Completely missing the point of what the Olympics are all about.
Viewers also shouldn't be forced into paying extra money to sign up for Peacock in order to able to watch an important event like the Olympics.

Having a commercial while a snowboard or ski jumping run is going on is STUPID to say the least. I for one am not going to trade with the companies that put their commercials in the middle of a run. Just nothing but BS.

Hey NBC, get the cameras out of the faces of the US athletes. You chase around these athletes like the National Enquirer might do. Show them while their competing and being interviewed, then leave them alone, their under enough stress competing. Examples-Mikaela Shiffrin, Shaun White, Nathan Chen etc. The camera operators look like stalkers.

Once again your coverage of the Olympics is a dumpster fire! Running the same sports on 2 channels at the same time is NOT giving us good content. I think someone needs to retool the entire Olympics coverage, you have enough channels and yet you run the same thing on 2 or 3 channels leaving tons of content off the air. I wish someone at NBC Sports gets a clue or Olympics will no longer be on NBC or the pay for channels. You should be ashamed of your coverage!

Worst coverage of any sporting event or olympics I have ever seen. Have watched more minutes of commercials than of events. Listings show events but when you tune in at that time, they are showing some other event. When twice I actually saw the event I wanted to see, NBC showed part of it then informs me that I an watch the rest on Peacock... wtf. This is NOT coverage, it is "lets sell advertising and Peacock subscriptions" I now really worry about NBC having superbowl. I expect the first quarter on NBC, 2nd quarter on usa but when you tune in to usa you get half time show after which announcer will tell you second half to be broadcast live on Peacock

Commercials in the middle of the leaders' runs during big air and many other events! Otherwise, some of the announcers they had were sooooooo boring and unhelpful. "Didn't fully rotate, missed that landing..."... WOW! What helpful technical insight haha. Really anticlimatic and uninteresting. Annoucer was good for halfpipe, but kept getting spoken over by the non-specialist. Rude and disrespectful. Events were all piece-milled together so you never seemed to get full coverage of an event start to finish. These winter events only happens every 4 years. You'd think they could be better prepared. Very disappointing coverage of the Olympics. Worst I remember in 40 years.

Can't believe that if I want to see if Redmond Gerard wins the gold in Men's Slopestyle Snowboarding live, I have to pay for Peacock Premium. Really unacceptable. I suppose the American Ninja Warrior repeat, the poker tour and other lame "sports" that are on NBC's plethora of stations are raking in the ratings. It's really disappointing. If you are going to commit to covering the Olympics - - cover it.
Appreciate Mike Tirico's coverage.

Watching the women's short track skiing: Greedy NBC is splitting the screen 60% / 40% to run long strings of commercials during live competition! Because of their larger portion of the screen, the commercials totally the audio of the games and take away the ability of viewers to see the Olympic action's scoring results. UNBELIEVABLY incompetent broadcasting. NBC is clearly the greediest Olympic coverage network of all time. I will never again watch their network for any sports coverage. Grrrr!

Every time I turn on an NBC Affiliate channel I get CURLING! A recently, and perhaps, wrong addition to the Winter Olympic lineup. This is a game (not a sport) that is NOT well understood by MOST Americans and - for good reason: It is BORING! Certainly other contests could have been covered more closely for the time offered by NBC.

They say they are working on it, but how do you ignore Apple users before the most important sports broadcasts in 5 years! AppleTV remote controls are disabled for all replay and live broadcasts on the NBCOlympics.com app. Yikes! No stop, no jump, no rewind and if you discontinue a replay for any reason, you have to start at the beginning. For most 2-3 hour events, this is obsurd. BTW, the ads actually interrupt play. Could it be advertising dollars greed at work? Doubtful, as the engineering misstep is just too egregious. I complained to Apple that NBC is ripping off its customers. Maybe that will help. ~ErgonomicsDr

There was supposedly be a USA VS AUSTRALIA WOMEN'S BASKETBALL ON channel NBCSHD, Instead there's beach volleyball men's Roc vs Mex. Typical NBC can't get their act together, bias against women's sports! Shame on them!

Worst coverage in memory. Too many comercials. Yes it takes 28+ minutes but still has strategy. They did a split screen with no sound. It was a waist of effort in my opinion.

Isnt it enough that the current political climate of the world is in turmoil? Do we have to make it worse by mentioning political atrocities as different countries march into the stadium during the opening ceremonies. This is supposed to be about athletic competition on a global scale... however the NBC commentary is anything but and creates more of a stressful and emotionally draining viewing experience for everyone involved! Having two people on (one Chinese, one American) to amplify the situations even further just made it worse. Why not interview some athletes from different countries highlighting their struggles with training, traveling or success stories? Shame on you NBC... in addition,
1. Why even mention Putin and Ukraine... so unnecessary!
2. Do you have to announce that certain countries "have not won a gold medal since 1938"? Focus on the positive... don't belittle the countries or the athletes... we (USA) sound like such snobs.
3. I'm in the middle of the opening and the commentary is even worse regarding the above comments I have already outlined.
4. Do your homework about one athlete from each country and your broadcast becomes positive, intriguing and full of humanity!

Please ask them not to trash the Ollympics with politics and personal miss-informed word throwing on the Chinese. If the 2022 Winter Olympics were held in Germany, the NBC hosts would hit the Germans with Nazi remarks and personal view point, Germans are not Nazis, and I would not want you to talk about what I feel during the Olympics in my country, if I was Chinese, or any other country for that matter.

The coverage of the Women's Figure Skating was very disappointing. The announcers, Weir and Lipinski went too far with their criticism. Just because they were privileged to have great coaches and their parents' support. It
doesn't mean it is the same in other countries. The skaters, specifically, the Russians, are children. The announcers don't know exactly what these skaters go through. They may have only seen what the Russians wanted them to see,, if and when they visited a Russian training center.The announcers were very arrogant and condescending. These Russian skaters probably have no choice in what they eat or drink. They are children and have to do what they're told. They may not have been informed about illegal substances or have any choice or voice in their training. They did not deserve the bashing the reporters gave them. Also, the cameras should not have followed these girls backstage, showing their heartbreak and tears of distress. Johnny should not have translated what they were saying.& It was an invasion of their privacy. This was horrible! All the blame should be on the adults- not the skaters! If the tests were negative at the Olympics, then they should be allowed to skate. SHAME ON NBC!