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I've just added this section, with references to the various writeups discussing (usually negatively) NBC's coverage of the opening ceremony. It may require more work - it's difficult to write a section discussing criticism while maintaining a neutral point of view. Feel free to make changes if you think I've focused on the negative too much. 86.24.83.108 ( talk) 16:30, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
Same author, this time logged in. I've had a second go at one of the paragraphs (after a different author added more and changed the bullet points to prose). The part about Bob Costas criticizing the IOC's failure to include a moment of silence for Munich victims is no longer there, but should probably be added somewhere else when the article is more generally rewritten. JosephMyer ( talk) 17:04, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
Don't have the time right now but here's something else to perhaps mention:
http://jezebel.com/5933302/someone-at-nbc-apparently-approved-this-creepy-porny-video-of-female-olympians
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From what I've seen (which wasn't much), NBC's coverage substituted its own Big Ben/Union Jack/shield logo for the jagged official 2012 logo - did they use the official logo/corporate identity at all? Whatever the merits of the official logo, it was an attempt to get away from cliches (like Big Ben). ProhibitOnions (T) 22:42, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
The article here references the SI guide to NBC coverage which states "NBC will air 5,535 hours of programming, including Friday's Opening Ceremonies". But if you add up all the hours from the NBC networks listed in the article (e.g., 155.5 hours on MSNBC), you only get 1022.5 hours. The remaining 4212.5 hours are from internet "broadcasts", most of which had no commentators at all, and only some of which had "Olympic Broadcasting Service" commentators.
So is it reasonable for NBC to claim it "aired" 5,535 of programming, when the majority was only via the internet (and not to televisions via the air, cable, or satellite) and was just the live feed with no NBC-ness? 69.140.23.81 ( talk) 06:07, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
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Just wondering why we have 2 separate sections for the 2016 Olympics? -- 168.215.131.150 ( talk) 19:48, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
Probably because the criticism of NBCUniversal's Olympics coverage is becoming to massive to be fit into one section, yet its still growing, proably every 2 years. I'm sure every year they continue to become terrible, the more criticism people will bring in. 20chances ( talk) 14:53, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
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I might re-assess these edits later, but I find it curious that a few IPs that geolocate to Russia have been editing these past few days ( Cyberwarfare by Russia § United States, anyone?), removing the criticism that NBC has been inserting too many commercials,( example) or going off-topic by mentioning the coverage of broadcasters from other countries.( example)
Coming from a U.S. reader instead of one in Russia, such criticism should probably still be valid if they are coming from NBC's intended audience from here in the U.S., especially when many who live in the states that border Canada also have access to the relatively commercial-free coverage on the CBC. Zzyzx11 ( talk) 11:24, 8 August 2021 (UTC)
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I've just added this section, with references to the various writeups discussing (usually negatively) NBC's coverage of the opening ceremony. It may require more work - it's difficult to write a section discussing criticism while maintaining a neutral point of view. Feel free to make changes if you think I've focused on the negative too much. 86.24.83.108 ( talk) 16:30, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
Same author, this time logged in. I've had a second go at one of the paragraphs (after a different author added more and changed the bullet points to prose). The part about Bob Costas criticizing the IOC's failure to include a moment of silence for Munich victims is no longer there, but should probably be added somewhere else when the article is more generally rewritten. JosephMyer ( talk) 17:04, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
Don't have the time right now but here's something else to perhaps mention:
http://jezebel.com/5933302/someone-at-nbc-apparently-approved-this-creepy-porny-video-of-female-olympians
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05:29, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
From what I've seen (which wasn't much), NBC's coverage substituted its own Big Ben/Union Jack/shield logo for the jagged official 2012 logo - did they use the official logo/corporate identity at all? Whatever the merits of the official logo, it was an attempt to get away from cliches (like Big Ben). ProhibitOnions (T) 22:42, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
The article here references the SI guide to NBC coverage which states "NBC will air 5,535 hours of programming, including Friday's Opening Ceremonies". But if you add up all the hours from the NBC networks listed in the article (e.g., 155.5 hours on MSNBC), you only get 1022.5 hours. The remaining 4212.5 hours are from internet "broadcasts", most of which had no commentators at all, and only some of which had "Olympic Broadcasting Service" commentators.
So is it reasonable for NBC to claim it "aired" 5,535 of programming, when the majority was only via the internet (and not to televisions via the air, cable, or satellite) and was just the live feed with no NBC-ness? 69.140.23.81 ( talk) 06:07, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
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Just wondering why we have 2 separate sections for the 2016 Olympics? -- 168.215.131.150 ( talk) 19:48, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
Probably because the criticism of NBCUniversal's Olympics coverage is becoming to massive to be fit into one section, yet its still growing, proably every 2 years. I'm sure every year they continue to become terrible, the more criticism people will bring in. 20chances ( talk) 14:53, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
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I might re-assess these edits later, but I find it curious that a few IPs that geolocate to Russia have been editing these past few days ( Cyberwarfare by Russia § United States, anyone?), removing the criticism that NBC has been inserting too many commercials,( example) or going off-topic by mentioning the coverage of broadcasters from other countries.( example)
Coming from a U.S. reader instead of one in Russia, such criticism should probably still be valid if they are coming from NBC's intended audience from here in the U.S., especially when many who live in the states that border Canada also have access to the relatively commercial-free coverage on the CBC. Zzyzx11 ( talk) 11:24, 8 August 2021 (UTC)
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of NBC Olympic broadcasts's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "The New York Times":
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 07:06, 19 August 2021 (UTC)