I’d say the CBC coverage is bad. Usually I like it because it covers more countries than say NBC. This time around I cannot stand the silly commentary of the presenters. Peridia and Craig are okay but Andi and Waneek? Acres of empty talking.
I just finished watching the “coverage” of the surfing final. They just showed us the last 6 minutes during which neither guy rode a wave! Wow that was exciting.
Spending more time on NBC.
All of my viewing has been through the peacock app. Have not watched any network or subnetwork (e.g., CNBC) coverage. It has been great - no fluff pieces just sport and commentary.
The NBC coverage has been mediocre, depending heavily on which sport you’re watching and on which of their networks. The Prime Time coverage is trash, with as many ads as they can possibly fit. They’ll specifically say that the next segment is being brought with limited commercial interruption, and then cut directly to an ad break. It’s like they’re hardly even trying to hide it. And they’ve adopted a series of about 5sec Toyota ads that pop up out of nowhere whenever someone with a finger on the button thinks they can drop them into the coverage while someone takes a breath. It’s like when you’re watching a YouTube video, and an ad drops in out of nowhere, and then it’s gone and it’s like the video never stopped. It’s pretty clear the commentators didn’t even know that an ad was shoehorned in.
Of course, NBC focuses mostly on US athletes, again, especially during the Prime Time coverage. During the day, they cover a reasonable swatch of stuff, and the ads aren’t as bad, but some of the sports have just awful commentators. Road cycling was bad. Trap shooting was bad. In one sport, might have been gymnastics, I heard a commentator say something like, “these athletes really have to be careful of making big mistakes, because those mistakes really make it hard to get good scores.” Really? No shit.
Most of my viewing time has been the cycling - I haven’t been watching any of the shows, just the straight stream. The cycling commentators (Mark Connolly and Curt Harnett, Canada) have been pretty bad. The commentators on the Olympic stream Rochelle Gilmore and Gerald de Kock who we’ve gotten for a few events (BMX, TT, first day of track) are marginally better although Gilmore annoys me immensely sometimes.
UK - I watch on the BBC.
I’d say it’s been very good - the presenters and commentary are good and I’ve been able to watch everything I want.
I’ve only watched Peacock. Big plus that it’s just the sport and no human interest fluff pieces. Commercials over all haven’t been that bad. Commentators aren’t very good. Most don’t seem to know the sport all that well. Soccer has been bad but I’m use to British commentary. Very nice that replays and full coverage of all the events is available.
UK - I watch on the BBC.
I’d say it’s been very good - the presenters and commentary are good and I’ve been able to watch everything I want.
agree, it’s superb. Michael Johnson on athletics especially so. Paula Radcliffe, Andrew Cotter (Olive and Mabel YouTube), a host of other Olympians and elites who can analyse intelligently to camera.
they’re getting a bit boosterish with the promos on Brit athletes, which is understandable, but then many promptly go on to not medal.
no ads.
UK - I watch on the BBC.
I’d say it’s been very good - the presenters and commentary are good and I’ve been able to watch everything I want.
agree, it’s superb. Michael Johnson on athletics especially so. Paula Radcliffe, Andrew Cotter (Olive and Mabel YouTube), a host of other Olympians and elites who can analyse intelligently to camera.
they’re getting a bit boosterish with the promos on Brit athletes, which is understandable, but then many promptly go on to not medal.
no ads.
Haven’t watched any of the local coverage where I am as don’t have any live TV feed, but must say I miss the Beeb for events like this. I struggle to imagine how they do a promo for Brit athletes - I imagine it would be awkward and slightly cringey; Brits don’t tend to do self promotion, or overt nationalism well (see the current thuggery providing a timely reminder why a lot of Brits feel uncomfortable with the concept…)
I live in Japan so of course the coverage is going to feature Japanese athletes. However, the last week has been only Judo, volleyball, table tennis, skate boarding, and gymnastics. Its like, I get it you know, but there are so many other events to watch, but they insist on ONLY showing events that have a Yuka or a Toshi. I know, if I’m savvy on my phone I can watch a whole load of other stuff but I just want to turn on the TV nd watch something exciting regardless of what athletes are in the competition.
I’ve been watching on NBCUnviersal networks during the day, which has been a good mix of sports and no fluff. Now NBC’s primetime coverage is pure Olympics fluff and more focused on US athletes.
Similar.
When I can catch the live stuff during the day it’s not bad. Some familiar names and ex athletes provide commentary that we’ve all gotten used to (Phil Liggett, bob roll on cycling, Rowdy Gaines swimming, Ato Bolton for track, and so on)… Phil is retiring from Olympic announcing- bit I never minded his commentary. It’s so familiar.
When prime time coverage diverts to fluff, I remind myself that it’s not live, so am not missing anything.
The climbing coverage on Peacock has been fairly good. It’s a tough sport to cover, because there are four athletes climbing different routes at the same time. There has been limited favoritism shown for the US climbers. They have done a decent job of walking the line between being accurate without getting too deep into the technical jargon. They seem confused about the sequence of saying a Japanese climber’s first and last names.
Go between Peacock and NBC depending what I want to watch. I watch prime every night. I like the human interest stories and I like to rewatch the exciting events I’ve seen during the day. I’m just thrilled to see so many different sports.
The climbing coverage on Peacock has been fairly good. It’s a tough sport to cover, because there are four athletes climbing different routes at the same time. There has been limited favoritism shown for the US climbers. They have done a decent job of walking the line between being accurate without getting too deep into the technical jargon. They seem confused about the sequence of saying a Japanese climber’s first and last names.
If it’s a sport I know I generally get annoyed with dumb-downed explanations but I will say I could have used it when I’ve watched rugby, field hockey, sailing…
Especially handball I can’t make out why sometimes there are fouls and even penalties and other times it seems like the same amount of contact is nothing.
If it’s a sport I know . . .
Especially handball I can’t make out why sometimes there are fouls and even penalties and other times it seems like the same amount of contact is nothing.
We know soccer well, but sometimes ask the same question 🤔😊
If it’s a sport I know . . .
Especially handball I can’t make out why sometimes there are fouls and even penalties and other times it seems like the same amount of contact is nothing.
We know soccer well, but sometimes ask the same question 🤔😊
Well that gives the commentators something to talk about, lots of debatable situations. In handball they weren’t doing that, so I assume it was something of an obvious call.