I don't know if you are able to get any Canadian channels where you are. But if so, we have 24 hour a day coverage on three channels, CTV, TSN, and Sportsnet. It sounds like NBC has really dropped the ball on this.

The fact that the biggest hockey game of pool play was not in HD so they could show freakin' ice dancing was ridiculous. HD was made for U.S. v. Canada in hockey.

So happy I live in Sweden, where we get to see absolutely everything. 2 tv channels and 8 web channels. And all without commercials. Yay!

I would just like to remind you of the Triple Cast, the 3 24-hour pay-per-view channels NBC set up for the 1992 Summer Games. To this day, my family is convinced that we are the only people who purchased it (and it was awesome).

I don't know about other's cable set-ups (I have Cablevision), but I was able to see the hockey game in HD on MSNBC and all the curling has been in HD. A lot of the team sports are being shown in the mornings on Universal HD. There is also a channel (it's 674 on my box) that has 5 little picture in picture boxes showing what's on all the NBC channels to find the Olympic coverage. It's not perfect, but it's something.

Also, last night's ice dancing was pure comedy gold. I used the picture in picture to watch the hockey game live but still keep an eye on the skating.

A 24-hour Olympic channel would be awesome - I understand a lot of people do not watch events like Biathlon and ski aerials but I love them and would definitely watch them all day long on a separate channel.

Try the Canadian coverage (CTV) they show almost every sport, and if it's not on TV, it's on their website ctv.com (which is soooo much easier to navigate than nbc.com)

Also, they're quite willing to show and talk about every athlete in an event - and usually show the entire event - as well as a bit more indepth stuff on the Canadians obviously.

I'm tired of the dramatic triumph over tragedy stories. Especially when they break away from the event in progress. I.E during pairs figure skating, cutting away to tell us a story about the chinese coach. They should've capitalized on the internet for people that want to watch any part of an event.

I, for one, would have rather seen hockey than those painfully horrible aboriginal costumes, or the several country/western outfits. I found myself saying, "what the ... " ... "I just can't believe ... " ... what were they thinking ... " over and over again.

I kind of find it hilarious that NBC is barely showing prime Olympic coverage, when up here in Canada we have probably 6 channels (CTV, Sportsnet and TSN, and then all three again in awesome HD) I'm actually really surprised that you guys are getting so little coverage of the actual events, because it seems as though anytime I turn on the Olympics (which seems to be all the time) there's an American in the medal event. Disappointing, yes. But now it's just sort of laughable since I've heard the American perspective on the coverage.

The only drawback to the 24 hour Canadian channels is seeing the same Olympic!Go Canada! commercials... They're cute, but after seeing it for the 5th time in 30 minutes... It's annoying.

So I get 3 stations that give almost all day coverage in english one or two more in French, Plus my HD channels. Then one more that has two or three hours of alternate sports stuff. And I am on Eastlink Cable Digital package so my "on demand" has all the sports I missed on there until March 31st. In case I really need to see something.

"Apparently the reasoning was the network wanted to appeal more to women or something." My wife loved it. I can't believe NBC didn't put it on their main channel...

I agree, NBC's coverage has been awful. I realized last night that I don't even get MSNBC, but NBC has made it just about impossible to even watch the live stream on-line. Would it kill them to just let everyone in the US have the opportunity to stream the hockey game live? Throw in some commercials or charge me a one-time fee, I don't even care. The nonsense about logging in with your cable account name and password is ridiculous.

The medal ceremonies are also getting short changed. I couldn't believe they didn't show Ohno and Celski getting their medals (or if they did, I missed it among the 8 millionth discussion of Lindsay Vonn's muscle bruise).

I do like the way entire matches are on MSNBC and CNBC at least. I watched the USA v Canada match on MSNBC in HD, and I think CNBC has been mostly curling (not all of them US matches either). But it's infuriating here on the west coast to have the skating and other events chopped up into little bits on delay. Even if they don't want to start early, we could at least join the east coast live feed already in progress and then go back to the stuff on tape.

At first I disagreed with the hockey decision, but I would rather have watched the whole game straight through on MSNBC than broken up by other sports on the NBC site.
When I lived in Seattle I was able to get the Canadian coverage for the Salt Lake games, and they showed all the late night concerts and stuff too.

True, all. And would it be so HARD for NBC to do a crawl of winners' names--and a montage, at least--of all three medal performances for the day? It's not that many! It would be great to actually SEE everyone!

We live in the Detroit area, so we always watched the Olympics on CBC Windsor in previous years. This year, it's on CTV in Canada, which we don't have. We miss the Canadian coverage--so much more balanced than NBC's. We miss the Canadian coverage so much!

I totally agree NBC has been horrible these Olympics. One issue I have is the total lack of technical explainations. They are devoting hours of coverage to figure skating, but never described the difference between a triple toe loop and a triple axel. They also discussed Vonn using men's skis and how much of an advantage they gave her, but didn't have a graphic or cogent discussion of WHY until she skiied in the super-combined.

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I had a friend who worked in the call center that took orders for the Triplecast. They got excited anytime someone called in, even if they didn't take the call. IIRC daily orders were 0-5.

Sooo pissed about nbc (what else is new?) I can't get directv due to some line of sight issue and the wait for time warner (the monopoly on cable in the area) has a wait of 2+ weeks. As I just moved, I can't get cable- therefore no olympics (legally) for me. Why on earth can't they charge me some sort of fee for an online pass? I would pay something ridiculous for a chance to watch live/recorded coverage of entire events! Yet another reason to hate NBC. USA's programming is really the only thing that I watch from that effed up conglomerate.

As for Canada having unlimited free access spread across multiple channels, they are the host country and it would be stupid not to (even the SLC games had multiple channels).

I'm not sure what this point is here. From what I understand, Canada always has far more extensive coverage than the U.S., whether they are the host or not. As for Salt Lake City, I don't remember any 24/7 coverage in the U.S. So, point not made.

Personally, I'm glad they don't show so many medal ceremonies. I find them tiresome. Same thing over and over. I watch the Olympics for competition, and I'd much rather see more of that. Besides, they're showing quite a few medal ceremonies during the night show that runs just before they re-air the primetime coverage. And I skip that coverage, for precisely that reason.

Also wanted to add - does anyone think that perhaps the ice dancing was shown in primetime on NBC over the hockey game due to the popularity of shows such as "Dancing with the Stars" etc.? Or are these events normally shown over others, even in past Olympics?

But another factor playing into Ice Dancing that I forgot to mention is that North America has never really even been in contention for, well, forever, and it's not usually as dramatic as the other ice skating sports which got preferential coverage. There's no quad or not to quad, not much falling. So the sport just didn't get the same coverage and excitement. Someone in 6th or 8th couldn't really see winning a medal the way you could in the other ice skating sports where people drop like flies.

But after the last games, America got on the podium for the first time in forever and in the final dance I think there were five drops or falls by the top pairs--which is kinda how Belvin and Augusto got on the podium. And since then America has broken out in the sport, there are multiple rivalries including an American/Canadian rivalry and the chance that for the first time in forever that Russia will be completely shut out of the medals, etc...basically the sport got more dramatic in general and the storyline got really dramatic and people will tune into a sport they care nothing about if it has a good storyline. So, it's not just Dancing with the Stars affecting people's mindsets. It would have gotten more attention regardless.

Rachel, regarding ads on the NBC online stream of the hockey game, there were ads. Somebody over at the Puck Daddy blog was streaming the game there and they cut to commercial breaks in the middle of play, with no regard for what was happening on the ice.

I'm a (female) hockey fan, and I understand the rationale for not airing hockey on the flagship network, even if it disappoints me. However, I was greatly discouraged to see that essentially every primetime men's game was shifted between USA Network, MSNBC and CNBC, sometimes with the result that a whole period would pass with no U.S. TV coverage.

I'm also another Michigander who really, really misses CBC coverage. I'd even tolerate some Don Cherry-brand xenophobia over this.

I think these are all very valid complaints but what irritated me most was the extensive interview with Michael Phelps about his experience at the Winter Olympics and his plan for the London games. It's bad enough the Summer games are all Phelps, what is the point of interviewing him for being a spectator at the Winter games? If you must do these boring Costas interviews at least keep them to people actually competing in these games.

I grew up watching the Olympics on CBC so I was really worried about CTV potentially blowing it for us, but they have actually been even further ahead of CBC because they have all those different channels (TSN, Sportsnet, OLN, RDS, etc). The only change I would make is to have different commercials. I'm sick of Galen Weston telling us that President's Choice fed the oh-fer Alpine team and celebrities who left Canada two decades ago telling me to visit B.C. in 2010 -- it's too late Kim Catrall, Michael J. Fox and guy from Van Wilder.

I would hate NBC (even more) if I had missed all those gold medals that USA has won. Maybe you guys should complain before they ruin the 2012 Summer Olympics for you.

Word to all! YES I would watch 24-7 Olympics. YES, I want more medals ceremonies. They showed the Canadian who won for Skeleton, and since they had not shown skeleton I had no clue why I should care. Show me me the medal ceremonies that make everyone weep, or jump for joy. SHOW ME IT ALL. And also, commentators, if it's a sport where the action happens in less than 5 minutes bursts- SHUT UP during those 5 minutes. In 2002 I was in Hong Kong during the start of SLC. Caught ski jumping on NHK from Japan- they show it all with no comments during the jumps, but do comment with arrows on the screen and tuff on the replay. It was great- they also showed EVERYONE. At leats aim to show the top 10-15 in each sport if they take turns. Save the interviews and fluff stuff for the internet- if they had an add on interview right now for exmaple with Aksel Svindal- I'd go find it. Also, the NBC Olympics site currently sucks- it's hard to navigate and find schedules. And the Cable provider requirement is ridiculous.

I agree with all of this. I wonder how much of it is to do with the fact that NBC expected to lose money on these Games, so they're moving everything around so as to keep as many sponsors as possible or something.

Anyway, I was so pissed that I missed the US/Canada hockey game. It's my own fault, because I passed right by it on my cable guide without looking to see what was showing. I figured if it was on MSNBC it would be more lame curling (and by the way, why the hell are they showing so much damn curling? Seriously?) They should have shown that game on NBC, but no, they chose to show ice dancing, the second lamest event of the Games. Second only, of course, to curling.

Every Olympics I wonder why we are so surprised when NBC coverage is lousy. It's lousy every Olympics. In Canada, granted it spotlights Canadian athletes, but whether CBC or CTV does the Games, you get wall-to-wall, everything but the Zamboni coverage. (Sometimes we cover the Zamboni, too.) Heck -- this Olympics we have three separate TV stations with coverage from 9 am to past midnight, every day.

Yes, thank you. The lack of medal ceremonies makes me angry! It doesn't even feel like the Olympics without it.

Amen to everything including cdredhead's comment about the lack of medal ceremonies. I've liked the olympics more than I can remember in recent years. I remember that the summer olympics before Beijing had just about 24 hours coverage. Hell even SciFi (sorry SyFy) had some events broadcast. I seem to remember there being more coverage for the last winter olympics too.

Unfortunately I'm sadly limited to NBC Network's coverage because I don't have cable or satelite like my parents do. And I know there are less events and atheletes in the winter. Quite frankly two hours during the day (that isn't even pre-empting Dr. Phil at 5 or Rachel Ray at 2) and spotty prime time coverage broken up by stories about atheletes that we saw on the nightly news days before, and the today show earlier that day, is not enough. And why on earth do we need to hear from Michael Phelps and his experience as a SPECTATOR? Michael Phelps?!? WTF?!? Don't get me wrong he's a fine athelete, but seriously?!? Why do we need an interview with him during the WINTER olympics, especially commenting about being a spectator and about the close race he had. It was close, he won, he got the medal, it was TWO YEARS AGO! Let's move on.

Finally I too have a beef with the lack of the hockey game on network?!? I'm sure there are enough hockey fans in this country that they would have liked to have seen the game, even if tape delayed. Not knocking ice dancing but given the choice between the two I would have rather seen the hockey game on network in prime time. USA v. Canada, seems like a pretty good draw.

Anyway NBC gets a D- for their coverage. I don't know how much longer NBC has the olympics, but if their coverage continues like this for the next ones, it'd be nice for another network to get a shot.

The ice dancing coverage wasn't even that great, anyway. They didn't show most of the competitors, such as the Japanese teams (which surprised me because I thought for sure they'd show at least that american-born one) and they didn't show most of them until after 10 pm, in order to show tape-delayed skiing. And of course, three different time-wasting segments. I often wonder why NBC spent so much to acquire the rights to the Olympic Games since they seem to believe that nobody actually wants to *see* the Olympic Games.

Sadly, nothing has changed for the better since Dave Barry made fun of the 1996 Olympics coverage: http://www.davebarry.com/gg/olympicskerristrug.htm
The Wall Street Journal analyzed Friday's primetime coverage by NBC. Of the 3.5 hours, just 53 minutes showed actual athletic competition, with 56 being taken by commercials. Costas got 17 minutes of facetime, along with all the other feature-pap. So wrong.

During the 2008 Summer Olympics we watched all kinds of odd sports (air pistol! fencing! equestrian dressage!) on the Chinese and Korean NBCs which don't seem to be carrying ANY Olympics coverage for the Winter Games. So disappointing, although I've been loving all the curling! It hardly seems worth it for NBC to blow this huge amount to buy the rights to cover an event, and then to not bother actually covering it.

@Jill

The reason that they showed so much snowcross qualifying is that the alpine events that day were cancelled. NBC was looking for filler.

As for the ice dance versus hockey debate, ice dance was one of the few ratings bright spots for NBC during the Torino Olympics. Now, a lot of that had to do with Belbin and Agosto trying to become the first US team to medal in 30 years), but it is understandable that, with two US teams in medal contention, NBC would air ice dance on the main network. What NBC should have done with hockey was put it on CNBC -- in HD -- and then repeat the game overnight for viewers without cable. I think a lot of the viewer complaints would have been avoided if the game was in HD.

Winter olympics 2010 issues wi.. Keen :)

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