If you guys will forgive the irrelevance, here's a
Submitted by bertie on Fri, 09/15/2000 - 09:39
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If you guys will forgive the irrelevance, here's a link to The Website of the Moment and for the next couple of weeks.
I know it's a big country, and perhaps you live nowhere near the Olympics, but have you been able to attend any events in person? I was lucky enough to be able to go when they were in Atlanta, and it was wonderful.
Actually, I live only about 90 klicks away from The Games, but I have insufficient interest in sport and sufficient interest in avoiding huge crowds to keep me well away. Besides, tickets are bloody expensive and I'm a cheapskate. And the few events that do attract my attention can be seen quite well enough on television.
We've been given to understand here that the Games coverage provided to Americans by your TV networks has had all the juice squeezed out of it by over-production (this report coming from an Aussie currently working in the U.S.). How say you?
I also have little interest in sports, but my wife has been watching parts of the Olympics, and I do catch myself watching parts when their on. Yes, American coverage is terrible. Every few minutes a slick, silly package is shown making every athlete the hero of some once-tragic, now-triumphant personal saga. Of course, since NBC (the TV network) is showing the entire thing tape-delayed and edited, and since many events occur at once, they could simply use prime time to show hour-to-hour events packed. Nope, we get the stupid packages.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Thanks for the reports. Sounds like U.S. TV has too many executives trying to justify their existence.
Not that Aussie TV is perfect. Here The Games are largely handled by one network, and the others seem to have given up on any attempt at decent programming for the duration.
We've been TV-less for awhile (by choice), so I haven't caught any this year, but I watched healthy amounts of all the summer games in the 90s, and it was pretty uniformly rotten. Too many commercials. Highly annoying cuts from one event to another (usually just as the departing event was getting interesting). Way too many "human interest" stories. I figure the single biggest reason to want a satelite dish is to get non-American Olympic coverage.