http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/research-shocks-the-internet-says-most-viewers-loved-nbcs-olym/ Engadget Comments for Research firm shocks the internet, says most viewers loved NBC's Olympics coverage http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/research-shocks-the-internet-says-most-viewers-loved-nbcs-olym/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/research-shocks-the-internet-says-most-viewers-loved-nbcs-olym/Mar 19th 2010 12:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/research-shocks-the-internet-says-most-viewers-loved-nbcs-olym/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/research-shocks-the-internet-says-most-viewers-loved-nbcs-olym/Mar 19th 2010 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/research-shocks-the-internet-says-most-viewers-loved-nbcs-olym/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/research-shocks-the-internet-says-most-viewers-loved-nbcs-olym/Mar 19th 2010 1:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/research-shocks-the-internet-says-most-viewers-loved-nbcs-olym/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/research-shocks-the-internet-says-most-viewers-loved-nbcs-olym/Also there isn't any type of information about what questions were asked, or what markets they polled. If they only polled the east coast, of course they didn't get any complaints about the tape delay.

I would like to see the actual questions and more detailed information concerning this survey. ]]>Mar 19th 2010 1:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/research-shocks-the-internet-says-most-viewers-loved-nbcs-olym/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/research-shocks-the-internet-says-most-viewers-loved-nbcs-olym/Mar 19th 2010 1:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/research-shocks-the-internet-says-most-viewers-loved-nbcs-olym/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/research-shocks-the-internet-says-most-viewers-loved-nbcs-olym/
It was kind of a secret though; I found it accidentally on Cablevision.]]>Mar 19th 2010 10:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/research-shocks-the-internet-says-most-viewers-loved-nbcs-olym/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/research-shocks-the-internet-says-most-viewers-loved-nbcs-olym/
Prior American Olympic coverages were filled with long-winded mini-documentations about the "struggle" of some randomly chosen athletes, and follow just those athletes. They would show their "darling"'s 5th place performance, but not the 1st place performance that beat them.

This year, NBC did a much better job showing the best performances regardless of the athlete's country of origin. Instead it was Canada's coverage that showed the annoying documentaries and ignored foreign athletes. Before one figure skating match, CTV talked for half an hour about one pair, showing them ballroom dancing and riding a carousel, but never showed a prior performance or any other performances! Pathetic journalism.]]>Mar 19th 2010 11:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/research-shocks-the-internet-says-most-viewers-loved-nbcs-olym/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/research-shocks-the-internet-says-most-viewers-loved-nbcs-olym/
The thing that makes me laugh every time I see it is the CTV DVD box of the whole thing. Their coverage was so awful I can't imagine why anyone would want to pay for it again.]]>Mar 19th 2010 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/research-shocks-the-internet-says-most-viewers-loved-nbcs-olym/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/research-shocks-the-internet-says-most-viewers-loved-nbcs-olym/Mar 19th 2010 4:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/research-shocks-the-internet-says-most-viewers-loved-nbcs-olym/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/research-shocks-the-internet-says-most-viewers-loved-nbcs-olym/Mar 19th 2010 12:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/research-shocks-the-internet-says-most-viewers-loved-nbcs-olym/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/research-shocks-the-internet-says-most-viewers-loved-nbcs-olym/
I didn't watch a lot of the Olympics, but what I did watch was well done. I very much agree with erh. This time they had less crap and focused on simply covering the events.]]>Mar 19th 2010 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/research-shocks-the-internet-says-most-viewers-loved-nbcs-olym/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/research-shocks-the-internet-says-most-viewers-loved-nbcs-olym/
Thanks goodness they don't have the World Cup on NBC.]]>Mar 19th 2010 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/research-shocks-the-internet-says-most-viewers-loved-nbcs-olym/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/research-shocks-the-internet-says-most-viewers-loved-nbcs-olym/
No I don't work for NBC, an affiliate thereof, or anyone related thereto. I just love the Olympic movement, and everyone's efforts to keep it alive. ]]>Mar 19th 2010 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/research-shocks-the-internet-says-most-viewers-loved-nbcs-olym/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/research-shocks-the-internet-says-most-viewers-loved-nbcs-olym/Mar 19th 2010 8:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/research-shocks-the-internet-says-most-viewers-loved-nbcs-olym/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/research-shocks-the-internet-says-most-viewers-loved-nbcs-olym/
P.S. the best rated event for the olympics was (live) U.S. vs. Canada for the gold in hockey. Not in primetime, on sunday afternoon. ]]>Mar 20th 2010 2:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/research-shocks-the-internet-says-most-viewers-loved-nbcs-olym/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/research-shocks-the-internet-says-most-viewers-loved-nbcs-olym/Mar 20th 2010 10:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/research-shocks-the-internet-says-most-viewers-loved-nbcs-olym/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/research-shocks-the-internet-says-most-viewers-loved-nbcs-olym/
Who ever was in control of camera choices for CTV, should be shot. They miss SO much good stuff.

Seeing that NBC had a delay, perhaps that gave them a slight advantage for choosing better shots.

People said that Canada didn't put on a very good show, and while they didn't put on a show that cost billions... they did DAMN GOOD with the budget they had...and we would have thought it was MUCH better, if we had some half decent engineers choosing the right shots.]]>Mar 22nd 2010 12:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/research-shocks-the-internet-says-most-viewers-loved-nbcs-olym/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/research-shocks-the-internet-says-most-viewers-loved-nbcs-olym/
I did not enjoy the artistry of the ceremony at all with Bob and Matt blathering on about everything.

Two years ago, after the Beijing ceremonies, I found torrents from Australian TV of broadcast that didn't have the constant commentary, and I much preferred watching that to the NBC broadcast. Plus since NBC broadcast the show in prime time already, my download delay wasn't significantly later than what was available locally.

I would argue that NBC needs to embrace the DVR as part of the changing landscape of TV or they are going to go the same way as newspapers have done relating to the internet in general. Live TV can be greatly enhanced with web content. Look at the NFL and the statistics that are available about live games in progress. Watching a game in HD while having all of the updated statistics on a laptop nearby greatly enhances the game, and is one of the few times that I watch tv LIVE. If I could have watched the particular ski racing events live, with constant timing information and leaderboards on my computer, I probably would have watched more of the olympics, live, and suffered through ads that I didn't care about for doing so.

Since I knew all of the events had already happened, I recorded entire sections of shows on my DVR, and fast forwarded through 90% of the things that didn't interest me, watching only the events that interested me and not many of the commercials. Plus, I knew that I could go to the vancouver2010.com website and look at when the events actually happened, and who metalled in each event LIVE.]]>Mar 22nd 2010 8:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/research-shocks-the-internet-says-most-viewers-loved-nbcs-olym/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/research-shocks-the-internet-says-most-viewers-loved-nbcs-olym/Mar 23rd 2010 12:29AM