Most people on the Interwebs don’t want to read 1000 word rambles, so let me save you 58 seconds of your life with a summary: NBC, WTF!? If there’s a record-breaking eighth medal event, how can you not show it live!”
Defamer is running a fun casting call for who will be cast as Michael Phelps in the movie.
My money is on Screech.
I know that his record one is Saturday Night…but he has to get the win tonight to have a chance to break the record Saturday
Rob, I don't know if it's stupidity or hubris and the hubris quotient which was likely already large probably has ratcheted up significantly based on results. Should it still be in play, I really hope NBC changes its mind and broadcasts what would probably amount to 20 minutes of total coverage (5 minutes of hype, a couple of minutes of race, and post-race coverage) live.
Joe — gotcha. And yep, it's off the table if he doesn't win tonight, but you'll already know the results going into Monk/Psych, ironically my HD feed of USA is the east coast feed, so I can watch that on east coast time, I'd pay $$/mo to get the east coast feeds of the broadcast nets, but because of the affiliate network of stations I doubt anything like that will be available for years.
I do like the cable coverage…this morning while getting ready to work I had the US-China Womens Volleyball game on…
I also heard the NBC's coverage went well past midnight last night. Is that true. If it is that would take up most of the West Coast Prime time to…
As I said in the post…Major Sports has had the East trained to stay up past midnight if they want to watch it for sometime…and had the West trained for a dinner time start…why they changed it for the Olympics is perplexing…especially since one of their Cable Stations had a Live Softball Game on last night when the NBC Coverage was still going on the same time…