NBC's hockey coverage SUCKS

[OpIv37]

Today, they cut off the start of the game to show the end of curling. Seriously? Curling?

Then, on Sunday, they are relegating the USA/Canada hockey game to CNBC so they can show ICE DANCING.

Yes, ice dancing. If you don't know what that is, think of it this way: Someone thought figure skating was too manly and exciting, so they took out the jumps and made the music even more lame. Yes, they actually found a way to make figure skating WORSE, and it's going to be on national TV.

And this is from NBC, which has the NHL's only network TV contract.

You wonder why hockey isn't more popular? It's preempted for CURLING and ICE DANCING.

**** NBC.

[DMBcrew36]

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NBC is losing a lot of money on these Olympics... if they continue to carry the Olympics, they'll have no choice but to stop packaging them and rather just play the raw footage like every other country does. I'd say the Canadian networks like CBC provide a rather good model to follow.

[The Spaz]

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When they would rather show curling then hockey that's sad!

[Typ0]

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It's good the game is going to be on CNBC because over there they won't cut into it to show curling.

[TheGhostofJimKelly]

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I wish they would tell us more who these guys play for, I don't think they say it enough.

[psubills62]

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Today, they cut off the start of the game to show the end of curling. Seriously? Curling?

Then, on Sunday, they are relegating the USA/Canada hockey game to CNBC so they can show ICE DANCING.

Yes, ice dancing. If you don't know what that is, think of it this way: Someone thought figure skating was too manly and exciting, so they took out the jumps and made the music even more lame. Yes, they actually found a way to make figure skating WORSE, and it's going to be on national TV.

And this is from NBC, which has the NHL's only network TV contract.

You wonder why hockey isn't more popular? It's preempted for CURLING and ICE DANCING.

**** NBC.

Ice dancing? Is that a new "sport" for the Olympics? I had never heard of it, but you sure give a good description.

Gotta say...a lot of people I know seem to enjoy watching curling. I think it's just because it's so odd.

[DrGraves]

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Its stupid.... the swiss are on the verge of upsetting canada in a GREAT game and they keep cutting to commercials DURING PLAY in the final minutes... unreal...

[Michael82]

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NBC is losing a lot of money on these Olympics... if they continue to carry the Olympics, they'll have no choice but to stop packaging them and rather just play the raw footage like every other country does. I'd say the Canadian networks like CBC provide a rather good model to follow.

They have no one to blame but themselves. I'm sick of going online and seeing who won a medal, meanwhile NBC is showing nothing all day long and waits until primetime to show the package of tape delayed highlights. I'm sick of the highlights. I prefer to see the raw footage. Everyone else does it that way!

[Michael82]

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As for their decision to air Ice Dancing instead of an NHL all-star game between two of the top countries, NBC programmers are idiots. Why wouldn't you promote the NHL and air this great Olympic hockey game? After the Olympics, it's going to be getting to the best time of a hockey season...the final month and a half and then the Stanley Cup playoffs. Use these Olympic games to showoff and promote NHL on NBC!

[rbochan]

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Why would you expect anything else from a network that cuts away from a playoff game going into OT to air a ****ing horse race PRE-SHOW.

[BlackMetalNinja]

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You guys are saying all this because you are hockey fans. Obviously more people rather watch the other events, or it wouldn't be that way. NBC is not stupid, they are going to put the sports that pull in higher ratings on network TV and relegate the rest to cable.

The general Olympic viewer is going to want to see sports that aren't readily available 8 months of the year like hockey is.

As for the start of the Canada game being missed, they did the same thing on Tuesday. US events get priority, so they finished up the curling first. Though, I'm not sure why they showed the end of two other matches before they switched it over.

[RockStar36]

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I must be in the minority of those who don't care.

I get CNBS, MSNBC, USA, and NBC in HD, so I really could care less which channel the game is on as long as I get to see it.

[DMBcrew36]

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They have no one to blame but themselves. I'm sick of going online and seeing who won a medal, meanwhile NBC is showing nothing all day long and waits until primetime to show the package of tape delayed highlights. I'm sick of the highlights. I prefer to see the raw footage. Everyone else does it that way!

Yeah, I know, and I'm saying that they realize this. Every article I've read about NBC's coverage and NBC having lost over $220 million on these games is saying that if NBC continues with the Olympics in the future their format will definitely change and will have less packaging.

[DMBcrew36]

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You guys are saying all this because you are hockey fans. Obviously more people rather watch the other events, or it wouldn't be that way. NBC is not stupid, they are going to put the sports that pull in higher ratings on network TV and relegate the rest to cable.

The general Olympic viewer is going to want to see sports that aren't readily available 8 months of the year like hockey is.

As for the start of the Canada game being missed, they did the same thing on Tuesday. US events get priority, so they finished up the curling first. Though, I'm not sure why they showed the end of two other matches before they switched it over.

Considering the NHL has a contract with NBC - one might think NBC would have an interest in putting the Canada/U.S. game on NBC Sunday night. But considering how they blew the whole Jay Leno/Conan thing, those ******s probably have no idea what's good for them.

[OpIv37]

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I must be in the minority of those who don't care.

I get CNBS, MSNBC, USA, and NBC in HD, so I really could care less which channel the game is on as long as I get to see it.

For me personally, I could care less as long as the game is on. I have all those channels in HD as well.

I'm thinking in bigger terms, as far as exposure for the sport. The NHL's national TV contract is with VS, and they only show games 2 nights a week. I live in the DC area, which is probably the 5th or 6th biggest TV market in the country, and I have an expensive DirecTV package, and there are still probably 3 nights a week when there is NO hockey on my TV whatsoever. Compared to NFL, NBA, MLB and even NASCAR, the NHL's exposure sucks.

NBC has an NHL contract. This is an opportunity to promote not just the sport itself, but a product that NBC has. Instead of making sure it's in every home in America, they relegate it to some 4th rate cable news network.

And we're not talking about Belarus vs Ukraine here. We're talking about the USA vs Canada, featuring some of the biggest names in the NHL.

In two weeks, the Olympics will be over and no one in the US will give a **** about ice dancing or curling for another 4 years, but people will be watching hockey the very next day.