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Why I hate NBC coverage: Compares the Snowboard - Ladies' Halfpipe Qualification coverage on the 2 prime networks CTV and NBC. (no spoilers
NBC
1 Australia BRIGHT Torah
2 Japan OKADA Rana
3 United States HIGHT Elena
6 United States BLEILER Gretchen
7 China LIU Jiayu
10
11
12 United States CLARK Kelly
13 China CAI Xuetong
14 United States TETER Hannah
18 Great Britain McKENNA Lesley
19 France THOVEX Mirabelle
21
22 Spain CASTELLET Queralt
23 New Zealand SINCLAIR Rebecca
28 Switzerland HALLER Ursina
Competitors added in the second run 10, 11, 21, but didn't show any athletes after the 23.
CTV
1 Australia BRIGHT Torah
2 Japan OKADA Rana
3 United States HIGHT Elena
4 China SUN Zhifeng
5 Norway BUAAS Kjersti
6 United States BLEILER Gretchen
7 China LIU Jiayu
8 France RODRIGUEZ Sophie
9 Czech Republic PANCOCHOVA Sarka
10 Japan YAMAOKA Soko
11 Japan NAKASHIMA Shiho
12 United States CLARK Kelly
13 China CAI Xuetong
14 United States TETER Hannah
15 Australia CRAWFORD Holly
16 Canada CONRAD Sarah
17 Poland LIGOCKA Paulina
18 Great Britain McKENNA Lesley
19 France THOVEX Mirabelle
20 Norway HAUG Lin
21 Slovenia SADAR Cilka
22 Spain CASTELLET Queralt
23 New Zealand SINCLAIR Rebecca
24 Canada TAYLOR Palmer
25 Switzerland PESKO Manuela Laura
26 Canada NICOLL Mercedes
27 New Zealand BRAY Juliane
28 Switzerland HALLER Ursina
29 Norway WIIK Lisa
30 New Zealand BROWN Kend
missed 18 and 28 due to commercials
There were a total of 30 competitors in the qualifying event. CTV didn't show the first run of the Snowboard the were showing live the medals round of The Super Combined that ended just as the second run was starting so the just switched over to it. They showed everybody but 2 athletes.
Since the DVR has 2 tuners I just paused and swapped between the 2 avents, scroling through the commercials and other crap and believe me NBC was full of filler so it wasn't that hard to keep current watching the twop events even with rewinding to do my own highlights. But mainly I like the positioning of the NBC cameras to the CTV cameras I could see the amplitude alot better on NBC. Since both were showing it live when NBC when to filler I'd scrole through and hit pause when I got to the event again. Switch to CTV to watch allthe competitors I was missing on NBC when they sinced up again I'd watch NBC again.
So that's why I decided to keep watching NBC on the other channel instead of flipping to see what else was going on concurrent to the event. As you can see in the first run they didn't even show half the competitors, but they had plenty of time for ads (well they do have to get there money back) and did a couple of 2 minute long clips on Clark and Hanna, a news update, and go to the talking head. In the second run they showed the clark peice again on top of ads and talking heads but they did add 3 competitors but they stopped showing competitors after they reached the 23 in the order.
Dear NBC there are more then just Americans competing. I'm pretty sure that most Americans will tune in to see the best in the world even if they aren't American. Second you can put the filler between the events not during it.
So basically if I could have shifted channels to watch events, sticking with CTV would have shown me a medel event live and almost the intire second run of snowboarding compared to seeing barely half the snowboarders on NBC in the same time frame.
And the total fixation on just a few athletes to the exclusion of even other American athletes. There are more downhill skiers then just Lindsey Vonn. :)
Why I hate NBC coverage: Compares the Snowboard - Ladies' Halfpipe Qualification coverage on the 2 prime networks CTV and NBC. (no spoilers Feb 18, 15:44
Just adding another persons opinion to the debate... Feb 19, 06:49