Why aren't the Olympics broadcast live & without interruption on NBC?
96983
To watch the Olympics live you have to either be in the host city or if not the broadcasting company has to be willing to show it live when the host city broadcast it, which could meam you are watching (remeber there's a time difference)the Olympics when most people are asleep.
188072
the US national team is usually on cable television if they have a game, official or friendly. Despite ABC/ESPN airing all games of the upcoming World Cup live and in high definition, interest is still lacking. It is mainly due to the power of the other sports in attracting people especially college sports. Further, advertisers guide what is on television and 45 minutes of non-stop football is just too much for them!
84981
I hate this story. Who cares? It's not like they did anything wrong anyway, excpet for skipping out on taxes, but really, they make millions of dollars every year, so they pay taxes on that money. I want to see something about the Olympics or the race for top 8 spots in the Western Conference, or ANYTHING except this story. From what I hear Canadian television is only doing minimal coverage on it. I think I'll move.
108826
Yes, all of the games are to be braodcast live, but on the off networks (not NBC)\nUS vs Finland - USA Network 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. ET live\nCanada-Russia - (MSNBC 2:30 p.m ET live)\nSweden-Switzerland - (MSNBC 11:00 a.m. ET Live)\nCzech Republic vs. Slovakia (USA Network 3:30 p.m. live)
294762
i go to HK once a year (tho' not always at the same time of year) and stay for about a month each time, and i hate to break the news to you, Buddy: They don't follow U.S. college hoops. What you WILL be able to see on hotel T.V.'s (since every hotel subscribe to different cable packages) is NBA games, commentated in Chinese or UK-English.  So sorry, there will probably be no NCAA games to watch.
554214
I have Dish Network too, and also missed some awesome games this past season. When I heard that Dish brought OLN back for the playoffs, I was happy that I could watch the Hurricanes play. I like being able to watch other hockey games in the NHL besides the Hurricanes (which are always on FSN South), but I agree with what everyone has told me over the season. They're announcers suck. I don't care for the NBC announcers either, which seem to be the same ones on OLN. I think that ESPN should bring back coverage of the NHL and stop playing so many freaking basketball and baseball games. Anyway, I'm glad I now get OLN, which is changing its name to VERSUS in September.
705059
Not on Sky live but highlights on Football First and MOTD plus it could be on radio full commentary or on a website. Come on Everton!!! (i'm a Liverpool fan. Guess that blows me getting top answer huh lol)!
579252
It's on from 5-6:30 eastern time on NBC. The actual race will probably be sometime from 6pm on.\nIf you want to see more ESPN2 will take over from 6:30-7pm.
769873
Never truly live. There is always a few second delay. Even then, very few calls are taken straight to air. Most are taped, then replayed at convenient times.
923553
I have been a fan of wrestling for over 30 years and the simple answer is that it is not televised.  I used to watch most of the independent promotions--ECW when it was on at 2 AM in New York and further back with the southern promotions on TBS in the afternoon.  If someone would put together an independent promotion program (there are enough sports channels out there--maybe Versus would be interested) I think you are right--there would be a lot more interest than there is now.  Unfortunately that would mean more exposure for the wrestlers and they would be signed away by McMahon or TNA.
1083156
If you're outside the United Kingdom, better stick to the BBC. Although I can't guarantee if they will stream the live matches online. \n\nLike when they are about to start the World Cup coverage, they censored the Germany-Costa Rica match to listeners online outside of the UK, even on Five Live.\n\nI would have recommended Talk Sport to you. But Talk Sport is under contractual obligations with FIFA not to stream the World Cup to listeners outside of the UK.
15367
Ram had it right. The rules are set to encourage people to go to the stadium/arena to watch the game (increases revenue from concessions, souveneirs, etc.). Without these rules, nearly everyone would watch the games on TV, thus hurting revenue (though they'd have more commercials to compensate for the lack of people attending the games). \nI'm assuming this is like NHL Center Ice on either satellite or cable, and they use the local feeds in most cases (though I do know "National" televised games have been blacked out in the location of the game if the venue hasn't been declared "Sold Out."\nIn addition, some venues will have different numbers for capacity (usually physical and "sell-out"). Most of the time, there will be little difference, but this will accomodate things like skyboxes and exclude walk-up seating like "standing room only" or "general admission."
350441
Maybe it's your TV.  I have no problem getting NBC CC
95864
Well, right now NBC's busy with the Olympics. The next episode, "The Cold" will air on March 12 (another month?! WAAH). But this is the final season (given McGarry's death and low ratings). But we will find out who the winner of the election is.
102733
I remember back in 1984 being enthralled by the Olympics in Los Angeles. Every night for two weeks, my family was glued to the set to get the updates from the day's events.  We didn't have to watch 8- to 10-hours of coverage to see who won. All we had to do was wait until prime-time and we could see in one hour who the big winners were, and then spend another one or two hours watching a live event.\n\nNow, 20 years later, around-the-clock coverage is given on no fewer than 10 stations, not counting the foreign language presentations.  The updates my family got when I was a kid are only given briefly on the fly from one event to another.\n\nI feel overwhelmed with all of the coverage. It feels like the covering network has placed that much coverage to fit in all the big-name sponsors and to sell their shows.  Granted, if it weren't for this type of coverage, we wouldn't see some of the more unusual events, like curling, which in the past were treated as more of a side-bar of the games.  But the complete onslaught of the games is a bit much.
1025025
I'm english  & I don't recieve US TV broadcasts, but from what you've said I would imagine they're trying to make it easier for americans who aren't used to "soccerball" to understand. From what I gather, it is on the verge of taking off in the US and the networks who broadcast it want to appeal to the vast number of potential new supporters that the US has.\n\nGood luck to the US - as long as it isn't at the expense of England ;)
647870
there's bbc.co.uk fivelive radio. but they don't broadcast live matches for some copyright regulations.