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**gooseCile** · 08-03-2012, 04:46 AM

If you're in the US, a lot of the blame has to go to NBC, which refuses to broadcast some of the most anticipated events on any of its many channels, preferring to hog it, via tape-delay, for their prime time broadcast. Oh sure, if you subscribe to all the NBC-related networks, you can stream it online, but only in the location where you're subscribed to NBC, so if you want to watch it on your iPad during your lunch break at work, you're probably outta luck. And if you don't have the equipment, the bandwidth or the technical know-how to stream it, you're also outta luck.

But wait, what if you have all that, except you're busy during the particular hours those events are streamed live (London Olympics does take place during work hours)? Would you be able to get home, turn on an archived stream and watch it before anybody can spoil you? Nope! NBC will not allow any streamed events to be re-streamed except AFTER it's been shown in prime time. For marquee events like gymnastics, this means you either have to stream it online live while it's happening, or the soonest you can see it is on NBC's horribly edited prime time broadcast.

But that's for folks who want to play by NBC's awful rules. If you don't, you can follow the workarounds in these posts, and get access to the live feeds/video archives of the BBC or Euro Vision Sports. This way, you can watch the events as soon as you can, which is hopefully before you can be spoiled.

P.S. If you're wondering why NBC doesn't mind having its audience spoiled (going so far as to spoiling the results of a race in a promo for its broadcast), NBC Sports Group chairman Mark Lazarus said in an interview today that spoilers actually increase ratings! He said that NBC did a poll that found people who are spoiled are also people who are more likely to watch a sports event. Because in NBC-world, correlation can only mean one-way causation! The idea that people interested enough in the results of a competition to get spoiled are also people more likely to watch that competition never occurred. So don't expect NBC to change its spoiled stripes.

08-03-2012, 04:46 AM	#8
gooseCile Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 563 Senior Member	If you're in the US, a lot of the blame has to go to NBC, which refuses to broadcast some of the most anticipated events on any of its many channels, preferring to hog it, via tape-delay, for their prime time broadcast. Oh sure, if you subscribe to all the NBC-related networks, you can stream it online, but only in the location where you're subscribed to NBC, so if you want to watch it on your iPad during your lunch break at work, you're probably outta luck. And if you don't have the equipment, the bandwidth or the technical know-how to stream it, you're also outta luck. But wait, what if you have all that, except you're busy during the particular hours those events are streamed live (London Olympics does take place during work hours)? Would you be able to get home, turn on an archived stream and watch it before anybody can spoil you? Nope! NBC will not allow any streamed events to be re-streamed except AFTER it's been shown in prime time. For marquee events like gymnastics, this means you either have to stream it online live while it's happening, or the soonest you can see it is on NBC's horribly edited prime time broadcast. But that's for folks who want to play by NBC's awful rules. If you don't, you can follow the workarounds in these posts, and get access to the live feeds/video archives of the BBC or Euro Vision Sports. This way, you can watch the events as soon as you can, which is hopefully before you can be spoiled. P.S. If you're wondering why NBC doesn't mind having its audience spoiled (going so far as to spoiling the results of a race in a promo for its broadcast), NBC Sports Group chairman Mark Lazarus said in an interview today that spoilers actually increase ratings! He said that NBC did a poll that found people who are spoiled are also people who are more likely to watch a sports event. Because in NBC-world, correlation can only mean one-way causation! The idea that people interested enough in the results of a competition to get spoiled are also people more likely to watch that competition never occurred. So don't expect NBC to change its spoiled stripes.
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