oscarsear Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 Oh how I miss the days of Chris Schenkel when we used to be able to enjoy the actual Olympic sports without having personal opinions and incessant droning commentary injected into the presentations. It is more of a soap opera these days. Bob Costas should employ his complexion to market Silly Putty and otherwise be put out to pasture so the cows can ignore him - like the rest of us. IMHO. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxx Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 Oh how I miss the days of Chris Schenkel when we used to be able to enjoy the actual Olympic sports without having personal opinions and incessant droning commentary injected into the presentations. It is more of a soap opera these days. Bob Costas should employ his complexion to market Silly Putty and otherwise be put out to pasture so the cows can ignore him - like the rest of us. IMHO. Agreed... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tblake10 Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 Oh how I miss the days of Chris Schenkel when we used to be able to enjoy the actual Olympic sports without having personal opinions and incessant droning commentary injected into the presentations. It is more of a soap opera these days. Bob Costas should employ his complexion to market Silly Putty and otherwise be put out to pasture so the cows can ignore him - like the rest of us. IMHO. So true. My favorite of all time was the Jim McKay '76 summer olympics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big bones billy Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 It's more of a soap opera these days because NBC made a conscious decision to program to the female audience, who especially for the winter games, is the primary audience. So you get all the touchy-feely type stories rather than just the sporting action. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 Watched last night. ALL judged events. No actual sport. I do consider the activities athletic, but still not sport. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 I take it back. There may have been one skiing event based on time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willland Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 (edited) Oh how I miss the days of Chris Schenkel when we used to be able to enjoy the actual Olympic sports without having personal opinions and incessant droning commentary injected into the presentations. It is more of a soap opera these days. Bob Costas should employ his complexion to market Silly Putty and otherwise be put out to pasture so the cows can ignore him - like the rest of us. IMHO. So true. My favorite of all time was the Jim McKay '76 summer olympics. Al Michaels calling the USA/USSR hockey game in 1980 Lake Placid, "Do you believe in miracles? Yes!" Did that not fire up this country? At least for a while. Oh yeah, Bob Costas is a dud. Bill Edited February 8, 2014 by willland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derrickdj1 Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 All the personal stories are boring when you just want to see the action. I don't watch much anymore because of all the stories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators dtel Posted February 7, 2014 Moderators Share Posted February 7, 2014 After watching Costas last time doing the Olympics it almost ruined me from watching, he was a whiney no it all little twerp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerwoodKhorns Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 (edited) Oh how I miss the days of Chris Schenkel when we used to be able to enjoy the actual Olympic sports without having personal opinions and incessant droning commentary injected into the presentations. It is more of a soap opera these days. Bob Costas should employ his complexion to market Silly Putty and otherwise be put out to pasture so the cows can ignore him - like the rest of us. IMHO. Isn't all of television getting this way. Channels devoted to talking heads arguing about petty political stories, others with women yelling at each other, and shows where some "judge" of a contest is a coked out freak that is between suicide attempts is berating some 19 year old kid. I trid to watch the olympics but could not make it through any of it. One small event then 20 minutes of crap. Edited February 7, 2014 by tigerwoodKhorns Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxx Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 I lost interest in the Winter Olympics after ABC did away with "Wide World of Sports." Back then I had some idea of who was competing in the various winter sports and it stirred my interest. Jean Claude Killy where are you when we need you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete H Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 Thank goodness for DVR's so you can just ff through all of the crap and just see the event. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 But you still don't see it Pete. If only we could get eurosport here or similar coverage. They actually show the entire event. You get a feel for the levels of competition not just the highlights and also witness how these things really happen: The real time between players, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taz Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 So that was the crap the wife had on TV last night. As soon as she went to bed I changed the channel. I remember when the Olympics were something I looked forward to. Not the soap opera's they are now. John 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerwoodKhorns Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 I lost interest in the Winter Olympics after ABC did away with "Wide World of Sports." Back then I had some idea of who was competing in the various winter sports and it stirred my interest. Jean Claude Killy where are you when we need you? I can remember looking forward to seeing the skiing guy wipe out every week in "the agony of defeart" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaiser SET say Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 Oh how I miss the days of Chris Schenkel when we used to be able to enjoy the actual Olympic sports without having personal opinions and incessant droning commentary injected into the presentations. It is more of a soap opera these days. Bob Costas should employ his complexion to market Silly Putty and otherwise be put out to pasture so the cows can ignore him - like the rest of us. IMHO. Isn't all of television getting this way. Channels devoted to talking heads arguing about petty political stories, others with women yelling at each other, and shows where some "judge" of a contest is a coked out freak that is between suicide attempts is berating some 19 year old kid. I trid to watch the olympics but could not make it through any of it. One small event then 20 minutes of crap. You hit the nail on the head, I cn't hardly watch any of the sports channels anymore because it's all BS and very little game/event:-( Everything is a PTI anymore:-0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrWho Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 And to think Bob Costas is starting to do half-time reports (or maybe pre/post game reports) for football now..... I absolute cannot stand him. Does anyone know of a good internet stream where you can see all of the events in their full glory? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JL Sargent Posted February 8, 2014 Share Posted February 8, 2014 Geeze, I didn't think Bob was THAT bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arky Posted February 8, 2014 Share Posted February 8, 2014 I've never really understood how he got his lofty position. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscarsear Posted February 8, 2014 Author Share Posted February 8, 2014 What confounds me is the business aspect of this venue. I do believe it is understood that the public is generally displeased with the presentation format deployed for the Olympics. This is commonly trounced in the social media. The program sponsors must know this - surely they know their customer profiles and marketing demography. Are they truly satisfied that they are a reaping adequate advertising dollar returns? And the IOC also must see that the American viewers are getting short shrived and losing interest in the entire event. Waz up with this? Do they simply not care - or am I overestimating the worth/value of the collective disconcerted viewer base?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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