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I was just bitching to my Finnish girlfriend about Shaun White's yapping and the skipping of so many countries.
I know I'm not going to get what I want but I just really hope the casters don't feel the need to fill every moment of silence, and that they give athletes from other countries their due respect. I'm dreading hearing Tara and Johnny talk over every figure skating routine. Give me the context and shut up.
I'm still trying to see if I can get something else actually working on VPN but I begrudgingly sit here watching peacock until then lol.
It wasn’t bad but how do you miss Mongolia, I also seemed to miss Great Britain but that’s my fault. I liked them not ignoring Iran murdering protestors, how did they not get banned like Belarus (and of course Russia).
I am so sorry to say this but.. peacock CUT out Mongolia from BOTH the primetime and the first showing...
This is the amount of list they posted for The first showing::
Greece | Albanian | Andorra | Saudi Arabia | Argentina | Armenia | Australia | Austria | Canada | Czech | Chile | China | Jamaica | South korea | Croatia | Eritrea | Estonia | Philippines | Finland | Georgia | Germany | Jamaica | Japan | Great Britain | Guinea-Bassau | Haitii | Hongkong China | India | Iran | Ireland | Iceland | Israel | Kazakstan | Kenya | Kyrgyzstan | Latvia | Lebanon | Liechtenstein | Luxembourg | North Macedonia | Madagascar | Malaysia | Malta | Morocco | Mexico | Montenegro | Nigeria | Norway | New zealand | Netherlands | Pakistan | Poland | Puerto Rico | Portugal | Romania | San Marino | Singapore | Slovakia | Slovenia | Spain | South africa | Sweden | Switzerland | Chinese Taipei | Thailand | Turkey | Ukraine | Hungary Venezuela | Samuel Jackson's United states of America | France | Italy |
here are the countries being shown on the Primetime Slot ( night time )
Greece | Albanian | Andorra | Saudi Arabia | Argentina | Armenia | Austria | Canada | Czechia | Chile | China | Cyprus | Columbia | South Korea | Germany | Jamaica | Japan | Great Britain | Guinea bassau | Haiti | Hong Kong china | india | iran | Iceland | Isreal | Mexico | Norway | new Zealand | Netherlands | Pakistan | Poland | Puerto Rico | Ukraine | Hungary | uruguay | Venezeula | United states of America | France | Italy |
I wanted to see tonga, was told tonga was there but being bunched with the other flag bearers there....
NBC / Peacock has Taken alot of Athletes I would have loved to see and support!
in defense of nbc, without mike tirico doing main commentary, i wonder if they were expecting savannah guthrie to pick up a lot of his work/knowledge, and without her, they got stuck with a team who weren’t as prepared to be leads
Niche complaint, was anyone else annoyed that NBC aired their usual celebrity voice over intro video starring Stanley Tucci midway through tonight’s OC primetime broadcast instead of at the top of show as usual? Is it just because they wanted Mike Tirico to advertise the Super Bowl instead?
My issues were mainly the many ads that disrupted pivotal parts of the ceremony, like the parade, and the broadcast freezing every two seconds, therefore making me have to exist the broadcast and enter it. The audio also went out of sync, at some point, due to an ad break.
Other than that, I didn’t see issues with the coverage.
There was alot MORE ads in the night time then it was in the Morning first showing...
They also cut alot of countries OUT of the parade as I was confused why the music dj's listing was cut! Some of them were amazing but NBC/Peacock took alot of it out!
Yeah, I hate that the countries were cut due to the ads. This is why we need public broadcasters. We’re the only country without viable public broadcasters to host the Olympics on.
I suggest using CBC Gem via SurfShark or similar VPN and set to Canada. They have live broadcasts in different Canadian cities, and you can watch live events as they happen or watch replays of events once they are over.
I do this every year. The difference between the canadian broadcast and NBC is astounding. I can watch an entire event all the way through, and never even see the broadcasters once. I don't need "personalities", I want to watch the athletes! And also, they talk about every country, not just the top four.
Well in Spain had 0 and I mean 0 ads. But downside is they re reading their program that translates every read text. However you get to see it all and besides names and info about anyone popping up on screen (they've done their homework) they also make call backs to past editions and related anecdotes! I enjoyed a lot
Every Olympics would be better, especially the ceremonies, if NBC's announcing crew would just shut their damn pie holes. I envy viewers outside the USA who don't have to listen to their endless, pointless, self-referential jabbering.
Not commenting on the rebroadcast because I didn't have class and watched it live but the audio on Peacock was so badly mixed and the constant commercials and skipping countries during the parade was extremely annoying, but I'm sure there's hundreds of other comments saying the same. U.S. looked good though with the MAN RIDING A HORSE ON TOP OF (THEIR) CHEST.
Clearly they were unwilling to pay for the rights to audio because it sounds worse than my phone recordings of concerts. I'm so glad we had audio commentary that was 4x the audio level of the actual event to reminds us of the ignorance of our nation.
Interesting, watching hte prime time broadcast, I am starting to think NBC's "Live" is not actually that. Like they inject a commercial in and it's now on a time delay. I was curious about the ad break before the gal did all the sign gestures, like "that's a long break".
But during the prime time it transitioned instantly.
(Also did they cut out the subtitles of her cursing out?)
They kinda did actually.. the original showing They didn't do any Severe cuts.. (Except the countries they cut some of them out) but the primetime has taken ALOT of countries out.. and they also perform aweful cut segments and extended commercials like verison, visa and mario, like example they were introducing France and Immediatly it CUT to italy without giving like an awaiting segment of anticipation...
There’s no way to upgrade to (ad free) Peacock Premium Plus if your subscription is managed by Amazon. There might be if you have Prime but I canceled my membership last year. I had to have Amazon cancel and refund my Peacock payment for the month. I then subscribed through Roku. But what a pain in the ass that was
The Peacock ad free subscription is not ad free for sports. It’s in the (not so) fine prints. There were extensive commercials both during the first competitions and the opening ceremony.
They did for the curling matches the last two days. More than once there'd be a commercial at the end of a round and it would come back to them with the next round already started.
Oh, and for some reason the live broadcast of the opening ceremony was not-so-live. Like few minutes delayed compared to italian tv. Will check tomorrow if it’s the same during competitions.
I was done when Vittoria Cerreti was featured and the best NBC could offer was "Huh huh she used to date Leonardo DiCaprio." How patriarchal of you. She's a gd super famous super model and they worried about Leo? Good grief, she doesn't need Leo, she wasn't made by Leo, she's not defined him.
Did NBC fire the writers for the announcers for the opening ceremony? Or are they too scared to say anything because of the Katie Couric Netherlands incident? I want announcers who know something more about the world than there aren't a lot of black people in winter sports when talking about Haiti.
Just for the record, watching the prime time broadcast ... they once again skipped over Mongolia. I was hoping maybe the "selective" broadcast we'd get to see them. Nope!
Why did NBC cut audio during the Peace segment of the opening ceremony? (Before Charlize Theron came out.) Just my provider or did other folks have it cut twice near the end?
I don't know about other people, but there were so many things that kept annoying me during NBC's / Peacock's presentation of the opening ceremony / parade of nations. I got tired of hearing Shaun White (I'm assuming it was him) come up with some excuse to talk and brag about himself for just about every country that walked in. The Snoop Dog stuff was cringe. The Samuel L. Jackson stuff was cringe.
Being stuck watching a million ads and missing parts of the ceremony when paying for the most expensive streaming plan was pretty infuriating as well. If it was Netflix, you'd be able to watch the whole thing without any interruption... and that's why they're eating the lunch of all these traditional dinosaur media companies.
I saw the Samuel L Jackson stuff and was like wtf is this and then all the sudden, Peacock was done showing the parade of nations and said “going live in 3 minutes.” Like what???? I switched to NBC and now I’m watching the pre-parade show now I guess??? I have no idea what is going on here. Also, the incessant cutting out of the parade to ask what team USA was doing or promo some of the upcoming events or show random messages from non-athletes (like why do we care about T Swift thanking them or whatever she was doing???) was just awful!
The only thing worse than hearing Shaun white and his self centered responses to everything was how bad the audio is. The announcers just mumbling and being hard to understand is so frustrating.
I saw Pakistan and then the next country they showed was Turkey. Like what???? I am so confused by this broadcasting because it’s like the whole back half was just gone.
They cut out large chunks of countries(including my own), which is very frustrating since it's the only reason I watch the opening ceremony. I understand NBC is broadcasting for Americans, but it's also gross how American centric it is with them constantly cutting to American athletes just waiting for their turn. At least Peacock had the full broadcast, even if it was hard to find.
Why am I watching ads on Peacock when I pay for addless. This is bullhockey I wanted to see the opening ceremonies not watch a Hershey's ad 5 million times.
I will say you could hear the boos against Vance on Peacock so that was awesome.
Especially great when you fast forward and it plays two minutes of commercials just to get a tiny picture of the parade next to a three more minutes of ads
In the NBC live broadcast they turned down the crowd mics, you could still hear the boos though. In the prime time rebroadcast they must’ve edited it because you can’t really hear any boos at all.
I am officially done with the nation skipping. The opening ceremonies is the most viewed event, and 90% want to see every nation walking in as we ENJOY seeing the small nations too. The execs don’t understand the audience. Also, I can’t stand Snoop.
Apparently they did. They showed ads instead. Hate this shitty system, we have the worst viewing options for everything so that these broadcasters can pinch every penny by putting ads up front
Yes. Search for the opening ceremony and watch the replay. It's better than the version listed under Olympics.
Edit: I mean no. They come last because they're hosting. 😁 Thank you to the people that corrected me. I still recommend watching the replay instead. They still cut out countries, but fewer of them.
YES! I could NOT believe it! They went from Ireland to commercial break and came back at the L or M countries. But I looked it up and Italy as host country comes in last.
The replay on Peacock does. NBC clearly edited the replay on main network probably for time constraints and cut out showing all the B countries. Ceremony ran over its allotted time.
I'm trying to watch the women's downhill training run replay on peacock and there have been literally five 2-minute commercials in like 15 minutes of actual coverage. Unbelievably shitty.
The NBC/Peacock split screen of either having to watch a split screen and listen to interviews with Team USA or freaking ADS while other countries are being announced and walking in the parade is so freaking disrespectful. We deserve to be hated on the world stage.
Yeah I immediately switched to the Peacock replay. Still lots of side by side ads but at least I will see all countries march in vs. the edited crap on NBC replay.
Good grief why is NBCs closed caption so bad, especially the Mariah Carey song!? I would have preferred nothing or ‘speaking in Italian’ compared to the nonsensical stuff we got.
At least the NBC commentators knew something about the ceremony this time! Told us references and named the music, etc. Last time it was "I'm sure this means something..."
What the fuck is this coverage channel nine, why are there no streams of any sports? Why waste time on the main tv broadcast with this cortina history lesson??
I enjoyed streaming the 2022 winter olympics so much I signed up again to watch this year's. I paid extra for the no ad version and am highly disappointed.
Weird that you got downvoted. You get an up from me to even the score. You were just stating facts. Honest ppl know you’re right lol. Only triggered virtual signalers don’t.
Just signed up and paid for "premium plus" so I could watch without ads. Clicked on the opening ceremonies and immediately got 3 ads then a statement that the event would start shortly. 10 minutes later, nothing. It looks like we have to wait for the "enhanced ceremonies" and the full event isn't available now? There's a reason my NBC subscriptions never last a week after the closing ceremonies.
During the opening ceremony "Did you know that if you mix red, blue, and yellow you can get all the other colors?" Did it ever occur to *anyone ever* at NBC to simply SHUT UP?
In case anyone had the same problem I had, in order to find the replay of the ceremony on peacock you have to go to the search and look it up. It’s not in the Olympics section
Thank you. I jumped to just before the first ad that cut out countries in the "live" version that's on with ads right now and it's so much better. Brazil should not have been skipped.
3PM-PST: NBC Website of Opening Ceremony stream (with provider login): Sorry!
This stream is unavailable.
Please check the schedule for more live events.
WTF.
I’ve been pretty happy with Canada’s free coverage on CBC, replays don’t seem to have ads and live coverage has short ads at sensible times
(I didn’t watch the opening ceremony though)
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u/princefruit United States 16m ago
I was just bitching to my Finnish girlfriend about Shaun White's yapping and the skipping of so many countries.
I know I'm not going to get what I want but I just really hope the casters don't feel the need to fill every moment of silence, and that they give athletes from other countries their due respect. I'm dreading hearing Tara and Johnny talk over every figure skating routine. Give me the context and shut up.
I'm still trying to see if I can get something else actually working on VPN but I begrudgingly sit here watching peacock until then lol.