For the second or third olympics in a row, the tv coverage of the olympics has been horrible. I'm not talking about event selection or schedule, I'm talking about technical details of recording video in one place and playing it back in another.
I was watching the coverage on NBC last night and it was absolutely terrible from a technical perspective. Every 3-5 minutes the video would cut out, back up or speed forward a few seconds, and re-start. Audio would un-sync from video. In three cases, they cut to commercial after a gymnastics performance but before the scores were given, and not cover the score, even briefly, after the commercials were over.
NBC paid millions for the right to be the exclusive channel outlet for olympics coverage, and they can't even get the basics correct. My elementary school news channel was run better by a couple of chatty 5th graders.
And of course my other rant is about the seating scandal... Hundreds (thousands?) of seats and tickets were given to media outlets and corporate sponsors, who failed to use them. So thousands of seats are going empty in some of the most popular and sold out events. I think the event organizers should pass a new rule stating that if a corporate or media venue ticket goes unused, that organization loses their seat for the remainder of the olympics and the seat tickets can be re-sold at the venue box-office. There are a few million people who would give a body part to be able to attend, so if the seats are empty the tickets should be forfeit, period.
Empty seats at the olympics are a crime... This is a big deal to a lot of people and anyone who cares about it so little as to not use huge blocks of tickets while thousands wait outside should simply not be pandered to.
