I must admit I did not watch one second. Just not a fan of the greed and hype and the guy in charge in LA now. Also missed every KING story, though I'm sure Egan and Jake worked hard and did good stuff. I know I am in the minority, but I simply don't connect with Norway winning skiing or the fuss over curling, half pipe and other manufactured competitions. Olympics and Guthrie dominated NBC news for two weeks. Johnny Weir and Snoop best they can do? Thoughts?
Nice catch Wayne. As the saying goes, "Measure twice, cut once."
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed the Olympics. Too commercial, sure, but that’s who pays the bills. Streaming on Peacock was nice - you could choose what to watch and when. Local
ReplyDeleteTV totally irrelevant and not even on my mind. Not sure it’s worth the investment but I guess if you are KING why not. Might as well take car advantage of being on the host network
I also watched on Peacock. I didn’t miss seeing anything watching the events on a delayed basis, since the results were already in the news. And because I went for the Peacock Premium Plus plan, I watched it all without commercials. I know it’s cord-cutters like me who are blamed for threatening linear TV, but life is too short for cheesy ads and cheesier athlete promotions.
ReplyDeleteLargest audience for NBC (across all platforms) since 2014 Sochi Olympics.
ReplyDeleteI only saw a few short snippets of the games this year. They honestly felt like an afterthought with all of the news going on outside of the games (Nancy Guthrie, Trump, tarriff ruling, Seahawks, millionaires tax, etc.). Before the games got going, there seemed to be almost no hype for them, as if the American people had all broadly forgotten that the games were even going to be taking place, which struck me as being highly unusual. I have no doubt the 2028 summer games in Los Angeles will be hyped extensively given that they'll be taking place on American soil.
ReplyDeleteYes, I do think the Super Bowl run up squashed some of the usual hype leading up to the opening of the Games, at least in Seattle.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the Super Bowl definitley put a quash on some of the Olympics hype here in the Northwest. But it felt like there was also little hype for the Games on a national scale until the day that began.
DeleteAgreed, it was a head-on collision of inopportune timing.
DeleteI watched very little. Winter sports just aren’t that interesting to me visually. But I am looking forward to catching the summer Olympics, especially given their location.
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