NBC: Beijing Olympics Online Video Available Only After TV Broadcast
Sports fans in the world over had started rejoicing that finally we could do away with the lame soft-focus athlete stories and parochial commentary from NBCU with this Olympics: Yes, the company will have 2,200 hours of live competition from Beijing available online on NBCOlympics.com, but such hope is now gone with some heavy restrictions...we mentioned some of this heavy handedness earlier about Olympic trials
Other TV networks have a limited window in which to show Olympics highlights, but no video of Olympic events is permitted to be shown on any website besides NBCOlympics.com
-- No events that are scheduled to be televised (on NBCU’s six TV channels) will be available online until after they are seen on TV. If this is the case, what’s this about 2,200 hours of live coverage online? Is it only on-demand later
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1 comment:
I think the 2200 hours of live coverage isn't exactly what it sounds like. The 2200 includes profiles, interviews some of which were done weeks before, and what is live action is actually live when they recorded it, duhh! If it was broadcast on TV in the same way, it would be known as live coverage tape delayed. Here's its digital content delayed of live coverage, as if coverage could be recorded any other way. How delayed? Who knows?
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