Wednesday I wanted to watch the live stream of the
men’s gymnastics, so I gritted my teeth and went to NBC’s Olympics site. What
I saw was spectacular; but it was also infested with commercials.
Yes—“live” feed; car commercial every two to three
minutes. I gave up after watching one American and two Japanese on the high bar and parallels.
Then yesterday afternoon I thought I’d take a look
at the floor routine that won Gabby Douglas the women’s all-around gold.
Here’s what I found:
They obviously want to make it as hard as possible
for you to watch anything but their prime-time commercial-riddled broadcast.
#NBCFail
So I used my VPN connection to find it on the BBC.
Imagine my surprise to discover that the Brits couldn’t be bothered to show
much of anything not involving TeamGB.
BBC—meet NBC. Both utterly useless.
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