#BroadcastFail

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.