Comments on: A brief recap of my Olympics experience http://www.grayflannelsuit.net/2010/03/01/a-brief-recap-of-my-olympics-experience/ Insights, observations, cheap gags. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:52:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: clever-title http://www.grayflannelsuit.net/2010/03/01/a-brief-recap-of-my-olympics-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-8465 clever-title Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:53:18 +0000 http://www.grayflannelsuit.net/?p=3492#comment-8465 You were right that there were more ads than before. It looks like NBC discovered their ratings weren't as crappy as expected, so they sold additional slots as the games went on: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35652542/ns/business-media_biz Oh, and you might want to read this if you want to follow Colbert's comment about "polonium sushi" in the last video: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko_poisoning#Illness_and_poisoning You were right that there were more ads than before. It looks like NBC discovered their ratings weren’t as crappy as expected, so they sold additional slots as the games went on:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35652542/ns/business-media_biz

Oh, and you might want to read this if you want to follow Colbert’s comment about “polonium sushi” in the last video:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko_poisoning#Illness_and_poisoning

]]> By: clever-title http://www.grayflannelsuit.net/2010/03/01/a-brief-recap-of-my-olympics-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-9896 clever-title Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:53:00 +0000 http://www.grayflannelsuit.net/?p=3492#comment-9896 You were right that there were more ads than before. It looks like NBC discovered their ratings weren't as crappy as expected, so they sold additional slots as the games went on: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35652542/ns/business-media_biz Oh, and you might want to read this if you want to follow Colbert's comment about "polonium sushi" in the last video: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko_poisoning#Illness_and_poisoning You were right that there were more ads than before. It looks like NBC discovered their ratings weren’t as crappy as expected, so they sold additional slots as the games went on:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35652542/ns/business-media_biz

Oh, and you might want to read this if you want to follow Colbert’s comment about “polonium sushi” in the last video:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko_poisoning#Illness_and_poisoning

]]> By: clever-title http://www.grayflannelsuit.net/2010/03/01/a-brief-recap-of-my-olympics-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-8463 clever-title Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:29:31 +0000 http://www.grayflannelsuit.net/?p=3492#comment-8463 Oh, and this one, too: http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/assetid=3f28aedd-76c9-457f-abe6-68e0646a20e5.html Oh, and this one, too:
http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/assetid=3f28aedd-76c9-457f-abe6-68e0646a20e5.html

]]> By: clever-title http://www.grayflannelsuit.net/2010/03/01/a-brief-recap-of-my-olympics-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-9895 clever-title Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:29:00 +0000 http://www.grayflannelsuit.net/?p=3492#comment-9895 Oh, and this one, too: http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/assetid=3f28aedd-76c9-457f-abe6-68e0646a20e5.html Oh, and this one, too:
http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/assetid=3f28aedd-76c9-457f-abe6-68e0646a20e5.html

]]> By: clever-title http://www.grayflannelsuit.net/2010/03/01/a-brief-recap-of-my-olympics-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-8462 clever-title Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:18:17 +0000 http://www.grayflannelsuit.net/?p=3492#comment-8462 NBC was expecting to lose up to a quarter-billion dollars on the Olympics, so they were engineering their coverage to get as many eyeballs as possible. That meant incessant coverage of the Vonn/Miller/Ohno/White nexus. I guess they figured they'd rather attract more casual viewers at the cost of pissing off the people who watched a lot. (It's not like you refused to watch, eh?) Also, with the advertising market being what it is now, they were stuck with P&G and Toyota (we're not trying to kill you, honest) as the only major sponsors. It didn't bother me too much, since I was using the DVR for everything, and could skip the ads and the kiss-ass celebrity interviews. I think they have more flexibility in the summer to commandeer MSNBC and CNBC, since the regular shows get lower ratings when people are on vacation. (There are also a lot more events in summer, so they have to do that) Though, I saw that curling got to be pretty popular on the trading desks where I work - they have CNBC on anyway, and you can watch the game without looking away from your turret too much. You need to look up the Stephen Colbert interviews. http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/assetid=9d9ff0ef-ee6e-47f4-a6a8-0ce20fb539cb.html#stephen+colbert+with+bob+costas They should give the show to him. NBC was expecting to lose up to a quarter-billion dollars on the Olympics, so they were engineering their coverage to get as many eyeballs as possible. That meant incessant coverage of the Vonn/Miller/Ohno/White nexus. I guess they figured they’d rather attract more casual viewers at the cost of pissing off the people who watched a lot. (It’s not like you refused to watch, eh?) Also, with the advertising market being what it is now, they were stuck with P&G and Toyota (we’re not trying to kill you, honest) as the only major sponsors.
It didn’t bother me too much, since I was using the DVR for everything, and could skip the ads and the kiss-ass celebrity interviews.
I think they have more flexibility in the summer to commandeer MSNBC and CNBC, since the regular shows get lower ratings when people are on vacation. (There are also a lot more events in summer, so they have to do that) Though, I saw that curling got to be pretty popular on the trading desks where I work – they have CNBC on anyway, and you can watch the game without looking away from your turret too much.
You need to look up the Stephen Colbert interviews.
http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/assetid=9d9ff0ef-ee6e-47f4-a6a8-0ce20fb539cb.html#stephen+colbert+with+bob+costas
They should give the show to him.

]]> By: clever-title http://www.grayflannelsuit.net/2010/03/01/a-brief-recap-of-my-olympics-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-9894 clever-title Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:18:00 +0000 http://www.grayflannelsuit.net/?p=3492#comment-9894 NBC was expecting to lose up to a quarter-billion dollars on the Olympics, so they were engineering their coverage to get as many eyeballs as possible. That meant incessant coverage of the Vonn/Miller/Ohno/White nexus. I guess they figured they'd rather attract more casual viewers at the cost of pissing off the people who watched a lot. (It's not like you refused to watch, eh?) Also, with the advertising market being what it is now, they were stuck with P&G and Toyota (we're not trying to kill you, honest) as the only major sponsors. It didn't bother me too much, since I was using the DVR for everything, and could skip the ads and the kiss-ass celebrity interviews. I think they have more flexibility in the summer to commandeer MSNBC and CNBC, since the regular shows get lower ratings when people are on vacation. (There are also a lot more events in summer, so they have to do that) Though, I saw that curling got to be pretty popular on the trading desks where I work - they have CNBC on anyway, and you can watch the game without looking away from your turret too much. You need to look up the Stephen Colbert interviews. http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/assetid=9d9ff0ef-ee6e-47f4-a6a8-0ce20fb539cb.html#stephen+colbert+with+bob+costas They should give the show to him. NBC was expecting to lose up to a quarter-billion dollars on the Olympics, so they were engineering their coverage to get as many eyeballs as possible. That meant incessant coverage of the Vonn/Miller/Ohno/White nexus. I guess they figured they’d rather attract more casual viewers at the cost of pissing off the people who watched a lot. (It’s not like you refused to watch, eh?) Also, with the advertising market being what it is now, they were stuck with P&G and Toyota (we’re not trying to kill you, honest) as the only major sponsors.
It didn’t bother me too much, since I was using the DVR for everything, and could skip the ads and the kiss-ass celebrity interviews.
I think they have more flexibility in the summer to commandeer MSNBC and CNBC, since the regular shows get lower ratings when people are on vacation. (There are also a lot more events in summer, so they have to do that) Though, I saw that curling got to be pretty popular on the trading desks where I work – they have CNBC on anyway, and you can watch the game without looking away from your turret too much.
You need to look up the Stephen Colbert interviews.
http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/assetid=9d9ff0ef-ee6e-47f4-a6a8-0ce20fb539cb.html#stephen+colbert+with+bob+costas
They should give the show to him.

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