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Lead up to Sochi

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WiscDC said:
I was on vacation on Mackinac Island during part of the 2008 summer games, and CBC was available in the hotel I was staying in. CBC was showing a USA basketball game (I think against Spain, but it may have been Argentina) live. NBC was showing a beach volleyball match between 2 countries that were not the USA.
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Keep in mind that NBC broadcasts the Games on a number of different channels so the basketball game could easily have been somewhere else. For the Sochi Games, they will be using: NBC; MSNBC; CNBC; NBC Sports; USA. They will also have lots of programming streaming at NBCOlympics.com, which I may check out to see if it has fewer commercials.
 
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Eeyore said:
Keep in mind that NBC broadcasts the Games on a number of different channels so the basketball game could easily have been somewhere else.
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That's possible, but I have no way of knowing anymore, as it was so long ago. It just struck me as a strange decision.

Eeyore said:
They will also have lots of programming streaming at NBCOlympics.com, which I may check out to see if it has fewer commercials.
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During a volleyball match in 2012 that went 5 sets, their stream cut out. It wasn't a technical issue. Their schedule just said that the match would be over at that time, so they ended it. It was annoying. I suppose this won't be an issue with most events (it did work fine until that happened), but I thought that it was pretty ridiculous.
 
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Eeyore said:
Keep in mind that NBC broadcasts the Games on a number of different channels so the basketball game could easily have been somewhere else. For the Sochi Games, they will be using: NBC; MSNBC; CNBC; NBC Sports; USA. They will also have lots of programming streaming at NBCOlympics.com, which I may check out to see if it has fewer commercials.
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There is no doubt that the channels are there for NBC to show all the hockey games, but I'll believe it when I see it. Again, I'm just surprised that NBC has barely acknowledged that hockey is part of the Olympics. Maybe it'll ramp up more as it gets closer.
 
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Badger Booster said:
There is no doubt that the channels are there for NBC to show all the hockey games, but I'll believe it when I see it. Again, I'm just surprised that NBC has barely acknowledged that hockey is part of the Olympics. Maybe it'll ramp up more as it gets closer.
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You can check out the TV listings. Here's what I can come up with for women's hockey on TV (all times Central):

2/8: 2am - USA vs. Finland (NBCSN)
2/8: 7am - Can vs. Sui (MSNBC)
2/9: 2am - Swe vs. Jpn (NBCSN)
2/9: 7am - Rus vs. Ger (MSNBC)
2/10: 4am - USA vs. Sui (NBCSN)
2/10: 9am - Fin vs. Can (MSNBC)
2/11: 9am - Rus vs. Jpn (MSNBC)
2/12: 2am - Sui vs. Fin (MSNBC)
2/12: 6am - USA vs. Can (NBCSN)
2/13: 11am - Swe vs. Rus (MSNBC)
2/15: 2am - Quarterfinal 1 (MSNBC)
2/15: 6:30am - Quarterfinal 2 (MSNBC)
2/17: 6am - Semifinal 1 (NBCSN)
2/17: 11am - Semifinal 2 (MSNBC)
2/20: 6am - Bronze Medal Game (NBCSN)
2/20: 11am - Gold Medal Game (NBC)

Not listed:
2/11: 4am - Ger vs. Swe
2/13: 2am - Jpn vs. Ger
2/16: 2am - Classification Game 1 (5-8)
2/16: 11am - Classification Game2 (5-8)
2/18: 2am - Classification Game 3 (7-8)
2/18: 6:30am - Classification Game 4 (5-6)

So all but two of the prelim games are going to be shown live as are the medal round games. The relegation games will not be shown.
 
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96IllinoisDad said:
NBC Chicago starting to run segments on Coyne and Bozek. Here is first one on Coyne:
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You'd think, given their special story angles of the past, that the "Kessel" act will be played up ad-nauseum.
(Not knocking it, any extra publicity is good for the sport).
 
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Eeyore said:
You can check out the TV listings. Here's what I can come up with for women's hockey on TV (all times Central):

2/8: 2am - USA vs. Finland (NBCSN)
2/8: 7am - Can vs. Sui (MSNBC)
2/9: 2am - Swe vs. Jpn (NBCSN)
2/9: 7am - Rus vs. Ger (MSNBC)
2/10: 4am - USA vs. Sui (NBCSN)
2/10: 9am - Fin vs. Can (MSNBC)
2/11: 9am - Rus vs. Jpn (MSNBC)
2/12: 2am - Sui vs. Fin (MSNBC)
2/12: 6am - USA vs. Can (NBCSN)
2/13: 11am - Swe vs. Rus (MSNBC)
2/15: 2am - Quarterfinal 1 (MSNBC)
2/15: 6:30am - Quarterfinal 2 (MSNBC)
2/17: 6am - Semifinal 1 (NBCSN)
2/17: 11am - Semifinal 2 (MSNBC)
2/20: 6am - Bronze Medal Game (NBCSN)
2/20: 11am - Gold Medal Game (NBC)

Not listed:
2/11: 4am - Ger vs. Swe
2/13: 2am - Jpn vs. Ger
2/16: 2am - Classification Game 1 (5-8)
2/16: 11am - Classification Game2 (5-8)
2/18: 2am - Classification Game 3 (7-8)
2/18: 6:30am - Classification Game 4 (5-6)

So all but two of the prelim games are going to be shown live as are the medal round games. The relegation games will not be shown.
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Thanks for that breakdown. Thank goodness for NBC's expanded network of channels. I assume that they are full games and not getting cut out for luge updates.
 
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Badger Booster said:
Thanks for that breakdown. Thank goodness for NBC's expanded network of channels. I assume that they are full games and not getting cut out for luge updates.
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One of the advantages of the not exactly prime time hours means less likelihood of interruption...we hope.
 
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Hux said:
One of the advantages of the not exactly prime time hours means less likelihood of interruption...we hope.
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Four years ago the hockey games were shown pretty much in their entirety. I suspect that the people in attendance found the TV timeouts to be extra irritating, even relative to regular TV games, but the TV audience got the whole thing. Sports like Nordic skiing don't have breaks in play in which to stuff all of the commercials so you end up missing a lot.
 
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Eeyore said:
Four years ago the hockey games were shown pretty much in their entirety. I suspect that the people in attendance found the TV timeouts to be extra irritating, even relative to regular TV games, but the TV audience got the whole thing. Sports like Nordic skiing don't have breaks in play in which to stuff all of the commercials so you end up missing a lot.
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Do they have TV timeouts in Olympic hockey ?. Reason I ask is cause in the past there were no TV time-outs in IIHF hockey events. Not sure if that changed in more recent years. TV timeouts are more of a North American concept. Traditional Non-NA sports like soccer do not have any TV timeouts.
 
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OnMAA said:
Do they have TV timeouts in Olympic hockey ?. Reason I ask is cause in the past there were no TV time-outs in IIHF hockey events. Not sure if that changed in more recent years. TV timeouts are more of a North American concept. Traditional Non-NA sports like soccer do not have any TV timeouts.
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No, I don't think they do. If I recall, they blitzed through commercials in '10, but there were times where they came back after the puck had been dropped on a faceoff.
 
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There is an urban legend to the effect that when the Wimbledon men's final was first televised back to the States, the US network informed the Wimbledon officials that they would need the first 8 minutes (GMT 2:00 to 2:08) for commentary and commercials and the Wimbledon spokesman, a retired British Army major, told them that was impossible because Wimbledon always began the match at 2:00 on the dot, and would continue to do so. The Americans acquiesced but, lo and behold, at 2:00 when the two finalists were about to emerge from the tunnel onto Centre Court, the American finalist (Ralston? Conners? McEnroe?) yelled "OMG I've got to go" and raced for the men's room where he proceeded to wait -- you guessed it -- precisely 8 minutes on the dot.
 
Media Madness

Media Madness

Yes, the "human interest personal profile" frenzy is out of hand.

Tonight, Boston's ABC affiliate broadcast a long segment on the team's current 12th forward, who is not Amanda Kessel but is 50 year old Massachusetts resident and 1984 Hobey Baker winner Scott Fusco.

When a fill-in practice player who is ineligible by gender to travel to Sochi receives this kind of attention, you know the media coverage is red-hot.
 
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Watson Rink said:
Yes, the "human interest personal profile" frenzy is out of hand.

Tonight, Boston's ABC affiliate broadcast a long segment on the team's current 12th forward, who is not Amanda Kessel but is 50 year old Massachusetts resident and 1984 Hobey Baker winner Scott Fusco.

When a fill-in practice player who is ineligible by gender to travel to Sochi receives this kind of attention, you know the media coverage is red-hot.
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The worst part of that for me is that they have a 12th forward who is eligible and quite familiar with the team just two hours away at NAHA, waiting out the time left until she can play in college for Wisconsin.
 
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Watson Rink said:
the team's current 12th forward, who is not Amanda Kessel but is 50 year old Massachusetts resident and 1984 Hobey Baker winner Scott Fusco.
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Whaat ?. It this for real ?. I like the Canadian model better with the two spare parts (last two cuts) still part of centralization. Gives you the option to add them to the squad in case a chosen player incurs a major injury prior to the games.
 
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Whaat ?. It this for real ?. I like the Canadian model better with the two spare parts (last two cuts) still part of centralization. Gives you the option to add them to the squad in case a chosen player incurs a major injury prior to the games.
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And it has the added benefit of further developing the most recent cuts. One would have to think pretty long and hard to find such a benefit in giving practice reps to a 50 year old of another gender. :(
 
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ARM said:
And it has the added benefit of further developing the most recent cuts. One would have to think pretty long and hard to find such a benefit in giving practice reps to a 50 year old of another gender. :(
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If I heard it right, he's got something to do with the rink they're practicing at ...
 
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dontyelldad said:
If I heard it right, he's got something to do with the rink they're practicing at ...
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If you mean he owns it, then yes he does..... :)

I too have been surprised that they don't hold onto 1 extra F and 1 extra D in case something like this happens for some reason - family emergency, illness, injury, etc. Then they have a ready plug-in in the event that they are needed in the Olympics. It is not like they are off playing elsewhere of significance - post-college cuts may have gone back to the CWHL (or may not be playing at all) and college cuts need a place to skate anyway (because they aren't going to play a third of a college season and use a year of eligibility). Why wouldn't they carry two alternates for the month or two leading up to the games in case someone has to drop out...?
 
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