They say that we live in a free society and that are media isn't censored. Its debatable as to how the government provides restrictive information, however the true censorship is controlled by the mighty dollar. To have NBC admit that its tape delay's of live events to West Coast viewers is justified by higher ratings clearly shows that their monetary interest greatly outweighs their responsibility to the community.

Instead of showing us live events and unbiased coverage, we are subject, through their monopoly of US Coverage to: 35% advertising, 30% athlete coverage and prior Olympic recap (Torino '06) and 35% actual coverage.

Lets take a look:
Advertising preceeds all event coverage and even interupts events. In addition, during prime-time, when audiences are younger in age, they allow ads for Shutter Island and Saw VI forcing us with smaller children to quickly change channels and mute the volume. Thank You NBC for your lack of social consideration.

Athlete Coverage
Why does NBC have interviewers asking 3 US Skiers what kind of resentment do they have against each other, seeingthat all three are vying for medals and that two of them already have medals from 2006. Are they getting along? Have negative feelings and sentiments been exchanged? This is the level of interview coverage that we ar ebombarded with, and even after the three had indictaed to the interviewer on four separate occassions that there was no resentment, the interviewer maintanied his position. Why couln't the questions be about the sport itself, perhaps because the interviewer didn't know anything about the sport that he couldn't even speak their lingo. They should have hired an actual athlete to conduct the interview.

Actual Coverage
Once again, Thank You NBC. Your coverage is biased and shows us only the US athletes and top three finishers, No wonder the World hates us, they think that we are wholly arrogant with no consideration for others.

European coverage is start-to-finish from 7pm through to 3am (thats live coverage for them). It shows the complete event. Either every athlete and compitition for the Luge or Alpine Descent or Biathalon - irrespective of who's winning (maybe thats a reason why they get along with their neighbors)

In any case, NBC, You Suck. Your a Monopolistic Anti-Socieatal Parasite who does nothing for Americans. We are not how you portray us. We ar enothing how are Government represents us. We are Free, and now we are angry.

NBC Sucks!!! The Men's Downhill ....the premiere event of the Olympics.... 12 minutes of racing coverage showing only 6 runs. And of course there is no other channel or stream to watch the entire event. I wish they wouldnt even try...

Having been spoiled for the results, I watched and was like wow: Bodie, the two people who beat him, a Canadian and some one who crashed.

They had women's luge after local news and the speed skating. It was race, set of commercials, race, set of commercials. The commercials were longer than the races and they didn't seem to share much. The only part of that coverage that I can be a bit thankful for is no Pixar ads during the coverage. It was still annoying as I TiVoed it to watch this morning when I was awake and I kept almost overshooting the whole race... One of the speed skaters is local to Chicago and we didn't get to see his qualifying. All we got told was that he pulled out after his first run. Just... wrong.

I agree about the terrible coverage of the Olympics! I am also perplexed why while watching the 1-5 p.m. telecast on NBC it is herky-jerky. Watching it on Dish Network should be fluid and not like streaming video. The 8 p.m. telecast are fine. Why?????

Not having problems with it in DirectTV.

What is also killing me about NBC is the constant plugging of that Pixar film. In the middle of an event, they cut to how the event might be during the caveman days. DO NOT WANT.

Today, during the Snowboard competition it was herky-jerky but the alpine skiing was fine. I think snowboarding was from Cypress and maybe they transmit different from there.