Current mood:	annoyed
Entry tags:	sports, tv

NBC tennis coverage sucks, well sports coverage in general
So the men's final match finished very quickly today and there are 3 hours left in the scheduled coverage. Rather than show tape of all the finals (doubles, mixed doubles, juniors) from this year, now they're showing Federer vs. Nadal from last year's Wimbledon. They actually didn't show any (or at least very little, not when I watched) doubles action on ESPN2 either over these last couple weeks. They could have easily shown tape, even late at night or early morning on ESPN, but instead you get hours of poker or whatever other bullshit.

This is really annoying and frustrating. I fully expect similar crappy coverage for the Olympics this year from whoever is broadcasting. We'll get several half hour specials on one gymnast's "road to glory" and not see one second of badminton, handball, velodrome, or any other "unimportant" sport. I'd be mildly satisfied with highlight reels of the other sports, but you seriously can't even get that, just hours and hours of athlete stories. Just put that stuff up on your stupid Web site, so viewers can get that whole "360 experience". I understand you want to get people into it with the personal side, I really get that, but the level to which they shove the stories down our throats is just too much.

If there's an Olympic cable package, we'll probably get it and just completely ignore the network coverage. I remember talking to a former coworker who lives in Vermont, and for the winter olympics he would just tune in to the Canadian stations for much better coverage.