Olympic tape-delays and online coverage

A journalist friend who I respect a great deal made what I consider a terrible argument on Facebook today, when he said that organizations such as Yahoo! Sports, USA Today, ESPN, SI and other national sports publications should refrain from posting Olympic results on their websites, affiliated Twitter sites, etc. until after NBC's tape delay broadcasts of high-profile races.

I will pose the same question to this community as I did to him: Why should all the other media organizations suffer just to help NBC?

 

They shouldn't.
Only argument I could see being made is everyone else is going to lose readership because they'll want to avoid results so they won't go to those sites.

 

Let's not report 9/11 happened until the 6 o'clock news.

 

Thank goodness they don't refrain from posting stories and results. The nightly hype/highlight show on NBC is a joke.

Although it does appear that there are restrictions on video replays/footage of Olympic events due to the NBC contract with the IOC. Am I imagining this?

 

Fuck that. NBC should show them in real time. The other outlets don't work for NBC. They're reporting the news. NBC isn't.

Instead of getting onto other organizations for reporting stuff, fans/viewers should be lambasting NBC for waiting for hours to report it.

 

This is even funnier than NBC expecting people to watch their regular prime-time "entertainment programming" . . . I use that term advisedly.

 

Heck, if NBC's own website www.NBCOlympics.com will post results in realtime, why not everyone else?

In the past, I wanted to get the stuff in realtime. This time around, being semi-retired, I'm not as much in a hurry and just turn away if I don't want to know until I see the replay of the event.

The stuff is out there and each person can choose how they want to use it.

 

Our local NBC affiliate is giving results on its evening newscasts.

 

My checks come from my employer, not NBC. I do what I can to do kickass coverage of our local Olympian. I'm not here to please NBC or the whiners who a) don't want to know, or b) didn't read the story I put in the paper a couple of days ago about what's online, what's live and what's on NBC and seem shocked that not everything is live.

I think there is in terms of highlights. I mentioned it in the main Olympic thread, but (outing alert) boxer Jose Ramirez is from our area and, while the local NBC affiliate did give the result of his fight (which we'd had online almost as soon as it was over), but no highlights on the 6 p.m. news. Didn't watch the midnight show ... but unless there's restrictions, how do you not highlight a local?

 

It doesn't really matter when local affiliates run crawls across the bottom of the screen list who finished in what position in what event - WHILE that event is still going on or has yet to be aired ('coming up next'. tape delay).

 

screw them. they don't pay me.