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I have signed into the "NBC Sports" app on Roku with my basic package Dish Network credentials, and that allows me to view any event live or on replay. This is

I have signed into the "NBC Sports" app on Roku with my basic package Dish Network credentials, and that allows me to view any event live or on replay. This is in USA. I'm not sure what else we expect NBC to do here. I have watched canoeing, cycling, rugby, equestrian, TKD, sailing, etc. Of course their headline/primetime coverage is shit and doesn't know sports other than swimming and gymnastics exist. They have the Today Shitshow people running it.

wombat-man 5y ago
I don't have satellite tv. I just watch with an antenna/locast. It's not really clear what I get with a peacock sub though, that might work?
- jessaustin 5y ago
  Sign up for a ten-day (or maybe it's one week?) Hulu trial. Then you can use that as your login. If that doesn't last long enough you might be able to find another online service (Sling?) that will work without payment for a short time. (Or you could spend $20 on one month of Hulu.) If you insist on OTA, I don't know what to tell you. Broadcast TV has always sucked. It still sucks now. NBC might be the worst of the big 3.5 networks, but normal households have had cable subscriptions for about four decades now. Those who don't want to watch the Today Shitshow version of the Olympics don't really have to.
lotsofpulp 5y ago
> I'm not sure what else we expect NBC to do here. Not tie it up with a Dish network subscription? NBC (or rather Comcast) wants to get paid from all sides, advertisers, TV channel distributors, online streamers. That is why there is no banner on their website saying “pay $x and stream whatever Olympic event you want with NBC website/app”. Actually, the answer to the thread title’s question is the fact that Comcast does not want to be reduced to a dumb pipe whose pricing can be easily compared to others.
- jessaustin 5y ago
  I also don't believe in "intellectual property", but in a legal regime that isn't so enlightened it isn't surprising that we have to go to some small amount of trouble and pay some small amount of money to see non-shit coverage of a ridiculously costly sporting event.
  - lotsofpulp 5y ago
    It has nothing to do with intellectual property or a less enlightened legal regime. It is just a dying legacy business that has been obviated by the internet trying to milk whatever they can before they are gone.
    - jessaustin 5y ago
      Yeah, sure, we all wish we were living in the future. In the meantime, someone has to pay for the cameras and streaming. I agree that no one should pay for some of the "personalities" involved in some of the NBC coverage. You've implied that the currently available terms of payment are not appealing to you. However, lots of real people still have subscriptions to cable, satellite, Hulu, Sling, etc.
      - lotsofpulp 5y ago
        The only way we get to the future is if sufficient people stop rewarding the unnecessary middlemen. I am just trying to do my part.
        jessaustin 5y ago
        Olympics is already on thin ice. Everyone involved is losing big money on it this time around, and the locals are in revolt. If they can't find more cities foolish enough to host, Olympics will be toast. Future host cities will demand more money from networks up-front. At some point they're just going to drop the whole thing and fill the airtime with minor league women's soccer or rollerblade lacrosse or something. Sure, Olympics started without television networks and it could continue without them, broadcasting over YouTube or whatever. However the show would be very different. We'd still have track and field, but basketball would be played without pros, many fewer "weird" sports and many fewer events in some of the overdone sports like swimming. Which could be OK...
spookthesunset 5y ago
Dude that is what I find the most annoying. Like, there is equestrian competitors, bike races, all kinds of crazy stuff. Nope. Swimming and gymnastics. And for winter it is 80% Figure skating with a dash of ski and snowboard.
- listenallyall 5y ago
  Have you changed the channel? USA Network and NBC Sports network are 24x7 obscure Olympics, as is CNBC nights and weekends. Judo, women's weightlifting, the men's bike road race, badminton, ping pong, handball...

wombat-man 5y ago

I don't have satellite tv. I just watch with an antenna/locast. It's not really clear what I get with a peacock sub though, that might work?

jessaustin 5y ago
Sign up for a ten-day (or maybe it's one week?) Hulu trial. Then you can use that as your login. If that doesn't last long enough you might be able to find another online service (Sling?) that will work without payment for a short time. (Or you could spend $20 on one month of Hulu.) If you insist on OTA, I don't know what to tell you. Broadcast TV has always sucked. It still sucks now. NBC might be the worst of the big 3.5 networks, but normal households have had cable subscriptions for about four decades now. Those who don't want to watch the Today Shitshow version of the Olympics don't really have to.

lotsofpulp 5y ago

> I'm not sure what else we expect NBC to do here. Not tie it up with a Dish network subscription? NBC (or rather Comcast) wants to get paid from all sides, advertisers, TV channel distributors, online streamers. That is why there is no banner on their website saying “pay $x and stream whatever Olympic event you want with NBC website/app”. Actually, the answer to the thread title’s question is the fact that Comcast does not want to be reduced to a dumb pipe whose pricing can be easily compared to others.

jessaustin 5y ago
I also don't believe in "intellectual property", but in a legal regime that isn't so enlightened it isn't surprising that we have to go to some small amount of trouble and pay some small amount of money to see non-shit coverage of a ridiculously costly sporting event.
- lotsofpulp 5y ago
  It has nothing to do with intellectual property or a less enlightened legal regime. It is just a dying legacy business that has been obviated by the internet trying to milk whatever they can before they are gone.
  - jessaustin 5y ago
    Yeah, sure, we all wish we were living in the future. In the meantime, someone has to pay for the cameras and streaming. I agree that no one should pay for some of the "personalities" involved in some of the NBC coverage. You've implied that the currently available terms of payment are not appealing to you. However, lots of real people still have subscriptions to cable, satellite, Hulu, Sling, etc.
    - lotsofpulp 5y ago
      The only way we get to the future is if sufficient people stop rewarding the unnecessary middlemen. I am just trying to do my part.
      - jessaustin 5y ago
        Olympics is already on thin ice. Everyone involved is losing big money on it this time around, and the locals are in revolt. If they can't find more cities foolish enough to host, Olympics will be toast. Future host cities will demand more money from networks up-front. At some point they're just going to drop the whole thing and fill the airtime with minor league women's soccer or rollerblade lacrosse or something. Sure, Olympics started without television networks and it could continue without them, broadcasting over YouTube or whatever. However the show would be very different. We'd still have track and field, but basketball would be played without pros, many fewer "weird" sports and many fewer events in some of the overdone sports like swimming. Which could be OK...

spookthesunset 5y ago

Dude that is what I find the most annoying. Like, there is equestrian competitors, bike races, all kinds of crazy stuff. Nope. Swimming and gymnastics. And for winter it is 80% Figure skating with a dash of ski and snowboard.

listenallyall 5y ago
Have you changed the channel? USA Network and NBC Sports network are 24x7 obscure Olympics, as is CNBC nights and weekends. Judo, women's weightlifting, the men's bike road race, badminton, ping pong, handball...