Olympics viewers overloaded with commercials during NBC Olympic Opening Ceremony

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During the Olympic opening ceremonies, NBC may very well stand for "Nothing But Commercials". Viewers took to Twitter to slam the network's frequent commercial breaks after six commercial breaks in under 40 minutes. Inserting commercials is probably the reason that NBC did a tape delay of the opening ceremony.

NBC has also been inserting commercials while matches are taking place over the first two days of the women's and men's Olympic soccer tournaments, prompting anger from many. And yet NBC has billed this as the 'Most Live Olympics Ever' despite the one hour broadcast delay for the opening ceremony.

subtitles (Score: 1, Interesting)

by Anonymous Coward on 2016-08-06 13:10 (#1PP40)

The thing that bugged me most about NBC's coverage of the opening ceremonies was the almost complete lack of translation of Portuguese used as part of the ceremony. NBC could have provided subtitles for the songs and announcements or at the very least had one of the announcers give some kind of summary translation but we got nothing. My friends and I just sat there listening to music without any understanding of the underlying lyrics or meaning. It seems the music would be chosen partially because of the message it delivers but if the message is not translated then it never gets delivered and thus an element of the ceremonies falls short of the desired outcome. Now knowing the broadcast was delayed makes it even more frustrating because they could have easily gotten the subtitles done during the delay.
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