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.

Re: Entirely typical... (Score: 1, Interesting)

by Anonymous Coward on 2016-08-06 23:33 (#1PQCJ)

I was thinking ttat didn't seem like that much.

Years ago, when the Battlestar Galactica pilot screened on New Zealand TV, we were getting two or three minute ad breaks every few minutes. At one point, we had a single scene - consisting of two or three camera shots - bracketed by three minute ad breaks. The ship was hit by nukes? AD BREAK!

That was the point I gave up watching live TV.
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