Here is a copy of a short note
I sent to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC):
Well, I've pretty much boycotted the Olympics... or rather CBC's (and all the other networks for that matter) coverage of the Olympics.
Did you know there are Olympic sports going on
ALL
DAY
LONG!
I would like to watch them. Quite a bit of them. I do not want to watch Brian Williams yap, or any of the other commentators yap or watch mind-numbing interviews or even irrelevant special features. Greece is fascinating, but I want to watch sports not the history channel!
Without trying to be deadly accurate, your typical hour of Olympic coverage seems to consist of 15 minutes of commercials, 30 minutes of unnecessary yapping, interviews and features, 10 minutes of overly long intro's to the upcoming event and 5 minutes of competition. Believe me I don't need to watch the swimmers take their clothes off, not even the girl's.
Sure, a certain amount of talk is required and Brian Williams is a fine anchor, but it's about the sports not the hype, not the opinions, not the controversy!
The hype is just unnecessary. It's the Olympics for cripes sakes! It needs no hype.
Too much opinion is annoying. I have my own opinions and they are not nearly so narrow and "party line" as your commentator's. Give it a rest and just assume I disagree.
And controversy: Bah! I've heard it all before. Give it its 30 seconds and drop it!
Don't tell me there are not enough sports to show. There are sports you are virtually ignoring. Show them. I would like to see Tae kwon do, especially now that is an official sport and no longer a demonstration sport. And not just two minutes of one bout. I'd like to watch a lot of it, get a feel for it. You could show it or another forgotten sport in those spaces between the swims, or in place of a special feature. Then I would watch, and endure the commercials and say thumbs up to CBC.
For now, though, the thumb remains in inverted mode.
Sincerely
Kim Hanson
OT: Olympic Coverage
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