> The Olympics are choking themselves to death right now. I can recall sitting on the sidewalk watching the torch relay for Los Angeles 1984, but today the Olympics is just eighteen months of irritating ads followed by three weeks of media clucking.
Avoiding NBC's Primetime coverage has been huge to my enjoyment of the Olympics in recent games. Having the streaming apps to watch the events I want, in full, often without commercial breaks is an absolute game changer. Also, you avoid all the 15 minute long fluff pieces about the guy who grew up in small town nowhere and now is the 92nd best javelin thrower in the world hyping him up as the closest thing to a living god as is imaginable.
The streaming app for the Paris Olympics was a revolution from which I can never go back to OTA coverage. I watched so many more competitions and in sports that are never broadcast in the US because they are too niche or are not popular enough in the US for people to know about. Gee, maybe they are not popular because nobody has ever seen a match!
I got super into handball during Rio 2016. It was on, maybe CNBC? Definitely didn't get any play on any of the "main" channels. Now it's my guilty pleasure every 4 years.
Avoiding NBC's Primetime coverage has been huge to my enjoyment of the Olympics in recent games. Having the streaming apps to watch the events I want, in full, often without commercial breaks is an absolute game changer. Also, you avoid all the 15 minute long fluff pieces about the guy who grew up in small town nowhere and now is the 92nd best javelin thrower in the world hyping him up as the closest thing to a living god as is imaginable.