2012 IM World Championship broadcast on NBC ... (Page 2)

OK, there' a charity run down at the art museum that my sister and my mom are doing in half an hour. I'm meeting them there and making my kids run too. I'm p*ssed off

Apparently here in Detroit, NBC feels that it is more important to show infomercials rather than broadcast Kona.  It looks like I have to wait until 11:00 Tuesday night for a replay on NBC sports.  Unfortunately I won't even be able to see the replay on Tuesday since I'll be in the car on my way to IMFL.

With Hines Ward getting screen time, maybe PHlly stations didn't prioritize, but in what only Philadelphians call "upstate PA" I have it on. Gotchocolatemilk.com is crashed, btw. I will probably submit a video to see what happens.

just the east coast of America.  Not the world.  Just to clarify as we are clearly getting different news over here.  But, to be clear, the world is indeed ending for you guys

just the east coast of America.  Not the world.  Just to clarify as we are clearly getting different news over here.  But, to be clear, the world is indeed ending for you guys

Hi

i'm from germany found this thread, because i would love to see the broadcast, but had no receiving for nbc. Had someone made a recording and could upload it for me? If there is no recording till yet, there is an opportunity on the next day on universal sports http://universalsports.com/schedule/

it would be great if someone can help me!

things I noticed:

Leanda Cave "Let Chrissy sit in the best spot, afterall she is racing... not"  Holy bitter?

Pros weren't wearing their goggles under their swim cap.

Pros don't use volunteers in transition.

That was some crazy wind.

600 watts?  really??  thats got to be an instantaneous power output not a sustained effort

top three women on the bike got penalties for drafting.  really?  does anyone know if any of these were intentional drafting.

Caroline Steffen and Leanda Cave are both really tall chicks.  Caroline Steffen qualifies as an athena until December 31.

No actual talk about Lew Hollander but they showed him finish.  Is this really his last year?

Oh!  I'm so glad you said this... I tried to record it earlier, but I saw that NBC sports was showing soccer at 4pm today so I wondering if it was going to be shown at all...

I didn't think this year's broadcast flowed very well.  The race week stuff with the pros was somewhat interesting, but after 15-20 minutes of it, I was more than ready to get the race started.  That could have been a separate show in itself.  Then when they finally showed the swim start, they went pretty much right to a commercial break.  I got the feeling this year more than ever that it was a show about triathlon with a race thrown in.  In other words, the race itself didn't really seem to be the story.  I know it never really is, but more so this year.  Then they had to make sure to showcase the sponsor "mylist"...

I was excited to watch it at the start, but after a while it got tedious.  Kind of disappointing.

BTW, I feel for you guys who had the coverage pre-empted for storm coverage.  I'm really hoping that doesn't happen to the NFL games tomorrow.

Sorry the folks back east got preempted for storm coverage and infomercials. That just sucks. 

The pre-race stuff was interesting, because we don't usually get to see that kind of stuff, but it was way too long. And of course, most of the people they focused on didn't do well in the race.

I actually like the more play-by-play version of the pro coverage. In previous years, they just didn't have the facts right of when they actually happened in the race. The down side to that is they didn't leave enough time for the age group coverage and that's a shame. 

In my opinion, the age-grouper stories have always been the best part of this show.  If I want to see detailed coverage of the pro race, I'll watch the live stream.  But the stories of the extraordinary "average age-groupers" is what makes it special and inspiring, and what makes the Kona race memorable.

I thought they gave short shrift to the age-groupers and personal interest stories last year, but this year was ridiculous.  In this format, Blazeman would have gotten a 30 second "I'm racing to beat ALS" cameo.

If this is where NBC is going with the broadcast, I'm done watching it.

I gotta agree with what most have said.  I didn't enjoy the format this year.  Too much pre-race and not enough AGers.  I'm wondering how much of it had to do with the 2 week turnaround on producing it.  I'd rather wait until December for a better product if they can't come up with a good narrative in a short turnaround. 

I agree.  It seemed to be missing a lot.  I finished watching with the impression that they cut a lot out for time.  A lot of it seemed abbreviated.  I know, we're slimming a day long race into 2 hrs, but I mean more like they were blazing through a checklist.