2012 IM World Championship broadcast on NBC ... (Page 4)

It also appeared to have limited sponsorship- i don't know if that was because LA fell out. It was literally like the same 3 commercials over and over and over again. Hawaii tourism commercial, that sunglasses company, and 1 or 2 more.

I wish I hadn't already deleted last year.  It was much better for watching on the drainer, like racing with the pros.  This one will be more like just watching a documentary while on the drainer. Lame.

the good: the announcer explaining the courses and factors affecting each of the three sports .. thought that was neat

the bad: not enough AG human interest stories.

the ugly: the lighting in the pre race interviews. looked like blacklight

I agree that the Julie Moss/Kathleen McCartney coverage was good.  Nice to see her back. She's such an icon.

I liked the new coverage and the reduction in the AG stories.  The one thing I didn't like is they seem to focus too much on the race leaders and not the race behidn them.

They hardly mentioned Badman's top 10 and fastest bike plsit of the day at 46 years old, Potts awesome performance, what happened to carfrae when she caught Cave, etc.

There is a while race out there behind the leaders and more times than not, that is where the majority of the action is.

I caught a glimpse of Lew at the beginning too, but no mention of him.  I did like to coverage of Julie Moss though...

dfquigley - 2012-10-29 10:40 AM

rrrunner - 2012-10-29 10:27 AM

I wish I hadn't already deleted last year.  It was much better for watching on the drainer, like racing with the pros.  This one will be more like just watching a documentary while on the drainer. Lame.

Can watch last years easily enough on the youtube :p

High Def too

Yep, there's several years I've found.  Now I just need to find this year's, or another way to watch it, I couldn't find a TV and don't have a DVR.

I was also surprised that there was no mention of this being one of the hottest/windiest years in recent history...it was all over the twitter feeds race day but no mention now.

I looked at the 10 fastest times for each swim/bike/run all time and absolutely no 2012 times made it onto that list!  Slow year!

youtube

As far as I know... the nbc coverage isn't yet on youtube? Have you got a link, maybe my searching is horribly wrong?

I liked the fact that they had more pro coverage.  But if anything, this shows why they need to move the broadcast back to early December.  The show just did not flow well, and I can't blame them considering that they had only 2 weeks to put it together instead of the normal 8-9 weeks.

I agree!  It was great to see these two ladies compete again.  Seeing Julie Moss sure makes helps me remember to put on my sunscreen before I go outside to SBR.  She looks much older than 53.

Impressive... thank you so much!!

YES!  Thank you!  I've been waiting all year for this!  Have carefully avoided all talk of the race (although I did eventually hear the winners), and was really looking forward to it for a final motivating push for IMAZ in a few weeks.  Was so infuriated that my local NBC (detroit) decided not to air it.