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2018 Winter Olympics

I noticed that both channels of olympics were featuring Adam's turn on the ice, at the same time. This also happened for another figure skater.
Seemed to be too much control as to what event I want to watch.

Comcast/NBC have a gay agenda now?
 
CDONA said:
I noticed that both channels of olympics were featuring Adam's turn on the ice, at the same time. This also happened for another figure skater.
Seemed to be too much control as to what event I want to watch.

Comcast/NBC have a gay agenda now?
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Oh Lord.

Figure skating has huge ratings so they show every minute of it.
 
I was getting curling on 4 channels the other day. I hate curling now even more than used to and I really hated curling before.
 
CDONA said:
But when they bust up a perfectly good hockey game to plug in the figure skater, someone has an agenda.
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I agree someone here has an agenda.
 
All that I know is that I've deleted more curling segments than hockey, skating or any other segment!

WTF is it with the curling? It must be really cheap for them to produce those because I know damn well that they aren't high in the ratings.
 
:laughing

Watching the Olympics channel even include interviews with the curlers.

Is that what you call them.. curlers? :laughing

Lots more cross country and other sports on that channel so it makes it more fun than what Johnny is weiring.
 
budman said:
:laughing

Watching the Olympics channel even include interviews with the curlers.

Is that what you call them.. curlers? :laughing

Lots more cross country and other sports on that channel so it makes it more fun than what Johnny is weiring.
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:laughing

curlmeisters
curlbarians
curlistas
curltists
curlmakers
curlinguists

that's all I got
 
Blankpage said:
The only coverage I can get this morning is fkn curling :thumbdown
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tzrider said:
There must be a lot more to curling than meets the eye if doping can make any difference in the outcome. :laughing
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UDRider said:
Better question why the fuck do you have to dope for curling. :wtf:laughing
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Blankpage said:
I was getting curling on 4 channels the other day. I hate curling now even more than used to and I really hated curling before.
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Climber said:
All that I know is that I've deleted more curling segments than hockey, skating or any other segment!

WTF is it with the curling? It must be really cheap for them to produce those because I know damn well that they aren't high in the ratings.
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westie said:
How the hell is curling still going on? I mean, how the fuck long is a match?
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American's by and large don't know shit about Curling. Again, I implore you to actually try it instead of pretending like it's easy just because it looks like it is. Having the stamina to sweep as hard and as much as the second and thirds do is hard to come by. Also, the stones weigh roughly 45 pounds a piece. Notice that many of them are sweating their asses off and it's not exactly warm in there. The sheets are required to be maintained at 23 degrees on the surface and there's three or four in the arena...not sure about the count at this Olympics. That's a lot of cold air required.

The game is usually 10 ends with each side throwing two stones per player per end. I say usually because nothing prevents either team from conceding if and when one team reaches a points differential that's likely insurmountable. The American prime time coverage generally shortens most ends to the last few stones from the third and the skip so you don't really see the lead or the second throw their stones...although NBC seems to really like Brian Hamilton so they tend to show him more often than what a second usually got for coverage in the past.

As for the ratings, I think most of you would be surprised. Curling is highly watched. If it wasn't, they'd cut away far more. There's not point in highly televising a game/sport that no one pays attention to at all. There's also a lot of marketing that goes into it.
 
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Curling is ranked 10th on several of the ranking lists that I could find.

Curling coverage has easily outpaced most of the other sports above it in ranking in coverage.

I can get that some people want to watch it, but it sure seems like it's coverage far outweighs it's popularity.
 
American popularity...but American's aren't the only people watching American coverage either.
 
I get that people like to play curling and it takes skill but this is the Olympics and I'm not interested in watching how much cold someone can withstand in a curling rink.

I want to see skiers risking life and limb ripping down a mountain on the limit of control. Or pushing yourself to the limit of exhaustion around a long track speedskating oval, cross country skiing...

I'm not that interested in sports where the participants barely work up a sweat or not take any risks. Save those sports for 3am broadcast or for the rest of the year when the Olympics are over. I didn't wait 4 years to see curling.
 
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