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08-06-2016, 08:22 AM
The NBC Olympics coverage is a total, commercial-filled nightmare
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It was never going to be pretty: an Olympic opening ceremony with ** GIFs, hours of commercials, a massive delay and overbearing anchors.*
Welcome to NBC's 2016 Rio Olympic coverage. The network filled its primetime coverage of the opening ceremony on Friday night with thousands and thousands of commercials. Because when you pay $1.2 billion for the digital and broadcast rights, you wanna get that hard cold cash back somehow and the people will always tune in.*
SEE ALSO: You can't GIF the Olympics, so Twitter is GIFing the Olympics for you (http://mashable.com/2016/08/05/olympic-gif-ban/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
Here's a tip for Americans frustrated with NBC's coverage: Get a VPN and watch Australia's Channel 7 or the UK's BBC coverage live with your friends around the world. You'll also save yourself from dying in a filthy swamp of ads. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/05/nbc-olympics-fail/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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It was never going to be pretty: an Olympic opening ceremony with ** GIFs, hours of commercials, a massive delay and overbearing anchors.*
Welcome to NBC's 2016 Rio Olympic coverage. The network filled its primetime coverage of the opening ceremony on Friday night with thousands and thousands of commercials. Because when you pay $1.2 billion for the digital and broadcast rights, you wanna get that hard cold cash back somehow and the people will always tune in.*
SEE ALSO: You can't GIF the Olympics, so Twitter is GIFing the Olympics for you (http://mashable.com/2016/08/05/olympic-gif-ban/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
Here's a tip for Americans frustrated with NBC's coverage: Get a VPN and watch Australia's Channel 7 or the UK's BBC coverage live with your friends around the world. You'll also save yourself from dying in a filthy swamp of ads. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/05/nbc-olympics-fail/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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