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If you thought NBC choosing Jay Leno over Conan O’Brien was bad, evidently it was just a warmup for a whole lot of other terrible choices during the Vancouver games.

The Spectator wrote an editorial last week about the games so far where we called out NBC for tape-delaying events for most of America. This is a problem, but it’s also how its been done for years and years. Even the “Miracle on Ice” in the 1980 games was not seen live in the United States. For the most part, Americans are used to seeing delayed Olympic events.

The biggest problem with NBC’s winter game coverage is what they are choosing to show, where they are showing it, and how they are chopping up the events to be more “easily digestible” and “universally” appealing.
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CBC, The Canadian TV channel  that us Seattleities know and love, won’t be carrying the Vancouver games, according to an article posted Friday over at The Seattle Times.

Instead, CTV–a privately owned channel–won the rights to the games and will be doing the coverage in Canada. The only problem is that CTV isn’t on nearly as many people’s cable dials in Washington.

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