Those of you on the east coast have it made. You get to watch your Olympic coverage live in primetime. Those of us on the west coast are not so lucky. We get to watch our Olympic coverage in primetime as well, but it's not live - it's on a three-hour delay. And boy do those three little hours make a difference. Why? Because by the time the Olympic coverage actually goes on the air here, its outcome is already news. And boy do the local news stations love to yak about it.
Yesterday I had to change the channel three times to avoid hearing the outcome of several events I was looking forward to watching during last night's coverage. Despite my quick fingers on the remote, however, I still accidentally heard that Michael Phelps had won a gold medal yesterday. So the US Men's 4x100 relay team's amazing upset over France was no surprise for me; instead, it was a foregone conclusion before it even happened. What kills me even more is that the local news that immediately precedes Olympic coverage on NBC in my market still gave results for the very events it was about to broadcast. This is so stupid it should be criminal. Maybe I can understand giving results for events that are broadcast in primetime but which happened much earlier. However, for those events that were broadcast live on the east coast, the least the networks can do is embargo the results until the 11 o'clock news.
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