List all the issues with NBC production this Olympics trials

I'm from Emily Mackay's hometown and I've known her since she was in 9th grade (I coached at a school in her league) they didn't introduce her- a clear favorite to make the team and they didn't introduce her and people noticed.

NBC makes enemies doing this.

Just introduce everyone, you don't need stories, no one cares how many kids they have or how many cows they own, introduce everyone.

Yes! I would venture to guess almost nobody watching track races wants to see field events during the races. Perhaps it's the other way around too. Since many of us are already paying for the broadcast, is it too much to ask to have one stream for track and one for field events?

This is a good one too. I was watching the races with my 10 year old who is getting into track. I was trying to explain who the big players are in each race, but they were only showing certain runners and not all the favorites/contenders.

Most of the Diamond League races briefly show each runner upon introduction. That's the way it should always be.

The Numbnuts Broadcasting Corporation.......so many issues but these have me sitting on the mute button

1. Lewis Johnson and post race interviews. Ax this type of coverage altogether and send Lewis home. The questions are old and no one can understand a word the athlete is saying after just finishing a race....understandably. Leave this for the mixed zone.

2. If you are going to use split screen between two events.....do the same when you cut away for a commercial

3. STOP I REPEAT...STOP !!! the human interest blathering. Show more events and less of the sob story "I had to overcome this and that to get here" BS. Everyone has an "overcome" story that is running in the Trials, focus on the competition.

4. Dump the Aussie and get the Brit (Tim Hutchins)

5. STOP dragging out events that are 60 seconds in length to 10 minutes. Save time....show other events.

6. If you have to add "side show" commentators like Snoop you know you are in trouble covering the event

7. Ya think if you are going to try something new (and actually interesting) like warmup interviews you would at least test the equipment set up to see if it would actually work

8. Show us some damned splits......no not some meaningless MPH crap....real splits.

This is a Peacock comment - when using their replay you get an event and then as punishment 120 seconds of commercials. Another event ... more punishment. Every F..ing event. Seriously? And for this I paid my $60 yearly upfront subscription.

But I suppose it is better than Flotrack.

This isn't actually reflective of the coverage but, my little part of Upstate NY had 4 people competing. Facebook was alive with discussion and so many people who weren't track fans watched. Many people were in awe of the amazing athletes and their accomplishments. If NBC could get the commentary right we could pick up fans for life.

I can't say this is really a criticism of the coverage in the larger sense, but I don't particularly care for Ato. I appreciate the knowledge and he definitely says things that are completely new to me so that's appreciated, but his forceful speaking style seems almost an effort to artificially generate excitement within the viewer. I don't think that's a conscious strategy on his part, it's just the way his commentary comes out. To me, the primary job of an analyst is to...transmit (not concoct) the excitement of the event. Sure, it's necessary to be expert on the sport so that you're not just a cheerleader; but I'm looking for someone who enhances or brings to the surface the reason most people watch sports - because it's exciting.

Terry Crews. 1000+ times better than poop dog(g).

How about how Ato constantly calls Hayward a “building” even though it has no roof? Why not just call it a track or stadium?

This may not be a pure transmission problem but I have to mention it. As a track and field fan, I consider the USATF Trails to be one of my favorite events. Therefore I would have no problem paying to see them. Now, because I live in Argentina NBC and Peacock block me from any attempt to pay/watch the event. a real sh1t.

- showing split screen during a race at commercial for nbc but not peacock. I’m paying for a stream why can’t I see half the race? They showed 6 heats of sprints that qualify everyone through but they don’t show the one final that is a distance event.

- cutting away when a move is happening for either a commercial or some non happening in a field event. If you are going to do this at least be flexible to not do it when something major is happening.

- on screen graphics. This is so basic. Why do they get this so wrong? Show start list. Show result list. Show event name, running time, and lap split, laps left. Mph is a useless stat, don’t ever show this. Half the time they never showed the results. I know they have them you can nearly make them out on the stadium board in the background. Someone runs a world record and they don’t even display the time on screen.

- let Kara know she should go back to adding more commentary. LD often doesn’t understand what is happening. Before she would fill in the gaps. Now there is just awkward silence.

- The auto change to gymnastics was so bad. That was just amateur hour.

This was baffling to me being new to Peacock. Why the hell am I paying to see their crappy endless commercials?

My wife and I realized that we hadn't watched commercials in the last 15 years because of the magic of Tivo/DVRs and now this. Those bastards have finally figured out a way to force commercials back on the viewer.

I agree with all the criticism that has been conveyed. This criticism is a little inside baseball, having just watched the "nobody asked us with des and kara" live podcast from the runnerspace house.

Kara said that in 2019, Ato Boldon "called" commentating the 800m b/c he wanted to commentate Donavan Brazier. I'm using "called" here as in "I called the front seat." Furthermore, she said Sanya Richards-Ross "called" commentating the 800m once Athing Mu started coming up. Kara reiterated that Ato and Sanya had more "seniority" than her. Just shows NBC is doing things wrong not letting the person with the most event-specific knowledge call the race.

Also, a light criticism of Kara. On her own podcast, she is so relaxed and funny off the cuff. On NBC, she is kind of stiff and formal. Be yourself!

Warning: dinosaur comment ahead. Show the field events marks in both metric and imperial measures. Although a track and field fan for 4 decades, it's still not immediately obvious to me how long/high an athlete performed when seeing a metric mark. And they showed MPH on the for many of the distance races. Although a meaningless stat to me, why are the field event marks shown in metric but this stat in MPH instead of Kilometers Per Hour? Seems inconsistent. I understand the NBC feed goes to other countries (and I'm not against the US going to the metric system), but why can't the field event marks be shown on the screen in both metric and imperial?

I said in another thread that they are more concerned with sensationalism than they are the actual competition. That is the issue. That don't seem to do that with other sports nearly as much. The seem to be able show nascar racing with having hundreds of human interest stories or snappy commentary by celebs. No idea why they feel it's needed for T&F

Lewis Johnson. Get this guy outta here. Useless and formulaic questions. I didn't feel like a single one of his interviews added ANY value to the broadcast. If you add up all the time spent on him asking dumb questions and athletes giving boring answers, you could show some actual field events, not cut away from the 5000 etc. Asking Kessler about seeing the Eiffel Tower was just the cherry on top of a mountain of cringe moments.

In his defense, Johnson asked all the 800 Olympians (not just Kessler) to sign the Eiffel Tower gimmick they had at the finish area.

This is the most egregious. Totally unforgiveable.

I saw that event live on NBC TV broadcast. Seems the free TV broadcast (which also showed all the distance races in their entirety with the use of a split screen during commercials) was better than the fee-based Peacock stream.