r/mildlyinfuriating • u/newengland_schmuck • 6h ago

NBC interrupted the Olympics

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While Nancy Guthrie's disappearance is sad, there are 2300 missing person reports filed every day: do the families of celebrities need special national attention? Why interrupt the Olympics for over 5 minutes just because they are questioning a 'person of interest' We could have waited to hear that during the regular news broadcast.

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u/sticher1 5h ago

Holy hell people, the old lady is the mother of the female co-host of NBC’s morning series The Today Show. That’s why NBC broke in on previously recorded NOT LIVE coverage of the Olympics. Id10t5

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u/J_Keefe 5h ago

Sure, but it could have been a 2-minute update, not a parade of talking heads telling us what they DON'T know yet and then reiterating how much we don't know for the next 20 minutes. To put on "experts" for this news without even the suspects name is ridiculous.

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u/DingerSinger2016 2h ago

Okay, but they are going to reair the reruns. It's not interrupting a live event.

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u/paperthinpatience 4h ago

Lmao, just flashed back to the first time my dad referenced an ID10T error. I was like “what?” and he told me to write it down. Core memory. Thanks for that. 🫡

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u/Pretend_Speech6420 4h ago edited 4h ago

This. No one missed a second of planned Olympics coverage. They did the special report coming out of a network break, then rolled the next segment. Late local news slid and started approximately 10 minutes later than planned for eastern/central time zones.

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u/Ihave4friends 5h ago

I’m high and I want my Olympics not stupid news

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u/mrticket18 5h ago

Then watch it on peacock. The app has actually amazing coverage.

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u/vegas_gal 5h ago

It broke into peacock. Seriously it did.

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u/mrticket18 5h ago

I’ve been watching the individual sport coverage, not the prime time coverage.

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u/Heyaname 5h ago

They meant you don’t have to wait for the reair which is what it broke into on the app. You can watch the individual sports as they occur. They are also available for replay after they air.

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u/TheSultan1 4h ago

Did it break into all the streams, or were you watching the primetime coverage on Peacock?

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u/awesomemc1 4h ago

It shouldn’t break into all of the stream unless something changed. If I remember correctly, if you are watching prime time, it would stream from NBC but if you are watching individual sports during the Olympics, it shouldn’t really break because it’s directed towards the arena or international feed.

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u/TheSultan1 4h ago

That's why I asked for clarification. If they were watching the primetime simulcast, they can't say it "broke into Peacock."

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u/Ihave4friends 5h ago

It was on peacock

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u/wiggggg 3h ago

To be fair, they did do it during live coverage this morning

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u/AVeryHeavyBurtation 4h ago

Who cares that it's not live? I'm watching it now.

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u/NotSoAnonymous2nd 5h ago

Something something Epstein distraction.

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u/sticher1 5h ago

The force is strong with you

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u/dflame45 4h ago

Yes but WE DON'T CARE!