Monday, July 30, 2012

NBC

  • More television viewers than ever are parking their eyeballs on NBCs coverage of the 2012 Olympic Games, but the network is getting hammered online for everything from advertising placement to delayed coverage of events to lame commentary.
  • (PC World)
  • Twitter has suspended the account of a Los Angeles-based reporter for a British newspaper who included the email address of the NBC Olympics president and asked his followers to write him to complain about the networks coverage.
  • (FOX News)
  • SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Twitter Inc and NBC Universals move to suppress a British reporters tweets related to the networks Olympics coverage may have backfired after the incident became fodder for Twitter chatter around the world on Monday.
  • (NBCNews.com)
  • LONDON (AP) — A Los Angeles-based reporter for a British newspaper said his Twitter account was suspended after he criticized NBCs coverage of the Olympics.
  • (Businessweek)
  • Usually, womens gymnastics and swimming - especially when U.S. swimmers are going for gold - are the biggest U.S. TV Olympic draws.
  • (USA Today)
  • Since the opening ceremonies, what was billed as the most connected Olympics in history has failed to connect with its audience in the United States.
  • (Examiner)
  • An NBC News White House producer was among two women shot in an incident in Northwest Washington D.C. early Saturday morning. NBC News says Shawna Thomas was grazed by a bullet in what appears to be a random shooting.
  • (Mediabistro.com)
  • Twitter Inc. blocked Independent newspaper journalist Guy Adams from the social-networking service after he posted the email address of an NBC Sports executive while complaining about Olympics coverage.
  • (Stamford Advocate)
  • Much of the Olympics opening ceremony brought back warm and fuzzy memories of my 2005 summer abroad in England.
  • (The Stir)

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