Henry Blodget, Blogger, Silicon Alley Insider

NBC Olympics: We Don't Care if You Hate Us, You're Watching USA-China Basketball on Tape Delay

August 11, 2008 at 12:01 am PT

NBC actually showed Michael Phelps live on the East Coast last night as he shattered his own world record in the 400 individual medley. We watched–and, suddenly, the Olympics were as awesome as, well, the Olympics. If you live on the West Coast, of course, thanks to another absurd decision by NBC, you only got to watch the race after reading about Phelps’s victory online, when it was about as exciting as 1970s Super Bowls.

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