NBC 'misses' 100m metre final

[karl]

An estimated two billion people around the world saw Jamaica's Usain Bolt thrash his rivals to win gold in the men's 100m final - but none of them were in the U.S., as NBC declined to broadcast the historic moment live.
Bolt sailed through the semifinals in London this afternoon and upheld his title as the world's fastest man at 4.50pm EDT today.
But, not for the first time this Olympics, NBC took the controversial decision to hold off broadcasting the hugely popular event until prime time, leaving millions of track and field fans outraged.



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[Lyra Heartstrings]

And so NBC is hated even more.

[Neptune]

They could watch it live online, could they not?

[Erasmus]

They could watch it live online, could they not?

Maybe, but a lot of sites are blacked out if you're not in the region.

[Jess]

ugh, and NBC is the only channel I could watch the Olympics on....

[Conner Davies]

i missed it myself stuip fucking nain!!!!!!!!!

[HowlingSnail]

Makes me glad I'm not American.

[Magenta]

ugh, and NBC is the only channel I could watch the Olympics on....

Because the stations bid on who gets to 'host' it so to speak. To be the official broadcaster. In Canada it was CTV, next Olympics it will be the CBC.

NBC was the official broadcaster for the US. NBC will not be getting it again, for sure after this.