They have a little online app that lets you know when and where you might find T&F (and, you know, those other so-called sports) on the teletube: http://www.nbcolympics.com/tv_and_onlin ... index.html
The app indicates that it displays online listings too, but in spot checking around the T&F dates I found none. Maybe I failed to check a box or something.
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NBC TV Oly Games T&F Schedule
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NBC TV Oly Games T&F Schedule
Worked for me. After entering my zip code, cable provider, and the NBC affiliate we watch I could get this sort of information for a given day:
Latenight 12:30am-2:00am Track & field finals include the men's 10,000m and women's triple jump. Also: Men's beach volleyball quarterfinal action and the women's triathlon.
Interesting. I ran the app for both my provider (DirecTV) and the local Comcast outlet, and it only showed Universal HD on two days, the Wednesday and Thursday (actually one 12 hour broadcast from 9pm Wed. to 9am Thur.)
So will they be showing the entire men's 10K or just show laps 1 & 2, 24 & 25?
Sadly, that's a good question, because if I did that right that's an awful lot to squeeze into 90 minutes. I'm glad that here in MI, CBC is an option too!
Correct. It will probably be the first and the last HALF laps. Why can't we be satisfied with seeing 1/25th of the race???
Unfortunately, the tv people believe that most Americans will be satisfied with that as long as the only runners in contention are Africans. And they may be right.
I just don't understand that if the men's 10K is at 3am local time anyway, why the whole thing can't be shown. Doesn't anyone like myself who is up in the middle of the night to watch want to watch the whole thing? Can't imagine a sprint fan saying "hey dear, I'm gonna stay up till 3am to watch the men's 10K but boy, I sure hope they just show the last lap"
It isn't at 3am local time unless you're in New Zealand. The 10,000 starts at 10:45pm, which is 10:45am on the East Coast of the US.
My bad...I just threw that time out there assuming the 10K was like at 8pm in ?Beijing which I thought was in the middle of the night on the west coast...7:45am isn't quite the same thing...  Just wish they'd show the whole race..
If that's the case then there's a good chance that CBC will show the whole thing live. I'm pretty sure that some station on American tv broadcast the entire men's 10,000 without interruption during a recent championship, although I don't think it was live.
I want my TripleCast!
If NBC is touting their 26 gazillion hours of programming across all their outlets, certainly the entirety of every FINAL can be shown, wouldntcha think? I might not actually put my eyeballs on a screen for the entire 117 hours it takes to run that 10K final, but I would have it running in the background so I could listen for something interesting to happen. That's how I 'watch' most sporting events.
Those are exactly my thoughts. Is it true that in Europe they show the entirety of every race for track and field ("athletics")?
In my experience the answer would be "sort of." The (admittedly few) meets I saw broadcast by the BBC when living in England did. Except that in their attempt to cover all events things could get a little bit jumpy--you might see someone making a big move on the back stretch with just over a kilo to go in the 5000, and they'd suddenly cut away to show a jump or a throw and not cut back until maybe 600 to go. But the only thing they would ever interrupt coverage of one event for would be coverage of another event.
NBC TV Oly Games T&F Coverage
The Men's 10K was shown LIVE in 1988 at about 3am Eastern. I was living in California then as now. I had scheduled vacation time, so it was probably around Midnight, but I'm uncertain. It wasn't scheduled as such. IF my memory is accurate, Carl Lewis had run the 200 quarter final & was allowed to take his LJ attempt at the end of qualifying. He was supposed to take the first jump in the final, but argued so long (I think that translators were needed) that he had his needed rest. The telecast should have ended then. While that was happening, the 10K began, so NBC (may God bless them) showed it while announcers described Lewis' (may God bless him) LJ dispute. I attended LA & Atlanta on TAFNOT, but watched all other OG & all WCh on TV. That is my only recollection.
Hey Steeplechaser,
It appears that those of us who are lucky (?) enough to be close to the Border are going relatively sleepless during most of August. Looks like the main CBC TV coverage will be 15 hours a day, with auxiliary online and other channels, and I haven't even looked at the NBC coverage yet. And with a satellite dish, I can pick up either NBC or CBC from several different time zones. So,. it's now about having Canadians or Americans in most or all of the Track Finals. I'm wondering if 24 hour days are possible 
I haven't tried those since I was a teenager...
Either of you have an extra bed or a free couch for the better part of the middle of August ?
CBC was added to our basic cable package here in south-central Michigan in May 2005. I was at a retirement dinner for a colleague on the night of a crucial NHL playoff game when a friend said to me, "You must be excited that we get the Canadian channel now." I hadn't realized it, and bolted my dinner to get home to watch the action. This will be my first Olympics in the states with CBC access so I'm really excited. And access to multiple broadcasters is certainly an advantage. I remember in '92 being frustrated that CBC was cutting in and out of the 10,000 in the early laps, so I switched to Radio-Canada (French CBC) who broadcast the entire race, sans interruption, with enthusiastic, informative, and informed commentary. And you'll remember, it was a race you wanted to see ALL of!
Yes, that's a good point. The French CBC covers more track action (live) than anywhere else in North America. I haven't even checked that schedule out yet...
Mellow, are you bringing the "booze and the broads" ? 
I'm down here in Toledo, where CBC has always been on cable and available off the airwaves for as long as I can remember. If you've never watched the Summer Olympics on CBC, you're in for a treat. But you better get your sleep schedule on Beijing time because live coverage throughout the night is the norm. CBC is a bit jingoistic about covering their own athletes, but they can't fill up even a tenth of their air time with them. (Winter games are a different story.)
Your best bet is to do what I will: download the Beijing T&F timetable, convert it to EDT, and just figure they'll cover it all. Bad news: CBC won't have the rights for 2012. If memory serves me, both 10ks were shown live and in their entirety on US TV in 2004. I know the women's was, because I sat in a bar in Chicago and watched the whole thing and somehow thought I had counted the laps wrong when it was one of the Ethiopians who did. Didn't they also cover the racewalks live and complete, too? I remember Liquori responding to something the other announcer said with a bored "Oh, that's interesting" to which the other guy responded "You say that like you don't think it is."
As a matter of fact, I just last night watched the entire M 10K from Athens on my tape of the NBC coverage. There wasn't even a commercial break. This was, I believe, on the late-night program. The commentary was mostly by Marty Liquori. There is hope!
Cheers, Alan Shank
I am disappointed, no webcast in the style of Triplecast will be available. NBC said last year they would have it. They could charge for it, I am sure I am not alone willing to pay for it. Oh,well.
What I don't get is that with all of the over the air substations (my local NBC has a "Weather Plus" station that i think is always on as a sub-station and PBS is always broadcasting like 4 different shows on their substations) couldn't you have multiple sports on over the air NBC going on at once? The HD broadcast from rabbit ears plugged into my tv looks slightly better (weather permitting) than what I get from my cable (actually it's TV over IP which is better than cable), and with cable, I only get the main station, not sub stations.
You could do a Triplecast style just with over the airways NBC assuming they had the capacity.
I know we moan a lot about the BBC but we really are very lucky. Don't have to worry about any of this stuff as we know for a fact that will show EVERYTHING (Apart from the 50k Walk but that doesn't count) and it will be on 24/7.
No scrabbling around obscure channels trying to find stuff. In fact now we have BBC's 1 - 4 + Interactive it's highly likely they'll be too much on 
now if we could just make sure that Colin Jackson isn't on any of it 
all the kvetching aside, the original URL provided at the top is a handy-dandy way for Americans to find out just when they're going to get track on which of the myriad channels.
Ouch! 
CBC is not very jingoistic-I mean yes they show Canadian athletes ,after all they are catering to a Candian audience, but they wil show many events without a Canadian in sight. As you pointed out so kindly -they have to. 
(I'm sorry, but I have not yet begun to kvetch.) We only learn which blocks of time will contain our sport of interest. For example, here's what I get when I search for track & field on all channels on the first day of competition: Friday, August 15th - TV & Online Listings - Track & Field All Times PT Friday, August 15 10:00a - 1:00p NBC Daytime Beach volleyball action including a U.S. team's elimination-round match, plus swimming prelims, track & field qualifying rounds, and USA vs. Russia in a women's water polo preliminary-round match. 8:00p - 12:00a (8/16) NBC Primetime (LIVE) Swimming gold-medal finals including Michael Phelps (100m butterfly) and the men's 50m freestyle final, and a U.S. elimination-round match in beach volleyball. Also: Track and field finals, featuring Reese Hoffa in the men's shot put, and USA vs. China in a men's volleyball preliminary-round match. 11:00p - 11:00a (8/16) USA Multiple Sports (LIVE) Tennis gold-medal match in women's singles. Also, more tennis medal matches including men's doubles (gold), women's singles (bronze) and men's singles (bronze); the 20km walk in track and field, track cycling gold-medal finals, USA vs. New Zealand in a women's field hockey preliminary-round match and more. Medal Event So I have to watch coverage of many other sports, in which I have no interest, and a boatload of commercials, to see some track & field. Four Olympiads later, NBC is still far from achieving the standard set by the Triplecast.
Agree 100%; what a worthless "tool" for trying to find when a particular sport may be shown on TV. At least the IAAF website has the "real" schedule and Im hoping to at least catch all the results there. Its possible then that these events *may* be shown live, or probably more frequently time delayed. Im reasonably hoping that NBC will archive many of the finals on the website (of course a day or three later) like they did with the OT. Let's not forget all the NBC 'biographies' that will be shoved into the T&F coverage too along with the other worthless sports and commercials.
The insider joke in the TV industry is that if NBC had taken every person who signed up for the Triplecast and bought them a plane ticket to Barcelona, and a hotel, and the Games tickets, they would have lost less money than they did on the venture. It's not a matter of "achieving standards," it's producing a product that's economically viable. The Triplecast was a disaster in that department.
I've always heard that they lost a ton of money on the Triplecast, but I've also wondered how it could be that much. The announcers were already there announcing the events, the cameras were there to film the events, etc. Instead of taping it and editing it, they just send it along. Was the infrastructure of setting up the three extra channels that expensive? Someone who knows more than me (nearly everyone) enlighten me.
I don't have the answer to your question but the loss estimates were around 100 million. The advertising budget alone was around 40 million.
All valid complaints, but this is what a DVR is for.
on then UNIVERSAL HD channel, beginng 11:30 am edt on saturday morning ALL replay of the eugene oly trials will be replayed...
during the olympics, they'll replay tracjk too, using a completely different set of announcers... you have to check the schedules.. in 2004, they showed entirety of distance races..
Good one. Excellent use of hyperbole. Given that there were no more than 165,000 Triplecast subscribers, and that NBC lost at least $100M on Barcelona, even the wonderful folks at TAFNOT would be hard-pressed to arrange such a trip at a cost of only $600 per person. Triplecast is big loser
No doubt the Triplecast was a significant contributor to NBC's loss. But the standard to which I referred, relevant to the present topic, is merely that of informing the viewer ahead of time what sport will be on what channel at what time. I believe this is not too much to ask in the Information Age.
Trust me, both of my DVRs will be quite busy from August 15 to 23. As will my stereo, for I plan to mute the commentary in favor of my 10,000-song iTunes library.
Combining the NBC TV schedule with Garry’s T&F event schedule, there is quite a bit of overlap in my area (DirecTV in the SF Bay Area) between televised segments and live T&F finals. Is NBC going to actually show these finals live? My guess is probably not. Most are in the middle of the night here and the programming available for the most part is Telemundo. I’d love to be wrong, but I’d bet that most of these finals will be delayed to the prime time televised segments.
The following are the possible live telecasts (in chronological order): W Shot Put W Hept W Marathon (not enough time in the program to finish it) M Hammer W 3000 SC W Triple Jump W 100 M 10,000 W Discus W Pole Vault (probably not enough time in the program to finish it) M Long Jump (not enough time in the program to finish it) M High Jump M Discus W 400 W 100 Hurdles M 1500 M Hammer W Javelin W 200 M Triple Jump M 400 M 110 Hurdles M 50k Walk (not enough time in the program to finish it) W Long Jump M Pole Vault W 5000 W 4x1 M Dec M 4x1 M 4x4
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