A Whole Nother Thing

I have lodged the following complaint with the FCC:

NBC and it's affiliate, KGW TV in Portland OR, claim falsely that they are broadcasting the Olympics "Live." However, there is no live broadcast of the Olympics on the West Coast. They advertise and promote that "LIVE" coverage will be seen at "8PM/7 Central." This is not possible, because when it is 7 o'clock Central TIme it is 5 o'clock Pacific time. Thus, this claim that the broadcast will be "LIVE" is false and deceptive. It is not possible to broadcast something "LIVE" at both 7 PM Central time and 8 PM Pacific time.

Further, when Bob Costas says he is speaking "LIVE," no effort by the network or KGW is made to correct this false claim by super-imposing a notice, such as "Recorded Earlier."

I also sent an email to KGW but have not received a response yet.

Maybe since China has only one time zone, NBC thinks that's the case now for the USA? Bob Costas has said more than once something like "It's 7AM here in Beijing, so that means it's 7 PM on the East Coast, and we're live." Then I look at my watch, which is on my wrist, which is on the West Coast, and it says "7PM." Hmmm... how can it be 7PM in New York and 7 PM on the West Coast? I love it when Costas says that Michael Phelps will be swimming in an hour or so (and they're going to broadcast it LIVE) and then I look on the Internet and already see the results of the race. That's SOME Live coverage!

It's bad enough that we have no live coverage of the Olympics, but the fact that they falsely claim that it IS live is unacceptable. I hope they get fined.

Here's a picture I took of my TV screen tonight.

It says "LIVE" but, no, it's not. This happened 3 hours ago.

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