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NBC Olympics has a rating of 1.47 stars from 68 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about NBC Olympics most frequently mention split screen, worst coverage, and half pipe problems. NBC Olympics ranks 180th among Videos sites.

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  • Value
    9
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Top Positive Review

“Providing a Covid Escape”

Kelly K.
2/6/22

Considering the phase of existence we have been passing through, it is a pleasure to see others of us giving their best effort at what they love. We probably all should try some of that. On a little of a down side, I do wish people responsible for the graphics in sport broadcasting were better trained in color, contrast and font sizing. My eyes are three times older than the athletes I watch

Top Critical Review

“Who is this prime time host?”

L M.
2/8/22

She's awful and I don't care about color or sex but picking a black woman to make a woke statement is hilarious and ridiculous especially when she is horrible. Should have followed MLK, judged by the level of their talent and not the color of their skin. And you wonder why ratings are awful? Just watch for a few minutes and it becomes apparent.

Reviews (68)

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Thumbnail of user lm386
1 review
0 helpful votes
February 8th, 2022

She's awful and I don't care about color or sex but picking a black woman to make a woke statement is hilarious and ridiculous especially when she is horrible. Should have followed MLK, judged by the level of their talent and not the color of their skin. And you wonder why ratings are awful? Just watch for a few minutes and it becomes apparent.

Thumbnail of user stephenh1590
1 review
1 helpful vote
February 13th, 2022

What a bunch of nasty, condescending, arrogant comments. Is it impossible to find a straight man instead ot the catty queens that are disgusting. Don't get me wrong, I'm gay myself, but, I find their commentary dreadful... like a couple of prancing queens with delusions of knowing all. No wonder I hate watching this travesty. Hail Hail Olympics... let's torture more Uighurs... sort of like Hitler's Olympics. What a disgrace

Thumbnail of user ei19
1 review
0 helpful votes
February 17th, 2022

Astounding sound mix. Performer music COMPLETELY drowns out commentators. It is possible to do this better. Who is running the mixer?!

Thumbnail of user wolframm2
1 review
3 helpful votes
February 8th, 2022

Absolutely worst coverage I have seen in a long time. Will quit watching any further Olympic events going forward. Mikaela Shiffrin skies out a second time in a row and NBC stops coverage of all other competitors?! Completely missing the point of what the Olympics are all about.
Viewers also shouldn't be forced into paying extra money to sign up for Peacock in order to able to watch an important event like the Olympics.

Thumbnail of user michaelf1771
2 reviews
3 helpful votes
February 8th, 2022

Rebroadcasts and Repeats. Split screen commercials so you can't hear commentators let alone able to see a competitor's score. I am going to scratch NBC off of my viewing list. The want you to pay for Peacock. I would have given zero stars if I could have. This has to be a complete embarrassment for NBC. Couldn't even follow the schedule of what order events would be on. Just horrible!

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Thumbnail of user danl802
1 review
2 helpful votes
February 8th, 2022

Lame coverage - especially if you watch anything On Demand relegated to Peacock. But even live when they split the screen to show commercials and you cannot really tell what's going on or see the scores in the smaller window. NBC should NOT play commercials at the same time as coverage. Too many commercials, too. Very disappointing NBC.

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Thumbnail of user margarete755
1 review
2 helpful votes
February 6th, 2022

Can't believe that if I want to see if Redmond Gerard wins the gold in Men's Slopestyle Snowboarding live, I have to pay for Peacock Premium. Really unacceptable. I suppose the American Ninja Warrior repeat, the poker tour and other lame "sports" that are on NBC's plethora of stations are raking in the ratings. It's really disappointing. If you are going to commit to covering the Olympics - - cover it.
Appreciate Mike Tirico's coverage.

Thumbnail of user jackm1188
1 review
1 helpful vote
February 18th, 2022

As a pationent winter olympics fan, having watched for 50 years. I am dismayed at this poorly produced broadcast. English speaking Commentators, whose accents are difficult to decipher, Broadcasters & coverage being cutoff for commercials. Cameras not catching snowboarders or skiers complete Ariel jumps. I am not alone, in this opinion, as majority of people, that I know who tuned in, share the same opinions.

Thumbnail of user lawrencek216
1 review
2 helpful votes
February 7th, 2022

Once again your coverage of the Olympics is a dumpster fire! Running the same sports on 2 channels at the same time is NOT giving us good content. I think someone needs to retool the entire Olympics coverage, you have enough channels and yet you run the same thing on 2 or 3 channels leaving tons of content off the air. I wish someone at NBC Sports gets a clue or Olympics will no longer be on NBC or the pay for channels. You should be ashamed of your coverage!

Thumbnail of user jamesm6261
1 review
0 helpful votes
February 14th, 2022

Coverage riddled with ads at the most inopportune times. Split screens for ads combined with long wait times for scores and dead air have made these games unwatchable. Too bad as the athletes are so exciting, but the coverage is horrendous. Maybe viewers will get lucky and see the olympics mover to a network that can manage them.

Thumbnail of user cm954
1 review
0 helpful votes
February 19th, 2022

This is the worst coverage of any Olympic Games I have ever seen. Not only were most of the sports not available through any thing the the horrible Peacock app ( that took 2 min to load and I have very fast bandwidth) but there were more commercials than content- and no way to forward through the highly repetitive commercials
At one point I made a list of the repeated commercials and am planning on boycotting those products for at least a year. Commentaries were inane and in informative. Really NBC, we're you even trying?

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Thumbnail of user katherinec547
1 review
2 helpful votes
February 7th, 2022

Watching the women's short track skiing: Greedy NBC is splitting the screen 60% / 40% to run long strings of commercials during live competition! Because of their larger portion of the screen, the commercials totally the audio of the games and take away the ability of viewers to see the Olympic action's scoring results. UNBELIEVABLY incompetent broadcasting. NBC is clearly the greediest Olympic coverage network of all time. I will never again watch their network for any sports coverage. Grrrr!

Thumbnail of user danj637
1 review
0 helpful votes
February 7th, 2022

Please filter out the background announcements ASAP. We can't understand a thing on what the announcer is saying on majority of events. This coverage is the worst I've experienced from NBC

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Thumbnail of user donovans50
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
February 15th, 2022

2/15/22 the Today show said that women's figure skating would begin tonight at 2000 ET. NBC ran adds during the day today saying the same thing. The women's figure skating was not broadcast at 2000 ET but men's bobsledding. Lying, sorry people. I hate it when people don't tell the truth just to get us to turn on the TV. Bob Costas would not have done that.

Thumbnail of user lamap
1 review
0 helpful votes
February 20th, 2022

Such an annoying experience. Hosts are talking and talking, repeating themselves, and repeating old episodes a hundredth time. Just filling the time. As an example, a closing ceremony is supposed to be shown at 7 pm CST, it's already 7:30, and nothing but blah-blah from their studio. No wonder nobody in the USA are watching Olympic games. Bad bad coverage.

Thumbnail of user gloriaw329
1 review
1 helpful vote
February 4th, 2022

If you didn't send an American citizen to announce the games because of boycotting China surely you could have found someone other than the lady with an English accent. She talks quickly and with her accent is VERY difficult to understand. I am not enjoying the broadcasts at all. I give you a 1 out of 10 rating.

Thumbnail of user jille140
1 review
0 helpful votes
February 21st, 2022

I turned the sound off while watching the Olympics due to the talking heads nasty narrative pointed at the 2 countries athletes the USA is fighting with now. The USA has committed atrocities against many groups of peoples. The Olympics is a place where people gather to compete peacefully. Some of your announcers ruined that NBC.

Thumbnail of user robb523
1 review
0 helpful votes
February 9th, 2022

The outdoor P. A. volume totally drowns out your event analysts with loud, echoing, often foreign jiborish. Some of your indoor analysts just babble on and seem bored with their event. (eg womens hockey) Constant reruns don't make for interesting viewing, and going to split screen muting olympic coverage for commercials while events are taking place is frustrating and inexcusable. Savannah and Hoda with jackets and hats in their NY studio doesn't really add authenticity or interest. As a lifelong Olympic junkee, this was/is an embarassment. I feel sorry for the athletes.

Thumbnail of user helenh992
1 review
0 helpful votes
February 9th, 2022

With all the modern technology, why can't you identify the competitor and their country on the screen? Why all the same commercials over and over? I looked up the time Shawn White was running half pipe qualifying last nite and the NBC schedule said 11:30. It was after midnight by the time he finished his first run. It was one competitor five commercials — we turned it off and would check the news in the am for his second run. Really negative feeling towards advertisers and NBC's greed which force that on all of us wanting to be proud Americans watching the Olympics.

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Thumbnail of user linnead6
1 review
1 helpful vote
February 5th, 2022

The fact you have 2 sets of commentators for the figure skating is ridiculous. Especially the woman who talks the whole way through. "Now she's doing crossovers. Now she did a jump. She's wearing a dress with lots of sequence. Her hair is in a bun with a colorful clip." It is so asinine, having this woman talking over Terry, Tara and Johnny to the point where they each cancel each other out. Then I turned to the snowboarding and you have a guy doing the same irritating thing. If I continue watch at all, I'll do it with the sound on mute.

Thumbnail of user davidm6887
1 review
5 helpful votes
February 4th, 2022

Please ask them not to trash the Ollympics with politics and personal miss-informed word throwing on the Chinese. If the 2022 Winter Olympics were held in Germany, the NBC hosts would hit the Germans with Nazi remarks and personal view point, Germans are not Nazis, and I would not want you to talk about what I feel during the Olympics in my country, if I was Chinese, or any other country for that matter.

Thumbnail of user samanthas1030
1 review
0 helpful votes
February 8th, 2022

There is no flow nothing but commercials can't even get score in women snow boarders with out commercials horrible coverage evert night

Thumbnail of user now88
1 review
1 helpful vote
February 9th, 2022

Not as much sports coverage as sports interference. Inane filler between events. Split screens with commercials on 2/3 of the screen and ongoing competition on 1/3? Outrageous! Can only be watched by recording so you can fast forward theough the junk.

Thumbnail of user mjd42
1 review
0 helpful votes
February 10th, 2022

Not able to hear music during skating events. Very low and background noise is apparent. Last evening 2/9 the mens free skate music was almost not there. This has been continuous. Background sounds including breathing and someone tapping pencil/pen during skating.
Terrible sound which was the same during team competition.
Who is responsible for sound quality.
TERRIBLE!

Thumbnail of user juliec1656
1 review
6 helpful votes
February 3rd, 2022

Could you please tell Tara Lapinski and Johnny Weir not to talk so much, I can't hear the music or enjoy the performance.
Thank you
Julie C
Boston Mass

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