TiVoing the Olympics
February 10, 2006 7:47 PM Subscribe
What's the best strategy for TiVoing the Olympics?
I live in the Northwest and much prefer the Canadian coverage. I don't want to wind up with hours and hours of watching the American athlete who comes in fourth in luge. I'd like to come home and have a couple of hours of either highlights or an interesting competition that may or may not include Americans. I'm much more interested in watching a competition that has interesting story behind it rather than any one particular sport or just rooting for the Americans.
Searching through "Pick programs to record" doesn't help. The NBC primetime schedule seems to focus primarily on the American athletes. What's a good site that recommends interesting events and athletes and can I program TiVo to record only these particular times, events, and athletes?
I realize a similar thread (http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/30849) has been posted, but I want to set the TiVo rather than scan the channels every night.
I live in the Northwest and much prefer the Canadian coverage. I don't want to wind up with hours and hours of watching the American athlete who comes in fourth in luge. I'd like to come home and have a couple of hours of either highlights or an interesting competition that may or may not include Americans. I'm much more interested in watching a competition that has interesting story behind it rather than any one particular sport or just rooting for the Americans.
Searching through "Pick programs to record" doesn't help. The NBC primetime schedule seems to focus primarily on the American athletes. What's a good site that recommends interesting events and athletes and can I program TiVo to record only these particular times, events, and athletes?
I realize a similar thread (http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/30849) has been posted, but I want to set the TiVo rather than scan the channels every night.
I can't speak for the Canadian coverage -- but the U.S. coverage (CNBC, NBC, Universal HD, USA) schedule is here.
posted by ericb at 11:17 PM on February 10, 2006
posted by ericb at 11:17 PM on February 10, 2006
The CBC schedule is here. There will be a certain amount of focus on sports in which Canada is competing, and a certain amount of homer-ness, but not nearly as much as on NBC and there will be coverage of whole events (or the majority of events). Unless they've really screwed with the format, the CBC does a great job on the Olympics.
posted by mikel at 5:00 AM on February 11, 2006
posted by mikel at 5:00 AM on February 11, 2006
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So, I guess I agree with you, but have no alternate suggestions.
posted by dhartung at 10:53 PM on February 10, 2006