Big

Still its different. I bet for you Spider the up close stuff is like "Oh interesting, its nice to know this about this athlete". For housewives its like "Call me when they discuss the drama so I can shed a tear and sympathize".

ODH

I love the Olympics. I'll watch anything (well almost anything, no synchronized swimming). I do get tired of the extensive coverage of swimming, diving & gymnastics.
Besides wrestling I hope to see lots of Judo. I also like watching boxing, track & field, weightlifting, rowing, canoeing, volleyball.

ODH

Big, you are ignorant and misogynistic.
How many housewives do you know?
Why do you use housewives as a derogaroty term?

matclone

Besides wrestling: weightlifting and all the track and field events. Most of the summer sports are good. There will probably be way too many gymnastics shown, and basketball holds little to no interest for me.

bluestater

If you have cable, you will have the option to watch pretty much what you want. Even more if you have a good internet connections. Gymnastics, swimming and track will be on NBC, but MSNBC, CNBC and USA will be carrying lots of the stuff you want to watch.

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p-jersey

I dont man, the last Olympics there was a very dramatic finish to the race walk championship not even kidding. The dude who was in the lead for the entire race starting down about a mile out, by the time he got to the stadium he could hardly stand. I cant remember if he was passed or not, but the actual drama of whether he would make it or not was kind of cool.

Big

NBC is betting a huge amount of cash that stories like Nott's will grab an audience estimated at 215 million. The network paid $3.5 billion to show the next five Olympics, and women will not only be the stars, they'll make up most of the viewers.

"This is much more like the audience that watches 'ER' than a baseball game Saturday afternoon," said David Neal, NBC's Olympic coordinating producer. "The games are the only sports telecast in America with a higher percentage of women watching than men.

"So we know not to treat this like other huge sporting events. Even though we get big numbers, it's nothing like broadcasting the Super Bowl 16 nights in a row."

The percentage of women watching will be somewhere in the high 40s, with men in the high 30s and kids making up the rest, he said.

"It's why we have to go out of our way to tell the athletes' stories," Neal added. "If viewers, especially women, care about an athlete, they will stay with us and learn what they have to about the sport."

http://espn.go.com/oly/summer00/s/2000/0829/710203.html

Big

Key phrase:

"If viewers, especially women, care about an athlete, they will stay with us and learn what they have to about the sport."

bluestater

So women = housewives? Seriously? You really have your idiot hat on today, Big.

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matclone

Big, who do you think the largest audience is for ESPN The Soap Opera?
(breathlessly) "Brett. Will he or won't he. Stay tuned"
"Find out what Manny does to be Manny".
"Coming up next: Joba!!"