Those Screams You Hear In The Distance Are Coming From 30 Rock
Friday, February 27, 2009
Noooooooo! Stupid Tiger. Why did you have to go and ruin a perfectly good weekend of Golf by losing yesterday? Not only are we as fans out a weekend of viewing Tiger taking out, random PGA Pro after random PGA pro, but the NBC "brass" has probably been cursing the name of Tim Clark for the last 18 hours or so.
There is good news for you Golf fans though. Just because Tiger isn't playing in the Tourney anymore, doesn't mean NBC won't be shoving clip after clip of him down your throat! Via the LA Times....
Tiger Woods is out in the second round of the Accenture Match Play Championship, beaten Thursday by South Africa's Tim Clark. That means Woods won't be playing Saturday and Sunday during live network television coverage of the event, but he'll still be prominent on NBC.Well that's just great. What NBC doesn't understand, is that all of those people interested in that angle won't even be around to bombard them with all of Tiger news. Instead you'll have hardcore Golf fans, wanting to watch some of the other players they enjoy, and NBC will be pissing them off to no end by continually talking about Woods. It should be a fun weekend on the "Peacock"!
"We'll have to deal with showing what happened to Tiger because this has gone from being a golf tournament to a news event," NBC golf producer Tommy Roy said. "Our weekend telecast will have to deal with showing what happened to Tiger. It will be our duty."
Wednesday's first-round coverage of the match-play event resulted in the highest first-round ratings ever for the Golf Channel. Golf Channel President Page Thompson said the 1.8 rating was up 50% from the same round a year ago. "It was exceptional," Thompson said.
NBC won't forget about Tiger Woods (LA Times)
6 Comments:
"It will be our duty" to broadcast three-day-old highlights? This hasn't become a "news event" -- it's become an "old-news event."
Good thing there's no way for viewers to see what happened on Wednesday and Thursday. Otherwise, NBC's coverage would be completely pointless.
If Chris Matthews were here, he would say "Oh God."
Altogether now... AWWWWWWWWW!
/sarcasm alert
This is what you get when you focus all your promotions / marketing on one player or team.
Are you listening NHL ? With your all Saint Cindy of the Confluence all the time plugs.
I love it when great golf is happening on the course, but the TV cameras are covering Tiger going in and out of the porta potty or blowing snot out of his nose...
You can always watch Phil Mickelson implode!