NBC Supercross is becoming Unwatchable.

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Edited Date/Time 3/31/2022 6:40am
Nails on a chalkboard. What's your suggestion for replacement audio? Murdering rabbits? Grade School Band on the first day?

Then there's the director. Hey here's a great race up front. Lets see whats going on in 21st place for the next ten minutes.

Does NBC lose their contract next year?

Im not going to call out the problems. Ill just say it was the BEST its ever been during the Olympics.
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AgileMike 3/27/2022 2:26pm
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I can remember back to the days of watching a 240p stream from BitTorrent the day after the races on my 20" monitor in my home office, so I'm very happy to have Race Day Live qualifying and and night show live. In HD and on a 75" TV makes it even better.
Do they sometimes miss battles up front? Yes, but I feel it must be harder than all us Monday morning quarterbacks think it is. I don't know for a fact, but I think we are comparing the TV production to NFL, NBA, etc, which probably have 10x the production budget of supercross.
In life, you can always find something to be stoked about and you can always find something to be bummed about. I chose to find stuff to be stoked about, but that's just my choice.
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TbonesPop 3/27/2022 2:38pm
3/27/2022 2:38pm Edited Date/Time 3/27/2022 2:38pm
Outside of my weekly yelling to FIRE BONDO due to his continual cutting away from live racing to show drama clips from qualifying or a previous race to try and build hype, I have no issues with watching the show. In fact, I'm grateful we have what we have available.

I just cannot understand for the life of me why they feel it necessary to cut completely away from live racing to show some drama BS from earlier in the day or week.

NOTE to Daniel Blair or anyone reading this who has contact with the broadcast team. NEVER CUT COMPLETELY AWAY FROM LIVE RACING TO SHOW YOUR DRAMA CLIPS. Either do a split screen or show your drama clip BS when the races aren't running. NEVER, EVER completely cut away from live racing. It's such a simple fucking thing to understand. I get it, you love drama. Drama, drama, drama. That's fine, just don't cut completely away from the live racing action to pump your drama. For all that's love and holy.
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Magoofan 3/27/2022 2:46pm
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AgileMike wrote:
I can remember back to the days of watching a 240p stream from BitTorrent the day after the races on my 20" monitor in my home...
I can remember back to the days of watching a 240p stream from BitTorrent the day after the races on my 20" monitor in my home office, so I'm very happy to have Race Day Live qualifying and and night show live. In HD and on a 75" TV makes it even better.
Do they sometimes miss battles up front? Yes, but I feel it must be harder than all us Monday morning quarterbacks think it is. I don't know for a fact, but I think we are comparing the TV production to NFL, NBA, etc, which probably have 10x the production budget of supercross.
In life, you can always find something to be stoked about and you can always find something to be bummed about. I chose to find stuff to be stoked about, but that's just my choice.
...and I remember watching them live on TV in the 70's. We've come a long way with technology.

Which is why it's a tough pill to swallow that we get a train wreck every week. Poor production, bad commentating (Will, Harris), cutting away from the racing for BS. Last night it was not 1, but 3 different angles of the Barcia/Ando incident and some stupid piece from Screetch (oops, i mean Will C) about Barcia in a race car and his pretty stitching on his driver suit.

How many times have we missed key moments of a race when they pull away from the action....and to make it worse, they didn't film what we missed or just don't show a replay of it later.

This kind of crap does not fly on ANY other sport.

Don't even get me started on the qualifying show.... What a complete mess.

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Jeremy A.K. 3/27/2022 2:58pm
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It's live and HD ,some people are just never happy.
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JMR1976 3/27/2022 3:02pm
3/27/2022 3:02pm Edited Date/Time 3/27/2022 3:03pm
Mute it. Watch only the racing. Apply for the job.
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mb60 3/27/2022 3:08pm
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It's become so scripted. Again why are we cutting to Will Christian every heat, LCQ and main event that offers nothing to going on during the race. Daniel Blair is so much better and gets half the time she gets.
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B Gotti 3/27/2022 3:10pm
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Bet ya don't stop watching.
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mofomotojoe 3/27/2022 3:12pm
3/27/2022 3:12pm
Why is it so hard to let Daniel Blair do the announcing. Geez.

NBC please make the audio commentary on a separate subscription, if it is added value in your opinion.

I would love to just have the real sounds of the stadium. We know what is going on, we are not dumb.

Did you notice how they cut to commercial so aggressively at time, they cut their own sentences. Ughhh


You guys complaining about us complaining... your great great grandfather used to walk barefoot to work, I get it. I remember these times too.
But it is legit to complain when things that should be better are not.
Don't settle for mediocrity and be complacent about it. We are paying for this. This is OUR sport. This is a forum to speak our mind.
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KONG 3/27/2022 3:18pm
3/27/2022 3:18pm Edited Date/Time 3/27/2022 3:18pm
Same old bunch of crybabies, complaining for nothing.
You could be French.
Laughing
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tuttle425 3/27/2022 3:31pm
3/27/2022 3:31pm
I have plenty of criticisms of the broadcast but the only thing that really bothers me is the cutting away from racing or running interviews during the race. That shit needs to stop posthaste. I’d even put up with the awful Todd Harris if they fixed that one issue.
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Joey_Bridges 3/27/2022 3:31pm
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Yeah, nothing better than watching lap after lap, a couple of guys in the back of the top ten, then hearing the crowd roar and......
Still watching the same two guys running nose to tail.
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mattyhamz2 3/27/2022 3:36pm
3/27/2022 3:36pm
There’s some stuff that gets a bit frustrating, but nothing is more frustrating than paying for peacock which had no commercials and now being stuck watching those stupid political and woke NBC commercials. Please just give us back the view of the track from the top of the stadium while they are working on the track between races.
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philG 3/27/2022 4:02pm
3/27/2022 4:02pm
Given up watching live, watch Sunday Morning, sacked off RDL too.

I am old enough to remember having to wait till friday papers to find out.
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lostboy819 3/27/2022 4:09pm
3/27/2022 4:09pm
Was very watchable to me, think I will watch again tomorrow and re-watch the F1 race also. Cool
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INeedaNewUsername 3/27/2022 4:09pm
3/27/2022 4:09pm Edited Date/Time 3/27/2022 4:09pm
They should have Buttledge back into the mix and double time the Make Up to Mud fluff. Should have even more Craig family tribulations stuff. All during the racing of course
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RCMXracing 3/27/2022 4:11pm
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TbonesPop wrote:
Outside of my weekly yelling to [b]FIRE BONDO[/b] due to his continual cutting away from live racing to show drama clips from qualifying or a previous...
Outside of my weekly yelling to FIRE BONDO due to his continual cutting away from live racing to show drama clips from qualifying or a previous race to try and build hype, I have no issues with watching the show. In fact, I'm grateful we have what we have available.

I just cannot understand for the life of me why they feel it necessary to cut completely away from live racing to show some drama BS from earlier in the day or week.

NOTE to Daniel Blair or anyone reading this who has contact with the broadcast team. NEVER CUT COMPLETELY AWAY FROM LIVE RACING TO SHOW YOUR DRAMA CLIPS. Either do a split screen or show your drama clip BS when the races aren't running. NEVER, EVER completely cut away from live racing. It's such a simple fucking thing to understand. I get it, you love drama. Drama, drama, drama. That's fine, just don't cut completely away from the live racing action to pump your drama. For all that's love and holy.
I feel like this has been solved for some time with box in box
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cwel11 3/27/2022 4:19pm
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TbonesPop wrote:
Outside of my weekly yelling to [b]FIRE BONDO[/b] due to his continual cutting away from live racing to show drama clips from qualifying or a previous...
Outside of my weekly yelling to FIRE BONDO due to his continual cutting away from live racing to show drama clips from qualifying or a previous race to try and build hype, I have no issues with watching the show. In fact, I'm grateful we have what we have available.

I just cannot understand for the life of me why they feel it necessary to cut completely away from live racing to show some drama BS from earlier in the day or week.

NOTE to Daniel Blair or anyone reading this who has contact with the broadcast team. NEVER CUT COMPLETELY AWAY FROM LIVE RACING TO SHOW YOUR DRAMA CLIPS. Either do a split screen or show your drama clip BS when the races aren't running. NEVER, EVER completely cut away from live racing. It's such a simple fucking thing to understand. I get it, you love drama. Drama, drama, drama. That's fine, just don't cut completely away from the live racing action to pump your drama. For all that's love and holy.
RCMXracing wrote:
I feel like this has been solved for some time with box in box
It was but not last night. Live racing and we watched three different angles of the Barcia/Anderson tangle last week. I was throwing shit at my tv.
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Sawfish 3/27/2022 4:19pm
3/27/2022 4:19pm
The Picture in Picture sucks. There is like 30% at least of the screen being wasted with their blue background.
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Joko 3/27/2022 4:19pm
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I think the focus on every single crash is too much, especially when there’s a good dice for a position.
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Magoofan 3/27/2022 4:25pm
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philG wrote:
Given up watching live, watch Sunday Morning, sacked off RDL too.

I am old enough to remember having to wait till friday papers to find out.
Trouble is....watching the replay, they force the commercials on you. Not like before when it was commercial free where they just showed the track...you could FF thru that.
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Jonny Crash 3/27/2022 4:38pm
3/27/2022 4:38pm
The commentators need to talk about the race instead of talking about the riders. 30 seconds into a race and they are already wanking off the rider in 1st place instead of calling the on track action. After watching F1 and MotoGP it so hard to listen to these retards in the booth chat absolute shite. They seem to talk about anything other than whats happening on screen. Ricky says the same lines every week like its a check list "he's in a perfect position here"(5th in the lcq). Why can't we have a shot of the whole floor of the stadium during qualifying? Can we also watch all the finishers of a race before adverts? Can we stop the full screen interviews and replays mid race? Can some explain to them that we are interested in watching the battle for 9th in the heats and 4th in the lcq. If people are paying to watch the races why do we get spoken to like it's our 1st time watching? Explaining the same thing every weekend. And what the fuck is science of supercross? They really do think we are idiots. With that and the commentary you have the 2 greatest riders in the sport sounding and presented like complete idiot's
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Leave Us To 3/27/2022 4:38pm
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mb60 wrote:
It's become so scripted. Again why are we cutting to Will Christian every heat, LCQ and main event that offers nothing to going on during the...
It's become so scripted. Again why are we cutting to Will Christian every heat, LCQ and main event that offers nothing to going on during the race. Daniel Blair is so much better and gets half the time she gets.
I have no idea either why Will gets so much air time. I watch the races on Peacock on my notebook and recently learned hitting the M key is mute. The M key is excercised every time they cut to her. Cannot handle her voice and I don't want to hear boring background stuff during the main events.

How about giving Will her own YouTube Peacock channel for the information she gets from talking to the teams?

On the postive side, RC is killing it. He has improved so much the last couple of years in the booth and the guy looks as fit as I've ever seen him.

Magoofan-LOL over Screetch
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Moto520 3/27/2022 4:44pm
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I love it and can’t get enough of it
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dbaker521 3/27/2022 4:47pm
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Will?
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Moto520 3/27/2022 4:52pm
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Perfect? No

Unwatchable? Come on man….it’s still supercross/ dirt bikes/ everything awesome. Instead of saying “I don’t like the broadcast”…..the OP declares it unwatchable. A little dramatic
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FilthyGrungy 3/27/2022 4:53pm
3/27/2022 4:53pm
I saw a bikini picture of Will once. That’s about all I have to hold onto each time she is featured
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wide open wally 3/27/2022 5:00pm
3/27/2022 5:00pm
Jonny Crash wrote:
The commentators need to talk about the race instead of talking about the riders. 30 seconds into a race and they are already wanking off the...
The commentators need to talk about the race instead of talking about the riders. 30 seconds into a race and they are already wanking off the rider in 1st place instead of calling the on track action. After watching F1 and MotoGP it so hard to listen to these retards in the booth chat absolute shite. They seem to talk about anything other than whats happening on screen. Ricky says the same lines every week like its a check list "he's in a perfect position here"(5th in the lcq). Why can't we have a shot of the whole floor of the stadium during qualifying? Can we also watch all the finishers of a race before adverts? Can we stop the full screen interviews and replays mid race? Can some explain to them that we are interested in watching the battle for 9th in the heats and 4th in the lcq. If people are paying to watch the races why do we get spoken to like it's our 1st time watching? Explaining the same thing every weekend. And what the fuck is science of supercross? They really do think we are idiots. With that and the commentary you have the 2 greatest riders in the sport sounding and presented like complete idiot's
It’s not that bad. Calm down bro
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Moto520 3/27/2022 5:05pm
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If you think the supercross was bad……watch the Oscar’s and have your mind blown by how dumb it is
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Magoofan 3/27/2022 5:06pm
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dbaker521 wrote:
Will?
Ferrell....try and keep up.

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GD350 3/27/2022 5:13pm
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Cutting away from the racing to watch stuff from last week we obviously saw already is really annoying, thats about it for me.
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