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Did NBC Alter the Olympics' Opening Ceremony?

Posted by timothy on from the for-those-with-the-stomach-for-pageantry dept.

techmuse writes "Viewing the 2008 Olympics opening ceremony online at NBC's Olympics website, you can see that the order in which the countries were presented was very different from the actual order of the countries in the ceremony, as listed at Wikipedia. NBC skipped roughly 100 countries ahead, then jumped back and forth, apparently delaying the appearance of the United States in its home market until later in the broadcast. (In fact, the US team was shown on the infield before they were shown marching!) NBC did not acknowledge this in its broadcast. Is NBC altering the reality of the broadcast to boost ratings? Was this true only online, or also in the live broadcast?"

3 of 499 comments (clear)

  1. not a real issue by jgarra23 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If you had watched the whole broadcast you would know that they introduced the countries in the order of number of strokes in their Chinese name.

  2. They just not used English country names... by franciscou · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "As Chinese is written in characters and not letters, the order of the teams' entry was determined by the number of strokes in the first character of their respective countries' Simplified Chinese names." See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Summer_Olympics_Opening_Ceremony#Parade_of_nations

  3. Re:What web Broadcast? by Darkness404 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And how in the world does that count as flamebait? Offtopic perhaps, or troll even, but flamebait?

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