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NBC's Olympics ratings victory threatens to be sullied by reports of fakery, writes James Hibberd.
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What's Alan Watching? — ... • NBC is claiming that their decision to run tape-delayed Olympic events on the West coast with a "LIVE" chyron is no different from Fox or ABC tape-delaying live episodes of "American Idol" or "Dancing with the Stars" for California, et al. Given the time differences and the fact that most of the live primetime events are taking place after 10 Eastern (which is 7 Pacific), and that they could stick even more live events into primetime, I think NBC Sports is being both foolish and arrogant(*) in not doing a live feed for the left coast. But if ...

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