2 thoughts on “How the Gorgeous, Sometimes Fictional Sound of the Olympics Gets Made – Alexis Madrigal – The Atlantic”

  1. Very interesting! Thanks for sharing this.

    I’m always annoyed at every Olympics the way they artificially construct drama, or narratives, focusing on certain athletes and not others… and I do wish they’d show more of other events, and other countries’ performances. We’re a very multi-cultural, multi-ethnic country, in a globalized world. I am sure there are plenty of American viewers who would like to know how Britain, Sweden, Israel, China, Japan, or Colombia and Guatemala are doing, and not only how the American athletes are doing. Certainly, there’s an element of “there’s only so much we can show in X hours on one channel,” but at the same time, you know they’re doing tons to construct a particular national(istic) narrative.

    Anyway, I give a lot of thought to these things, but not to the sound. How about that? Interesting stuff.

    1. My DVR system tells me when there are new channels in my lineup, and recently, I started receiving three new Olympics only NBC channels….

      So I think we’ll start having access to more of the events and more of the other nation’s performances in these events. While I agree that the US broadcasters manufacture some drama and tension, and focus almost exclusively on the US athletes, I have to imagine other countries do as well. With only so many hours of broadcast time per day they have to make choices.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.