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LIVE OR TAPED: NBC's MO = 'modus operandi' of taping some marquee Olympics events so they can be seen more recent in prime experience has extensive annoyed recs fans, possibly more so as ways to instantly deliver results increment exponentially.

One critic has a improper: Why not possess it both ways?

The get out resurfaced after NBC's biggest darkness of struggle on Wednesday, when it showed Americans Shani Davis, Lindsey Vonn and Shaun White seizure gold medals. Two of those performances were seen follow in prime experience on the East Coast. But the third that wasn't, Vonn's best-selling downhill skiing struggle, dispose incorrect some grumbling.

Anybody who wanted to be well-known with that Vonn won preceding the experience when the mainly NBC transmission mainly could possess without straight trying set up that distant, from stem to stern trannie, video receiver or the Internet. The ombudsman on The New York Times heard from readers indignant that the newspaper was featuring results on its Web plot, in the future after all concluded it was the newspaper's chore to detail the front-page news, not to relieve a video receiver network's plans on a more striking transmission.

Many fans would possess appreciated the fortune to walk the struggle do distant in genuine experience, to have the impression the anxiety bod, rather than of waiting to walk NBC's carefully selected highlights more recent -- basically confined to the superior two Americans and Harry who had a spectacular wipeout.

"The network is actively preventing Americans from watching our athletes fence follow -- a ball game it could resolve without straight trying sooner than showing events follow on its rope networks mid the age and anon over on the highlight take note of in prime experience," said Henry Blodget, CEO and redactor in chief of The Business Insider, and strenuous critic of the network.

"NBC's near dominion possess out common 20 years ago, when the charitable networks extremely did lever all things," Blodget said. "Today, respect, it's tone-deaf and infuriating. Thanks to e-mail alerts, Twitter, ill-defined scrutiny Web sites and straight NBC itself, the end results are in all places in genuine experience, and NBC's evening highlights take note of looks preposterously distant of whiff."

NBC has sought to possess as numerous events as doable indisputable within prime experience on the East Coast. Failing that, the network hasn't deviated from its look at that prime experience takes prerogative. That's when it gets numerous more viewers, and can wardship lots more on hoopla. Plainly, it believes that making events ready earlier on video receiver desire digest into the prime-time assembly.

Wednesday night's ratings, with NBC's prime-time transmission getting righteous guardianship 30 million viewers and suitable the principal overshadow to rout "American Idol" in six years, would only sound to bolster the network's look at that its distance is the revenge distance.

Here's another entertain to consider: How numerous family tuned in to NBC Wednesday darkness because they heard Vonn won and wanted to walk on themselves?

RATINGS: For all of prime-time, NBC's Olympics struggle was seen sooner than 29.4 million family, Nielsen said. The corresponding Wednesday four years ago in Turin, Italy, brought 17.8 million viewers to NBC, and it was 9 million more than NBC had on Tuesday darkness.