NBC Olympics Coverage Not Very Diversified

The other night, I put on the Olympics so my daughter could watch the gymnastics competition. I’m not a big fan of gymanstics in the first place, but the problem is compounded by NBC’s continuing use of John Tesh as an annoucer. But that was made even worse by some script writer at NBC who could have used a dictionary.

Tesh is reading a pre-written monologue introducing the American women’s team and the script emphasizes the fact that there are many different ethnic/cultural groups represented on the American team. So John Tesh informs us without missing a beat that the American team is very “diversified.”

What does that mean? That they’ve spread their investments across stocks, bonds and commodities to reduce the risk of their financial position?

The only interesting parts were when John Tesh would make some statement that he obviously thought provided a profound insight to the competition only to be corrected by one of the two people doing color commentary with him.