{"id":34327,"date":"2012-08-31T15:45:45","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T15:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/london_times_outrage_over_american_blackout_of_the_games\/"},"modified":"2012-08-31T15:45:45","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T15:45:45","slug":"london_times_outrage_over_american_blackout_of_the_games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34327","title":{"rendered":"([London] Times) Outrage over American blackout of the Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US television network NBC was branded an embarrassment yesterday for its coverage of the Paralympics as athletes, sports chiefs and disability campaigners called for better recognition by international broadcasters of the world\u2019s second largest sports event.<br \/>\nFierce reaction to the widespread blackout beyond Britain of the Opening Ceremony on Wednesday night came after a record number of people tuned in to watch the critically acclaimed event live on Channel 4.<br \/>\nThe host broadcaster reported a peak audience of 11.2 million viewers, its biggest for more than ten years.<br \/>\nConversely, NBC will wait until September 16 before screening its 90-minute special on the Paralympics, including edited highlights of the show.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/sport\/paralympics\/article3523885.ece\">Read it all<\/a> (requires subscription).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US television network NBC was branded an embarrassment yesterday for its coverage of the Paralympics as athletes, sports chiefs and disability campaigners called for better recognition by international broadcasters of the world\u2019s second largest sports event. Fierce reaction to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34327\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,209,199,168,104,89,93,128,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-media","category-movies-television","category-sports","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}