This week, NBC got into a little bit of trouble for broadcasting its prime-time Olympics coverage with a stamp that said "Live" -- even on the West Coast, where the Games are actually shown with a three-hour tape delay. Which meant that anyone in the Pacific Time Zone who glanced at the Internet during those broadcasts would likely have found large headlines announcing the results of events they hadn't seen yet. Then the network responded to this criticism by saying, in essence, that anyone who actually believed that the broadcasts were live is an idiot. Nice!
But this is hardly the only instance in which supposedly "live" events are held hostage for three hours on the West Coast in order to fit the networks' own scheduling requirements. Here are five others that a third of the country doesn't get to see until the fun has stopped, the results are in and the excitement has all died down:
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