From: doctor@kronos.arc.nasa.gov (Terry Fong)
Subject: Looking for NBC address (and JOHN TESH flame)
Summary: Need NBC corporate address & names of NBC management
Keywords: NBC, john tesh, coverage (not!)
Organization: NASA-Ames Research Center (Information Sciences Division)
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 17:30:41 GMT

Hi all,

Can anyone post or send me the address of NBC headquarters (I assume
it's in NYC). Also, the names of NBC's current president and director
of NBC sports? I would like to send them a few choice words regarding
this year's "coverage"...

Thanks.

-Terry Fong
terry@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov

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After watching NBC's women's gymnastics coverage for the past few
days, I've reached a conclusion: someone needs to get a large roll of
tape and tape John Tesh's mouth shut!!! Is this man completely without
a clue?  Does he *really* think the American public needs to here the
same thing over and over and over every 5 minutes? The man just
doesn't know when to shut up! Exactly how many times do we need to
hear:

  "Shannon Miller. What a story. You know, several months ago she broke
  her elbow and had to have a MICRO-SCREW inserted during surgery."

or:

  "Tatiana Gutsu's family used to live in a 2 room apartment. All 7 of
  them. Then their daughter, a prodigy of the old SOVIET system, burst
  upon the world with her blond hair and brightly painted face, and
  the government moved them to a large, three bedroom apartment overlooking
  the Black Sea."

or:

  "Svetlana Boguinskaia. Beautiful. Elegant. You know, she's been here
  before, she knows what it feels like...and she's such a good friend
  of Tatiana Gutsu. A SURROGATE MOTHER. You know last night, Gutsu was
  in tears, and Boguinskaia was there to comfort her as her surrogate
  mother."

Also, I got the feeling that John Tesh spent weeks and weeks
learning how to pronounce the names of the Unified and Romanian team
members, and was so proud of his achievement that he felt compelled to
say one every few seconds. Was it *really* necessary to say
"Svetlana Boguinskaia of the Unified Team" every single time she
appeared on camera? I think most people get the idea where she's from after the
7th or 8th time...

And does John Tesh think Americans can't understand scores unless he
speaks s-l-o-w-l-y and enunciates c-l-e-a-r-y? Such as "Shannon
Miller's marks. Here they are.. a niiiiinnnne point (pause) ninnneeee
(pause) ninnneee ohhhhh"...

Finally, was it really necessary for NBC to have John Tesh covering
women's gymnastics? What was Tesh supposed to add to the coverage that
Elfi Schlegel and Tim Daggett lacked? I found that both Schlegel and
Daggett provided excellent commentary and insight into each event.
Tesh greatly detracted from both of them with his commentary, since
the only things he ever seemed to say (other than his play-by-play of
scores and who was on each apparatus) was how tragic/heroic/cute/
charming/delightful each of the gymnasts were.

If you ask me, the American public deserves better. The olympics
should be a celebration of sport, of athletic achievement, and the
coverage needs to reflect that.

John Tesh...go back to Entertainment Tonight...

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