Dear NBC,

I am writing this letter to address my personal concerns over upcoming coverage of the 2016 Olympic Games being held in Rio De Janeiro. First off I want to explain I live for the Olympics. Ever since I was a kid and watched the torch relay, and both marathons for the 1984 games in Los Angeles I was hooked. I participated in working on the torch relay when it traveled through Salt Lake City on its way to the 1996 for the Atlanta summer games. I then, later on, got to attend events, volunteer some and do all kinds of things during the Winter Olympics in 2002.

In years when the I was unable to be an active participant in some way I watched and watched as much as possible. For many years, this became somewhat problematic as many countries were on completely different sides of the world, and opposite timezones. I have no doubt that in the past this has been an issue for those wanting to ‘live’ the Olympic spirit and feeling.

We now live in the day and age of the Internet, Live Streaming and instantly available information. I have watched astronauts come back from space and land in Kazakhstan. Reports of earthquakes have been posted online before even the USGS can post them. My point being that information, and news travel fast and to anywhere in the world.

I fully understand that NBC wants to bring the most compelling stories, and events to primetime when it has the largest viewership. Personally, I actually enjoy much of that coverage. the stories of triumph, overcoming, and things of that nature are just inspiring.

Herein lies the problem; If NBC wants to show the events during primetime the results will already be known everywhere. With the way that information travels online, it would be virtually impossible to avoid them. Between various other news providers, sports websites, and even just other people sharing you would have to just shut off the computer for the entire Olympics (Which is not going to happen)

In the past for several of the more recent games you have provided live streaming options. Please do this, and expand it to include as many events (and not just finals) as possible. Show as much as possible LIVE. Rio is in a great time zone that works perfectly for those viewing in the U.S. When I say all the events possible let me put it this way if you are going to show it at all stream it live even if it will be packaged and shown later for those that miss it.

Speaking of packaged shows for primetime; The people are not oblivious. Please do not try and show a recorded event as if it is live. This was one of my biggest pet peeves in the recent years for many of the NBC recorded events.

There are so many ways that NBC and its affiliated networks have been able to show sports events in the past, continue to do this and grow it even larger when possible. I would love watching an event on my big screen, with another on my phone, while chatting with people watching alongside yet another event on the computer.

The Olympics are just a few short months away, I am sure that most of the planning are well underway. Please though take into account that we live in the world of instant information, and worldwide live streaming.

The 2016 Olympics in Brazil begin on August 5th at 6:00pm their time. That is 5:00pm in the Eastern time zone and 2:00pm on the West coast. I really am worried that those of us in the western U.S. will have to watch it recorded so it can be in primetime. Please, if you do this allow us to watch it live by streaming at least.

I hope that we will get amazing real-time, full coverage of the games finally. Thank you, and I leave you and whomever may read this with one final very important thought:

GO TEAM USA!!!