NBC's broadcast of the annual Tournament of Roses parade was yet another reason why America needs a nonprofit network like the BBC. Hosts Al Roker and Nancy O'Dell had to comment on anything and everything you were seeing and hearing - not just the basic facts regarding the floats or the marching bands, but their own opinions of the attractions (as if Nancy O'Dell's opinion mattered), useless statistics of how many flowers were used on a given float, and, inevitably, small talk that no one wanted to hear. As a marching band from South Carolina passed, O'Dell announced that she was a South Carolinian and started rattling off the names of everyone in her extended family. Another marching band would pass, and Al Roker would comment on the music it was playing. Either way, you could barely hear the music because these two wouldn't stop talking!
As if that weren't bad enough, stars of NBC series would "report" on the parade from Colorado Boulevard with portable microphones that made them look like journalists. Nice way of hyping the National Broadcasting Company's lineup, eh? Just once I'd like to see a New Year's Day parade on television without having to hear all this nitwit banter over it!
I guess if I want my Rose Parades to be banter-free, though, I should go to Pasadena myself and see it in person.
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