Did they say anything about this on TV. anyone?

Tape Delay by NBC Faces End Run by Online Fans

NBC, which owns the exclusive rights to broadcast the Olympics in the
United States, spent most of Friday trying to keep it that way.

NBC’s decision to delay broadcasting the opening ceremonies by 12
hours sent people across the country to their computers to poke holes
in NBC’s technological wall — by finding newsfeeds on foreign
broadcasters’ Web sites and by watching clips of the ceremonies on
YouTube and other sites.

In response, NBC sent frantic requests to Web sites, asking them to
take down the illicit clips and restrict authorized video to host
countries. As the four-hour ceremony progressed, a game of digital
whack-a-mole took place. Network executives tried to regulate leaks on
the Web and shut down unauthorized video, while viewers deftly traded
new links on blogs and on the Twitter site, redirecting one another to
coverage from, say, Germany, or a site with a grainy Spanish-language
video stream.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/09/sports/olympics/09nbc.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin