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June 07, 2011
SportsFilter: The Tuesday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
And presumably, that means NBC sticks to the Ebersol model and bases its broadcasting around embargoed prime-time repeats instead of the emphasis on live coverage proposed by both ESPN and FOX. We'll see how well that works next year. And now that Comcast's in charge, it may also extend to a very hard bargain with other cable operators.
posted by etagloh at 06:57 PM on June 07, 2011
NBC is just terrible at the Olympics. Can't they put something in the contract about not sucking? How hard it is? Just show more sports.
posted by bperk at 07:20 PM on June 07, 2011
The Japanese soccer team vs 100 kids
posted by tron7 at 12:41 AM on June 08, 2011
Can't they put something in the contract about not sucking?
Clearly, the ad revenue generated from showing gymnastics between 8 and 10pm is enough to make that bid marginally feasible, and the IOC isn't worried about its US broadcaster's increasingly embarrassing approach to coverage.
And when I said "prime-time repeats", I obviously meant "prime-time delayed coverage of stuff the rest of the world has already seen and that anyone who cares already knows about via the internet." Book your proxy server early for London 2012.
posted by etagloh at 01:18 AM on June 08, 2011
NBC pays 4.38 billion dollars for broadcast rights to the next four Olympics, two of which are in cities not yet determined.