NBC to keep Olympics for basically forever

[Uncle Wig]

Ugh. Their miserable coverage will run through 2032.

[Speedy]

The Olympics are in decline. NBC is welcome to them.

[JoeM]

More fine coverage like this then:

[N-OS X-tasy!]

Speedy wrote:
The Olympics are in decline. NBC is welcome to them.

This. By 2032 there may not be an Olympics to broadcast.

[bruceko]

Will there even be Tv broadcasts in 2032?

[N-OS X-tasy!]

JoeM wrote:
More fine coverage like this then:

Actually, that would be entirely appropriate for the Rio Olympics!

[SteveG]

Speedy wrote:
The Olympics are in decline. NBC is welcome to them.

It only seems that way because you are watching it on NBC.
They will get the hint when their coverage is beaten out by reruns of 'MacHale's Navy' on the Antiquities Channel

[gabester]

I don't understand why the rights to distribute coverage of an international event are restricted.
I would mind NBC's stranglehold less if the company that owns the pipes didn't also own the content (e.g. Comcast.)
The two should be divested.

[DP]

One reason I am happy I get CBC here.

[Acer]

gabester wrote:
I don't understand why the rights to distribute coverage of an international event are restricted.

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But did you really need to ask? I suspect the USA rights heavily subsidize the entire enterprise.