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posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday June 30 2015, @08:10AM   Printer-friendly
from the five-rings-to-rule-them-all dept.

From the Guardian:

Discovery has paid $1.45 billion for the European (excluding Russia) rights to the Olympic Games starting in 2018, bumping off national broadcasters including the BBC, which have long held them. It's a major coup for the U.S. broadcaster as it looks to take a bigger part of the foreign TV market.

The Discovery chief executive, David Zaslav, told the Guardian that it would negotiate with the BBC and other broadcasters in the UK, France and Germany over potentially sub-licensing some of the rights.

"Part of our approach will be to strive to work with some of the best Olympic broadcast players. The BBC will have the chance to sub-licence some of the rights. We'll open up those discussions in every market," he said.

This sizable deal builds on a $7.5 billion no-bid contract signed last year by the US based NBC to broadcast the Olympics through 2032 in the United States.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by kaszz on Tuesday June 30 2015, @04:09PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Tuesday June 30 2015, @04:09PM (#203342) Journal

    Hitler just pretended to loose as the real Hitler had already escaped with help of the aliens to the dark side of the moon to mastermind his time machine to go back and tell those ancient aliens that they better get rid of those anglosaxians in time, that is ancient time. Under the stadium there was a secret government installation base for UFOs that the Illuminati regularly had meetings with. And of course big foot had his own hotel below that. Busy place you know ;)

    Hitler channel by MurderDoc :P

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by meisterister on Tuesday June 30 2015, @06:27PM

    by meisterister (949) on Tuesday June 30 2015, @06:27PM (#203419) Journal

    I would facepalm, but this is pretty much 90+% of the "content" on the history channel now.

    I unofficially mod you +1 Sad but True

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2015, @02:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2015, @02:23PM (#203775)

    Hitler just pretended to loose

    FTFY: "Hitler just pretended too loose"

    Sorry, pet peeve.