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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: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday June 30 2015, @06:22PM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Tuesday June 30 2015, @06:22PM (#203416) Journal

    and listen to the radio coverage while watching the TV.

    But in today's digital time, that gives you the risk of the radio commentator "predicting" the game because the TV delay is larger than the radio delay.

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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday June 30 2015, @08:23PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday June 30 2015, @08:23PM (#203481)

    Even in the "olden days" you'd run into issues with satellite delays if the TV went half way across the country over a satellite and back thats nearly a second but the radio for in state local games was a microwave link.

    Anyway worst case it felt like a newscast. Live you'd see the ball get handed to somebody then hear "handed to #63" but this way you'd hear "handed to 63" while it was being handed to 63 which was OK. Far better than listening to the TV sportscasters who think grunting is top quality news reporting, anyway.

    The most disconcerting part was the cheering. Crowd does wild means he caught it while you're seeing the ball maybe 10 feet still in the air. Dead silence means he dropped it. Dead silence after the play means in a fraction of a second you're about to see a ref throw a flag.