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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 tynin on Tuesday June 30 2015, @09:17PM

    by tynin (2013) on Tuesday June 30 2015, @09:17PM (#203515) Journal

    You have made my wife and my night. Back in 2011 the producers of the show went bankrupt, and then American Ninja Warrior came out, and we thought that was the end of that. I don't really care for the American version as they don't treat it like the gauntlet run it should be. But seeing that after they went bankrupt their parent company picked them up and has been producing new matches yearly!!! WOOT! The next one appears to be airing tomorrow!

    Awesome sauce!

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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday June 30 2015, @09:52PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday June 30 2015, @09:52PM (#203522)

    If you find a legal way to watch in .us at a sane price, post details. I'm willing to pay the $15 the inferior americanized version wants per season on amazon instant video, but I'd be willing to pay a bit more for the "genuine" .jp version. I would not be interested in ordering an imported DVD box set from 7 years ago costing $200 plus shipping or whatever. If I can't find a legal way to get recent content at a sane price, well, those problems do have (illegal) solutions, and I suspect I'll have no serious difficulty watching the new season. Perhaps there is some semi-obscure streaming service that offers it very quietly that I haven't discovered. Come on media companies, stop pissing me off, I've got fat stacks of cash and I hear you like money...

    I've been thinking of going FTA free to air satellite for, oh, I donno 20 years now. So all I need is an excuse. Unfortunately NHK is C band so I'd need a rather large dish and I donno if they distribute Sasuke on NHK satellite feed anyway. So I strike out again, AFAIK FTA satellite isn't gonna do it. I have a bad habit of curiosity and about 10 times I've almost pulled the trigger and set up a FTA system but I never quite do it. I'd have to figure out how to integrate it with mythtv and schedulesdirect etc etc.