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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.
Original Submission
(Score: 2) by skater on Tuesday June 30 2015, @06:40PM
A couple years back I caught a rebroadcast of an old Ohio State-Michigan football game. I don't know who the play-by-play guy was, but the color guy was another college football coach. It was awesome to watch - they didn't talk too much, they just let the plays develop, and they said a few things about it as needed, then shut up again. (I do like having the score, clock, etc. on the screen all the time, though. It was weird waiting for a commercial break to see the score.)
Years ago, I came across an old MAD Magazine that had a send-up of in-depth football coverage. For a while I didn't get the joke - of course they have sideline reporters and people reporting on the weather and so on... then I realized that I wasn't getting the joke because TV coverage of the game wasn't always that way.