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Wooly 
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| Will NBC lose rights to the next Olympics? (Posted on 8/7/12 at 1:41 pm)
with all the complaints about tape delays and everything, and how they edit the events to make them more suspenseful. i dont know if they have a long term contract, but is it possible that they are forced to give up the contract due to them sucking so much? can anyone outbid them?
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Sid in Lakeshore 
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| re: Will NBC lose rights to the next Olympics? (Posted on 8/7/12 at 1:42 pm to Wooly)
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Eternalmajin
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| re: Will NBC lose rights to the next Olympics? (Posted on 8/7/12 at 1:43 pm to Wooly)
I can understand tape delays but quote:
how they edit the events to make them more suspenseful
I can't stand this shite. Especially when their cuts make no damn sense if you're paying attention at all.
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Wooly
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| re: Will NBC lose rights to the next Olympics? (Posted on 8/7/12 at 1:46 pm to Eternalmajin)
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Wait For It...
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| re: Will NBC lose rights to the next Olympics? (Posted on 8/7/12 at 1:49 pm to Eternalmajin)
So much beach volleyball on NBC  . I was happy for both American men to lose! NBC is making people root against Americans!
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Displaced
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| re: Will NBC lose rights to the next Olympics? (Posted on 8/7/12 at 1:55 pm to Wooly)
next summer olympics is in Rio (IIRC) so it will all be shown live.
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sgallo3
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| re: Will NBC lose rights to the next Olympics? (Posted on 8/7/12 at 2:13 pm to Displaced)
Why would u say that? Beach volleyball is held during the day, they want to show it at night... So if rio is close to our time zone and they are playing at 2 oclock nbc will still wait til 9 to air it
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Jim Rockford
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| re: Will NBC lose rights to the next Olympics? (Posted on 8/7/12 at 2:18 pm to Displaced)
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next summer olympics is in Rio (IIRC) so it will all be shown live.
Don't count on it. They'll still shift all the important stuff to primetime. Unless technology advances so fast that online has taken precedence over broadcast TV by then, which is a possibility.
At any rate, there are other outlets. I've watched most of the Olympics on the BBC and Canadian TV. Much better presentation than NBC, and almost all of it live.
This post was edited on 8/7 at 2:20 pm
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Wait For It...
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| re: Will NBC lose rights to the next Olympics? (Posted on 8/7/12 at 2:19 pm to sgallo3)
I can tell you I get very excited to see semi-final races (swimming and track) in prime time
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Celery 
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| re: Will NBC lose rights to the next Olympics? (Posted on 8/7/12 at 2:21 pm to Wooly)
The rights go to whoever pays the most $$$, I'm sure. Doesnt NBC always carry the Olympics?
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JoshuaChamberlain 
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| re: Will NBC lose rights to the next Olympics? (Posted on 8/7/12 at 2:44 pm to Celery)
NBC has the Olympics until 2028. Get used to the peacock son....
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Wooly
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| re: Will NBC lose rights to the next Olympics? (Posted on 8/7/12 at 2:59 pm to JoshuaChamberlain)
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NBC has the Olympics until 2028. Get used to the peacock son....
good god, how much did that cost?
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vl100butch
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| re: Will NBC lose rights to the next Olympics? (Posted on 8/7/12 at 3:05 pm to Wooly)
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good god, how much did that cost?
billions....
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saintsfan22 
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| re: Will NBC lose rights to the next Olympics? (Posted on 8/7/12 at 3:07 pm to Wooly)
Billions. They won't let themselves get outbid. It makes up for all the money they lose by not having a deal with other major sports.
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LSU6262
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| re: Will NBC lose rights to the next Olympics? (Posted on 8/7/12 at 3:09 pm to Wooly)
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In 2011, NBC agreed to a $4.38 billion contract with the International Olympic Committee to broadcast the 2014, 2016, 2018, and 2020 Olympics, the most expensive television rights deal in Olympic history
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| re: Will NBC lose rights to the next Olympics? (Posted on 8/7/12 at 3:14 pm to LSU6262)
It will never happen, but ABC/ESPN would be the best option.
The amount of channels they have plus ESPN3 would be ideal for live events all the time.
This post was edited on 8/7 at 3:15 pm
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Joe Blow 
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| re: Will NBC lose rights to the next Olympics? (Posted on 8/7/12 at 3:17 pm to Broski)
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It will never happen, but ABC/ESPN would be the best option.
The amount of channels they have plus ESPN3 would be ideal for live events all the time.
They did a great job with the World Cup.
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pistolsfiring11 
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| re: Will NBC lose rights to the next Olympics? (Posted on 8/7/12 at 3:50 pm to Joe Blow)
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They did a great job with the World Cup.
ESPN may generally suck at reporting on sports, but their live coverage of actual events is generally quite good. They would actually show all of this stuff live.
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CountryVolFan 
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| re: Will NBC lose rights to the next Olympics? (Posted on 8/7/12 at 5:28 pm to pistolsfiring11)
2016 is in Rio, so don't worry about it.
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Buckeye Fan 19 
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| re: Will NBC lose rights to the next Olympics? (Posted on 8/7/12 at 5:43 pm to Jim Rockford)
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Don't count on it. They'll still shift all the important stuff to primetime.
All of the big events will be at night so they'll be live. I mean, even in Beijing, they had the swimming and gymnastics in the morning China time so it could be live in the US on primetime. It just can't work out like that when it's in London (they're not going to have events at 2 in the morning in England). But it will be really nice in Rio.
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