Re: ESPN/ABC wants the Olympics, promises NO tape-delayed coverage
Chilly8 21 August 2008 23:46:30
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"PeterL" <po.ning@gmail.com> wrote in message news:15b38efb-9ff1-4a14-961e-acb279ee9d66@v1g2000pra.googlegroups.com... On Aug 20, 9:34 pm, TMC1...@gmail.com wrote:
And you'll lose a lot of money. Unfortunately a lot of the audience
for the olympics are not sports fans. They tune in once every 4 years
to watch swimming and women gymnastics. You show those at 4 am in the
morning and no one will watch. You have to bid huge money to get the
broadcast rights, and they'll lose money if they show the game in real
time.
I would imagine most of the live stuff, in real time, will be on ESPN and ESPN 2, so that might not make a lot of difference. ABC also owns ABC family and the Lifetime network, they can put real time stuff on those channels as well.
Jimmy Ribbitt 22 August 2008 01:02:03 [ permanent link ]
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"Remysun" <remysun2000@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:6da2e7c9-c873-4d24-a090-b021d332039b@l42g2000hsc.googlegroups.com... On Aug 21, 4:46 pm, "Chilly8" <Chil...@hotmail.com> wrote:
I would imagine most of the live stuff, in real time, will be on ESPN
and ESPN 2, so that might not make a lot of difference. ABC also
owns ABC family and the Lifetime network, they can put real time
stuff on those channels as well.
Not to mention the daytime ratings for soccer that they were getting. They will probably also repeat coverage, like NBC does with the overnight. Prime time can be a highlight show, with enough live coverage to hold interest.
I do know that the Nagano opening ceremony was one of those rare ones celebrated during the daytime, so that CBS could have live coverage coast to coast of the opening ceremonies.
I am sure that CBS could arrange to have live coast to coast coverage of Sochi 2014, assuming the Georgia/Russia war does not force the Games to be moved. A 5PM start time in Sochi would correspond to a 6AM Pacific/9AM Eastern start time, and ABC/ESPN could easily show the opening ceremonies in real time coast to coast, just give the folks at Good Morning America the day off and do it live coast to coast.
If the Olympics are moved to Changchun, as I think they might be if they are moved. a 9AM start time in China for the opening ceremones would correspond to a 5PM start time on the west coast and 8PM on the east coast. If Pyongyang, which bid for both 2010 and 2014, were to be the replacement city, a 10AM start time for opening ceremonies would also corespond to a 5PM start time on the west coast and 8PM start on the east coast.
As for figure skating, the major event of the games, it could be timed for a live coast to coast telecast on ABC. If the skating starts daily at 3PM, that is 4AM in the west and 7AM in the east. Again, just pre-empt Good Morning America and show the figure skating live coast to coast on ABC.
Jimmy Ribbitt 22 August 2008 01:13:41 [ permanent link ]
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"PeterL" <po.ning@gmail.com> wrote in message news:362f4781-9ff5-44aa-b4ab-23c7b5d2bcc7@q5g2000prf.googlegroups.com... On Aug 21, 1:46 pm, "Chilly8" <Chil...@hotmail.com> wrote:
And you'll lose a lot of money. Unfortunately a lot of the audience
for the olympics are not sports fans. They tune in once every 4 years
to watch swimming and women gymnastics. You show those at 4 am in the
morning and no one will watch. You have to bid huge money to get the
broadcast rights, and they'll lose money if they show the game in real
time.
I would imagine most of the live stuff, in real time, will be on ESPN
and ESPN 2, so that might not make a lot of difference. ABC also
owns ABC family and the Lifetime network, they can put real time
stuff on those channels as well.
But the real draws of the Olympics for American audiences are the gymnastics and swimming. If they already showed them in real time then a repeat during prime time will not attract that big an audience.
People already watch it on the Internet. So called "geoblocking" of events from european and Asian webcasts can be circumvented using subscription proxy services that run anywhere from 10 to 60 dollars a month and give you an IP address from another part of the world, allowing people to watch events in real time on many European sites. Bascially, one of these services will give you a European IP, allowing you to watch Europe-only webcasts.
I think that is WHY ABC/ESPN wants to do it in real time, so they can compete for the audience that would otherwise use subscription proxy servers to get coverage from other parts of the world. I think that ABC knows this, and is why they would want to do everything in real time, to compete for audiences that would otherwise be hell bent on watching the games on the net, geoblockiing or no geoblocking.
I heard that some of the one Chinese P2P server, where CCTV5 can still be viewed, was increidbly slow and overloaded during the opening ceremonies, as lots of people tried to log on to watch them.
There is zero chance of ABC airing figure skating from Russia (6 hours ahead of New York) live - unless they mean they will air it live on, say, ESPN, and then again in prime time on ABC.
Either that, or they will find a way to pay off the organizing committee to hold the finals at 4 AM local time.
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