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In response to "they have farmed some of the stuff out to cable affiliates though -- nm" by crash davis

i know but it's the freakin Olympics. what else are you going to be running during the day? soaps and Judge Mathis

Posted by poochinski (aka chris) Feb 12 '10, 10:11

get your money's worth and make NBC the Olympics channel for 17 days

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I'm sure they did some kind of research and found that soaps would get better ratings. - Ender Feb 12, 10:14
as I posted down below - wouldn't they have saved some money by not buying two weeks worth of soaps? -- nm - crash davis Feb 12, 10:12 6
- Which would be offset by the increased production costs to put together the olympics broadcast. - Ender Feb 12, 10:16 3
  - but wouldn't they have cameras and crews there already doing stuff for tape and their cable affiliates? -- nm - crash davis Feb 12, 10:17 2
    - It still takes money to turn camera feeds into a telecast, plus added satellite time to beam it out to headquarters. -- nm - Ender Feb 12, 10:20 1
      - true, the finances of TV are a mystery to me -- nm - crash davis Feb 12, 10:21
- not sure that the contracts would let them just opt out of episodes here and there -- nm - zork Feb 12, 10:14 1
  - they've known for years that they were hosting the Olympics - they could have done something back then -- nm - crash davis Feb 12, 10:16

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