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Re: The $4.38 billion reason it?s so hard for U.S. cord-cutters to watch the Olympics online

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On 2014-02-09 00:13:02 +0000, Marko Rauhamaa said:

> Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com>:
> 
>> To Marko, I would comment that, while we do have public broadcasting
>> in the USA, it is at least as slanted in its news presentation as Fox
>> News or MSNBC. Our public media stations serve mainly to convert
>> donations by large corporations and useful idiots into money that pays
>> for BBC dramas and very cleverly slanted leftist news focused on Obama
>> worship.
> 
> The topic being the Olympics, the question is only, do we get to see the
> events? In Finland, the answer is a definitive yes.
> 
> Annually, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting gets less than $1.50
> per US citizen in taxes. The Finnish YLE gets more than $100.00 per
> Finnish citizen in taxes. That's why the American public TV stations
> couldn't dream of broadcasting the Olympics, the Finnish government TV
> station can and does.
> 
> It would appear the televising licensing costs for the Sochi Olympics
> are about $3 per citizen in the US as well as in Finland. NBC is
> scrambling to eke out a return for their investment. YLE's funding is in
> the bag and they can concentrate on providing an enjoyable experience to
> the viewers.
> 
> 
> Marko

Taxation in the USA is a difficult subject, one best left for another 
thread.  As far as the Olympics goes, while it is unfortunate that NBC, 
which has the worst commentators I have ever seen, has the contracts 
for broadcast it is not ultimatly crippling for those who wish to watch 
the events as they will find some way to do it.

Their investment in the broadcast rights was obtained so they could 
gather the greatest profit, and the geniuses at NBC think that this can 
be accomplished by their current plan.  The losers here are the sports 
fans of course.

Are you watching the games at all?  Do the presenters seem well informed?

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The $4.38 billion reason it’s so hard for U.S. cord-cutters to watch the Olympics online Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-07 14:55 -0800
  Re: The $4.38 billion reason it’s so hard for U.S. cord-cutters to watch the Olympics online RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-08 20:08 +0000
    Re: The $4.38 billion reason it’s so hard for U.S. cord-cutters to watch the Olympics online 2phar <none@example.com> - 2014-02-08 16:28 -0500
      Re: The $4.38 billion reason it¹s so hard for U.S. cord-cutters to watch the Olympics online RS Wood <rswood@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-09 15:18 +0000
  Re: The $4.38 billion reason it’s so hard for U.S. cord-cutters to watch the Olympics online Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-02-08 23:24 +0200
  Re: The $4.38 billion reason it?s so hard for U.S. cord-cutters to watch the Olympics online Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-08 14:50 -0800
    Re: The $4.38 billion reason it?s so hard for U.S. cord-cutters to watch the Olympics online Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-02-09 02:13 +0200
      Re: The $4.38 billion reason it?s so hard for U.S. cord-cutters to watch the Olympics online Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-08 18:38 -0800
    Re: The $4.38 billion reason it?s so hard for U.S. cord-cutters to watch the Olympics online 2phar <none@example.com> - 2014-02-09 09:34 -0500
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    Re: The $4.38 billion reason it’s so hard for U.S. cord-cutters to watch the Olympics online Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-02-10 21:37 +0200
      Re: The $4.38 billion reason it’s so hard for U.S. cord-cutters to watch the Olympics online Atom Cogswell <m8r-uu8mmb@mailinator.com> - 2014-02-10 13:25 -0700
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