GE’s Comstock: Really, NBCU Is Not For Sale
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10 Days and Counting: NBCU’s Digital Olympics: The Full Slate Of Offerings
By Rafat Ali
Yes, I have been miffed at some of NBCU’s digital Olympics offering, but that doesn’t mean you can’t give them credit for the huge digital e… Read more »
NBC Opens Up Multi-Platform Olympics Coverage To Verizon And AT&T
By Matt Kapko
Verizon (NYSE: VZ) and AT&T (NYSE: T) are both going multiplatform for the Olympics Games in Beijing next month. NBC Universal (NYSE: GE), w… Read more »
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Sina, Tencent And Netease Get Online Broadcast Rights From CCTV
By Joseph Weisenthal
Some good news for Chinese office workers without a TV during the Olympics… Three top web portals, Netease (NSDQ: NTES), Sina (NSDQ: SINA)… Read more »
NBC And Online Olympic Ad Sales: 85 Percent Sold Out
By David Kaplan
NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) says advertising inventory for the roughly 2,200 hours of online Olympics coverage next month is about 85 percent s… Read more »
NBCU To Stream 2,200 Hours Of Olympics Coverage Live; Swimming, Gymnastics, T&F Not Included
By David Kaplan
NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) has unveiled its programming guide, but it Read more »
NBC’s Ad Olympics: Reaching For Audience Measurement Gold
By David Kaplan
While NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) is raking in millions from advertising commitments for its TV, online and mobile phone coverage of the Summer… Read more »
NBC’s Totalitarian Olympics: More on Restrictions; Online Video Only After TV Broadcast
By Rafat Ali
And here I was rejoicing that finally we could do away with the lame soft-focus athlete stories and parochial commentary from NBCU with this… Read more »
Sports Shorts: ESPN360-Cricket; NBCU-Beijing; YES-NYT
– ESPN360.com Will Carry Exclusive Live Cricket Coverage: ESPN360.com has the exclusive U.S. broadband rights to live and replay coverage o… Read more »
NBC Plays Spoilsport For Trials Multimedia; Will Force Pre-Beijing Takedown
Someone at NBC Sports needs to find that fine balance between managing the network’s expensive Beijing Olympics rights and and making the v… Read more »
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Malone Predicts NBC’s Broadband Olympic Strategy Will Flop
The man who once predicted a television universe with 500 channels isn’t too thrilled with the internet version. Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA)… Read more »
Sohu Gets Olympics Webcast Rights; Live Broadcasts From Outside Venues Not Decided Yet
By Rafat Ali
Sohu (NSDQ: SOHU), the Chinese portal company who already is the online host/content provider for the upcoming Beijing Olympics, has now sna… Read more »
Olympics Relaxes New Media Rules To Grant Unlimited Photo Use
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has gone some way to avoiding the kind of embarrassing new media reporting restrictions imposed by… Read more »
IOC Exec Warns China Against Internet Censorship During Olympics
With the Beijing Olympics roughly four months away, Kevan Gosper, vice chairman of the IOC coordinating commission, is warning organizers th… Read more »
Beijing Olympics: Chinese State Broadcaster Makes Online Plans With MySpace China, Tudou.com
An intriguing move by China Central Television … the Wall Street Journal reports that the state-run broadcaster is tying up with MySpace C… Read more »
Athlete Blogs Are OK At Olympics, But Barely So
By Rafat Ali
The International Olympic Committee, still sitting high on its all-rights-are-ours horse, has opened up a little, allowing athletes to blog… Read more »
Internet Ad Spend Will See A Tiny Bump From Summer Olympics: Analyst
By David Kaplan
Internet advertising will attract only $70 million in ad spend related to the summer Olympics, out of a total $1.5 billion in expected expen… Read more »
IOC Grants China’s CCTV.com 2008 Olympic Games Digital Rights
State broadcaster China Central Television’s CCTV.com, which already has over-the-air rights for the Beijing Olympics, now has the internet… Read more »
'Official Internet Sponsor' Sohu.Com Tries To Control '08 Olympics Online Ads
Two years ago, Chinese site Sohu.com beat out the competition with an estimated $30 million bid to become the exclusive internet sponsor of… Read more »
Tencent, Sina And NetEase Team Against Sohu On Olympics Coverage
By Rafat Ali
This is pretty interesting and you won’t see this ever happen here: Chinese portal Sohu is the official news provider and sponsor of the 200… Read more »
Beijing Olympics Online Streaming By NBCU Mostly Ad-Supported
By Rafat Ali
Last November we had a post about NBCU planning 1,000 hours of live streaming online with the next Olympics. Now USAT has some follow up. “T… Read more »
Ebay Looks To Social Nets For Growth: Report
By David Kaplan
With the majority of eBay users between the ages of 35-44, the online auctioneer hopes to attract younger demos though a partnership with te… Read more »
Winter Olympics Broadband Streaming Data From Europe
By Rafat Ali
The European Broadcasting Union has released some data on online streaming in its member countries during the Winter Olympics held last mont… Read more »
Olympics 2004 on Usenet
By Rafat Ali
(via PVRblog) Yep, not BitTorrent, as most of us expected, but on the age-old Usenet…Olympics coverage is being digitized and circulated t… Read more »
NBC’s Sucked The Fun
By Rafat Ali
I have to post this…I would probably make this into a T-Shirt slogan as well, if it was shorter…
Norman Chad at The Chronicle has put it… Read more »
Record Numbers Follow Olympics Via Web and Interactive TV
By Rafat Ali
(reg. req.) In UK, that is. More than 6 million people have clicked on their remote control red buttons to use the BBC’s interactive TV cove… Read more »
Olympics Web Coverage Disappoints
By Rafat Ali
A review of Olympics coverage online, from NBCOlympics.com, Athens2004.com and others…”The Internet is good for getting results and learn… Read more »
NBC’s Olympic Video Offering Doesn’t Make It to the Medal Round
By Rafat Ali
My feelings exactly…die, broadcast, die. Read more »
Digital Olympics: A Roundup
By Rafat Ali
Some facts and fiction on the online and wireless coverage of Olympics…
– Early signs that Games are web hot: You can’t be serious…
–… Read more »
BBC’s Multicast Trial For Olympics
By Rafat Ali
Well, it is here, but you can’t watch it if you’re outside UK. Interesting experiment with multicasting, though…
As it says, “Multicast is… Read more »
Net Radio Loses Olympic Stream
By Rafat Ali
Some Australian broadcast outlets have been forced to shut down their Internet radio broadcasting streams to avoid breaching the Internation… Read more »
Olympics site wins with real time
By Rafat Ali
Another profile of sucky NBCOlympics.com…god awful coverage offline and online…. Read more »
Let the Web Games Begin, Online
By Rafat Ali
The Web is worldwide, but that isn’t stopping Olympics officials from trying to set up regional boundaries. However, you may be able to watc… Read more »
BBC On Mark For Online Olympic Coverage
By Rafat Ali
The 50th story on how BBC is planning to cover Olympics online, with broadband playing a major part…The BBC sports site offers live covera… Read more »
NBC’s ITV Plans For Olympics
By Rafat Ali
Well, NBC’s trying hard… it has announced a series of partnerships and new interactive services it will use to help viewers navigate its p… Read more »
Olympics to Have Broad Online Offering
By Rafat Ali
Well, another example of how Europeans are ahead on sports right online and on mobiles, than U.S. where rights holders want to control it to… Read more »
Wish List For Olympics Coverage
By Rafat Ali
In U.S.: “Provide downloadable video of all sports, regardless of whether or not they aired on TV.” Of course, it is not going to happen any… Read more »
NBCOlympics.com ‘By-The-Numbers’
By Rafat Ali
Some interesting projected figures for NBCOlympics.com, for August, the month of the Olympics…
1,210 – Hours of Olympic broadcasts (televi… Read more »
Going for Network Gold in Athens
By Rafat Ali
Really? That’s news…
Anyway, NBC Universal Networks Group President Randy Falco: “I love wireless. I think that in the future people are g… Read more »
Ovid’s Database To Open Up For Olympics
By Rafat Ali
An interesting promotion by B2B info vendor: it will provide free access to SIRC SportDiscus, a premier sports medicine database, to physici… Read more »
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