There goes this: it won’t launch, if you ask me. The U.S. Olympic Committee has delayed a plan for its own TV network, meant to highlight Olympic sports outside of the four-yearly cycle, after complaints from IOC and worries that it may jeopardize Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Games. The…

Shock. Horror. NBC is angry at the new Olympics channel to be launched by USOC and Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA), announced yesterday. Yesterday, they declined comment when we asked. Today, Dick Ebersol reveals to NYT that they had on and off talks with USOC for a year about combining their Universal…

Better late than never… While the Beijing Summer Olympics is a distant memory at this point, Associated Press President and CEO Tom Curley is looking ahead and demanding that broadband access to the games be loosened, Sports Business Journal reported. Curley directed his comments to the International Olympic Committee at…

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has gone some way to avoiding the kind of embarrassing new media reporting restrictions imposed by some sporting events over the last year, allowing accredited sites to run an unlimited number of photos from Beijing this summer. News orgs boycotted Rugby World Cup last year…

With the Beijing Olympics roughly four months away, Kevan Gosper, vice chairman of the IOC coordinating commission, is warning organizers that the internet must be open during the games and that restrictions “would reflect very poorly” on China. AP quotes Gosper about raising the issue during the last official organizing…

The International Olympic Committee, still sitting high on its all-rights-are-ours horse, has opened up a little, allowing athletes to blog at the Olympics for the first time, in time for the Beijing Olympics coming up in August this year. Under the new rules, blogs are allowed as long as they…

State broadcaster China Central Television’s CCTV.com, which already has over-the-air rights for the Beijing Olympics, now has the internet and mobile rights as well. In a decision that mirrors the set-up with NBC Sports, the IOC said combining the various rights “would guarantee full exploitation of the digital broadcast rights…