{"id":10533,"date":"2014-02-11T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T14:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10533"},"modified":"2014-02-10T19:22:25","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T00:22:25","slug":"nbc-and-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/nbc-and-the-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC And The Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/021114_0020_NBCAndTheOl1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"358\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brian Fung writes that we have NBC to thank for funding the Olympics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the United States NBC has become the network known for carrying coverage of Olympic Games.<\/li>\n<li>It pays handsomely for this privilege \u2013 exclusive broadcast rights to the Winter Games in Sochi cost $775 million.<\/li>\n<li>This makes up 62% of the International Olympic Committee&#8217;s (IOC) broadcast revenue for the games.<\/li>\n<li>In fact if you look at past summer and winter games NBC is responsible for about half of the IOC&#8217;s broadcast revenue.<\/li>\n<li>This is despite the fact that there are 22 other broadcasters who pay for exclusive rights in other countries.<\/li>\n<li>This ultimately means that NBC is subsidizing a large portion of The Olympics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See the share that NBC has paid for the Olympics over the years, and more statistics over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-switch\/wp\/2014\/02\/10\/nbc-single-handedly-pays-for-a-fifth-of-all-olympic-games\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-switch\/wp\/2014\/02\/10\/nbc-single-handedly-pays-for-a-fifth-of-all-olympic-games\/\">The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Fung writes that we have NBC to thank for funding the Olympics: In the United States NBC has become the network known for carrying coverage of Olympic Games. It pays handsomely for this privilege \u2013 exclusive broadcast rights to the Winter Games in Sochi cost $775 million. This makes up 62% of the International [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/021114_0020_NBCAndTheOl1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10533"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10536,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10533\/revisions\/10536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}