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BBC furious as Olympic schedule changed for US TV!

(July 2006)

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NerdBoy
johnofhertford posted:
Exactly, this is just what happened in Seoul. In Barcelona (and Athens) the situation was different, because there's no way you can schedule events to suit NBC, which is why NBC's least favourite venue for an Olympics is Europe.

We shouldn't be so smug though. When it comes to the World Cup, kick off times are scheduled to suit European TV audiences, which is why in Mexico (and the USA) games were kicking off at midday, the most absurd time of day to play games in that heat. You didn't see many games in the evening local time, and when you did they were early evening. In 2002 there was no way the games could be scheduled to suit European TV audiences, which is why the Far East is the least preferred venue for European broadcasters.


Why would midday games suit European TV though? Surely they'd want plum evening slots for prime time? I'm not sure I understand your reasonning....
JO
johnofhertford
Well midday on the west coast of the USA is 8pm in the UK and 9pm on continental Europe.

Similarly, midday in Mexico City is about 6pm UK time, whereas 8pm in Mexico City would be 2am in the UK and 3am in Europe, which is why not too many games are played at those times.

We're all in different time zones, it's simple really. Broadcasters want events in their time zones or a time zone that's behind them, not that's ahead of them (or in the case of the US a time zone that's so far ahead it's behind but on a different day).
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Inspector Sands
NerdBoy posted:

Why would midday games suit European TV though? Surely they'd want plum evening slots for prime time? I'm not sure I understand your reasonning....


Midday in Mexico and the US is prime time in Europe!
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tvarksouthwest
Conan-san posted:
Oh we always get it up the bum in favour of the US.

This is just it happening on a globaly aware scale.

Everyone and everything gets it up the backside from the US! Let's see, Kyoto agreement, Iraq, Afghanistan...
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Johnny83
Alexia posted:
bbcsport posted:
tvarksouthwest posted:
I hope we'll show more backbone in 2012.


I hope so - otherwise the 100m final will be at 3am in the morning!



3am in the morning? That's opposed to the other 3am is it?


It'll be less of an issue in 2012, as the UK will have been cut away from Europe and will have sailed 3000 miles to stick its head up the US's arse.

Think Scotland going under Florida and ur almost there.


Laughing True, especially after seeing that "discussion" between Blair & Bush the other day.

Back on topic: How dare the US do this, this is completly selfish & I'm suprised that China bow down to it.

I really hope we don't do this for London 2012, I'm looking forward to those games and don't want the Sceptic Tanks (as Clarkson calls them Laughing ) dictating our games, surely Blair won't still be in by 2012?!?!

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