Why is there so little Olympics footage in the news? Here’s how the multibillion-dollar video rights industry works
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With Channel Nine holding the broadcast rights to the Paris games, other networks are hamstrung. Here’s how the system works.
    • style99@lemm.eeEnglish
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      4 months ago

      For comparison, NBC in the US paid US$7.75 billion (A$11.8 billion) in 2014 for the rights to broadcast the Olympics until 2032.

      At that much money, you can pretty much count on extreme amounts of corruption and thievery going on behind the scenes.