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From: hal@cornell.UUCP (Hal Perkins)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: American sportscasting sucks!
Message-ID: <129@cornell.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 5-Aug-84 21:07:55 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug  5 21:07:55 1984
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Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept.
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Somebody noted that the technical quality of the CBC's coverage of the
LA Olympics is almost as good as ABC's, in spite of the vast difference
in the two network's budgets.  That's not too surprising, since the CBC
coverage originates from ABC.

What people seemed to have missed in this is that ABC is really providing
two broadcasts of the games.  A jingoistic one for its USA affiliates and
what is supposed to be a more balanced one for the rest of the world (which
is required by their contract with the IOC).  It sounds like many would
rather have the presumably more balanced world-wide coverage than the
hyped-for-home-consumption version.