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From: andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: net.rec,net.misc
Subject: Re: Gripes about Olympic Coverage
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Date: Sun, 5-Aug-84 17:15:39 EDT
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> I agree....ABC is only interested in showing 1) Any USA
> competition or 2) the first place teams.
> 
> This seems a bit strange since ABC has bragged about how
> "over 10 (?) billion people, from over 100 countries,
> watching our broadcast". Geez, I bet that folks in Europe
> and Latin America just *love* to see the US teams whip the 
> smaller countries.

ABC is producing two separate shows.  One is heavily biased toward
showing US athletes and airs from US stations.  The other is neutral,
favoring no single nation, and airs in foreign countries.  This second
show was part of their concession agreement with the International
Olympic Committee.

  -- Andrew Klossner   (decvax!tektronix!orca!andrew)      [UUCP]
                       (orca!andrew.tektronix@rand-relay)  [ARPA]