Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site orca.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!wjh12!genrad!decvax!tektronix!orca!andrew From: andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner) Newsgroups: net.rec,net.misc Subject: Re: Gripes about Olympic Coverage Message-ID: <981@orca.UUCP> Date: Sun, 5-Aug-84 17:15:39 EDT Article-I.D.: orca.981 Posted: Sun Aug 5 17:15:39 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Aug-84 00:23:04 EDT References: <3030@rabbit.UUCP> <1512@ucbvax.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 17 > 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]