From: helena@cs.cornell.edu (Helena R. Dias Lourenio)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.olympics
Subject: Re: TripleCast Update
Date: 21 Jul 92 15:40:22 GMT
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853

In article <1630@hsdndev.UUCP> nhmas@gauss.med.harvard.edu (Mark Shneyder 432-4219) writes:
>In article <1992Jul20.173027.7712@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> stanm@comm.mot.com writes:
>>of Promises Kept-and Dollars Lost." 100 000 subscribers is far short of
>>the 2M they expect. Even if they get the typical last-minute PPV surge,
>>I'd guess that NBC will still take a bath on it.
>>
>>
>>Mark must be dancing around in Beantown right now! :)
>>
>>--Stan
>
>Stan,
>
>First of all,thanks alot for the update. Second,can you beleive SportsChannel
>(joint Cablevision/NBC property) officials OK'd replaying Team USA's
>Tournament of the Americas routs when they should have burned the tapes?
>How close is the NBC-NBA partnership? So close that Dick Ebersol,president
>of NBC Sports, will pass his huge Barcelona hotel suite to David Stern,
>NBA commisioner(I can see Dick Enberg getting into his routine as he
>witnesses this friendly gesture,"Oh my!!!! A touch of Olympic spirit
>remains!!!)
>
> My last anti-PPV arguement before the start of the Games...(NO WAY!)
>
>(Vlad, please get your flame-thrower ready :-).
>
>Anyone who buys the TripleCast is telling the NBA,NFL,NHL,NCAA,MLB and
>even the PGA that making you pay - even for a mega-event that has 
>161 "free" hours on NBC - is just fine. You're telling the bosses of
>these sports that you've accepted the inevitability of swarming PPV.
>
>If you do buy TripleCast and feel patriotic staring at those red,white
>and blue channels,don't start bitching when your favorite teams go
>the PPV route as well. In a real sense,you're voting - just as surely
>as when you enter the booth on November 3rd. And a vote for the TripleCast
>is a vote for league heads to sock it to you again and again and again.....
>
>For the DreamTeam(NBC should buy NBA or vice versa) to cream Croatia is
>like taking an ax to a spider and watching it is ridiculous. Paying to 
>watch it is worse. You're being asked to pay $125 to watch all of the
>embarassments commercial free - as if we haven't seen enough of these
>guys all season and in all kinds of commercials. There's something very
>wrong with the whole concept. 
>
>There is nothing wrong with good business. But what giantly pisses off those of us who
>beleive the Olympics should still be about the spirit of athletic
>competition, and amateurism should not be dead, is that the allmighty dollar
>has driven such ideals into oblivion. The dollar is bigger than the Games
>in Spain. The Games who have been cheapened with all the pros and the
>big business being a huge part of it all. 
>
>-Mark
>Dancing in the streets of a hot and muggy Boston waiting for a hockey
>season to get underway...

I just read in a newspaper that Eurovision (the european sattelite channel) 
is going to transmit the Olimpics at least for Europe. 

Near my house in the USA there is a bar with a satellite (where I used to go 
see the soccer games!!). 
Therefore I am planning to go there see some of the olimpics (FREE) but I 
would like to have a schedule. If someone has the schedule , could post it 
please. I appreciate.
                         Helena