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> Once you find a venue, you're not really playing for the host city, you're playing for the cameras. Schedule the events based on when it's prime time in rich
by arkh 2y ago
> Once you find a venue, you're not really playing for the host city, you're playing for the cameras. Schedule the events based on when it's prime time in rich ad markets, not when it makes most sense for the sports, or even when it would maximize the exposure for the sports that most people ONLY see once every four years. Ooh, look, the Dream Team. Big whoop. They run 40 NBA games a year on local TV, show me judo or hammer-throwing or synchronized swimming. And despite all that, they seem to have no concern about the TV product they made such efforts to prostate themselves for. Does anyone at NBC get concerned that people intentionally look for VPNs to access the CBC and BBC streams because they've made such a mess of tape delays, schmaltzy human-interest stories, and laser-focusing on American athletes?
About this: streaming has been a thing for more than a decade now. Why can't anyone decide to pay some sum to have access to every camera stream available during an event. Maybe even have some special prices to access drone cameras. Then anyone can tailor their own Olympics experience (4k screen: let's show 4 camera angle of this match at the same time) or decide to follow some editor's choice.
And you could generalize it to most sports. Imagine a twitch of sports event where people pay for access to those feeds, or combination of feeds or the feeds + commentary some streamer also pays for. Add infinite replay.