USOC Heads to Lausanne for Olympic TV Rights
(ATR) The U.S. Olympic Committee has so much riding on the outcome of the U.S. television rights auction next week that its top officials will be lakeside in Lausanne, Karen Rosen reports.
NBC for NHL; Exec Nixes Affiliate $ for ABC Olympic Bid
(ATR) NBC will spend $2 billion for 10 years of hockey... ABC TV exec says local stations not asked to help pay for ESPN Olympic TV bid... Around the Rings looks at the latest developments in the run-up to the bidding for Olympic broadcast rights in the U.S.
Samaranch Remembered: Tributes for Former IOC President
(ATR) From current IOC President Jacques Rogge and other IOC members, to staff members and organizing committee leaders, former IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch is remembered as a powerful figure for the Olympic Movement.
Services for Samaranch, who died Wednesday morning at age 89, will be held just 24 hours later in his birthplace of Barcelona.
NBC Spins Vancouver Losses Ahead of Olympic Rights Talks
(ATR) The pronouncement by NBC Olympics chief Dick Ebersol that NBC Universal will lose money on the Vancouver Games could be seen as a trial balloon in the negotiations for rights to the 2014 and 2016 Olympics.
Dick Ebersol on TV Rights, Phelps, Youth Olympics
(ATR) Dick Ebersol joked to Sportaccord delegates that every Summer and Winter Olympics should be held in the Pacific and Mountain time zones of the U.S. because of the way live events fit into the worldwide television schedule
