For the first time a major sports property has largely migrated from network to cable, where the dual revenue streams of subscriber fees and advertising can support the escalating costs of broadcast sports rights, ... In the future, it will become almost impossible for broadcast television sports to match the power of those 'sub' fees, which are unique to the cable world.
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The definition of winning has become distorted. If winning the rights to a property brings with it hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, what have you won? When faced with the prospect of heavy financial losses, we have consistently walked away and have done so again.Dick Ebersol
We will probably discuss and update our position tomorrow.
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I live more than anything else to produce the Games.
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He not only got me off of the plane. He ran back into the plane, which had 3- or 4-foot flames all around it, to look for his brother one more time.
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