…Given the steep rise within the Olympics rights charges, the chance of NBC sauntering out of Beijing with a couple of additional bucks in its pocket is up there with Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding becoming a member of forces to revive the Ice Capades. When NBC renewed its contract via the 2032 Summer time Video games, Comcast plunked down $7.75 billion, and whereas the price of every particular person occasion has not been disclosed, historic precedent would put the worth of carrying these Winter Olympics someplace round $975 million.
Even with the financial savings that got here with holding nearly all of the workers again dwelling in Stamford, Conn.—solely 600 manufacturing, engineering and operations employees made it to China, a far cry from the two,000 workers that had been on the bottom in Pyeongchang—Beijing was all however destined to interrupt NBC’s money-making streak. The sense of resignation was exhausting to overlook; NBC Sports activities Group chairman Pete Bevacqua earlier this month acknowledged the issue of staging two COVID-stunted Olympics in a half-year window…
