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Also supplementing CBS's coverage was David Letterman as his show was Olympic-themed in both 1994 and 1998 while the network aired the Olympics. A centerpiece of that coverage was nightly segments with his mother Dorothy , who was on-site at both the Lillehammer and Nagano Olympics.
The 1988 Olympics were the last time that the Games have been shown on ITV with subsequent Olympic Games being shown only on the BBC. ITV only broadcast the Winter Olympics in 1968. 1960 Winter Games. CBS paid $50,000 for the right to broadcast the games in the United States, and this marked the first time the Olympic Games were televised there.
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The 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary were televised by a number of broadcasters throughout the world. The 1988 Winter Olympic Games coincided with a shift in television policy by the International Olympic Committee and growing enthusiasm by broadcasters in the United States. Amendments to the Olympic Charter in 1977 established a policy ...
Jan 22, 2006 · #1. Retro Olympics: CBS' And TNT's Broadcast Schedules For The 1998 Winter Games In Nagano. Although it was less that a decade ago, the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano were the last Olympics, either Winter or Summer, not to have been covered by NBC (CBS had the honors).
Sep 14, 1988 · Sept. 14, 1988 12 AM PT. <i> Times Staff Writer </i> One of the major stories of this year’s Winter Olympics at Calgary was the television coverage, or lack of it. The number of commercials,...
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Nov 5, 2013 · The Internet of 1988. This week is the 25th anniversary of the Robert Morris worm, the first large scale malware on the internet, before there was a world wide web. I covered the Internet as a cub reporter at the Washington Post, and it was for many readers (and journalists) an intro to this new fangled series of “pipes.”.
the US market has been the major source of revenue. For many years, NBC has been the main US Olympic network. Since 1976, it has broad-cast 50 per cent of the Olympic Games, and in 2009 it acquired the American rights until 2020. Despite this dominance, NBC has fought tough competition from other bidders, which on several occasions has been ...
