Growing up I was always a big fan of the Olympics. Maybe I was naive (and I probably still am in many respects), but it was the one sporting event that wasn’t based on politics and money, for the most part. I’m not sure if this opinion has changed because I’m now older or because it just isn’t the case anymore, but politics and money seem to have taken over the Olympics. But that’s not the reason I started writing this post.
What I don’t understand is, with the immense amount of information available through the internet, why are the Olympics still televised via tape delay. The last things I want to do is watch some sporting event where I already know the outcome. So, I’ve come up with the Poulios.com method to televising the Olympics.
The basic theory is to make as many Olympic sports available to everyone, at no cost to the person watching on TV or the Internet. In other words, no pay per view. How can this be done? Well, that’s what I’m here for. Television rights for specific Olympic sports can be sold to different channels. For example, NBC could have gymnastics, ABC could have basketball, Fox could have pool sports, and so on. Each station is required to have a certain amount of live coverage each day/night, somewhere in the 10-12 hour range. In the event there’s a large time difference based on where the Olympics are located, each station can run highlights during prime time, specifically for those people that don’t mind watching via tape delay.
Sadly, since I believe there is a lot of common sense used in developing this method, I don’t think it will ever happen.
