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Originally Posted by SpongeG
does that include the media?
the media alone - i wonder what the numbers would be - on air people, behind the scenes crews - must be huge numbers - just NBC alone
I heard that in Calgary 1988 some family rented their house out for the month to NBC for crews etc and made $10,000 for the month - a large sum in 1988 dollars
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There will be 10,000 media staff during the Games: about 7,000 will be in Vancouver, and the remaining 3,000 will be in Whistler.
NBC has spent US$820 million to acquire the 2010 Winter Games tv rights from the IOC. In addition to that, the network will be spending US$130 million to broadcast the Games themselves....compare that figure to the US$100 million they spent in Torino. There were also 2,000 on-site staff from NBC at Torino.
And really, 2010 will be a lot more profitable for NBC than Torino...which had dismal tv ratings (compared to all the circus hoop la hoo going on and scandals with Salt Lake). The majority of the broadcasts will be live, rather than recorded like in Athens and Torino.
NBC always has a outdoor broadcasting studio, where Bob Costas anchors the coverage. In Athens, the studio was a glass box right outside the Olympic Stadium. In Torino, it was another glass box in a plaza. I wonder where they'd set camp for Vancouver...perhaps at the big plaza at the new convention centre?
And that's just for Olympic coverage....NBC's Today Show always has an outdoor studio as well. You may know that it is the network's morning show, and during the Olympics each broadcast is made entirely live from the Olympic city. The Today Show studio in Torino:
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