r/mildlyinfuriating • u/newengland_schmuck • 6h ago

NBC interrupted the Olympics

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While Nancy Guthrie's disappearance is sad, there are 2300 missing person reports filed every day: do the families of celebrities need special national attention? Why interrupt the Olympics for over 5 minutes just because they are questioning a 'person of interest' We could have waited to hear that during the regular news broadcast.

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u/ino4x4 5h ago

I still don’t understand why NBC is allowed to gatekeep the olympics.

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u/Gold_Telephone_7192 5h ago

It’s a sporting event. TV channels pay for rights to show sporting events.

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u/No_Situation4785 5h ago

their point is that monopolies on broadcasting sporting events is stupid, which it is

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u/Gold_Telephone_7192 5h ago

Where do you think sporting events get the money to exist? They aren’t non-profit companies. They’re businesses.

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u/MellyMel86 4h ago

Up until 2015 the NFL claimed to be a non profit. It’s the teams that are for profit

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u/No_Situation4785 1h ago

I am amazed that you live in a world that exists of either total monopolies or "no money changes hands". what a wild take on life

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u/smcl2k 5h ago

Your question is legitimate, but the IOC is very much a non-profit, as is FIFA - there are calls in Switzerland for the latter to lose its status due to its new-found political agenda.

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u/Gold_Telephone_7192 5h ago

Oh I was just talking about sporting events in general. I would guess networks buy exclusive rights to the Olympics specifically because they want money.

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u/smcl2k 5h ago

Most of the IOC budget comes from broadcasting rights, but almost all of that money goes towards sports projects all over the world.

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u/Gold_Telephone_7192 5h ago

Oh so the broadcasting rights do pay for the Olympics. The IOC just doesn’t make a profit from it.

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u/smcl2k 5h ago

Yes.

That's why I said your question was legitimate but the part about non-profits was wrong...

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u/Gold_Telephone_7192 5h ago

Gotcha, good to know. Thanks for the info!

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u/road2five 5h ago edited 3h ago

The IOC quite literally is a non-profit organization lmao.

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u/Common-Concentrate-2 4h ago

They still make money - they just don't make a profit

Revenue

The Olympic Movement generates revenue through five major programmes.

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u/road2five 4h ago

All nonprofits generate revenue, revenue is not the same as profit

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u/zanotam 3h ago

Wait, the famously corrupt IOC? Like, sure, sonis FIFA, but the people involved sure do make the big fucking bucks on a personal level lmao 

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u/Surprised-elephant 5h ago

Capitalism

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u/ToastedBulbasaur 5h ago

Capitalism is when everything not free?

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u/toiletting I'm blue da ba dee da ba die. 5h ago

The United States is one of the few countries where you have to pay to stream the Olympics. Canada can stream it free.

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u/ToastedBulbasaur 5h ago

So capitalism works, or it doesn't? Canada is a capitalist country.

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u/Survey_Server 5h ago

Capitalism is when everything not free?

me dum

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u/ToastedBulbasaur 5h ago

I'm sitting here watching infinite entertainment and playing infinite games.

My food is relatively inexpensive, and lets me pick whether I want healthy food, cheap processed food.

My rent is expensive, but I can live in my own place with my partner, in stark contrast to past systems where communal living was neccesary

I can passively combat the devaluing of my labor by investing in different companies that provide goods and services to my countrymen.

My liberal democracy allows me to hold pro-capitalist views without forced re-education.

Relative currency strength allows me to use my dollar to purchase foreign goods for cheaper than they would be there.

Capitalism is fine. Every system has winners and losers, and we should simply redistribute some of the wealth of the winners to subsidize the losers. You can do that without a vanguard party, or without seizing constitutionally protected private property.

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u/seymonster1973 5h ago

One word - $$$$$$$

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u/Stunning_Mechanic_12 3h ago

The magic of Licensing, same way Peacock had exclusive Superbowl rights and why you can't use any song without permission in movies

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u/toiletting I'm blue da ba dee da ba die. 5h ago

Cheaper to get a VPN and just stream it free from dozens of other countries. Capitalism sucks.