Beijing Olympics 2008

[lookout123]

Originally Posted by Aliantha

I wonder how many of our US residents realize that China was forced to change their schedule for finals from China's (and incidentally of course Australia and NZ) evening prime time to US evening prime time. The same was done during the Sydney Olympics.

Personally I think it sucks. I'm sure everyone in the US thinks it's great though.

Yep, I do think it's great. Know why? Because we are still, at least at the moment, the biggest market for this stuff. We consume pretty much any damn thing we want and we vote with our dollars. The olympics aren't free and the advertisers aren't stupid. That's why it is set up to air when it's convenient for us.