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• WPP's Sir Martin To Olympic Committee: Embrace YouTube Or Lose Your Audience

  PaidContent - 2009-10-06

  With the 2016 Olympic Games all squared away and set for Rio de Janeiro, members of the International Olympic Committee could get down to more serious business—such as how to handle the issue of online video. WPP Group CEO Sir Martin Sorrell had some very simple ideas for the...

  Tags: International Olympic Committee, YouTube Inc., WPP, Asset Management, Corporate Communications, Web Site Development, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Marketing, Internet, Advertising, Entertainment, Sports, Digital Olympics, Media & Publishing, TV, Social Media, Video, Companies, Countries, Europe, David Kaplan

• A Murdoch Olympics? What Will 2016 Olympics Look Like Online

  Content Next - 2008-12-04

  In UK, BBC may not now win the rights to the 2014 Winter Olympics the 2016 Summer Games after the International Olympic Committee turned down the European Broadcasting Union's usually successful bid on behalf of 75 public service broadcasters as too low. Now broadcasters will have to bid for...

  Tags: International Olympic Committee, iTV, European Broadcasting Union, Broadcaster, Games, TVs, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Countries, UK & Europe, Entertainment, Sports, Digital Olympics, Media, TV, Patrick Smith, BSkyB, British Sky Broadcasting Group

• AP Threatens Court Fight Over Olympics Committee's Video Restrictions

  Content Next - 2008-11-24

  Better late than never? While the Beijing Summer Olympics is a distant memory at this point, Associated Press President and CEO Tom Curley is looking ahead and is demanding that broadband access to the games be loosened, Sports Business Journal reported. Curley directed his comments to International Olympic Committee...

  Tags: International Olympic Committee, Associated Press, Video, Corporate Communications, Games, Marketing, Personal Technology, Broadband, Companies, NBC Universal, Entertainment, Sports, Digital Olympics, Media, TV, David Kaplan, The Walt Disney Co.

• Lovers of niche sports will have to wait for Olympics coverage on Web

  - 2006-02-15

  Ah, the biathlon. It evokes a bygone era when a guy had to ski into the woods and shoot his dinner. The biathlon is a good proxy for how far we've come -- and how far things still have to progress -- in successfully marrying the Olympic Games to...

  Tags: International Olympic Committee, INTERNET, MARKETING, NBC Universal Inc., TV, video, Web

• IOC plays waiting game over TV rights.

  - 2005-07-27

  Byline: Neil Shoebridge Byline: Neil Shoebridge

  Tags: game, International Olympic Committee, TV

• BBC plans for 2012 television debate scuppered by IOC

  - 2005-01-11

  PARIS AFP — The IOC has pulled the plug on BBC plans for a televised debate between the five cities bidding for the 2012 Olympics, sources confirmed to AFP. Paris, London, Madrid, New York and Moscow had all agreed in principle to the programme, which was to be shown...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, British Broadcasting Corp., International Olympic Committee, Leadership, Paris, TV

• VideoTele.com Introduces Astria RCP — Offers Small IOCs Affordable Solution for Delivering Digital TV

  - 2002-11-11

  Business Editors

  Tags: digital television, International Olympic Committee, TV

• IOC Nixes Net Content.(International Olympic Committee)(Brief Article)

  - 2000-12-11

  LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND -- The International Olympic Committee adjourned a two-day media conference last week by continuing its full support for its existing TV rights contracts and holding off on any moves to deliver the Olympics via the Internet. LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND -- The...

  Tags: International Olympic Committee, Olympic Games, TV

• (B) OPINION: Ideas for the Olympics' Return to Greece.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

  - 2000-09-26

  Sep. 26--By Bill Wallace, sports columnist The Olympic Games need a reconstruction, a restoration. There's no better time than now, in advance of the next summer Games at Athens in 2004. The Games must become once more a festival for the competitors,...

  Tags: athlete, Games, International Olympic Committee, NBC Universal Inc., TV

• Olympiad 2000; Thrill of victory? Sydney Games' sponsors face off against ratings rivals in the form of fall programming.(Statistical Data Included)

  - 2000-09-11

  Despite the tarnish of the Salt Lake City bidding scandal, the Olympics remain good as gold for marketers and media buyers. This month's Summer Games in Sydney, however, may face some hurdles winning viewers over. TV advertisers and sponsors have spent more on these...

  Tags: advertiser, Games, International Olympic Committee, INTERNET, NBC Universal Inc., programming, TV