Olympics 2008

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

I assume the money made from advertising doesn't go to the Chinese, but to the network.

It would be hard for one of us to truly boycott the Chinese gov't. I guess if you really feel we shouldn't be at the games, you should complain to the US Olympic committee, or to the International Olympic committee, or maybe to Bush.

NBC paid something like $500 Million for the rights to air the games but that money goes to the... Well not to the host city. It's a loss leader for them. So if you watch the games or not makes no difference to anyone except NBC.

The money is paid to the International Olympic committee and now that it's been brought up, it makes me wonder what do they do with all that booty? What do they pay for?