South Korea wins Winter Olympics 2018
Third time lucky for the South Korean city of Pyeongchang, awarded the 2018 Winter Olympics over Munich and Annecy.
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The South Korean city of Pyeongchang was awarded the 2018 Winter Olympics overnight, beating out rival bids from Munich and the French city of Annecy.
The city had narrowly lost both the 2010 and 2014 Winter Games.
Pyeongchang will now become the first non-Japanese Asian city to host the Winter Games.
NBC has the US rights but Pyeongchang is 14 hours ahead of the U.S. Eastern Time Zone, meaning it will be forced to air tape-delayed competition hours after the results are known. During the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing, which is 12 hours ahead of New York, NBC streamed more than 2,000 hours of live coverage online while culling tapes of the most popular events for its primetime audience. About 30 million viewers still tuned in each night for those telecasts, even though many of them already knew the results.
It’s better news for Australian viewers with Sydney time just one hour in front of Seoul.
Nine and Foxtel have rights to the 2012 London Summer Olympics.
Source: EW
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11 Responses
Actually that works out brilliantly for NBC – skiing events will take place during US primetime.
I love the winter Olympics – bring it on!
Will be getting Foxtel for London 2012. Will Seven get Sochi 2014, Rio 2016 and Pyeongchang 2018 in the near future?
South Korea (and Japan) home of Real HD TV as well as uber Fast broadband! =D
NBC had the Vancouver Games (same time zone!) on tape delay.
Shut up people this is going to be great, especially with the Two best Channels Channel 9 and Foxtel!!!!!!!!!! Hoooray!!!!!!
Can;t Wait!!!!
Can someone please get rid of Eddie in time for this to roll around? I love watching the olympic but with this half arsed network i’m not sure the end result will be worth watching
Hopefully in 7 years time, the free to air networks will be showing its sport in HD!! lol.
How much coverage will we get though: 2014/2016/2018 Olympics Australian TV rights will need to be decided now. The current deal 9/Foxtel struck for 2010/2012 was made 10 months before Beijing.
But there is another spanner in the works: if the Gold Coast won the 2018 Commonwealth Games. meaning that both events would likely be on the TV rights negotiation table at the same time.
Glad about the time difference but is everyone ready for a fortnight of 24-7 Eddie?
We’re only one hour ahead? Awesome. Makes for a change, at least!
Just gotta wait, what; 7 years? 😉
Hopefully South Korea is still around! But at least we’ll be getting it live, rather than the ones on delay.