Jim2 wrote:
There's alot of channels but most of them are showing pre taped shows on repeat at that time. I image its a hell of a lot cheaper then trying to cover a marathon live.
But the BBC is already covering it (as is the Chicago NBC affiliate), so there is ZERO production cost! All they have to do is pull the right "0"'s and "1"'s out of the sky asnd send them through my digital cable! I get BBC America, OLN, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN News, ESPN Classic, ESPN Fishing, ESPN Jump Rope, and 100 other channels that could possibly air it.
So let me get this straight, NBC won't air it nationally because nobody wants to watch it. Yet NBC won't let anyone else air it in the US because they own the rights to it?
Why should they care if someone else airs it if nobody is even going to watch it? (Except a few thousand die hard fans.)