{"id":420,"date":"2004-08-07T01:35:09","date_gmt":"2004-08-07T01:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=420"},"modified":"2004-08-07T01:35:09","modified_gmt":"2004-08-07T01:35:09","slug":"olympics_online_just_not_in_the_us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=420","title":{"rendered":"Olympics Online &#8211; Just not in the US!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How ironic, given that Madison&#8217;s All City Swim Meet is available via internet video stream, that Non US internet users will be able to watch the olympics online, via streaming video; while captive American sports fans are stuck with cable\/broadcast TV&#8230;.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/technology\/business\/wire\/sns-ap-olympics-online,0,837577.story\">Anick Jesdanun summarizes<\/a> the money and politics behind this absurdity (I&#8217;d be happy to pay for a real time video stream).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>After conducting trials involving about 100,000 homes during the past two games, the International Olympic Committee is permitting more than a dozen broadcasters to show video of the Aug. 13-29 Olympics online.<br \/>\nBut the footage will be highly restricted to protect lucrative broadcast contracts, which are sold by territory &#8212; $793 million paid by NBC alone. Web sites must employ technology to block viewers from outside their home countries, so U.S. Web surfers won&#8217;t benefit from the BBC&#8217;s live coverage. They&#8217;ll have to settle for highlights posted after NBC broadcasts, which are already largely tape-delayed.<br \/>\nOn top of that, U.S. viewers must verify their identity using a credit card from Visa &#8212; an NBC advertiser &#8212; though they will not be charged.<br \/>\nNot a Visa cardholder? You&#8217;re out of luck.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How ironic, given that Madison&#8217;s All City Swim Meet is available via internet video stream, that Non US internet users will be able to watch the olympics online, via streaming video; while captive American sports fans are stuck with cable\/broadcast TV&#8230;. Anick Jesdanun summarizes the money and politics behind this absurdity (I&#8217;d be happy to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}