Hi,
There was an article somewhere that absolutely trashed the opening of the Olympics being shown on "prime time" instead of live in most of America! ... the reasoning? ... prime time is premium money for networks and they can charge more. The bad part? ... some businesses are too stupid to tell these tv stations to get ________________!!!
The major issue with American TV is that it believes that the world centers about America only and that the rest of the world is wrong! There are no soccer games at midnight, you crazy fart! There is no gymnastics (not those anyway!) at 2AM!
I guess that Americans are so stuck on "prime time inanity and control" that they do not know that there is a world out there and that there are time zones that cover the whole world, a grand total of 24 hours!
Now you know ... why I don't have a TV. Because internally I live in a different "time" and "place" ... and that tv has a nasty habit of telling me I'm wrong!
But it tells you that in a few years no one is going to pay a cable network the kind of money they are right now when they can make twice the money by streaming this directly to your house and have everyone pay "admission" to the thing! The hard part? Getting Americans to wake up at a weird hour ... and not watch American Idol instead! ... now that ... will be an interesting day!
World Cup same issue, btw ... but other countries in the world don't have an issue with it!