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The Most Useful Coverage Of The Olympic Games

Slate has a great bunch of articles covering the Olympic Games, but probably the most useful of them all is the Sap-O-Meter.

I had mentioned before how I could use a little less drama in these Olympics and quite a bit more sports on TV (there is already enough drama in a competition like this -- do we need more?). That's why I got a hearty laugh when Lori shared the Sap-o-Meter, and Slate has made a nice little widget where you can keep tabs on the latest Sap:

Posted by Jake on 08/12/08 @ 09:08 PM
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a. said on 08/12/08 @ 10:04 PM:
the nyt has unbelievably great coverage
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/olympics2008/index.html

CarolZ said on 08/13/08 @ 07:49 AM:
Hey, The Bulletin actually did a decent job of quoting you this morning! You're always so tactful ;-)

Bendbroadband's Farwell blames the Olympics coverage issue on "subscriber price sensitivity". But there are times when a business can, and should, swallow surcharges and price increases instead of passing the plate on to the customer.

Alas, Bendbroadband has always been a hardnose about the bottom line, customer satisfaction be damned.




Jake said on 08/13/08 @ 09:19 AM:
Yes, Carol, but as I mentioned to the reporter (which didn't get published) is that large cable companies like Comcast probably have dedicated teams to dealing with the networks and the channel representatives. BendBroadband probably has one guy who does it on a couple-hours-a-week basis on top of his or her other duties. Who do you think is going to negotiate a deal faster?

I still blame NBC in all of this, personally.

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