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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder how much NBC is spending to have so many people in Paris for this long?? I work in accounting and keep imagining the expense reports for all these people  :lol: [/quote]

Not just NBC -- lots of news orgs send at least one correspondent to cover the games. Every time I hear a report from the Olympics on the radio or on local news I think about all the people who got a sweet 2 week stay in Paris out of this and I'm happy for them.

But regarding NBC -- they build out so much infrastructure for the Olympics that you can't look at the costs like you would a normal business trip. The Olympics is one of their biggest revenue generators and the ads they sell during the primetime coverage are rivaled only by Super Bowl ads in terms of cost. So they can rent out an entire hotel for staff and pay for all the steak frite the army of NBC folks who have essentially moved to France for the month of July can eat and it's still a highly profitable endeavor for them.

The LA games are going to be especially profitable for them because it will be so much cheaper for them to set up camp there -- they already have plenty of studios and corporate apartments and lots of their sports reporters are already based out of LA. They must have been thrilled when LA got selected even if the people who work there probably enjoy the boondoggles in Paris and London and Sydney quite a bit more.[/quote]

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