ESPN wants to end NBC’s longtime Olympics franchise by grabbing the U.S. TV rights to the 2014 and 2016 Games, John Skipper, the network’s executive vice president of content, told USA Today.
"We’ll be there. We’re having discussions with them," Skipper told the paper.
To prove its capability for covering a global sporting event to Olympics officials, ESPN is going all out on its coverage of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
–Elizabeth Jensen
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/columnist/mccarthy/2009-09-07-espn-olympics_N.htm?csp=34
About time someone take them away from NBC
NBC’s telecast has been abysmal over the years
Last Olympics was an alltime worst