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Originally Posted by Gaudfather
That would work, except that the Winter Olympics would then lose half of their TV and sponsorship revenues!
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not sure hockey makes as much as people think.
The Winter Games are about figure skating, that has to be more than 50%. The figure skating is going to start at 10am in Korea to get primetime in the US. Next would be skiing. Norway, Switzerland, Austria and Germany dominate skiing, ski jumping etc.. and those get huge audiences, those countries don't care too much about hockey. Speedskating is big too, they get Asian audiences who also don't care about hockey.
People will sit down an watch a race or performance in the Olympics. A ski race, a skating race, an artistic performance. They are not watching a 2 hour hockey game when there are multi events in a 2-week Olympics.