Here's another article from a couple days ago: http://www.thestar.com/article/302386
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Patzke said the television teams would be given no advantage.
"They would have to enter the U.S. Olympic team trials playdowns like any other U.S. Olympic-eligible team," he said.
"There are no special concessions."
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But the interesting/scary thing, IMHO:
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But curling was one of the surprise hits of the last two Olympics for NBC, enough so that NBC aired 24 matches live from Turin on one of its cable channels.
Although curling seldom gets more than 800,000 viewers on NBC, it once drew higher ratings than an NHL playoff game that aired at the same time the next day.
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What curling did NBC show that would occur the day before an NHL playoff game? The Turin Olympics were late Feb (I remember Olympic hockey over Family Day weekend).
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