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The Back Of The Book

TALK ABOUT OLYMPIC MOVEMENT: TRACKING GROWTH IN TV FEES

     The BOSTON GLOBE tracked the TV rights fees paid for Olympic
Games since Squaw Valley '60 (BOSTON GLOBE, 12/13).
YEAR  GAMES    LOCATION      NETWORK    HOURS    RIGHTS FEES
     1960  Winter   Squaw Valley   CBS        15.0     $ 50,000
           Summer   Rome           CBS        20.0      394,000
     1964  Winter   Innsbruck      ABC        17.25     597,000
           Summer   Tokyo          NBC        14.0        1.5M
     1968  Winter   Grenoble       ABC        27.0        2.5M
           Summer   Mexico City    ABC        43.75       4.5M
     1972  Winter   Sapporo        NBC        37.0        6.4M
           Summer   Munich         ABC        62.75       7.5M
     1976  Winter   Innsbruck      ABC        43.5       10.0M
           Summer   Montreal       ABC        76.5       25.0M
     1980  Winter   Lake Placid    ABC        53.25      15.5M
           Summer   Moscow         ABC       150.0^      87.0M
     1984  Winter   Sarajevo       ABC        63.0       91.5M
           Summer   Los Angeles    ABC       180.0      225.0M
     1988  Winter   Calgary        ABC        94.5      309.0M
           Summer   Seoul          NBC       179.5      300.0M
     1992  Winter   Albertville    CBS       116.0      243.0M
           Summer   Barcelona      NBC       175.0      401.0M
     1994  Winter   Lillehammer    CBS       119.5      300.0M
     1996  Summer   Atlanta        NBC       168.5^     456.0M
     1998  Winter   Nagano         CBS                  375.0M
     2000  Summer   Sydney         NBC                  705.0M
     2002  Winter   Salt Lake City NBC                  545.0M
     2004  Summer   TBA            NBC                  793.0M
     2006  Winter   TBA            NBC                  613.0M
     2008  Summer   TBA            NBC                  894.0M
     NOTES:  The Moscow '80 numbers were based on pre-boycott
projections.  The hours NBC intends to devote to Atlanta '96 are
also a projection.

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