BEIJING When the Beijing Olympic Games kicked off two weeks ago with a four-hour spectacular, more than 840 million people in China tuned in, perhaps the largest television audience in history for a single event. Follow the schedules of your...

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CCTV is part of an Asian consortium, the Asian Broadcasting Union, that paid a paltry $17.5 million for broadcasting rights to the games in China (that’s compared to the $894 million that NBC paid alone for U.S. rights), and stands to earn almost...
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CCTV is part of an Asian consortium, the Asian Broadcasting Union, that paid a paltry $17.5 million for broadcasting rights to the games in China (that’s compared to the $894 million that NBC paid alone for U.S. rights), and stands to earn almost...