Why is there so little Olympics footage in the news? Here’s how the multibillion-dollar video rights industry works
- Written by Marc C-Scott, Deputy Associate Dean of Learning & Teaching, Senior Lecturer in Screen Media, Victoria University
If you’ve watched the nightly news on Channel 7 or the ABC lately, you might think their Olympics coverage is lacking vision of, well, the Olympics.
The ABC’s sports program Offsiders ran a montage of still images as part of its Sunday episode – a seemingly odd choice for a platform best suited to video.
This is because the...
