Watson: No olympics on ZNS due to high cost

Clint Watson

As of Tuesday, July 30, 2024

By JADE RUSSELL

Tribune Staff Reporter

jrussell@tribunemedia.net

ZNS is not broadcasting the Olympic Games this year because it could not afford the rights, according to general manager Clint Watson.

He said ZNS usually tries to collaborate with other networks in the region to buy the rights to host the event because Caribbean networks cannot afford those rights themselves.

He said the last Olympics cost $300,000 to broadcast. This year, the cost would have been about $800,000.

His comment yesterday came after several residents complained that they could not watch Bahamians perform.

A Cable Bahamas representative told The Tribune the company would send a statement on the matter but did not do so before press time.

Team Bahamas comprises 20 athletes.

Sickened 1 month, 1 week ago

Disgraceful! BTC just as bad as BPL. Cheaper they both close down.

Sickened 1 month, 1 week ago

And Jesus Clint, get a decent shave! Looking like a punk is for young gang-bangers. You're supposed to be a professional.

JokeyJack 1 month, 1 week ago

Nobody wanna see a bunch of transvestite.

bahamianson 1 month, 1 week ago

Bey, this a stupid statement. Wr have all kind money to s3nd athletrs to paris for 2 weeks , yet, we cant see them. Next, we have three athletes whom have a high vhance of getting a medal. We have shaunae, gardiner and charlton. They have a reasonable chance. The.rest....not really. So, why not be practical and send the ones whom can medal and leave the others. We just paid a lot of money for vacations. Now you make a stupid statement like, it is too costly to show the olympics.

bahamianson 1 month, 1 week ago

Actually, he probably has some paint on there.

ExposedU2C 1 month, 1 week ago

For many struggling Bahamians, the headline to this article may just as well have read:

No food to eat due to high cost.

mandela 1 month, 1 week ago

We can pay 2.5 million dollars for one elevator in the PM's office, but we can't afford 800 thousand dollars for a country to watch its athletes. This government is turning out to be a piece of s$$t.

hrysippus 1 month, 1 week ago

All the millions of dollars of our taxpayers money that is spent keeping ZNS afloat each year, most all of it goes to pay for bloated number of staff and their large salaries, free medical insurance, and non-contributory pensions. Col. Oakley Bidwell would be truly shocked to see how hat he started has ended up.

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