On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 12:21 PM, David Bruggeman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Per Wikipedia, dates of the Summer Olympics for the comparable period. > > 1968 (Mexico City) October 12-27 > 1972 (Munich) August 26-September 10 > 1976 (Montreal) July 17-August 1 > 1980 (Moscow) July 19-August 3 (assuming these weren't televised in the US > given the boycott) > 1984 (LA) July 28-August 12 > 1988 (Seoul) September 17-October 2 > 1992 (Barcelona) July 25-August 9 > 1996 (Atlanta) July 19-August 4 > 2000 (Sydney) September 15-October 1 > 2004 (Athens) August 13-29 > 2008 (Beijing) August 8-24 > 2012 (London) July 27-August 12 > 2016 (Rio) August 5-21 > > For what it's worth, I think the calendar push toward Labor Day (at least > in my lifetime) started with the 2004 Republican convention. It was in New > York from August 30-September 2. How much of this was avoiding Athens and > how much was getting as close to 9/11 in NYC I have no idea. > Thanks for the Olympic schedule. It looks like there is nothing keeping the Republicans from having their convention in mid to late July, which would be a return to normalcy (I notice in this discussion I am assuming that Obama is going to win this year. If Romney wins, then it will be the Democrats who will probably have their convention in July in 2-16). The 2004 Republican Convention may have been one of the latest incumbent conventions up the point (I did not check those dates), but the challenger convention that year was still held at the end of July. However, it is possible that one reason the Democrats moved up close the Republicans in 2008 was the worry that the Republicans were moving their convention so close to the traditional Labor Day kick-off of the fall election, and they wanted to get in on that themselves. Again, what I think the last two cycles have shown is that this strategy has backfired, as moving up so close to the incumbent convention has had the effect of drowning the message and squashing the bounce of the challenger convention. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
