From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

Everybody in Silicon Valley texts all the time.

There's not enough texting on the show, and I'm thinking...

And they work 18-hour code sprints.

They're not sitting around talking.

Mike Judge, creator of Beavis and Butthead and the movie Office Space,

turns his satirical lens on Silicon Valley in his new HBO series, Silicon Valley.

He and collaborator Alec Berg talk about why there aren't any women of substance in the show

and about losing a key actor to cancer.

But first on the news banter, the broadcast networks gear up for the upfronts.

Stay tuned. It's the business from KCRW.

I am joined by my partner in banter, John Horn of the Los Angeles Times. Hello, John.

Hello, Kim. So, John, we often talk

about the cost of live sports programming and how valuable it is because you don't tend to

record it on your DVR. NBC Universal is going to pay a big bill and they're thrilled to be

paying it. $7.75 billion for exclusive broadcast rights to six Olympic games, which means NBC Universal

will be carrying Olympic events through 2032.

An amazing amount of money. And oddly enough, not a auction or a bid. I mean, it really

kind of went in behind closed doors. NBC did it very well in the last Olympics. The IOC wanted to keep them. So they didn't even go out to

Fox, ESPN, other companies that probably would have put up a bit as well. And of course, that is going

to be so far down the road by the time it's over that, you know, our colleague Mike Schneider

questioned in his TV Guide magazine, will there be broadcast networks in 2002?

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