NBC Eyes Olympic Sales Record

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NEW YORK With the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics less than a month away, NBC Universal is close to earning a gold medal of its own.

It’s likely that NBCU will rake in north of $1 billion in ad revenue — taking into account not only NBC and its cable siblings but also the online ad inventory that the company is aggressively selling. That would be a record; anything more than $1 billion is higher than what NBCU earned in ad revenue for the 2004 Athens Games.

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