Technically, that's not really true. All live events will have a significant delay in the broadcast. And I'm not talking about the intentional delay of the broadcast by the media houses. These are simple facts resulting from the implementation of digital technology. In order to transmit, a digital signal must first be compressed (MPEG-2 compression is the most common) which adds about 600 milliseconds of latency every time a signal is encoded, and another 600 milliseconds when decoding, depending on the technology used. Adding to that, it takes several milliseconds for the signal to travel to the satellite and back again (despite the fact that it travels at the speed of light, it's still 36,000 km to get there and another 36,000 to get back to Earth). This is roughly 1.5 seconds theoretically but can be closer to 3-4 seconds due to additional signal processing, multiple satellite relays, or even more if using different compression techniques (MPEG-4 is more efficient but is also somewhat more time consuming).