Rick Cordella announced as new NBC Sports President
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NBC is shutting down the U.S. linear Olympic Channel in September
Five years after its launch, the NBC U.S. linear Olympic channel (a NBC/IOC/USOPC partnership) is shutting down.
Adnan Virk talks hosting Winter Gold on Peacock: “To me, it’s been a total sprint.”
"This is the Olympics! This is a metaphor for life; you get kicked down, you get up again, you win a gold medal, and all is right with the world."
NBC catches flak for Mikaela Shiffrin coverage after Olympics heartbreak
"Just processing a lot for sure and I feel really bad.”
Lindsay Czarniak talks hosting Olympic coverage on USA: “You forget how moving the Olympics are.”
"The things that feel familiar are the people and the work ethic that everyone covering an Olympics seems to share during these Olympic weeks. There is an energy in the building that is unmatched."
Lindsey Vonn will join NBC’s Beijing Olympics broadcasts as a primetime correspondent
"I am excited to share my perspective along with my insight on what athletes might be feeling during high pressure moments."
All NBC event announcing teams for the 2022 Beijing Olympics will be calling events remotely from Connecticut
Many of these events were initially planned with remote announcers, but figure skating, snowboarding and alpine skiing were supposed to have on-site commentators.
NBC’s Tara Lipinski tells Julie Stewart-Binks “I would feel very nervous” about Beijing Olympics as an athlete given COVID
"Obviously, it's going to be a very different type of an Olympics. There's probably a little sadness in that for the athletes."
Despite Olympic viewership dropping and increased make-goods, NBC still expects to turn a profit
"So net-net, with all this bad luck, we’re going to be profitable on Olympics, which we’re very happy with, and we’re very happy with the product."
NBC’s tape-delayed primetime Olympics coverage went to commercial mid-sentence after Simone Biles missed a vault
The mid-sentence commercial cut certainly seemed strange.
NBCUniversal has placed $51 million worth of Olympic ads and promos since November, including 1,208 on broadcast NBC
In addition to the 1,208 ads and promos on NBC proper since November, Olympic Channel has run 18,396, while NBCSN has aired 5,834, The Golf Channel has aired 1,832, and USA has aired 1,336.
Peacock announces live Tokyo Olympics coverage, including live gymnastics, track and field, and basketball
Several highlight shows and documentaries will also be part of Peacock's Olympics content.
NBC anticipating record profit for Olympics coverage after year-long delay of Tokyo Games
NBC's network of channels and streaming platforms will show 7,000 hours of Olympics coverage.
NBCSN will air nearly 100 hours of content from past Summer Olympics over the next two weeks
NBCSN is set to show nightly blocks of Olympic programming over the next two weeks, covering the 2016 Rio Games (April 13-15), the 2012 London Games (April 16-19), the 2008 Bejing Games (April 20-21), and sport-specific programming (April 22-26).
Jac Collinsworth leaves ESPN and ACC Network, returns to NBC
Jac Collinsworth began working with NBC Sports in 2013 while still in school at Notre Dame, then went to ESPN in 2017. Now he's headed back to NBC.
Golf Channel’s Molly Solomon to head NBC Olympics production, says “let’s innovate and search for fresh ways to tell the athlete stories”
"I think I can bring a uniqueness to the job. My mantra as a producer is let’s innovate and search for fresh ways to tell the athlete stories. So whenever I go into a new project, a new show, I always ask the question to my team, how do we enrich the experience for the viewer?"
Jim Bell, who’s overseen NBC Olympics production since 2012 and was there for delayed-to-live shift, is leaving NBC after 29 years
"What has emerged for me is a strong desire to delve into something new—to build on my experience in news, sports, and entertainment so I can broaden and deepen my leadership role in the content universe."
While NBC Olympic ratings dropped for the PyeongChang Games, CBC Olympic ratings again rose
CBC's average primetime audience rose to 3 million for the PyeongChang Olympics, up from the 2.7 million they had in Sochi. Over 85 per cent of the Canadian population watched some of the Games. That's a contrast to the declines NBC has seen.
