Syndicated TV shows retitle during Olympics to have lowest ratings thrown out against season average
Syndicated shows like The Ellen DeGeneres Show and Live With Kelly and Ryan gave themselves new titles for Nielsen.
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AA Weekly Recap: KNBR fires Patrick Connor over comments on Chloe Kim
Saying controversial things on the air got several people in trouble this week.
Bob Costas is content with being an Olympics viewer this year
"My attitude is I have had a wonderful ride and so many wonderful things to look back on."
Olympic Opening Ceremony ratings down from Sochi but up from Rio
Mixed results in ratings for the big kickoff to the 2018 Games.
NBC’s surprise 2011 winning Olympic bid was a landmark fork in the road for all sports networks
The sports media world could look very different today if Fox or ESPN had won Olympic rights back in the 2011 bids.
YouTube TV adds Apple TV compatibility prior to Olympics, while fuboTV adds 23 more NBC affiliates
YouTube TV and fuboTV both expand their availability in time for the Olympics
Will 2018 Olympics stem downward trend from 2014 and 2016 Games?
Both Sochi and Rio resulted in lower viewership from the previous Games.
Criterion Collection to release 100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912-2012 box set, spanning 41 Olympic Games
The massive box set includes 53 movies covering 41 editions of the Olympic Games.
What a Los Angeles Olympics means for NBC
NBC will have its first "home" Olympics since 2002, but how will it televise and stream the Games in 2028?
NBC’s Olympic advertising clients may get sent to Wyoming in 2018 instead of South Korea
With tensions high, advertisers are reluctant to travel to the 2018 Olympics
NBC officially announces Olympic Channel to launch on July 15
Channel will be intitally available on Altice, Comcast, DirecTV, Spectrum and Verizon
Did you know Mike Emrick once called the NCAA Tournament and the NFL? Even dogs in his back yard?
NFL! NCAA! Did you know?
NBC starts to provide details of new Olympic Channel
Majority of Olympic streaming was done on laptops, not mobiles
We know from NBC’s many press releases that streaming was a big deal for the Rio Olympics. Despite...
Former NBC analyst Dwight Stones calls its track & field coverage “a disgrace”
If you’ve watched Olympics track and field coverage on NBC, Dwight Stones was the man who reported on...
Did you know NBC’s Olympic theme is actually a mashup?
You’ve heard it every day during the 2016 Rio Olympics and if you’ve watched NBC’s Olympic coverage in...
NBC shoehorns over 3,000 promos into Olympic coverage
If you’ve watched NBC’s Olympic coverage, you’ve noticed plenty of promos for in-house programming. While advertisers are seeing...
UK sports TV anchor Charlie Webster on life support in Brazil after contracting malaria
Former BBC, ITV and Sky Sports host Charlie Webster is in a medically-induced coma due to a rare...
Michael Phelps wears Nike on SI cover, despite Under Armour deal
Michael Phelps is on the cover of Sports Illustrated, along with Katie Ledecky and Simone Biles. Par for...
IOC executive issued arrest warrant for scalping Olympics tickets
A high-ranking Olympic official was issued an arrest warrant for illegally selling tickets for the 2016 Rio Olympic...
NBC exec expects record profits from Olympics despite lower ratings
The Olympic ratings debate has been well-chronicled, including on this very site. Today, NBC Sports Group Chairman spoke...
Boston can now watch NBC on DirecTV again
It took a month, but a blackout that prevented Boston residents from watching NBC’s coverage of the Open Championship and...
The Daily Beast faces backlash after searching for Olympians on Grindr
The Daily Beast on Thursday published a piece in which a reporter, Nico Hines, stood outside the Olympic Village in...
IOC bans gifs of Olympics content
As it turns out, Michael-Phelps-fist-pump-dot-gif will not be coming to your Twitter feed this month. As part of...
Has doom-and-gloom Olympics coverage gone overboard?
It has become essentially a law of American media: If the Olympics are being held in a non-English...
