When the mixed doubles round-robin matches begin in curling Wednesday morning in Beijing, so too will Xiv Olympic Winter Games, underway in China less than six months after the torch was extinguished to wrap up the delayed Tokyo Summer Olympics.
It will kick off a record 2,800 hours of Olympics coverage from February 2-20 across U.S. rightsholders NBC and its network siblings USA Network (400 hours of coverage planned beginning February 2) and CNBC (80 hours planned). Coverage is also available at NBCOlympics.com and the NBC Sports app via authentication as well as on the Peacock streaming service, which is ramping up from its Tokyo debut and will air every event from all 15 sports live in real time via its premium tier as well as offer full replays.
NBC’s main coverage launches its primetime coverage on Thursday, February 3, with live team figure skating getting underway along with men’s and women’s moguls,...
It will kick off a record 2,800 hours of Olympics coverage from February 2-20 across U.S. rightsholders NBC and its network siblings USA Network (400 hours of coverage planned beginning February 2) and CNBC (80 hours planned). Coverage is also available at NBCOlympics.com and the NBC Sports app via authentication as well as on the Peacock streaming service, which is ramping up from its Tokyo debut and will air every event from all 15 sports live in real time via its premium tier as well as offer full replays.
NBC’s main coverage launches its primetime coverage on Thursday, February 3, with live team figure skating getting underway along with men’s and women’s moguls,...
- 2/2/2022
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Updated with Paralympic Games commentators info: A majority of Japanese citizens oppose the Olympics to go ahead in Tokyo due to the coronavirus pandemic, but NBC insists the Games will go on, at least for now.
“NBC will be bringing all of it to America,” declared Mike Tirico today at the 2021 virtual NBCUniversal upfronts presentation. Pitching hard for an Olympics that is just over two months away from starting, NBC Sports’ top frontman listed off an arsenal of NBC Sports programming coming over the next year, including a Super Bowl being played right in the middle of a Winter Olympics for the very first time
With all the concerns about the Olympics, both pandemic and politically based, NBCUniversal took the platform of its upfront on Monday morning to plant a deep flag for the international sporting event.
Promising to be “super sizing our summer” off the rescheduled Xxxii Olympiad, top...
“NBC will be bringing all of it to America,” declared Mike Tirico today at the 2021 virtual NBCUniversal upfronts presentation. Pitching hard for an Olympics that is just over two months away from starting, NBC Sports’ top frontman listed off an arsenal of NBC Sports programming coming over the next year, including a Super Bowl being played right in the middle of a Winter Olympics for the very first time
With all the concerns about the Olympics, both pandemic and politically based, NBCUniversal took the platform of its upfront on Monday morning to plant a deep flag for the international sporting event.
Promising to be “super sizing our summer” off the rescheduled Xxxii Olympiad, top...
- 5/17/2021
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
NBC has apologized for comments from one of their analysts who suggested that Japan’s occupation of Korea between 1910 to 1945 had some positives for the country. “We understand that Korean people were insulted by these comments, and we apologize.” the network’s Carolyn Manno read on-air Sunday. The imbroglio got going after an on-air commentator Joshua Cooper Ramo noted the arrival of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the opening ceremony on Friday, and spoke about the painful history between the two countries. Also Read: Fox News Removes Column Condemning 'Darker, Gayer, Different' Olympics Japan was “a country which occupied Korea from 1910 to...
- 2/12/2018
- by Jon Levine
- The Wrap
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