![]() We will also be calling gymnastics and basketball. And the pool also includes diving, where we also have some good competitors. Also from the pool, where we have good results for Canadian athletes. We will have a position in the Olympic Stadium for all the athletics and the Opening and Closing Ceremonies. So the 130 people who are over there will be mainly gathering content, either in mixed zones or doing some features or some reports, and calling key sports for us onsite. Our planned programming and output across multiple linear channels, multiple digital channels and beyond has not in any way been reduced.īut if you look under the hood and how it’s all coming together, we are going to do more production from the States than we would have done in 2020.įrançois Messier, CBC Executive Director of Productions and Sport : We made the decision in early September to bring our studios back to Canada, both to Toronto and Montreal. Gary Zenkel, President, NBC Olympics : If you are viewer of NBC’s Olympic coverage here in the USA, your experience, if it had taken place in the summer of 2020 versus what you will have the opportunity to watch in the summer of 2021, other than environmentally, not going to be different. We’ll have to wait and see where those ones wind up.How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected your Tokyo 2020 production plans? ![]() However, there are still plenty of names expected to play a role in NBC’s Olympic coverage who haven’t officially been announced yet, such as new NBC addition Mike Tirico. ![]() There are lots of familiar names on the hosting side, too, including Costas, Al Michaels, Dan Patrick, Rebecca Lowe, Liam McHugh, Carolyn Manno and Ryan Seacrest, and plenty on the reporting side, including Michele Tafoya (swimming), Pierre McGuire (water polo), Alex Flanagan (general) and Kathryn Tappen (beach volleyball). Those sport-specific analysts aren’t easy to find, but it looks like the network has a good mix of veterans such as Rowdy Gaines (swimming, calling his sixth Olympics) and Cynthia Potter (diving, calling her seventh) and rookies such as Feherty (golf), Nastia Liukin (gymnastics) and John Smith (wrestling). The NBC release outlines many of the hosts and analysts, and adds that the 59 Olympic medals (25 gold, 21 silver, and 13 bronze) NBC analysts have won would place them fifth in the London 2012 medal count. The overall talent lineup features the return of many of the network’s signature Olympic hosts, play-by-play commentators and analysts with Olympic experience. ![]() NBC Sports Group presents expanded coverage of the Rio Games, including golf returning to the Olympics for the first time since 1904. More than 40 members of the team will be making their NBC Olympics debuts, led by Golf Channel’s David Feherty. Matt Lauer, co-anchor of TODAY, Meredith Vieira, special correspondent for TODAY, and Hoda Kotb, co-host of the fourth hour of TODAY, will host the Opening Ceremony. The Opening Ceremony of the 2016 Rio Olympics is one month from today – Friday, August 5 on NBC. A NBC release from Monday cites their 170 commentators as “ the most ever for an Olympics“:īob Costas leads a record 170 NBC Olympics commentators (which includes those to be announced in the coming weeks) – the most ever for an Olympics – as NBCUniversal presents coverage of the Games of the XXXI Olympiad from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil across NBC, NBCSN, Bravo, CNBC, Golf Channel, MSNBC, USA Network, TELEMUNDO, NBC UNIVERSO, the NBC Sports app, and. ![]() It looks like NBC will be going big on August’s Rio Olympics in a variety of ways, with over 6,700 hours of coverage and significant online programming to buttress its television feeds, and that extends to the announcing front. ![]()
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