The broadcast premiere of the feature-length documentary The Nagano Tapes tonight on NBC Sports Network at 11:30 PM ET (after the Red Wings-Blues game) kicks off a five-film deal for Mandalay Sports Media and Frank Marshall’s Five Ring Films for The Olympic Channel. The debut docu, about the men’s hockey tournament at…

Winter Olympics viewing has dipped 6% in primetime through the first five days in PyeongChang compared with 2014 in Sochi, but NBC executives say ad guarantees are being met and overall consumption is on a record pace. Mark Lazarus, chairman of NBC Broadcasting and Sports, was joined by Joe Brown, NBC Sports Group SVP…

(UPDATED with final numbers) The lighting of the cauldron at the Opening Ceremony is behind us and now the real competition heats ups in PyeongChang but right now NBC is aiming for a rating silver and a viewership bronze. Garnering a 13.8 in metered market results for Saturday's primetime coverage of the official Day…

NBC Sports Network averaged 1.3 million viewers for the U.S. women’s soccer team’s 2-0 victory over New Zealand on the opening day of soccer competition at the Rio Olympics. That’s more than double (+107%) the viewership for the team’s 2012 London Olympics opener, which drew 629,000 viewers for U.S. vs…

UPDATE, 12:20 PM:  Turns out a lot of people like to get up early on a Saturday to watch hockey – a lot. The final Nielsen numbers are in and yesterday's 7:30-10:30 AM USA 3-2 Olympics victory over Russia's men team drew a record 4.1 million viewers for NBC Sports Network. The most to ever watch a hockey game on the…

NBC Sports Network was known as Versus until the beginning of last year, and is about to adopt a new name: NBCSN. It will be a gradual transition, with new graphics and references phased in leading up to the 2014 Sochi Olympics in February. But the company says that it will “significantly increase” the effort…

The companies hinted in December, when they announced a sports content alliance, that we’d see collaborative programming arrangements like the two announced today. This week they’ll introduce Fantasy Football Live — Thursday Night, a weekly show that helps NFL fantasy players build their teams. A version for TV will…

NBC and NBC Sports Network are putting on the foil before the puck drops on the next National Hockey League season. The same day the league released its 2013-14 schedule, NBC Sports Group announced that the broadcast net and its cable sibling will air a combined 103 regular-season games during the NHL campaign. NBC…

ESPN is said to have matched NBC’s offer for a media rights package to the Big East conference’s games through the 2019-2020 academic year in a deal worth $130M, according to various sports media reports. NBC Sports Network made an official offer last week and ESPN, as the current primary rights holder, had one week…

Even though its corporate executives at Comcast are meeting with the Vice-President discussing ways to curb gun violence, NBC Sports Network said today it will not be dropping its sponsorship of the largest gun trade show in America next week. A network spokesperson told Deadline that NBC Sports has “participated in…

The National Hockey League cancelled another swath of games today, eliminating all regular season games through December 14 plus the All-Star Game in Columbus, Ohio that was scheduled for January 27. The NHL lockout has now wiped out 422 regular season games plus the Winter Classic that was cancelled earlier this month…

NBC Sports Network has acquired multi-year rights from DirecTV to broadcast The Dan Patrick Show, TV and syndicated radio program with Football Night in America co-host Dan Patrick. The show will debut on NBC Sports Network tomorrow and air weekdays from 9 AM–Noon ET. A Best Of version will air weekday afternoons from…