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Al Michaels Signs Emeritus Deal With NBC Sports In Addition To His Amazon Duties
Al Michaels, who in March exited NBC’s flagship Sunday Night Football booth after 16 seasons to join the new Thursday Night Football franchise at Amazon, isn’t exiting his former home completely.
NBC Sports said Tuesday that it has signed Michaels to an “emeritus role,” a deal that the network said will see him…
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Comcast Delivers Strong Q1 Results, With Super Bowl LVI And Beijing Olympics Helping It Over Wall Street’s Bar
Comcast began 2022 on a strong note, reporting first-quarter results ahead of Wall Street expectations on Thursday with highlights including ad revenue from Super Bowl LVI and the Beijing Olympics.
Total revenue climbed 14% from the year-earlier period to $31.01 billion, while earnings per share came in at 86 cents…
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Russia & Belarus Banned From Winter Paralympics In Stunning U-Turn
Russian and Belarusian athletes have been banned from the Winter Paralympics in Beijing in a stunning u-turn taken 24 hours after they were given the greenlight to compete, as the invasion of Ukraine enters its second week.
Yesterday, the International Paralympics Committee (IPC) said the nations could compete if they…
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Russia And Belarus Figure Skaters Banned Over Ukraine Invasion, Keeping Olympic Trio Out Of World Championships
The international union that governs skating said Tuesday that it was following the recommendations of the International Olympic Committee in banning athletes from Russia and Belarus from its competitions across the sports of figure skating and speed skating. It becomes the latest organization in the sports world to…
2022 Olympics Closing Ceremony Garners Less Than 7M Viewers; Beijing Games Down 55% From 2018
The 2022 Beijing Olympics concluded Sunday with icy fanfare, a spirited speech from International Olympic Committee chief Thomas Bach and an audience count that pales in comparison to previous Winter games.
In overnight numbers, NBC’s Sunday primetime coverage of the closing ceremony gathered a 1.0 demo rating 6.57…
Beijing Olympics Closing Ceremony Review: Lumbering Event Gives Geopolitical Tensions Short Shrift; Ciao To Italy 2026
Despite the high-tech tricks, political posturing and pyrotechnics, the best part of the Closing Ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics proved to be the athletes.
Competing the past two weeks amidst rising international tensions, pandemic quarantines and with a heavy-handed host, the participants injected a bit…
How To Watch The Beijing Winter Olympics Closing Ceremony Online And On TV
Coverage of the 2022 Winter Olympics wraps up Sunday with the Closing Ceremony, which will air live from Beijing National Stadium on Peacock, NBCOlympics.com and the NBC Sports app beginning at 7 a.m. ET/4 a.m. PT. NBC and Peacock will rebroadcast the finale gala in an “enhanced primetime presentation” beginning…
Joe Biden Unequivocally Declares Russian Attack On Ukraine Coming Soon; Putin Has “Made The Decision”, POTUS Says
"We have reason to believe the Russian forces are planning to and intend to attack Ukraine in the coming week, the coming days," Joe Biden said unequivocally Friday for the first time after weeks of looming crisis in the former USSR.
"We believe that they will target Ukraine's capital Kyiv, a city of 2.8 million…
NBC Picks Hosts For Beijing Olympics Closing Ceremony On Sunday
EXCLUSIVE: NBC has picked the hosts for its coverage of Sunday’s Closing Ceremony of the Beijing Olympics — and two of them have been in the news this week.
Figure skating announcers Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir will be joined by Terry Gannon to call the expected extravaganza from Chinese capital, we’ve learned. The…
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Thursday Olympics Coverage Ticks Up Slightly From Wednesday Lows, Matches First Night Of Competition
The 2022 Winter Olympics, now three Thursdays into competition, are back where they started ratings-wise.
Despite the drama unfolding on ice with Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva’s doping controversy, Thursday brought NBC’s primetime coverage of the Beijing games up only ever so slightly. Per fast affiliates, the…
NBC Olympics Coverage Reaches Lows On Wednesday, Drops Below First Night Of 2022 Winter Games
Leading into Wednesday primetime, the lowest-rated evening of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing was the very first night of competition pre-Opening Ceremony. However, Wednesday marked new lows for NBC Olympics coverage.
In early numbers, Wednesday’s showing brought in a 1.1 rating in the 18-49 demo and 6.16 million…
2022 Olympics Viewership Still Behind 2018 Games As Tuesday Pulls 10.6M Total Viewers For NBCUniversal Platforms – Update
UPDATE FEB. 16 – 3 P.M.: NBCUniversal has shared updated numbers for Tuesday’s Olympics coverage, recording a Total Audience Delivery of 10.6 million viewers across all platforms including streaming service Peacock. The TV-Only TAD was 10.1 million viewers.
The latest count was not only down from from the previous…
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