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NBC this morning annointed Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski its lead figure-skating announcing team with play-by-play announcer  Terry Gannon. Three-time U.S. figure skating champion Weir, and 1998 Olympic gold medalist Lipinski, are joining Gannon in replacing NBC Sports Group’s previous lead figure skating team of Tom…

Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski are back, on NBC Sports. The two will serve as fashion experts for  NBC Sports Group‘s coverage of the 2014 Kentucky Oaks and Kentucky Derby. NBC Sports Group's live coverage from Churchill Downs begins April 30. Olympic figure skaters Weir and Lipinski were the It Couple of the 2014…

While NBC‘s new Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon is stocking up on celebrities to push ratings in his first week in the new gig — Jerry Seinfeld, Kristen Wiig, and Lady Gaga tonight —  over at CBS, competitor David Letterman has stocked up on Olympic athletes.  Letterman’s show has lined up U.S. Olympic Men's…

UPDATE, 5 PM PT: “Welcome to NBC's primetime coverage on this Monday — I'm Bob Costas, sitting in tonight for Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira," Costas joked at the top of tonight's NBC primetime Sochi Olympics coverage. He was returning to Games coverage for the first time after nearly a week off while doctors treated…

UPDATE: 10:45 AM: NBC Olympics executive producer Jim Bell said this morning it would have been “irresponsible” of NBC had the network not asked U.S. Olympic skier Bode Miller questions about his dead brother, and U.S. skeleton racer Noelle Pikus-Pace questions about a miscarriage she suffered a few years ago, during…

Bob Costas returned to the NBC Olympics studios at the International Broadcast Center in Sochi, Russia, today to prepare to resume his primetime and late night hosting duties tomorrow night. Matt Lauer is back tonight as NBC's Sochi Olympics primetime anchor for one more night before Costas returns to NBC’s air…

Matt Lauer is back as Bob Costas‘ fill-in tonight as NBC’s Sochi Olympics primetime anchor, after Meredith Vieira did the subbing two nights and made TV history. NBC Sports still says Costas is “day to day.” Lauer last week pulled double duty for three days, co-anchoring Today from Sochi while also filling in for…

NBC this morning tried to do damage control with regard to one of its controversial Olympics Opening Ceremony edits, when it had the Russian Police Choir re-perform Daft Punk's "Get Lucky" on Today. NBC's shocking lack of cop-choir performance was among the offenses listed by The Reporters Who Cover Olympics in their…

UPDATE:  I’m told that there’s less than meets the eye to the ballyhooed “access” Yahoo says it will offer to “all of NBCOlympics.com’s exclusive digital video rights.” That simply means Yahoo will have links to the NBC site — not streams of the programming itself. PREVIOUS: This is an extension of a previous deal…

TV networks should be encouraged by the ad forecasts presented this morning at the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference. Global spending on the medium will grow 7.7% in 2014, up from +1.8% this year, Magna Global EVP Vincent Letang says, In the U.S., broadcast TV will benefit most from the mid-term elections…

Dan Patrick and Rebecca Lowe will host NBCSN’s live weekday and weekend coverage and Lester will anchor weekday afternoon coverage of the XXII Olympic Winter Games from Sochi, Russia, NBC Olympics said today. They join previously announced Bob Costas, NBC's primetime and late night host, and Al Michaels, who will…

As I first revealed in a November 28th exclusive (and then again Dec 31 ) the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences would not be moving the Oscar show any earlier than Mid-February and most likely not at all despite rampant, and wrong, media speculation elsewhere (both before and after the Deadline article…