Highlights of Day 3 Events In the pool, swimming medals will be awarded in the men’s 200m freestyle, women’s 100m backstroke, men’s 100m backstroke and women’s 100m breaststroke live on NBC in primetime, beginning at 8 p.m. ET. Ledecky, two-time Olympic gold medalist Ryan Murphy and two-time Olympic gold medalist Lilly King will lead Team […]
Saturday 7/24/21 Fast Affiliate Ratings Total Viewers: NBC: 10.72 million, CBS: 1,56, ABC: 1.33, Fox: 356,000 Adults 18-49: NBC: 2.5 rating/20 share, CBS: 0.2/ 2, ABC and Fox: 0.1/ 1 each Naturally, NBC stood well above the competing broadcast nets care of night one of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. But an estimated 10.72 million […]
Highlights of Day 2 Events SWIMMING Finals (9:30 p.m., NBC) Katie Ledecky enters Tokyo ranked second in the world this year in the 400m free, which she won in Rio in a world record that still stands. Australian Ariarne Titmus is reigning world champion and is 2.35 seconds faster than Ledecky this year after posting […]
NBC airs its first-ever live morning broadcast of an Olympic Opening Ceremony, live from the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo. The Parade of Nations — with delegations encouraged to have one male and one female flag bearer — will have a slightly tweaked order. Greece, which always goes first as the Olympics’ birthplace, will be followed […]
NBCUniversal’s coverage of the Tokyo Olympics begins on NBCSN a full three days before the Opening Ceremony with live softball on Tuesday, July 20. Beth Mowins, who has called 27 Women’s College World Series in softball, makes her NBC Olympics debut handling play-by-play of the sport, alongside analyst Michele Smith, a two-time U.S. Olympic softball […]
The Summer Olympics soon arrives in Tokyo, and with it, the Opening Ceremony on July 23 will display the pageantry, pomp and circumstance showcasing Japanese culture. The entire spectacle is meant to be a representation of global unity. The irony is it will all unfold in front of a sparse amount of people inside the […]
Throughout the month of June 2021, NBC Olympics will present more than 85 hours of U.S. Olympic Team Trials coverage (with 50+ of those hours in primetime) across NBC, NBCSN, Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA, and NBC Sports digital platforms. Four sports will be in focus — swimming, gymnastics, track & field, and diving. […]
Veteran International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound has said that the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games are going to be postponed amid the coronavirus pandemic. Pound said the Games will likely be moved to 2021, with the details to be worked out in the next months. He said he expects the IOC to announce its next […]
