2024 Paris Olympics

[Georgie56 3318]

Less than 100 days out.

 

Here's CBC's coverage plans.

Edited April 17, 2024 by Georgie56

[nycnewsjunkie 1443]

On 4/17/2024 at 11:24 AM, Georgie56 said:

Less than 100 days out.

 

Here's CBC's coverage plans.

Interesting. Looks like they’ll have Scott Russell (normally the prime time host, IIRC) hosting during the midday/afternoon hours. That makes a lot of sense, given the 6 hour time difference.

[Georgie56 3318]

Steve Kornacki and Willie Geist will be a part of NBC’s coverage. As will Golf Channel’s Kira Dixon and WCVB’s Naoko Funayama.

[ColumbusNewsFan 217]

49 minutes ago, Georgie56 said:

Steve Kornacki and Willie Geist will be a part of NBC’s coverage. As will Golf Channel’s Kira Dixon and WCVB’s Naoko Funayama.

It's interesting that they went with the sports reporter from WCVB instead of their NBC 10 Boston station. I'm just pointing this out here.

 

[mer764KCTV5 154]

1 hour ago, Georgie56 said:

Steve Kornacki and Willie Geist will be a part of NBC’s coverage. As will Golf Channel’s Kira Dixon and WCVB’s Naoko Funayama.

For 5 seconds, I actually thought it was Karen Kornacki from KMBC-TV, and I was like, "Did she just un-retire just for this?"

 

Turns out, no.

[JTT 113]

Why does the article say that wcvb is an NBC affiliate when it's an ABC affiliate?

[Georgie56 3318]

6 hours ago, ColumbusNewsFan said:

It's interesting that they went with the sports reporter from WCVB instead of their NBC 10 Boston station. I'm just pointing this out here.

 

She’s participated in past Summer and Winter Games for NBC.

[Jase 1065]

6 hours ago, ColumbusNewsFan said:

It's interesting that they went with the sports reporter from WCVB instead of their NBC 10 Boston station. I'm just pointing this out here.

 

 

As @Georgie56 has pointed out, Funayama has covered previous Olympics, so it isn't unusual to be asked back despite working at a non-NBC station. It's a win-win situation.... WCVB has someone in Paris covering the Olympics on NBC's dime and NBC adds an experienced Olympics reporter to the roaster.

 

1 hour ago, JTT said:

Why does the article say that wcvb is an NBC affiliate when it's an ABC affiliate?

 

A simple mistake...

[Georgie56 3318]

NBC has released their list of 150 commentators.

 

[Mrknowitall526 116]

Does anyone have any links to NBC's new cuts of the Olympic theme song that they are using during Primetime in Paris?

[PTVNews 196]

8 hours ago, Mrknowitall526 said:

Does anyone have any links to NBC's new cuts of the Olympic theme song that they are using during Primetime in Paris?

 

I was wondering if some of the highlight music was custom or production music. Particularly what they play when promoting the Late Night coverage.

[TheRolyPoly 2551]

For those wondering, this is when coverage will end across the NBCUniversal networks (this is according to various TV listings websites)...

• NBC's final day: Sunday from 7:00am-2:30pm for the final full day of coverage, 2:30-6:00pm for the closing ceremonies (LIVE), 7:00-10:00pm for the ceremony (repeat), 10:00pm for an hour-long special previewing L.A. 2028.
• Telemundo's final day: Sunday from 7:00am-1:00pm for the final full day of coverage, and 2:30-6:00pm for the closing ceremonies (LIVE). They've also done a nightly two-hour best-of look from Midnight to 2:00am and it'll be there as well. Universo's coverage is already wrapped up as they'll have no coverage at all this weekend so that network is done for these games.
• USA stops their 24-hour coverage: Sunday at 5:30pm, before NBC on NASCAR coverage from Richmond Motor Speedway. USA's normal entertainment programming doesn't resume until at least 9:30pm on Sunday.
• CNBC and E!'s final day: Saturday from 4:00am-6:00pm. There will be no Sunday coverage for either of the networks.
• Golf Channel's final day: Saturday from 3:00am-1:00pm + repeat from 9:00pm-3:00am as the Golf portion of the games wraps up. There will be no new Sunday coverage outside of repeat from Saturday.

[Mrknowitall526 116]

16 hours ago, PTVNews said:

 

I was wondering if some of the highlight music was custom or production music. Particularly what they play when promoting the Late Night coverage.

I like some of that, too! But I'm talking about the remixes of the famous intro and commercial break music. I did read an article about them having done the remixes,  but I can't find any links to the actual music anywhere. It's catchy. 

[NYAZSporty 141]

I like that at least here in Phoenix, KPNX, who usually puts a TOH ID on the bottom of the screen (sometimes also coming out of local breaks), are flexible & put it around when Gold medal events wrap up, saw it last night after the Women's 4x100 relay which was shown at 10, they waited until 10:04 after the race to put it up & today during the Women's football final putting it five minutes early at 9:55 so as not to get in the way of the moments of euphoria afterwards.

[panewswatcher69 29]

Which broadcast is the 2024 NBC Paris Olympics closing credits montage planned for?

Past NBC Olympics have had the closing credit montage in the last broadcast block before the closing ceremony block.

[Chicago2008 22]

Looks like these Olympic games gave NBC gave big ratings boost https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/2024-olympics-final-tv-ratings-nbcuniversal-1235972438/