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Sports Illustrated
September 25, 2000
John Walters |
All about Bob Fun and Games for Costas as Olympics enters Week 2...   |
Sports Illustrated
September 29, 2000
John Walters |
Ugly Americans The media coverage bias toward U.S. Olympians can make even an American despise the U.S.A.... |
Sports Central
August 14, 2012
Brad Oremland |
Thumbs Down For Olympic Coverage I mentioned last week that I didn't get into the Summer Olympics as much as usual this year. Much of the reason, I'm afraid, was NBC's television coverage of the London Games. |
Sports Illustrated
August 16, 2000
Frank Deford |
Sydney Olympics must overcome The Sydney Olympics are a month away, so let's look at the problems they face in attracting their usual high degree of interest in the United States. |
Sports Illustrated
October 12, 2000
Tim Layden |
Missing the action NBC's tedious telecast was caught in a time warp. Not only were the features overtly sappy and obvious, but the pacing of the telecasts was glacial... |
Sports Illustrated
April 5, 2000 |
What's in and what's out Q&A on the Olympics: Anything like Triplecast in the future?... Handball... Surfing... Mary Slaney and Amy Van Dyken... Why no golf?... Michael Bennett... Will Bahamas team win the 4x100-meter relay?... |
BusinessWeek
August 9, 2004
Katie DeWitt |
NBC's Marathon Of Coverage Spread over seven channels, the network will offer more programming than the past five summer Olympics combined. And for the first time, all 28 Olympic sports will air on TV. Will viewers have the stamina to stay tuned for more than 1,200 hours of Games? |
Fast Company
Chris Gayomali |
The Death Of The Spoiler Alert? What we are likely witnessing is a tectonic shift in the way media companies cover global events like the Olympics. Between television, the web, and mobile, there are now more platforms than ever to reach viewer eyeballs. |
Sports Illustrated
September 26, 2000
John Walters |
Making sense of NBC's tumbling Olympic ratings Question: Could NBC's ratings for the Olympics be any worse? Answer: Only if Dennis Miller were added to the broadcast team... |
Sports Central
February 17, 2006
Diane M. Grassi |
Winter Olympics TV Coverage Far From Golden Sports fans are not averse to watching Winter Olympics coverage, but trying to figure out NBC's television schedule has become a sport of Olympic proportions unto itself. |
Sports Central
February 18, 2006
Greg Wyshynski |
Who Owns the Olympics? By keeping a death-grip on what should be public-domain content, NBC Sports has placed a shroud of anonymity over the Olympics in Turin. |
Salon.com
February 11, 2002
Gary Kamiya |
Red, white and wrong NBC's jingoistic provincialism is missing what the Olympics are all about -- but the Games will prevail... |
Sports Illustrated
February 19, 2002
Janet Maslin |
Medal Worthy NBC's two toughest jobs in broadcasting the Olympics have been guessing what will make the best broadcast and, more important, knowing when to leave well enough alone. So far the network is succeeding at both... |
Sports Illustrated
September 23, 2000
Brian Cazeneuve |
Poolside in Sydney Clear out the chlorine and dust off the history books. This was a terrific swim meet. World records fell in 13 races, many more than once... |
The Motley Fool
August 13, 2004
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Olympic Malaise With the Olympics kicking off two weeks of heated global competition, I'm left asking some obvious questions. Will General Electric achieve a decent return on the $793 million it is paying for exclusive stateside broadcasting rights? |
BusinessWeek
September 27, 2004
Ronald Grover |
Jeff Zucker: Life Without Friends Keener competition means Jeffrey Zucker will have to work harder to keep NBC No. 1 |
Salon.com
September 15, 2000
Steve Burgess |
Thank God the Yanks aren't hosting the Olympics Maybe this year we'll be spared the USA's boorish egoism. |
Sports Illustrated
September 27, 2000
Frank Deford |
Nothing like being there Television fails to convey true 'feel' of Games |
AskMen.com
Lewis Helfand |
Sportscaster Salaries There are very few people who can throw a fastball like Randy Johnson or dominate a game like Shaq. And that's why these men earn the big bucks. But what about the men and women who call the games? How much do they get paid? |
InternetNews
February 10, 2006
Susan Kuchinskas |
NBC's Digital Olympics NBC partners with Google, Intel, Sun, Lenovo and Apple to provide Olympic coverage to an audience beyond the TV-viewing public. |
Sports Illustrated
March 3, 2000
Brian Cazeneuve |
Defining the Olympic Spirit Welcome to the first Sydney 2000 Mailbag, where we'll discuss anything and everything relating to the Summer Games.... |
Sports Central
September 1, 2004
Diane M. Grassi |
Olympics Coverage Fails U.S. Women's Teams Now that the 2004 Summer Olympic Games have come to a close, it might be the right time to evaluate the television coverage and the accessibility to view the sports U.S. fans most coveted during the Games. |
InternetNews
September 5, 2008
David Needle |
NBC's Web Olympics Coverage a Record Breaker Sports fans had a long menu of choices when it came to keeping up with the Olympics online, including using their mobile phones. |
Fast Company
June 2008
Lucas Conley |
Audiobrain Meets NBC: Creating Music for the Beijing Olympics How Audrey Arbeeny and Michael Sweet are using sound to help NBC orchestrate its Olympic coverage into narrative storytelling. |
BusinessWeek
August 9, 2004 |
Going for Network Gold in Athens NBC Universal Networks Group President Randy Falco explains why he's confident that the expanded Olympic coverage is a worthwhile investment. |
Sports Illustrated
September 7, 2000 |
The life of an NBC researcher In the next month nobody will have earned their stripes more than the network's Olympic researchers, the unsung heroes genetically altered to function without sleep while keeping encyclopedic recall of split times, hometowns and superstitions at their forever-typing fingertips... |
Sports Illustrated
May 5, 2000
Brian Cazeneuve |
Olympic burnout factor Q&A on the Olympics: increasing surge of interest rising in the 2000 Games in the U.S. public and media?... How does the United States' shot put, discus and hammer throwers look this year?... Has the IOC ever considered offering "at large" berths to athletes... etc. |
HBS Working Knowledge
March 6, 2006
James Aisner |
Winners and Losers at the Olympics Harvard Business School professor emeritus Stephen Greyser has been studying, teaching, and writing about the business of sports for over 30 years. Here, he discusses his perspectives on the the marketing aspects of the recent Turin Games. |
Salon.com
September 28, 2000
Kerry Lauerman |
The Olympics: Thursday Marion Jones wins gold No. 2 as the Williams sisters, an unknown Greek and Norwegian soccer players clean up. NBC, however, sinks to new lows. |
The Motley Fool
February 12, 2010
Eric Bleeker |
NBC's Winter Olympics Nightmare Will the peacock's loss on the Vancouver Games be Disney or News Corp.'s gain? |
Salon.com
August 1, 2000
Eric Boehlert |
The GOP Convention ratings debacle, Day 1 CBS and ABC tune in, America tunes out and NBC wins by ignoring the convention entirely. |
The Motley Fool
August 30, 2004
Phil Wohl |
Olympics: No Ad Bonanza The showcase for the world's athletes doesn't produce marquee names for advertisers. |
AskMen.com
Steve Seepersaud |
Top TV Network Contracts Televised sporting events have huge audiences. The bigger the game, the bigger the audience. In America, no game is bigger than the Super Bowl. More than half of all the television sets in the U.S. are tuned in to the NFL's championship game. |
Sports Central
August 8, 2012
Diane M. Grassi |
Shocker: Unsportsmanslike Conduct at Olympics The entire world is watching, and given the attention that the global media has recently dedicated to unethical behavior of certain Olympic athletes, sports fans could mistake it for a newly introduced Olympic sport of its own during these 2012 London Summer Games. |
Sports Illustrated
October 2, 2000 |
Thanks for the memories SI writers weigh in with their favorite Sydney moments... |
Salon.com
May 26, 2000
Eric Boehlert |
Photo finish Read 'em and sweep: ABC and NBC tie for the May TV ratings sweeps, but both sides claim victory. |
