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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
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. |
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? |
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.... |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
August 21, 2008
Erik Qualman |
NBC's Olympic Fool's Gold; Google Comes Home Empty-Handed It's understandable that an older-school company like NBC may get some things wrong, and rely on old metrics to judge success. But Google didn't exactly turn in a world-record performance for the Olympics either. |
Sports Central
January 25, 2006
Diane M. Grassi |
Winter Olympics Athletes Face Double Standard Big media and corporate sponsorship of sporting events in the US have become as big a story these days as the sports and athletes they themselves sponsor, with nary an opportunity missed by advertisers and networks alike to promote themselves. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Sports Illustrated
September 25, 2000
John Walters |
All about Bob Fun and Games for Costas as Olympics enters Week 2... |
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 Central
August 7, 2012
Brad Oremland |
Olympics: Gymnastics is Not a Sport I still believe what I wrote almost a decade ago: "If you need judges from seven countries to vote on who won, your activity is not a sport." |
Sports Central
August 13, 2012
Angus Saul |
What London 2012 Was Really About London 2012 was all about passing on the baton. We can only hope that the baton is passed with good grace, and that sport will benefit from such a marvelous event. |
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... |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 5, 2014
Michael Blanding |
Can Putin Score Olympic Gold? With billions of dollars on the line at this year's troubled Winter Olympics, Stephen Greyser breaks down what's at stake for the brands of NBC, key corporate sponsors, Russia -- and Vladimir Putin. |
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
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.... |
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. |
Outside
August 2008 |
The Guide: Beijing Olympics 2008 The 15 things you must know about this year's Olympics in Beijing. |
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. |
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?... |
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? |
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... |
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. |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2012
Ariel Bleicher |
The On-Demand Olympics Engineers gear up for history's largest broadcasting operation |
Sports Central
July 25, 2008
Tom Kosinski |
U.S. Open Series, Who Cares? The only tennis tournaments that truly matter to the sports watching public at large are the big four -- the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and the U.S. Open. |
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
February 18, 2002
King Kaufman |
NBC shows its true colors You mustn't miss a minute of the Olympics, the network says, unless we can save a few bucks by you missing a whole day. Plus: Ohno, hockey and more... |
Outside
January 2010
Ryan Krogh |
The Rise of Curling Enough with the beer jokes -- curling's quickly gaining on classic Olympic sports like skiing. |
Sports Central
August 25, 2008
Brian Cox |
Running With Heavy Burdens in Dark Shadows For the USA track and field athletes, these Olympics have been about missed opportunities and devastating losses. |
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... |
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 27, 2004
Eric Poole |
An Immodest Proposal It seems we can't get through an Olympics without having some sort of controversy over judging. That's because gymnastics are fundamentally flawed. |
Sports Illustrated
September 27, 2000
John Walters |
Lather up The Sydney Games have provided a soap-opera spirit... |
Sports Illustrated
January 29, 2002
Tim Layden & Kostya Kennedy |
Seasonal Debate Forget the Summer Games, the Winter Olympics are tops... Put the Winter Games in deep freeze, the Summer Olympics are hot... |
AskMen.com
Will Brody |
Top 10: Former Olympic Sports There have been many sports that have been dropped over the years. Let's take a look at some of the Olympic sports of yesteryear. |
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. |
Sports Central
March 7, 2013
Kevin Beane |
Changes Afoot in U.S. Sports Broadcasting Looks like the U.S. sports channel landscape is about to change dramatically. FOX Sports has announced that they are rolling out a national sports network called "FOX Sports 1" on August 17th. |
The Motley Fool
April 25, 2011
Travis Hoium |
New Media Brings a Sports Overload The NFL draft shows just how many options sports fans have for consuming content. |
Outside
December 2008
W. Hodding Carter |
Memo to Michael Phelps Nice job in China, guy. Now could you turn your attention to saving swimming? |
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? |
AskMen.com
Ryan Faller |
5 New Ways To Watch The Olympics Here are five new ways to watch the Olympics; they're innovative and sure to enhance your viewing of the 21st Winter Olympics. |
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. |
Insurance & Technology
August 7, 2008
Katherine Burger |
Beijing Olympics Offer Business Lessons for Insurance industry Politics, history and nature keep getting in the way. For better or for worse, the insurance industry surely can relate. |
ifeminists
August 18, 2004
Carey Roberts |
Olympic Media Misfire According to USA Today's Olympic coverage, women's sports ruled, and men's athletics were an afterthought. This proves that feminists are willing to resort to propaganda-like media coverage to attempt complete statistical uniformity with men. |
Sports Illustrated
October 3, 2000 |
Scorecard Medal counts and TV ratings tell only part of the story in Sydney: As any follower of the Dream Team can attest, not all who won gold glittered. Herewith a tally of who landed right-side up and who went belly-up Down Under... |
Salon.com
February 20, 2002
King Kaufman |
Don't believe the hype It's always fun to watch a media darling lose, but Tuesday's bobsled upset offered up a tale for the ages... |
Sports Central
February 15, 2006
Mark Barnes |
The Olympics Are No Longer Olympian There may be hockey in the 2006 games, but there's no Jim Craig, no Mike Eruzione, and no Herb Brooks. Is there anyone left to represent us, to fight for gold, to honor America by giving us a new athletic hero? |
