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NBC (And Two Sister Cable Networks) To Carry 2012 Olympic Site Announcement On July 6th

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NBC (And Two Sister Cable Networks) To Carry 2012 Olympic Site Announcement On July 6th

This Wednesday (July 6th) at about 7:30 A.M. EDT, the International Olympic Committee will announce the site for the 2012 Summer Olympics.

According to this NBC press release, the network will devote the first hour of that morning's "Today" show (7-8 A.M. EDT) to the announcement. Between 7 and 7:30, there will be reports from the cities vying for the Games, as well as from Singapore, where the IOC will make the announcement. After the announcement, there will be reactions to the decision.

Additionally, there will also be live coverage and analysis on both CNBC and MSNBC. Don't be surprised if there's Spanish-language coverage on Telemundo as well.

Normally, "Today" airs from 7 to 9 A.M. in each time zone (with a third hour from either 9-10 A.M. or 10-11 A.M. local time, depending on the NBC affiliate). I wonder if on July 6th, the 7-8 A.M. EDT portion of "Today" will air live in all time zones.

Why is NBC going all-out to cover this announcement??

First, New York is one of five finalists for the 2012 Summer Olympics. The others are Madrid, Moscow (which hosted the 1980 Summer Olympics), London (which hosted the 1908 and 1948 Summer Olympics) and Paris (which hosted the 1900 and 1924 Summer Games). If either London or Paris wins the 2012 Games, that city will become the first city to host an Olympics on three separate occassions.

But most importantly, NBC already has U.S. television broadcast rights for the 2012 Summer Olympics, regardless of where they are held. NBC is obviously hoping that New York will get the 2012 Games, for almost all of the coverage on both NBC and it's sister cable networks would air live.

The announcement may also end up becoming a major factor in the future of the NBC Television Network. If New York wins the 2012 Summer Olympics, NBC may build an "international broadcast center" which during the Games would accomodate broadcasters from all over the world. After the Olympics end, it could replace 30 Rockefeller Plaza in midtown Manhattan as home of NBC's New York studios. It should be noted that with the exception of "Today"'s streetfront studio (actually across the street from 30 Rock), the studios at 30 Rock were originally built as radio studios in 1933.
 
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The big question, though, is what kind of internet rights NBC will have for the 2012 games -- national or worldwide? The last several years, NBC had worldwide rights, which prevented English networks worldwide from putting their feeds on the internet -- even to a point where the entire channel is off the net during the games, all for a sake of a few minutes of coverage per hour.
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Re: NBC (And Two Sister Cable Networks) To Carry 2012 Olympic Site Announcement On July 6th

> I wonder if on July
> 6th, the 7-8 A.M. EDT portion of "Today" will air live in
> all time zones.

Stations in the Central, Mountain, and Pacific time zones will probably have the option of carrying the first hour of "Today" live, but few will do so. Central and Mountain zone stations aren't going to blow out an hour of their local news--they'll go to a pool feed of the announcement when it happens, then go back to the rest of their local show. When they get to 7am "Today" will have tons of followup, anyway.

> The announcement may also end up becoming a major factor in
> the future of the NBC Television Network. If New York wins
> the 2012 Summer Olympics, NBC may build an "international
> broadcast center"

New York is not getting the games. Start practicing your French.
 
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> This Wednesday (July 6th) at about 7:30 A.M. EDT, the
> International Olympic Committee will announce the site for
> the 2012 Summer Olympics.
>
> Why is NBC going all-out to cover this announcement??
>
> First, New York is one of five finalists for the 2012 Summer
> Olympics.
>
> But most importantly, NBC already has U.S. television
> broadcast rights for the 2012 Summer Olympics, regardless of
> where they are held. NBC is obviously hoping that New York
> will get the 2012 Games, for almost all of the coverage on
> both NBC and it's sister cable networks would air live.

WNBC has been airing promos to get people at 30 Rock to be there for the coverage. WNBC has also been airing a "Road to Signapore" series on various newscasts (mainly Live at Five) about possible Olympic preparations.

> The announcement may also end up becoming a major factor in
> the future of the NBC Television Network. If New York wins
> the 2012 Summer Olympics, NBC may build an "international
> broadcast center" which during the Games would accomodate
> broadcasters from all over the world. After the Olympics
> end, it could replace 30 Rockefeller Plaza in midtown
> Manhattan as home of NBC's New York studios. It should be
> noted that with the exception of "Today"'s streetfront
> studio (actually across the street from 30 Rock), the
> studios at 30 Rock were originally built as radio studios in
> 1933.

I doubt that NBC will be leaving 30 Rock any time soon, and I doubt that NYC will get the Olympics (I also hope and pray too!). If you have ever been to Willets Point you will find it the armpit of Queens, filled with various auto dismantling establishments (aka junkyards). There is some speculation over enviornmental contamination on a good deal of the land that is planned for the press centre. Also, the Supreme's decsion not withstanding, there is also a reluctance among those who have businesses in the area to leave for the Olympics.

As for NBC's Olympic coverage, its awful with its rah-rah America jingoism. It makes me wish I was able to watch real coverage and not what did the American athletes do.<P ID="signature">______________
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>
> New York is not getting the games. Start practicing your
> French.

Goes without saying - much of the infrastructure(roads, hotels, stadiums,
state of the art broadcast center,etc) is already in place there after the
World Cup in '02. After the last minute rush-job in Greece and all the negative
publcity that ate into ticket sales and tourism, IOC won't take any chances with any possibility of bad PR. Paris, wee-wee.

NY was just a token bid. Gallant, of course, is off his rocker...as always.<P ID="signature">______________
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