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NBCUniversal’s Peacock to Stream All Winter Olympics Coverage Live
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Apparently there are still spots available for both the Olympics and the Super Bowl:
www.nexttv.com
Prices for the Super Bowl are around $6 million. NBC says no other show attracts the size audience of the Super Bowl.
NBCUniversal Still Has Some Spots for Sale in Super Bowl
Beijing Winter Olympics pacing even with Korea games
www.nexttv.com
Prices for the Super Bowl are around $6 million. NBC says no other show attracts the size audience of the Super Bowl.
NBC won't send sports announcing teams to 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing due to COVID-19
NBC's broadcasting teams for figure skating, Alpine skiing and snowboarding had been expected to be in Beijing.
www.usatoday.com
NBC Sports will voice track the Olympics from Stamford
Some Olympic contests, curling specifically, have already started happening, though the "official" opening ceremonies are still a few days away. For those interested, here is a full schedule of upcoming events and planned coverage:
2022 Winter Olympics: TV schedule, day-by-day viewing guide to the Beijing Winter Games
2022 Winter Olympics: TV schedule, day-by-day viewing guide to the Beijing Winter Games
NBC Announcers Ready To Call Action From US
Dan Hicks had a short drive from his home to NBC Sports headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut, the past two years to call the French Open and some World Cup skiing events. He didn’t imagine he would be doing it for an Olympics, though. With China’s strict policy about those who test positive for...
tvnewscheck.com
Good one for them to voicetrack the games.
Since the article mentions the BBC, I will discuss briefly how they present the Olympics from home.NBC Announcers Ready To Call Action From US
Dan Hicks had a short drive from his home to NBC Sports headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut, the past two years to call the French Open and some World Cup skiing events. He didn’t imagine he would be doing it for an Olympics, though. With China’s strict policy about those who test positive for...
The BBC's Olympics coverage originates in Salford, which is located in Greater Manchester. The studio uses virtual reality technology to make it look as if the hosts are in a ski lodge in the middle of a vast snowy forest with mountains. Below is a video from last summer that demonstrates how the BBC was able to pull off the appearance of being in Tokyo when they were really in Salford.
I've watched a bit of curling and hockey already. The opening ceremonies will be broadcast tonight. Once again, it seems that Comcast On Demand interfaces with all the content available from NBC/Peacock, including listing all the various stations (NBC, USA, etc.) that are currently broadcasting Olympic coverage and the archived events which one can watch at any time. From what I've seen so far, Comcast's interface for these winter games is laid out better and not as "clunky" as it was for the summer games several months ago.
The audio mix for the Opening Ceremonies wasn't great IMO. Many times the NBC announcers' voices got buried..In the PA announcements that were being made in the stadium, in the music being played as part of the ceremonies, etc.
NBC's Mike Tirico Coming Back From Beijing Earlier Than Planned
Tirico's final show from Beijing will be Monday night. He will fly from China to NBC Sports headquarters in Stamford, Conn., to host Wednesday's and Thursday's shows before heading to Los Angeles on Friday to anchor Olympic and Super Bowl coverage through Sunday.
tvnewscheck.com
TV Ratings: Beijing Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony Draws 16 Million Viewers, Down 43% From 2018 Games
NBC Sports states 16 million viewers tuned in to watch the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics opening ceremony, down 43% from the 2018 games.
variety.com
Olympics have 16 million viewers in the start. Note this is for NBC affiliates and not from Peacock where the preliminary data is from.
Yes I seen similar things too but with NBC Sports Regional prior to the Olympics when it comes to road games. I know NBC Sports Bay Area have the announcers voicetrack Warriors games from San Francisco whenever the Warriors are playing in other parts of the USA. Parts of this is Safety due to areas with low vaccination rates and parts of this is because of Budget reasons.
Ratings for Olympics on NBC are down from four years ago:
No big surprise, since real time ratings for all TV events are down. However, it appears Olympics streaming ratings are up:
www.marketwatch.com
No big surprise, since real time ratings for all TV events are down. However, it appears Olympics streaming ratings are up:
Winter Olympics ratings are dismal for NBC -- but that's not a surprise
Through the first four nights of competition, NBC is on track for the lowest-rated Winter Games in history.
www.marketwatch.com
NBCUniversal Clocks 13.2M Viewers In Thursday Olympics Total Audience Delivery – Update
NBC's coverage of 2022 Winter Olympics ventured to new heights with Thursday earning the highest demo rating of the games so far.
deadline.com
Here is an update for Thursday over the Olympics.
I was watching all night. Very bummed that my boy Shawn White wiped out.
Last night we tried to watch the coverage on NBC for the first time in a while. It was horrid. We tuned in because we'd hoped to watch the Olympic Games - You know, the games, the contests, the sporting events. What we saw were a few ski runs, followed by a commercial, then Mike Tirico chatting away in the studio for several minutes, then a commercial, then a teaser about the the next event, then commercial, then an overview of the next event with camera shots of the course, then commercial, then 2 whole runs, then a commercial before going to Tirico and another long-form interview. We watched for about 45 minutes in total, and we saw I think 3 ski runs and 2 bobsled runs during that entire time. The rest was all commercials, 1 on 1 in-studio interviews and chatter.
While there have been lots of reasons given as to why the ratings are down for this Winter Olympics, including the fact that we just got past the Summer Olympics months ago and there may be some viewer fatigue, some are opposed to the host country of China and all the politics involved, etc., IMO NBC's coverage itself doesn't help.
Someone above mentioned that streaming numbers are up. Not surprising considering one can watch an entire event or contest they're interested in, without cutaways for interviews or personal interest stories or inserts of irrelevant comments from Tirico in the studio when people just want to get back to the action. The only downside to at least some of the events they're streaming is that, for some, you don't get to hear any "play by play" or commentary while the athletes are doing their thing. It's more like a raw feed with a multi-camera shoot, the arena announcements and crowd noise only.
While there have been lots of reasons given as to why the ratings are down for this Winter Olympics, including the fact that we just got past the Summer Olympics months ago and there may be some viewer fatigue, some are opposed to the host country of China and all the politics involved, etc., IMO NBC's coverage itself doesn't help.
Someone above mentioned that streaming numbers are up. Not surprising considering one can watch an entire event or contest they're interested in, without cutaways for interviews or personal interest stories or inserts of irrelevant comments from Tirico in the studio when people just want to get back to the action. The only downside to at least some of the events they're streaming is that, for some, you don't get to hear any "play by play" or commentary while the athletes are doing their thing. It's more like a raw feed with a multi-camera shoot, the arena announcements and crowd noise only.
In case you haven't noticed, they're really trying as hard as they can to get people to sign up for Peacock. If that means alienating you from the broadcast coverage, then they're fine with that. For NBC, the future is Peacock. For CBS, the future is Paramount.
But it depends. The night of the skating, when Nathan Chen won the Gold, they ran the entire competition without much interruption, and later said it had been sponsored by Toyota. So if they have something particularly hot that they expect people to watch, they find ways to lessen the spotload. But on a Saturday night, when viewing is low anyway, it probably doesn't matter.
The no-frills Peacock coverage is fine for me. I've been watching hockey, curling and speed skating mostly -- along with a peek at Lindsey Jacobellis finally getting gold in snowboard cross -- and have been fully satisfied to watch events as they happen without the cutting away to other sports or to human interest features. Too bad the next Summer Olympics are two years off, because I look forward to being glued to Peacock for hours and hours then.
Ice hockey is another competition that NBC runs (via USA or CNBC) with minimal, if any, interruption during periods of play.
Olympics Competition Ices Some Syndies
Only two of the 15 talk shows were able to break into positive ratings territory in the week ending Feb. 6: Rachael Ray, which rose 13% to a season-best 0.9 household rating, and Tamron Hall, which garnered a 14% spike to a new season high 0.8.
tvnewscheck.com
Syndication ratings during Olympic week
And of course Politics cannot be discussed in detail by NBC Sports and their pundits over China given that in NBC Sports Case they would pass these topics to the news division.
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