February 2014 will begin a new contract for NBC with the International Olympic Committee. And with today’s election of Tokyo as the host of the 2020 Summer Olympic Games, the four sites that fall under the new deal have been determined and finalized. When NBC bid on this package of Games, only the hosts 2014 and 2016 had been selected. Now over the last couple of years, the sites for 2018 and 2020 have been determined through IOC votes.
Here are the sites and how much NBC is paying for each Olympics. They total $4.38 billion.
| 2014 | Sochi, Russia | February 7 — 23, 2014 | $775 million |
| 2016 | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | August 5 — 21, 2016 | $1.226 billion |
| 2018 | Pyeongchang, Republic of Korea | February 9 — 25, 2018 | $950 million |
| 2020 | Tokyo, Japan | July 24 — August 9, 2020 | $1.43 billion |
You’ll notice that only one of the next four Olympiads will be held in the Western Hemisphere. Sochi will be 9 hours ahead of the Eastern time zone in February. Rio is one hour ahead of Eastern Time in the summer. Pyeongchang is 14 hours ahead of the US East Coast and Tokyo is 13. For the Asian Olympics, NBC will be able to show some events live in primetime, but expect plenty of tape delays.
