0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/5/2015
The 36th Annual Sports Emmy Awards were handed out in New York on Tuesday, May 5. NBC’s coverage of the Sochi Winter Olympic Games was a big winner, but in several technical categories. We can’t say the usual suspects won because Bob Costas did not pick up the Outstanding Studio Host Award. Ernie Johnson won […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/22/2014
So we’ve finally reached the end of the 2014 Winter Olympics. The last medals to be handed out will be the four-man bobsled which will be aired live on NBCSN at 4 a.m. ET, the men’s hockey gold medal to either Canada or Sweden and that game will be seen live on NBC starting with […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/21/2014
Friday’s USA-Canada men’s hockey semifinal game has become NBC’s most-streamed event surpassing Super Bowl XLVI. Overall, 2.122 million unique users streamed the game as compared to the Super Bowl’s 2.105 users. And what makes the more recent numbers more impressive is that the Olympics require authentication of users’ cable and satellite accounts while the Super […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/20/2014
This from NBC Sports. Today’s USA-Canada women’s hockey gold medal game at the Sochi Winter Olympics was the second most-streamed game in NBC Sports history except for Super Bowl XLVI. NBC says the game was streamed by 1.2 million unique users as the game was played at noon ET when many Americans were at work. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/19/2014
Last Saturday was the first time that NBC’s primetime ratings for the Sochi Games had fallen below both Vancouver’s and Turin’s levels. Now you can Tuesday night’s primetime to that. On Tuesday which had no figure skating, NBC registered an 11.2 rating with an 18 share. That’s below Vancouver’s rating in 2010 for the comparable […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/17/2014
From NBC Sports, we have the ratings for Sunday night’s Olympic presentation. After posting the two lowest-rated nights of the games on Friday and Saturday, NBC made a market correction on Sunday. The Sunday ratings garnered a 12.1 number with a 19 share, down from Vancouver’s 13.2/21 in 2010, but up 4% from Turin’s 11.6/18 […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/6/2014
Now that the XXII Olympic Winter Games are here, it’s time to provide you a quick viewing primer on which the networks that will carry the events. You know that NBC will carry Olympic programming over a span of 18 nights beginning on Thursday, February 6 and lasting until Sunday, February 23. But what about […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/5/2014
As part of the TV Everywhere initiative that’s being pushed by cable and satellite providers, NBC’s Olympic coverage will require viewers to authenticate to watch its online streams. Now for those who have not verified their cable and satellite subscriptions on the NBC Sports Live Extra App, they’ll be allowed a one-time and one-time only […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/3/2014
As we transition from the Super Bowl to the Winter Olympics, we note that NBCUniversal will go all out to ensure you know that’s it’s covering the games. As it did with the 2012 Summer Games in London, NBCU will utilize its various resources to promote the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Sochi is a […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 1/9/2014
NBC continues to make daily announcements about its Olympic programming. Coming in February, NBCOlympics.com will debut several new online features for its site and the NBC Sports Live Extra App. One particular feature that returns from London is Gold Zone which will take viewers to wherever the action is in Sochi. Unlike London, there will […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/19/2013
We’re continuing to get announcements from NBCUniversal about its coverage plans for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Sochi is a warm water port city in Russia which averages 50 degrees in the month of February. This announcement involves the amount of hours that will be devoted to the Winter Games both on television […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 12/17/2013
For years, NBC and Yahoo have been fighting it out over how many people have been visiting their respective websites for Olympic news. Yahoo usually crows about the traffic hitting its site in huge numbers over NBCOlympics.com. This has made NBC execs see red over the Yahoo proclamations. But on Monday, the two companies which […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 10/29/2013
NBCOlympics.com has relaunched today, this being 100 days to the Opening Ceremony at Sochi, a warm water port city in Russia. The site looks much cleaner than it did when it was tooled for London. NBCOlympics.com will cover all 15 sports in the 2014 Winter Games and provide athlete bios, videos plus offer “TV Everywhere” […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/8/2013
Let’s go over the entire list of those who won hardware in the 34th Annual Sports Emmy Awards. The awards were handed out at Frederick P. Rose Hall at Lincoln Center in New York. Overall, NBC Sports Group has reason to crow with 23 Emmys, the most of any sports media group. Turner Sports was […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 5/7/2013
The 34th Annual Sports Emmy Awards were handed out tonight in New York at Frederick P. Rose Hall at the Time Warner Center. Thanks to Josh Krulewitz, ESPN public relations maven, I can list the individual winners. I’ll have a full list from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences tomorrow and I’ll post […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 3/20/2013
Just received this from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the full press release of the nominations for the 34th Annual Sports Emmy Awards. NBC Sports Group received the most nominations with 58 followed by ESPN with 43 and Turner in third with 27. Bob Costas was nominated yet again for Outstanding Studio […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/13/2012
We have a very long press release, 3,877 words, from NBC talking about the 2012 London Olympics. Not only were they successful on the networks of NBCUniversal, but they spread their wings to other parts of the NBCUniversal family that had Olympic-related programming. First things first. The Closing Ceremony turned out to be the most […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/12/2012
Ok, Day 16 has become a bit of a mess on NBC. If I put this up earlier in the day, I would have to edit the hell out of the post, but luckily, I was watching NBC’s primetime coverage and in came an announcement that affects Sunday’s daytime programming. First, NBC will hit the […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/10/2012
Let’s see what the networks of NBCUniversal have in store for us on Saturday. NBC’s daytime coverage which will include the women’s basketball gold medal game between the United States and France will be live in all time zones starting at 10 a.m. ET/7 a.m. PT. Primetime on NBC will include the final day in […]
0 comments by Ken Fang
Haven’t been able to provide the Friday megalinks in a while. Let’s do an edition today. Normally I include a link to the Weekend Viewing Picks, but I’ll be doing that tonight so you can find it on my site when it’s posted. If you follow me on Twitter or have an RSS feed, you’ll […]
