0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/21/2014
Just as the Canada-USA women’s hockey gold medal game set an Olympics streaming record for NBC in the United States, it also set a record for CBC in the Great White North. CBC says more than 325,000 devices were streaming the event online making it the highest online audience ever for Canada’s public broadcaster. It […]
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. […]
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Men’s hockey on NBCSN will take center stage on Friday morning, Day 14 of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. NBCSN’s live coverage includes the men’s curling bronze medal match between Communist China and Sweden at 3 a.m. ET and the women’s ski cross competition. The women’s 4×6 biathlon relay will be seen live after […]
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Thanks to ladies figure skating and alpine skiing, NBC saw a rise in the ratings for the second Wednesday night of the Sochi Olympic Games. For Wednesday’s primetime, NBC registered a 12.2 rating and a 20 share, up from Vancouver’s 11.9/19 in 2010 and Turin’s 10.0/15 in 2006. Viewership on Wednesday averaged 20.2 million people […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/19/2014
The women’s hockey gold medal game is the big highlight of the day for CBC and its affiliated networks. Canada will try to defend its gold medal that it has retained since the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City. Team USA hopes to break that streak on Thursday. CBC carries the game at noon ET. […]
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Ok, we’re reaching to the final days of the Sochi Olympic Games. On Thursday, there’s the ladies free skate in figure skating. It will be aired live in its entirety on NBCSN starting at 10 a.m. and be shown later in truncated form on NBC. Another highlight on Thursday is the women’s hockey gold medal […]
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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 […]
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With the Olympics heading into the home stretch, I speak with writers who have extensively covered the Olympics either through NBC’s eyes or through their own eyes. New York Times sports media writer Richard Sandomir is our first guest. We discuss the following topics: NBC’s handling of the XXII Olympic Winter Games The Christin Cooper […]
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On the 20th anniversary of the 1994 Olympic Winter Games in Lillehammer, Norway, NBC takes a look back at one of the more infamous moments in sports history, the Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan incident. Mary Carillo has interviews with both Harding and Kerrigan, unlike the ESPN 30 for 30 documentary which only had Harding. The documentary, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/18/2014
Hockey takes center stage as the men’s quarterfinals will be held throughout Wednesday. TSN airs Sweden-Slovenia at 3 a.m. ET then CBC airs a doubleheader with Russia-Finland at 7:30 a.m. and then Canada-Latvia at noon. USA-Czech Republic will be seen on TSN2 at noon. TSN will air the ladies figure skating short program beginning at […]
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For Wednesday, we begin to head into the home stretch of the 2014 Winter Olympics. The quarterfinals in men’s hockey will take place throughout Wednesday morning and into the early afternoon. Sweden vs. Slovenia and Finland vs. Russia will air on NBCSN at 3 a.m. ET and 7:30 a.m. ET, respectively. Then Canada vs. Latvia […]
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NBC has good reason to crow about its Monday Olympic primetime ratings. For just the second time during the Sochi Games, it beat both Vancouver’s and Turin’s numbers. The rating for the second Monday of the XXII Olympic Winter Games registered a 13.8 and a 21 share. That’s 10% higher from Vancouver’s 12.5/20 and one […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/17/2014
CBC and its affiliated networks will be all over the Tuesday schedule at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Men’s hockey will be dominant with single elimination games to advance to the quarterfinals. CBC will carry games at 7:30 a.m. and noon ET. TSN will air the women’s bobsleigh and curling. Sportsnet will have the men’s Nordic […]
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NBCSN will air a hockey tripleheader of single elimination games beginning at 3 a.m. ET with Slovenia-Austria, then Russia vs. Norway at 7:30 a.m. and then Czech Republic vs. Slovenia at noon. MSNBC will carry Switzerland vs. Latvia also at noon ET. U.S. skiing medal hopeful Mikaela Shiffrin of Vermont makes her Olympic debut in […]
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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 […]
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As you know by now, Bob Costas made his return to NBC Olympics primetime after spending six days recovering from an eye infection that impaired his vision and made him sensitive to light. While he’s not totally recovered, he’s well enough to make it back for the second week of the Sochi Olympics. On Monday, […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/16/2014
Canadians will be dividing their attention between women’s curling on TSN2, women’s hockey on CBC and figure skating on TSN. Team Canada in women’s curling hopes to remain undefeated as it takes on South Korea at 10 a.m. ET. Also at 10 a.m., the Ice Dance Free Program with defending gold medalists Tessa Virtue and […]
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Now we’re into the final week of the 2014 Sochi Games. First, Bob Costas returns to his traditional hosting post after being out for six days. He’ll host both Olympic Primetime and Late Night. Bob Costas returned to NBC Olympics studios at IBC in Sochi 2day to prep 2 resume hosting duties Monday night (Feb17) […]
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NBCSN’s live coverage of the 2014 Winter Olympics continues to set viewership records for the network while NBC’s delayed primetime portion continues to fall and for the first time, below Turin’s levels in 2006. First, the USA-Russia men’s hockey game on NBCSN averaged 4.1 million viewers on Saturday morning and the shootout that went eight […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 2/15/2014
For CBC and its affiliated partners for the 2014 Sochi Games, Canada is back in action in men’s hockey against Finland. That will air live on CBC at noon ET. In curling, the men will square off against the US at midnight on CBC then again against China at 10 a.m. on TSN2. The Ice […]
