After seeing the results of pre-Olympic Trials and competitions and looking at the schedule more closely, we've decided that now there was simply too much rich content featuring some of this Olympics' biggest stars and we needed more time to tell these great stories on these three nights. If I didn't add these new hours, I would feel like we would have left the audience wanting more. |
All the electronic marvels now available to viewers are a major selling point in our Olympics coverage. |
And I had no idea what that was. |
At this point we are not even discussing make-goods, and it's the belief of the business side of the company that we won't need to. |
At this stage, seven years out, it's definitely ahead of the last three games. |
can't speak for (Michaels), but the only issue is money. |
Every time somebody in the world lies, Dick Ebersol gets a royalty. |
Figure skating is a sport with its own subculture filled with behind-the-scenes intrigue, fashion, glamour and tremendous drama. |
For the first time a major sports property has largely migrated from network to cable, where the dual revenue streams of subscriber fees and advertising can support the escalating costs of broadcast sports rights, ... In the future, it will become almost impossible for broadcast television sports to match the power of those 'sub' fees, which are unique to the cable world. |
He believed in him and told the organizers in whatever country the Olympics was in that they should use him. |
He not only got me off of the plane. He ran back into the plane, which had 3- or 4-foot flames all around it, to look for his brother one more time. |
He told me this incredible story that Walt's first really big production as a cartoonist for the cinema had been a character called Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, which was before Mickey. And for reasons that aren't still totally clear to me, Walt lost those rights. He didn't have the money to hold onto them. |
He's certainly the greatest play-by-play person up to this point that NBC sports has ever had. |
He's certainly the greatest play-by-play person up to this point that NBC sports has ever had. He literally carried the sports division at NBC for so many years on his back. ... He was a remarkable talent, and he was an even more remarkable human being. |
I am thrilled that we were able to give NASCAR this record-breaking rating for the exciting sport of stock car racing. |