Turin TV coverage will be Winter Games record
NBC stations to have 416 hours of televised events, 40 more than Salt Lake
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NEW YORK - The Turin Olympics will be the most televised Winter Games with 416 hours of coverage, an increase of more than 40 hours from the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics.
There will be about 200 hours of live television coverage during the Feb. 10-27 games on the NBC Universal networks — NBC, USA, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC HD and Universal HD. There were about 140 hours of live coverage from Salt Lake City.
The coverage, details of which were announced Tuesday, will average about 24½ hours a day over all the networks. There will be regular updates and a late-night Olympic highlight show on Telemundo, NBC’s Spanish-language network.
USA, MSNBC and CNBC will have a total of 233½ hours of coverage, about 75 percent of which will be live. All 54 games of both the men’s and women’s hockey tournaments will be shown live on the networks.
Bob Costas will return as the prime-time Olympic host for the sixth time. He has won Emmy Awards for the previous five times he was NBC’s prime-time host.
Jim Lampley will anchor the daytime and late-night Olympic telecasts. It is his sixth Olympics with NBC and 13th overall, surpassing Jim McKay for the most Olympic assignments for a television announcer.
Dick Button is joining NBC’s coverage. He will co-host “Olympic Ice,” a show on USA that will focus on figure skating. The 1948 gold medalist also will provide analysis during the figure skating pairs competition.
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