How do you televise an Olympics in 2024?: The guest is NBC executive producer Molly Solomon
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
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4.5 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Episode 394 of Sports Media Podcast features Molly Solomon, the executive producer & president of NBC Olympics production. In this podcast, Solomon discusses what a primetime Olympics show on a network should look like in 2024 when the results will already be known; the viewership declines for the Olympics and why Paris might change the fortunes of the event; how a network televises an Olympic ceremony with 100 boats floating down the River Seine; how things change for Solomon being in Connecticut as opposed to being in Paris; covering the Chinese swimming scandal story and the prospect of competitors refusing to compete against each other; what sport might pop beyond the traditional viewership sports; whether the hiring of Kelly Clarkson and Peyton Manning signifies a shift to more entertainment coverage; why a woman has not yet been the lead producer of a Super Bowl; whether gambling will one day be part of an Olympic presentation and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the sports media podcast. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm your host, Richard Dyche, my producer, Patrick Antonetti. |
| 0:13.2 | One guest in this episode, but it is an excellent one. |
| 0:16.5 | One of the most important people when it comes to sports television in the United States. |
| 0:21.0 | Molly Solomon is the executive producer and president of NBC Olympics production. |
| 0:25.8 | That means she's responsible for all the day-to-day editorial production of NBC's Olympic coverage. |
| 0:31.2 | Obviously, we have Paris coming up. |
| 0:32.9 | It should be an extraordinary Olympics. |
| 0:35.3 | I don't think you can get a better city than Paris just when it comes |
| 0:39.6 | to backdrops and, you know, sort of the romance of the city. So this is, Olympics has a real chance |
| 0:45.5 | here, in my opinion, of turning around what has been a really, really struggling viewership |
| 0:50.0 | story. And no better person to bring on than Molly Solomon who during our conversation |
| 0:56.2 | really gave you some great background on like what you're going to see and sort of the |
| 1:00.4 | philosophy of how she thinks about the Olympics so I really appreciate her coming on people who |
| 1:06.6 | sort of have followed this podcast know I'm an Olympics junkie, and I can talk about the Olympics all day. |
| 1:12.3 | So about 45 minutes with Molly Solomon coming up on the sports media podcast. |
| 1:20.1 | All right, as I said at the top, I am excited to have this guest on. |
| 1:23.8 | People know that I am a very, very big Olympics fan. |
| 1:26.9 | I covered seven of them even |
| 1:29.3 | with all the issues of the Olympics the romance of the Olympics still at least for me |
| 1:32.8 | always sort of shines through Molly Solomon is the person in the United States |
| 1:38.7 | who for your viewership there probably is no more important person. She's the executive producer and |
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