Welcome to the sports media podcast.

I'm your host, Richard Deich.

My producer is Patrick Antonetti.

One guest this week, but this is someone who I imagine at the moment is basking in the glory of the post-Paris games.

Molly Solomon is the executive producer and president of NBC's Olympics production.

No matter what you think of the sort of elements in the production itself, and we will certainly get into that,

this was a massive success

for NBC Universal. You saw the numbers they put up over 30 million viewers in terms of things

like Peacock and Gold Zone, you know, an absolute hit just in terms of consumer experience.

The games themselves were incredible. And as an Olympic said,

which both Molly and I, you could really make the argument that these games probably have

changed your trajectory of the Olympic Games over the next four or five cycles. And that was a major

question heading in post-Tokio. And with that, I bring in Molly Solomon, kind enough to join us after easily her

biggest and most busiest 17 days of the year. Molly, welcome back to the sports media podcast.

Thanks, Rich. It's fun to unpack the Olympics and everything that happened. And the Paralympics

starts in about 17 days.

So we've got a lot more to go before we cross this finish line.

All right.

So I'm curious from your perspective, again, as the executive producer of all this,

when you self-evaluate, like the coverage,

you could probably do it in many different ways.

You can do it on like how it played in terms of viewers like me.

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