Producing the Paris Olympics for NBC
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
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4.5 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Episode 414 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Jack Felling, a vice president and coordinating producer of original content for NBC Sports who has oversight for the features that you will see during the Paris Olympics, and Rob Hyland, the producer of NBC’s primetime Olympics coverage, an assignment he began with the Tokyo Olympics and continued with the Winter Olympics in Beijing. Hyland is also the producer of Sunday Night Football. In this podcast, Felling and Hyland discuss the kinds of Olympic features the U.S. audience will see in Paris; NBC’s primetime presentation this year and how the primetime show will be different for viewers because of the time difference from Paris; the philosophical approach to covering these Games; why Paris will be a co-star for the NBC production; the most unique opening ceremony production in Olympics history and how it can right or wrong; why Norway is such a fascinating country for profiles; what you will likely see at the start of each night for NBC’s primetime coverage; and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more.
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| 1:27.8 | Welcome to the Sports Media Podcast. I'm your host, Richard Deich. My producer is Patrick Antonetti. Two guests this week. This is an Olympic-centric podcast. So if you are an Olympics nerd, you will dig this because these are two men who have a prominent, prominent production role when it comes to NBC's coverage of the Olympic Games. |
| 1:33.1 | Jack Felling is a vice president and coordinating producer of original content for NBC Sports. |
| 1:36.9 | He has oversight for all the features that you'll see during the Olympics. |
| 1:41.3 | So if you want to learn about both American and athletes abroad, it's Jack's group that puts together, you know, deep profiles on who those |
| 1:47.6 | athletes are. Rob Highland is the producer of NBC's Primetime Olympic coverage. That becomes a |
| 1:54.8 | massive, massive job this year because the coverage day will end prior to 8 p.m. Eastern time, you know, because of the five-hour |
| 2:04.1 | difference, six-hour difference between Paris and Eastern time. So Rob's whole job is different, |
| 2:09.4 | where it's not going to be live competition between 7.30 p.m. Eastern, 11.30 p.m. Eastern. And they have to |
| 2:16.4 | now do a show that is very much, you know, a packaged |
| 2:20.4 | production and sort of the philosophy of all this now changes, try to advance stories, |
| 2:26.8 | get to the athletes who are then back in the village, probably more focus on social media. |
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