Welcome to the sports media podcast.

I'm your host, Richard Dyche, my producer is Patrick Antonetti.

One guest this week, but if you're someone who is into Olympic sports, I think you're going to find this fascinating.

Alexa Pritting is my guest.

She's a supervising producer at NBC Sports, and she oversees the Paralympic Games.

The opening ceremony of the Paris Paralympics is August 28th.

Pre-show coverage begins at 1 p.m. on USA Network and Peacock, and then an hour later,

it's the opening ceremony. So again, if you were enchanted by the Paris Games, and obviously

millions of you were, here's an opportunity to return and to watch the Paralympic games,

which is always remarkable.

The broader for NBCU, 1,500 hours of live coverage across all 22 Paralympic sports

that will all be streamed on Peacock in terms of those hours.

Then there's 140 hours of television coverage across NBC USA Network and CNBC. Obviously,

there's ways to sort of get authenticated through NBCNlypics.com and NBC Sports app. And Alexa

will tell us all about the coverage. And with that, I bring in Alex Pritting. Welcome to the

sports media podcast. Thank you so much for having me.

Excited to talk all things, Paralympic. All right. So let's start here. You know, as you know,

Molly Solomon, the executive producer of NBC's Olympic coverage has been on this podcast a number of

times. And one of the things I'm always interested when she comes on is sort of to get like broadly an idea of like what the

biggest challenge is for doing in Olympics. Now this is a little less scale than the Olympic

Games, but it is still a significant scale. So for you as essentially the executive producer of this,

lead producer of this, what is the biggest challenge in terms of producing

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