NBC brings Katie Couric back to co-host the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony, which will be live-streamed for the first time

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Couric will join Mike Tirico in co-hosting the tape-delayed Opening Ceremony from PyeongChang, South Korea on Friday, Feb. 9. “It’s good to see Mike. We go back 45 minutes,” Couric joked in a press conference this morning announcing her return. NBC also announced that for the first time, NBC will allow fans to stream the Opening Ceremony live via the NBC Sports app and NBCOlympics.com. “It’s beyond exciting to welcome Katie back to our Olympic booth. Katie has extensive Olympic experience, having anchored the Today show at six previous Games, and hosted the Opening Ceremony in Sydney, Salt Lake City, and Athens,” said Jim Bell, president of NBC Olympics Production and Programming. “We have been eagerly awaiting Mike’s first prime time Olympic hosting duties, and now, with Mike and Katie, viewers will have two pros, and two terrific storytellers leading the way.”