Showing 106 - 120 of 195 articles tagged "NBC Sports"

• Posted Thursday 9/10/20 at 3:31AM EDT

  Only Fox will use virtual fans for NFL games this season

  Fox plans to only use virtual fans for only one Week 1 game, Chicago Bears vs.

• Posted Thursday 9/03/20 at 8:29PM EDT

  Mike Tirico will fill in for Al Michaels on a few Sunday Night Football games this season

  Tirico, who is expected to take over the SNF booth when the 75-year-old Michaels retires, will do play-by-play on three...

• Posted Thursday 8/27/20 at 1:05PM EDT

  NBC's Sunday Night Football to begin offering stunning overhead shots from the bottom of the SkyCam

  Variety reports NBC Sports "plans to offer stunning overhead shots thanks to the use of a C360 camera that will...

• Posted Wednesday 8/26/20 at 1:27PM EDT

  NBC's new Sunday Night Football opening will feature Carrie Underwood, virtual fans and user-generated videos

  “We had to pivot and think about what is going to make sense in 2020,” said SNF executive producer Fred...

• Posted Friday 8/21/20 at 3:46PM EDT

  No fans will be allowed for the Kentucky Derby

  Organizers had planned to welcome 23,000 spectators to Churchill Downs for the Sept.

• Posted Friday 8/21/20 at 3:46PM EDT

  NHL condemns NBC Sports hockey analyst for his "insensitive and insulting" comment about women

  Near the end of Thursday's Islanders-Capitals playoff game, Milbury suggested the NHL bubble was a perfect environment for hockey because...

• Posted Saturday 8/15/20 at 6:41AM EDT

  Ted Lasso has no right to be as good, funny, and moving as it is

  "I’d have put money down on AppleTV+’s Ted Lasso being as bad as the streamer’s dystopian series where Jason Momoa...

• Posted Tuesday 7/21/20 at 3:34AM EDT

  Summer Olympic Games were supposed to begin this week: In retrospect, it's ridiculous that postponement took so long

  The International Olympic Committee waited until March 24 to officially postpone this year's Summer Olympics to one year from now...

• Posted Friday 7/17/20 at 5:01PM EDT

  Jeremy Roenick sues NBC Sports for anti-straight discrimination

  Roenick was suspended last December and fired in February after appearing on Barstool Sports' Spittin’ Chiclets podcast and joking about...

• Posted Thursday 7/09/20 at 3:21PM EDT

  NBC Sports moving Premier League streaming rights streaming rights to Peacock

  Peacock Premium, the NBC Universal streaming service's paid premium tier, will have more than 175 matches that will exclusively stream...

• Posted Thursday 7/02/20 at 9:25PM EDT

  NBC commentators Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir participated in a vulgar spoof of a former U.S. national figure skating champion

  Lipinski and Weir's spoof last month of 2018 U.

• Posted Wednesday 6/24/20 at 4:39PM EDT

  NFL TV broadcasters are debating whether to show player kneeling

  NBC Sports, CBS Sports, Fox Sports and ESPN are debating how to cover players kneeling during the National Anthem to...

• Posted Friday 4/10/20 at 3:17PM EDT

  Drew Brees signs a deal with NBC Sports over ESPN

  The New Orleans Saints quarterback and future Pro Football Hall of Famer, who recently signed a two-year $50 million deal...

• Posted Monday 3/30/20 at 9:39AM EDT

  Rescheduled Tokyo Summer Olympics will kick off on July 23, 2021

  The Tokyo Games, which will still be called the 2020 games despite being delayed by coronavirus, will have roughly the...

• Posted Tuesday 3/24/20 at 7:49PM EDT

  Without the Summer Olympics, NBC is poised to lose the full-season ratings war for the first time in seven years

  NBC has topped the full-year September-to-September ratings period for most of the past decade.