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Watchdog found this 7/20/2008 on www.chicagotribune.com [flag]
Many of the numbers related to NBC and its Olympics coverage are staggering: The network will employ 2,900 people, including 106 commentators, to broadcast 3,600 hours of the Summer Games in Beijing across seven channels and NBCOlympics.com. But there's also a number that NBC officials are reluctant to publicize: 10. That's the number of sports—at minimum—NBC plans to broadcast from its ... [link]

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NBC chooses not to schlep to Beijing for badminton
Published 7/20/2008 by Neil Best at Watchdog
... Interesting story from Tribune teammate (for now) Teddy Greenstein about NBC covering some sports in the Olympics the same way many of you do: Watching on TV in New York. ...

NBC Choses To Cover Ten Olympic Sports From New York
Published 7/21/2008 by Awful Announcing- (noreply@blogger.com) at Awful Announcing
... Someone mentioned in the comments last week that there was no way NBC would send all 106 commentators to Beijing for the Olympics and today the Chicago Tribune confirms that thought. NBC is choosing to cover ten events from their studios in New York rather then shipping a handful of play-by-play men and women over to China..... ...

Some Olympics Announcers Might as Well be Bloggers
Published 7/22/2008 by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
... Interesting note in the Chicago Tribune yesterday: While NBC is sending an astonishing 2,900 people out to Beijing to cover the listless Olympics, not every sport will be called by on-scene broadcasters. Ten sports will be called by announcers who are sitting in New York. Talking bloggers! ...

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