I know that- Al Trautwig has covered gymnastics since he was at ABC in the 80s, and Marv Albert has done the NBA since NBC last had the NBA rights-he's done the NBA for Turner for years. Dan Hicks has done swimming since 96. Tom Hammond has done track since 92-and he is one of NBC's best announcers, having done the NBA, NFL the Notre Dame package, horse racing and he's done some stuff for Sportsworld back in the day.
On Friday, August 12, 2016 at 11:59:53 AM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 4:49 AM, Adam Bowie <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> And the presenters are nearly all sports presenters - not breakfast show >> presenters for example. >> > > This is also something that I'll give NBC a lot of credit for: As far as I > know, all of the people doing coverage of the individual events are retired > athletes or broadcasters who work full time on sports, and many of those > broadcasters are specialists. There's a whole army of play-by-play > announcers and expert commentators who are on their umpteenth Olympics but > who I only ever hear for two weeks every four years in the sports that only > get a lot of attention during the Olympics (e.g., swimming, diving, and > gymnastics,) in addition to the people who cover the pro game week in and > week out moving over to cover the Olympics in sports like golf, basketball, > and tennis. At worst, the US coverage seems to pair a generalist > play-by-play announcer with a former athlete. > > We do have breakfast show presenters involved, but they're doing the > opening ceremony and hosting the studio portions of the broadcast, which > essentially amounts to serving as traffic cop and doing the occasional > interview, none of which really requires a lot of deep knowledge about > sports. > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
