NBC’s Olympics Balancing Act Is Getting Even More Complicated

Originally, NBC Sports had planned to send three announcing teams to Beijing to cover the Winter Olympic Games there in February. But that all changed on Wednesday, when the network announced it’s opting to keep its commentators stateside. NBC made the decision in response to the fast-spreading omicron variant of the coronavirus, which has led to record caseloads in many regions of the world. “The announce teams for these Olympics…will be calling events from our Stamford (Conn.) facility due to COVID concerns,” said NBC Sports senior V.P. of communications Greg Hughes in a Wednesday statement. Hughes added that the network… Read Full Article