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1996 Olympics: record telecast
NBC promises more coverage of Atlanta Summer Games
The Associated Press
In four years, however, those numbers will look minuscule.
Addressing the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association, Ebersol, president of NBC Sports, began laying out his plans for coverage beyond Atlanta. He said the network will have at least two cable partners for the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney, Australia, and the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City.
ATLANTA — NBC, already projected to televise a record 168 hours of the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, will add up to four more hours to its coverage, sports chief Dick Ebersol said yesterday.
"The Atlanta Games will be unique in that they are the last Games ever to be seen on one channel in the United States," Ebersol said.
In the future, coverage will probably include 500 to 600 hours at the Summer Games and 400 to 450 hours at the Winter Games, he said.
In an unprecedented $3.5 billion bid, NBC gained TV rights to the five Olympiads after the 1998 Games in Nagano, Japan, which will be televised by CBS. The NBC contract includes the events in 2004, 2006 and 2008, for which host cities have not even been selected.
As for Atlanta, Ebersol said the network probably would announce in the next two months that it would show 171 or 172 hours during the 17-day Games, which begin July 19.
He said the extra hours probably would be spread over the last two weekends of the Games, with complete coverage of the marathon on the final day, Aug. 4. Ebersol said he supported a proposal to switch the marathon to an early-morning event because of the blistering afternoon heat in Atlanta.
He also dismissed criticism that the past two Olympic telecasts — NBC at the 1992 Summer Games in Barcelona, Spain, and CBS at the
1994 Winter Games in Lillehammer, Norway — focused too much time on taped features rather than live events. He said about 70 percent of NBC's coverage in Atlanta would be live.
"People love the stories of the Olympics," he said. "It's unlike watching other sporting events in American television, where people are consumed with the results."
A U.S. team handball player in the crowd, Joseph Fitzgerald, drew a big cheer when he asked whether NBC planned to beef up its coverage of sports that are less popular in the United States.
"I wouldn't have to explain it every day to people what our sport is if they could do a little better job showing it," Fitzgerald said.
Ebersol said the coverage in Atlanta would continue to focus on the most popular sports, such as basketball and gymnastics, while leaving two-thirds of the sports with only peripheral coverage, mostly in highlight form.
"I think you'll be happier in the year 2000," he told Fitzgerald.
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