The 2014 Winter Olympics

Sporting events are one of the last dependable promotional platforms for American broadcast networks. This February…

They say that silver medalists have the hardest time after the Olympics, wondering what might have been. As…

You’d never know it from tuning in to NBC’s prime time coverage tonight, but there was a pretty big hockey game…

Sochi, Russia, is nine hours ahead of the United States' Eastern time zone. I think that's just something we need to…

Fred Roggin appears live from NBC’s Connecticut studios to anchor the NBC Universal curling coverage on USA Network.…

Checking in on NBC’s prime time coverage of the 2014 Winter Olympics for the second time, I’m pleased to report that…

A week into the Olympics, things can start to seem stale. It’s no longer a novelty to turn on your television and…

It would be fascinating, though entirely overwhelming and impractical, to watch the Olympics by putting the coverage…

Context is a tricky thing for NBC to get right in its coverage of the Sochi Olympics. The network lucked out today…

From sitcoms to football games to commercials, everything on television tells a story, and NBC’s primetime coverage…

In general, I’ve found NBC’s coverage of the 2014 Sochi games to be a step up over its coverage of the 2012 London…

The Winter Olympics may have less variety than the Summer Olympics, as Kevin McFarland noted in his coverage of…

I’m not sure whether it counts as a major windfall of bad karma that, of all the writers in the TV Club bullpen, I…

From an entertainment standpoint, the problem facing NBC’s Winter Olympics coverage is almost the opposite of the…

Not to fly in the face of overwhelming public sentiment, but I’ve always felt the ratings-behemoth that is figure…

After Bob Costas saying “Pussy Riot” on national television and the excitement of the opening ceremony, the Olympics…

The Opening Ceremonies won’t air until tomorrow, but NBC’s coverage of the 2014 Winter Olympics kicked off tonight.…

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