153-655: NBC Olympics is the commercial name for the NBC Sports -produced broadcasts of the Summer and Winter Olympic Games as shown in the United States on NBCUniversal platforms. They include the NBC broadcast network and many of the company's cable networks ; Spanish language network Telemundo ; and streaming on the NBC Sports app, NBCOlympics.com, and Peacock . The event telecasts during
306-506: A Spanish language branch of NBC Sports for Telemundo and NBC Universo . On June 7, 2015, amid its loss of rights to the USGA 's championships to Fox (including the U.S. Open ), NBC Sports and The R&A agreed to a twelve-year deal to televise The Open Championship , Senior Open Championship , and Women's British Open on NBC and Golf Channel, beginning in 2017. Existing rightsholder ESPN opted out of its final year of its agreement for
459-546: A $ 7.75 billion contract extension on May 7, 2014, to air the Olympics through the 2032 games, is also one of the major sources of revenue for the IOC). Coverage took a break in the east for late local news, after which coverage continued into "Primetime Plus", which featured additional live coverage into the Eastern late night and Western primetime hours. This was then followed by an encore of
612-631: A central lagoon . Important human migrations occurred in the Pacific in prehistoric times. Modern humans first reached the western Pacific in the Paleolithic , at around 60,000 to 70,000 years ago. Originating from a southern coastal human migration out of Africa, they reached East Asia , Mainland Southeast Asia , the Philippines, New Guinea , and then Australia by making the sea crossing of at least 80 kilometres (50 mi) between Sundaland and Sahul . It
765-490: A conference call with investors that the NBA would return to NBC Sports in the 2025–26 season under an 11-year agreement; an official announcement was released by the NBA and NBC Sports the following day. NBC and Peacock will carry 100 regular season games throughout the season, including Monday night games on Peacock, regional Tuesday night games, and a package of Sunday night games following
918-546: A majority share in NBC Universal . As a result of the merger, the operations of Comcast's existing sports networks, such as Golf Channel and NBCSN , were merged into an entity known as the NBC Sports Group . NBC Sports' senior vice president Mike McCarley additionally became Golf Channel's new head. NBC Sports' golf production unit was merged with Golf Channel, along with NBC's on-air staff, with that unit rebranding under
1071-543: A network that would carry Olympic sports programming as a complement to its long-standing agreement to cover the Games. In early 2018, it was announced that NBC Sports would renew its contract with the IndyCar Series (continuing a relationship with NBCSN which began in 2009 as Versus), through 2021, and acquire the broadcast television rights previously held by ABC . NBC televises eight races per-season since 2019, including
1224-490: A package of Sunday afternoon MLB games on Peacock branded as MLB Sunday Leadoff beginning in the 2022 season . NBC Sports declined to renew its deal after the 2023 season , with the package moving to Roku instead. On July 1, 2022, NBC Sports announced that Olympic Channel would shut down as a linear channel on September 30, 2022. On August 18, 2022, NBC Sports announced a seven-year deal to carry Big Ten Conference college athletics across its platforms beginning in
1377-534: A part of the division known as the NBC Sports Group. In 2000, NBC declined to renew its broadcast agreement with Major League Baseball (MLB). In 2002 , it was additionally outbid by ESPN and ABC for the National Basketball Association (NBA)'s new broadcast contract, ending the league's twelve-year run on NBC. During this era, NBC experimented with broadcasting emerging sports. In 2001,
1530-411: A schedule of what sports were on the many stations of NBC Universal. The Games were shown on television 24 hours a day, on one network or another. High-definition coverage began in 2004. NBC added USA Network , Bravo and Telemundo , all of which parent company NBC Universal had acquired earlier in the decade. During the 2006 Winter Olympics , USA Network aired a daily studio program focusing on
1683-574: A six-year deal, beginning in 2001. NBC televised the second half of the season and alternated coverage of the Daytona 500 with Fox . In December 2005, NBC announced that it would not renew its agreement with NASCAR. In 2001, NBC obtained the broadcast rights to horse racing's Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing in a five-year deal. In 2004, NBC reached a broadcast agreement with the National Hockey League (NHL). The revenue-sharing deal called for
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#17330856670101836-965: A supplemental network, and NBC launched high-definition channels dedicated to the basketball and soccer competitions). In 2006, NBC paid another $ 2.2 billion to purchase the rights to the 2010 Winter Olympics and 2012 Summer Olympics but lost $ 223 million on the 2010 broadcasts. NBC Olympics is the International Olympic Committee's, and by extension the Olympic movement 's, highest revenue stream. The 2010 Games added then- digital multicast network Universal Sports , which carried analysis programs about events, while Oxygen and Bravo were completely excluded to maintain their schedules. In 2011, Comcast acquired majority control of NBC's parent company NBC Universal from General Electric (whose remaining interest Comcast later acquired in 2013); on June 6, 2011, NBCUniversal announced that it had acquired
1989-506: A ten-year deal, with NBC once again airing the second half of the NASCAR Cup Series and NASCAR Xfinity Series seasons. While no specific financial details were disclosed, NBC reportedly paid 50% more than ESPN and TNT (who took over the portion of the season previously held by NBC) combined under the previous deal. In May 2015, NBCUniversal announced the formation of NBC Deportes (later renamed Telemundo Deportes ), which serves as
2142-528: Is 4,280 m (14,040 ft; 2,340 fathoms), putting the total water volume at roughly 710,000,000 km (170,000,000 cu mi). Due to the effects of plate tectonics , the Pacific Ocean is currently shrinking by roughly 2.5 cm (1 in) per year on three sides, roughly averaging 0.52 km (0.20 sq mi) a year. By contrast, the Atlantic Ocean is increasing in size. Along
2295-1132: Is a role that he held through the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics . Among the sportscasters that NBC utilized in 1992 were Marv Albert , Mike Fratello , and Quinn Buckner on basketball , Bob Trumpy , Al Bernstein , and Beasley Reece on boxing , Tom Hammond , Charlie Jones Michele Mitchell , and Wendy Lian Williams on diving , Terry Leibel and Melanie Smith Taylor on equestrian , Jim Donovan and Seamus Malin on soccer , John Tesh , Greg Lewis, Tim Daggett , Elfi Schlegel , Wendy Hilliard , Peter Vidmar , and Julianne McNamara on gymnastics , Joel Meyers on rowing , Charlie Jones, Mary Wayte , and Mike O'Brien on swimming , Al Trautwig and Tracie Ruiz-Conforto on synchronized swimming , Bud Collins , Tracy Austin , Chris Evert , and Vitas Gerulaitis on tennis , Tom Hammond, Craig Masback , and Dwight Stones on track and field , Chris Marlowe and Paul Sunderland on volleyball , Charlie Jones and Jim Kruse on water polo , and Russ Hellickson and Jeff Blatnick on wrestling . In order to defray costs of airing
2448-463: Is an American programming division of the broadcast network NBC , owned and operated by the NBC Sports Group division of NBCUniversal and subsidiary of Comcast . The division is responsible for sports broadcasts on the network, and its dedicated national sports cable channels . Formerly operating as "a service of NBC News ", it broadcasts a diverse array of sports events, including Big East basketball, Big Ten football and basketball, NASCAR ,
2601-491: Is not known with any certainty what level of maritime technology was used by these groups – the presumption is that they used large bamboo rafts which may have been equipped with some sort of sail. The reduction in favourable winds for a crossing to Sahul after 58,000 B.P. fits with the dating of the settlement of Australia, with no later migrations in the prehistoric period. The seafaring abilities of pre-Austronesian residents of Island South-east Asia are confirmed by
2754-583: The 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo; in 1972, NBC televised the 1972 Winter Olympics for the first time. 1980 would prove to be a stinging disappointment for the network; after contentious negotiations, NBC won the broadcast rights to the 1980 Summer Olympics . After the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan , the United States and 64 other countries boycotted the event . NBC substantially scaled back its coverage and lost heavily in advertising revenue. In 1988, NBC televised
2907-506: The 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul . Since then, it has branded itself as "America's Olympic Network", televising every Summer Olympic Games since the Seoul event, as well as every Winter Olympic Games since 2002 Winter Olympics . In total, NBC has aired 13 Summer and Winter Olympics, the most by any one U.S. network. The Olympic Games have also become an integral part of the network. In 1998, Ebersol
3060-606: The 1988 games and the rights to the Winter Olympic Games since the 2002 games . In 2011, NBC agreed to a $ 4.38 billion contract with the International Olympic Committee to broadcast the Olympics through the 2020 games , the most expensive television rights deal in Olympic history. NBC then agreed to a $ 7.75 billion contract extension on May 7, 2014, to air the Olympics through the 2032 games. NBC also acquired
3213-500: The 2004 Summer Olympics , major broadcasters were allowed to serve video coverage of the Olympics over the Internet, provided that they restricted this service geographically, to protect broadcasting contracts in other areas. The International Olympic Committee forbade Olympic athletes, as well as coaches, support personnel and other officials, from setting up specialized weblogs and/or other websites for covering their personal perspective of
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#17330856670103366-424: The 2009 Stanley Cup Finals was watched by an average of 8 million viewers, the highest ratings for an NHL game in 36 years. The NFL also returned to NBC in 2006 after an eight-year hiatus, broadcasting the league's new flagship Sunday Night Football game, along with select postseason games and Super Bowls XLIII , XLVI , XLIX , LII , LVI and LX . In January 2011, Comcast finalized its acquisition of
3519-670: The Americas , although evidence for this remains inconclusive. The first contact of European navigators with the western edge of the Pacific Ocean was made by the Portuguese expeditions of António de Abreu and Francisco Serrão , via the Lesser Sunda Islands , to the Maluku Islands , in 1512, and with Jorge Álvares 's expedition to southern China in 1513, both ordered by Afonso de Albuquerque from Malacca . The eastern side of
3672-424: The Americas , more than 25,000 islands, large and small, rise above the surface of the Pacific Ocean. Multiple islands were the shells of former active volcanoes that have lain dormant for thousands of years. Close to the equator, without vast areas of blue ocean, are a dot of atolls that have over intervals of time been formed by seamounts as a result of tiny coral islands strung in a ring within surroundings of
3825-620: The Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica ) in the south, and is bounded by the continents of Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east. At 165,250,000 square kilometers (63,800,000 square miles) in area (as defined with a southern Antarctic border), this largest division of the World Ocean and the hydrosphere covers about 46% of Earth's water surface and about 32% of
3978-493: The Arena Football League (AFL). The network televised weekly games on a regional basis, as well as the entire playoffs. The deal lasted four years, after which the league and NBC parted ways. Beginning with the 1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series , NBC began its foray into NASCAR . NBC , along with Fox and TNT , obtained the broadcast rights of the top two series – the NASCAR Cup Series and NASCAR Xfinity Series – in
4131-510: The Bering Sea in the Arctic to the northern extent of the circumpolar Southern Ocean at 60°S (older definitions extend it to Antarctica 's Ross Sea ), the Pacific reaches its greatest east–west width at about 5°N latitude , where it stretches approximately 19,800 km (12,300 mi) from Indonesia to the coast of Colombia – halfway around the world, and more than five times
4284-578: The IndyCar Series , ending its 15-year partnership with NBC Sports. On June 27, 2024, NBC Sports and the Big East Conference announced a six-year deal to begin in the 2025–26 academic year. NBC Sports will carry more than 60 men’s and women’s basketball regular season and tournament games. Peacock begins its coverage in the 2024–25 academic year with 25 regular season games and five early round and quarterfinal conference tournament games in men's basketball. On July 23, 2024, Comcast confirmed during
4437-530: The Miami Dolphins–Kansas City Chiefs wild card playoff game during the 2023 season. The game drove 2.8 million sign-ups to Peacock and averaged 23 million viewers. On June 11, 2024, TNT Sports officially announced a 10-year deal with the French Open , ending a broadcasting arrangement with NBC Sports dating back to 1983. Two days later, IndyCar and Fox agreed to a deal to broadcast
4590-605: The Musée de l'Homme for the primetime block and Today , and a set for the NBC Nightly News overlooking the Arc de Triomphe . USA Network would offer a temporary 4K feed throughout the Games through participating television providers, carrying 400 hours of coverage in 1080p with HDR (upconverted to 4K). NBC stations in 67 markets also carried the network's coverage in 1080p HDR via their ATSC 3.0 signals. NBC Sports NBC Sports
4743-522: The NFL Sunday Ticket -exclusive version of RedZone for DirecTV ), was also launched to provide coverage of the Games, which was retained for 2016's coverage. For the 2016 Summer Olympics , NBC began to offer 4K content on a delayed basis through participating service providers (particularly DirecTV , Dish Network , and Xfinity ), downconverted from 8K footage filmed by NHK and OBS, with HDR and Dolby Atmos support. 86 hours of event footage
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4896-724: The National Football League (NFL), Notre Dame football, the Olympic Games , PGA Tour golf, the Premier League , the Tour de France , and Thoroughbred racing among others. Other programming from outside producers – such as coverage of the Ironman Triathlon – is also presented on the network through NBC Sports. With Comcast's acquisition of NBCUniversal in 2011, its own cable sports networks were aligned with NBC Sports into
5049-914: The North Pacific Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean (or more loosely the South Seas ). The Pacific Ocean can also be informally divided by the International Date Line into the East Pacific and the West Pacific , which allows it to be further divided into four quadrants, namely the Northeast Pacific off the coasts of North America , the Southeast Pacific off South America , Northwest Pacific off Far Eastern / Pacific Asia , and
5202-527: The Pacific War ; however, by the end of that war, Japan was defeated and the U.S. Pacific Fleet was the virtual master of the ocean. The Japanese-ruled Northern Mariana Islands came under the control of the United States. Since the end of World War II, many former colonies in the Pacific have become independent states . The Pacific separates Asia and Australia from the Americas. It may be further subdivided by
5355-602: The Premier League , which usually aired on NBCSN but was instead moved to USA Network due to the Olympics, and some coverage of the games usually seen on CNBC replaced with the first night of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show because of the yearly conflict with USA's WWE Monday Night Raw . A new online-network called "Gold Zone," which features rolling coverage of events in the style of NFL Network 's RedZone Channel and ESPN Goal Line (and has been by coincidence hosted by Andrew Siciliano , who also hosts
5508-540: The Primetime block. NBCSN also broadcast live primetime blocks, and revived Olympic Ice to serve as a pre-show for figure skating coverage (hosted by Liam McHugh and Tanith White from Pyeongchang), alongside a digital-exclusive post-show hosted by Krista Voda from NBC Sports' headquarters. On February 19, 2018, NBC began airing the Fallon Five , an abbreviated version of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon , during
5661-586: The SAP channel for the first time since the Federal Communications Commission was allowed to require broadcasters to expand their production and access to described programming for the blind and visually impaired (though live sporting events were not required under the guidelines, so NBC's effort is entirely voluntary). On July 15, 2017, Universal HD was relaunched as a localized version of Olympic Channel , airing coverage of Olympic sports outside of
5814-708: The Sirena Deep , is also located in the Mariana Trench. The western Pacific has many major marginal seas , including the Philippine Sea , South China Sea , East China Sea , Sea of Japan , Sea of Okhotsk , Bering Sea , Gulf of Alaska , Gulf of California , Mar de Grau , Tasman Sea , and the Coral Sea . In the early 16th century , Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama in 1513 and sighted
5967-693: The Southern Hemisphere . The North Equatorial Current , driven westward along latitude 15°N by the trade winds , turns north near the Philippines to become the warm Japan or Kuroshio Current . Turning eastward at about 45°N , the Kuroshio forks and some water moves northward as the Aleutian Current , while the rest turns southward to rejoin the North Equatorial Current. The Aleutian Current branches as it approaches North America and forms
6120-683: The Southwest Pacific around Oceania . The Pacific Ocean's mean depth is 4,000 meters (13,000 feet). Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench , located in the northwestern Pacific, is the deepest known point in the world, reaching a depth of 10,928 meters (35,853 feet). The Pacific also contains the deepest point in the Southern Hemisphere , the Horizon Deep in the Tonga Trench , at 10,823 meters (35,509 feet). The third deepest point on Earth,
6273-663: The Stanley Cup playoffs . On July 3, 2011, ESPN obtained the exclusive broadcast rights to The Championships, Wimbledon in a 12-year deal, ending NBC's television relationship with The Championships after 42 years. From 2012 until 2015, Major League Soccer (MLS) games were shown on NBC and the NBC Sports Network. This included the broadcast of two regular season games, two playoff games, and two national team matches on NBC and 38 regular season games, three playoff games, and two national team matches on NBC Sports Network. Since
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6426-662: The Strait of Magellan to the Philippines , the explorer indeed found the ocean peaceful; however, the Pacific is not always peaceful. Many tropical storms batter the islands of the Pacific. The lands around the Pacific Rim are full of volcanoes and often affected by earthquakes . Tsunamis , caused by underwater earthquakes, have devastated many islands and in some cases destroyed entire towns. The Martin Waldseemüller map of 1507
6579-664: The Super Bowl and the Olympic Games ). A refreshed design for on-air graphics was introduced on January 1, 2015 (in time for the 2015 NHL Winter Classic and NFL playoffs), with a cleaner and brighter visual appearance. NBC began using dedicated graphics packages specifically for Sunday Night Football during Super Bowl LII , and unveiled a second redesign for the 2022 season during Super Bowl LVI . NBC similarly diverged for its Premier League coverage in 2019, adopting elements of its new British sibling Sky Sports . In 2023, NBC transitioned college football (which had continued to use
6732-772: The Western Hemisphere . The Southern Pacific Ocean harbors the Southeast Indian Ridge crossing from south of Australia turning into the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge (north of the South Pole ) and merges with another ridge (south of South America) to form the East Pacific Rise which also connects with another ridge (south of North America) which overlooks the Juan de Fuca Ridge . For most of Magellan's voyage from
6885-566: The crab claw sail ) – it is likely that the progressive development of these technologies were related to the later steps of settlement into Near and Remote Oceania. Starting at around 2200 BCE, Austronesians sailed southwards to settle the Philippines . From, probably, the Bismarck Archipelago they crossed the western Pacific to reach the Marianas Islands by 1500 BCE, as well as Palau and Yap by 1000 BCE. They were
7038-501: The figure skating competitions , Olympic Ice , which was hosted by Mary Carillo and featured appearances by analysts and skaters such as Dick Button (who hosted the viewer e-mail segment "Push Dick's Button"), Jamie Sale and David Pelletier . Universal HD was added to the list of channels carrying the Games. Also during the 2006 games, most NBC affiliates introduced Olympic Zone , an access hour program leading into primetime coverage which airs Mondays through Saturdays during
7191-425: The 1988 Summer Olympics for the network. One of those employees was future NBC Entertainment and CNN President Jeff Zucker , who Weisman hired as a researcher. Weisman considered producing the Olympics a challenge, saying, "my mandate is to shatter the mystique that only ABC can do the Olympics." Weisman assembled the "Seoul Searchers," a group of specialized sports reporters tasked with following breaking news during
7344-711: The 1996 Summer Olympics, and all Games from 2000 to 2008, NBC paid a total of $ 3.5 billion, mostly to the International Olympic Committee but also to the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee and local organizers. To help offset the increasing costs of broadcast rights, NBC turned to cable and satellite services to help provide additional coverage. Following the failure of the Triplecast pay-per-view experiment, NBC leaned on its growing slate of cable channels (particularly following then-parent General Electric 's 2004 acquisition of Vivendi Universal to form NBC Universal ) to provide supplementary coverage of Olympic events. The rise of various media platforms extended
7497-442: The 2013–14 season NBC Sports has also held the rights to televise Premier League soccer in English (primarily on NBCSN) and Spanish (on Telemundo and Universo ), through a $ 250 million deal, replacing ESPN and Fox Soccer as the league's U.S. broadcasters. NBC Sports held broadcast rights to the Formula One (formerly held by Speed and Fox Sports ) from 2013 until 2017. The majority of its coverage (including much of
7650-417: The 2015 graphics) to new graphics derived from the Sunday Night Football graphics introduced in 2022. The new college football graphics were, in turn, adapted by the NBC Sports Regional Networks for their own use in September 2024. Pacific Ocean Main five oceans division: Further subdivision: The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions . It extends from
7803-403: The 2023–24 academic season. This contract will most notably include a new package of primetime Big Ten college football games on NBC beginning in the 2023 season, as well as a package of college basketball and Olympic sports coverage on Peacock. Beginning with the 2023 NFL season, Peacock exclusively streams at least one regular season game per season. Most notably, Peacock exclusively streamed
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#17330856670107956-416: The American television rights to the Youth Olympic Games , beginning in 2014 , and the Paralympic Games for the 2014 , 2016 , 2018 , and 2020 editions. NBC announced more than 1,200 hours of coverage for the 2020 games, called "unprecedented" by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). NBC is one of the major sources of revenue for the International Olympic Committee (IOC). NBC's telecasts of
8109-485: The Atlanta Games. During the Centennial Olympic Park bombing in 1996, NBC suspended its coverage of a volleyball game and broadcast the news for several hours commercial-free. Like ABC's 1972 Munich coverage , the main primetime host (in 1972's case, Chris Schenkel instead of Jim McKay ) did not cover the bombing. That role went to both Hannah Storm and Jim Lampley for the first half-hour before turning coverage over to NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw . Toward
8262-414: The Atlantic, the Strait of Magellan was at times patrolled by fleets sent to prevent the entrance of non-Spanish ships. On the western side of the Pacific Ocean the Dutch threatened the Spanish Philippines . The 18th century marked the beginning of major exploration by the Russians in Alaska and the Aleutian Islands , such as the First Kamchatka expedition and the Great Northern Expedition , led by
8415-405: The Atlantic. The andesite line is the most significant regional distinction in the Pacific. A petrologic boundary, it separates the deeper, mafic igneous rock of the Central Pacific Basin from the partially submerged continental areas of felsic igneous rock on its margins. The andesite line follows the western edge of the islands off California and passes south of the Aleutian arc , along
8568-433: The Chilean coast, the South Equatorial Current divides; one branch flows around Cape Horn and the other turns north to form the Peru or Humboldt Current . The climate patterns of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres generally mirror each other. The trade winds in the southern and eastern Pacific are remarkably steady while conditions in the North Pacific are far more varied with, for example, cold winter temperatures on
8721-499: The Danish-born Russian navy officer Vitus Bering . Spain also sent expeditions to the Pacific Northwest , reaching Vancouver Island in southern Canada, and Alaska. The French explored and colonized Polynesia , and the British made three voyages with James Cook to the South Pacific and Australia, Hawaii , and the North American Pacific Northwest . In 1768, Pierre-Antoine Véron , a young astronomer accompanying Louis Antoine de Bougainville on his voyage of exploration, established
8874-409: The Games being hosted in Europe, the primetime block—branded as Primetime in Paris —returned to a tape-delayed format with a focus on highlights from the past day's events, and feature segments highlighting athletes and storylines during the Games. In addition to its facilities in Stamford (which largely maintained aspects of the remote production setups used for Tokyo and Beijing), NBC set up studios in
9027-473: The Games. In February 2017, Bob Costas stepped down as the main host of NBC's coverage, being replaced by former ESPN personality Mike Tirico . On March 28, 2017, NBC announced that it would adopt a new format for its primetime coverage of the 2018 Winter Olympics , with a focus on live coverage in all time zones to take advantage of Pyeongchang's 14-hour difference with U.S. Eastern Time, and to address criticism of its previous tape delay practices. As before,
9180-417: The Games. Some criticized the journalistic focus to the games. Weisman, however, defended the tone, saying "the criticism we hear is that people want to hear positive news . . . we are not the American team. We are clearly rooting for the American team, but we're not going to whitewash anything." Other ideas Weisman introduced for the Olympics included miniature "point of view cameras" for specific events such as
9333-409: The Games. They were not allowed to post audio, video, or photos that they had taken. An exception was made if an athlete already has a personal website that was not set up specifically for the Games. NBC launched its own Olympic website, NBCOlympics.com. Focusing on the television coverage of the Games, it did provide video clips, medal standings and live results. Its main purpose, however, was to provide
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#17330856670109486-498: The Moluccas, between 1525 and 1527, Portuguese expeditions encountered the Caroline Islands , the Aru Islands , and Papua New Guinea . In 1542–43 the Portuguese also reached Japan. In 1564, five Spanish ships carrying 379 soldiers crossed the ocean from Mexico led by Miguel López de Legazpi , and colonized the Philippines and Mariana Islands . For the remainder of the 16th century, Spain maintained military and mercantile control, with ships sailing from Mexico and Peru across
9639-410: The NBC Sports Network (NBCSN; formerly Versus, which became a part of NBC Sports following the acquisition) also added coverage of the Olympics beginning with the 2012 London Games, with an emphasis on team sports, for the duration of the network's existence. NBCSN became the highlighted cable network for coverage, replacing both USA Network, which would maintain their regular entertainment schedule during
9792-444: The NFL's new media rights beginning in 2023 (which extends the Super Bowl rotation to four networks) codifies this scenario, with all of NBC's future Super Bowl games being in Winter Olympic years (2026, 2030, and 2034). Due to COVID-19 protocol (including China's strict zero-COVID policy), NBC once again sent a smaller contingent of staff to Beijing, and all events were called remotely from its various facilities. Mike Tirico anchored
9945-410: The Olympic highlights on their local news or clear airtime for the few hours of coverage NBC did present. NBC's extensive coverage was canceled before a prime time anchor had been named; it was said that NBC Nightly News anchor John Chancellor (who formerly served as a Moscow bureau chief for NBC News), along with sportscasters Bryant Gumbel and Dick Enberg , were reportedly being considered for
10098-460: The Olympics (a daily program focusing on news and highlights involving women at the Games), Tokyo Tonight (which featured whiparound coverage in primetime hosted by former ESPN personalities Kenny Mayne and Cari Champion ), and Olympic Highlights with Snoop Dogg and Kevin Hart (a half-hour highlight show with an unconventional and comedic tone). Peacock also carried coverage of selected basketball, gymnastics, and track and field events. For
10251-401: The Olympics have aired primarily in the evening and on weekend afternoons on NBC, and varying times on its cable networks (such as after the close of the stock market day on CNBC , the early mornings on MSNBC , overnights on the USA Network , and formerly various hours on now defunct NBCSN ). Additional live coverage is available on the aforementioned streaming platforms. The on-air title of
10404-518: The Olympics have been criticized for the tape delaying of events, spoiling the results of events prior to their own tape-delayed broadcast of those events, editing of its broadcasts to resemble an emotionally appealing program meant to entertain rather than a straight live sports event, and avoiding controversial subjects such as material critical of Russia at the 2014 Olympics . Since the 2012 Summer Olympics , live events have been continually added to NBC's cable networks and streaming platforms, rivaling
10557-475: The Opening and Closing Ceremonies and called men's basketball (alongside Al McGuire ) and gymnastics (alongside Mary Lou Retton and Bart Conner ). Jay Randolph called baseball during the Olympics alongside Jim Kaat . Just as his mentor Roone Arledge had before over at ABC , Dick Ebersol , who took over NBC Sports in 1989 , decided to make the Olympics a staple of his network's sports television schedule. NBC continued its Summer Games coverage into
10710-429: The Pacific Ocean to the Philippines via Guam , and establishing the Spanish East Indies . The Manila galleons operated for two and a half centuries, linking Manila and Acapulco , in one of the longest trade routes in history. Spanish expeditions also arrived at Tuvalu , the Marquesas , the Cook Islands , the Solomon Islands , Vanuatu , the Marshalls and the Admiralty Islands in the South Pacific. Later, in
10863-399: The Pacific Ocean's irregular western margins lie many seas, the largest of which are the Celebes Sea , Coral Sea , East China Sea (East Sea), Philippine Sea , Sea of Japan , South China Sea (South Sea), Sulu Sea , Tasman Sea , and Yellow Sea (West Sea of Korea). The Indonesian Seaway (including the Strait of Malacca and Torres Strait ) joins the Pacific and the Indian Ocean to
11016-502: The Pacific in recorded history. They were part of a Spanish expedition to the Spice Islands that would eventually result in the first world circumnavigation . Magellan called the ocean Pacífico (or "Pacific" meaning, "peaceful") because, after sailing through the stormy seas off Cape Horn , the expedition found calm waters. The ocean was often called the Sea of Magellan in his honor until
11169-700: The Philippines already in 7000 BCE. Additional earlier migrations into Insular Southeast Asia, associated with Austroasiatic-speakers from Mainland Southeast Asia, are estimated to have taken place already in 15000 BCE. At around 1300 to 1200 BCE, a branch of the Austronesian migrations known as the Lapita culture reached the Bismarck Archipelago , the Solomon Islands , Vanuatu , Fiji , and New Caledonia . From there, they settled Tonga and Samoa by 900 to 800 BCE. Some also back-migrated northwards in 200 BCE to settle
11322-468: The Premier League and other NBC Sports Gold services) to the service. On June 29, 2020, Fox sold the last seven years of its contract to air USGA tournaments to NBC, regaining rights to the U.S. Open for the first time since 2015. In January 2021, it was reported that NBCUniversal planned to shut down NBCSN by the end of the year; an internal memo cited increased competition from streaming services and
11475-576: The Stamford building. Meanwhile in Tokyo, NBC used the Hilton Tokyo Odaiba hotel as a broadcast location, with Mike Tirico anchoring from an outdoor set on a balcony overlooking Tokyo Bay . Telemundo employed a virtual set at its headquarters in Miami, which was modeled after NBC's main indoor set in Tokyo. The scheduling of the 2022 Winter Olympics impacted the U.S. broadcast rights to the Super Bowl ,
11628-639: The Syncom 3 satellite, a daily highlights package could be seen a few hours after the events took place; otherwise, videotape canisters were flown across the Pacific Ocean and were broadcast to American viewers the following day. Serving as anchor was Bill Henry , then NBC News Tokyo bureau chief, who had extensive experience in both print and broadcast news. Play-by-play commentators included Bud Palmer and Jim Simpson , while former Olympians Rafer Johnson and Murray Rose served as analysts. NBC first televised
11781-698: The U.S. broadcast rights for the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow , Russia, but when the United States Olympic Committee kept U.S. athletes home to honor the boycott announced by President Jimmy Carter in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan , the telecasts were greatly scaled back. In the end, what had been 150 hours of scheduled coverage, had substantially decreased to just a few hours. Highlights were fed to local NBC stations for use on their local newscasts. Many affiliates, however, refused to show
11934-577: The US to Japan as with signals from the West Coast . NBC needed approval from the FCC and it approved thus giving NBC satellite coverage of the Olympics thus avoiding flight expenses and tapes flown, NBC's telecast of the opening ceremonies that year marked the first color broadcast televised live via satellite back to the United States. The Olympic competition itself was broadcast in black-and-white . Through its use of
12087-640: The United States. Significant contributions to oceanographic knowledge were made by the voyages of HMS Beagle in the 1830s, with Charles Darwin aboard; HMS Challenger during the 1870s; the USS Tuscarora (1873–76); and the German Gazelle (1874–76). In Oceania, France obtained a leading position as imperial power after making Tahiti and New Caledonia protectorates in 1842 and 1853, respectively. After navy visits to Easter Island in 1875 and 1887, Chilean navy officer Policarpo Toro negotiated
12240-574: The Winter Olympic Games in 1972 . Anchored by Curt Gowdy , much of the coverage actually was broadcast live since alpine skiing and long track speed skating were held in the morning, which corresponded to prime time on the East Coast of the U.S. Although NBC bought the TV rights from the Sapporo Olympics group, they didn't know that they had to make a deal with NHK for broadcast booths at each venue. By
12393-530: The andesite line and include New Guinea, the islands of New Zealand, and the Philippines. Some of these islands are structurally associated with nearby continents. High islands are of volcanic origin, and many contain active volcanoes. Among these are Bougainville , Hawaii, and the Solomon Islands. The coral reefs of the South Pacific are low-lying structures that have built up on basaltic lava flows under
12546-408: The andesite line. Within the closed loop of the andesite line are most of the deep troughs, submerged volcanic mountains, and oceanic volcanic islands that characterize the Pacific basin. Here basaltic lavas gently flow out of rifts to build huge dome-shaped volcanic mountains whose eroded summits form island arcs, chains, and clusters. Outside the andesite line, volcanism is of the explosive type, and
12699-574: The arctic, icing from October to May can present a hazard for shipping while persistent fog occurs from June to December. A climatological low in the Gulf of Alaska keeps the southern coast wet and mild during the winter months. The Westerlies and associated jet stream within the Mid-Latitudes can be particularly strong, especially in the Southern Hemisphere, due to the temperature difference between
12852-541: The banner " Golf Channel on NBC ", while Versus was reformatted toward a more mainstream audience, renamed the NBC Sports Network and eventually rebranded as NBCSN . The merger also helped influence an extension of NBC Sports' contract with the NHL; the 10-year deal – valued at close to $ 2 billion, unified the cable and broadcast television rights to the league and introduced a new " Black Friday " Thanksgiving Showdown game on NBC, along with national coverage for every game in
13005-508: The base of a counter-clockwise circulation in the Bering Sea . Its southern arm becomes the chilled slow, south-flowing California Current . The South Equatorial Current , flowing west along the equator, swings southward east of New Guinea , turns east at about 50°S , and joins the main westerly circulation of the South Pacific, which includes the Earth-circling Antarctic Circumpolar Current . As it approaches
13158-518: The championship game of the National Football League (NFL) and historically the most-watched television broadcast in the United States annually. The rights to the game rotate between CBS , Fox , and long-time Olympic broadcaster NBC ; to prevent the Games from competing for viewership and advertising sales with Super Bowl LVI —which was scheduled for February 13, 2022, at Los Angeles' SoFi Stadium —CBS and NBC announced in March 2019 that they would swap
13311-603: The company announced some exclusive digital-only streaming of the 2014 Olympics via the NBCOlympics.com website and the NBC Sports Live Extra app for Android and iOS , including exclusive content such as Gold Zone, Olympic Ice and NBC's Olympic News Desk. With the premiere of Sunday Night Football , NBCUniversal hired Troika Design Group to design an overall visual identity for its coverage, including branding, on-air graphics, and other visual elements. Concurrent with
13464-771: The conclusion of NFL season. NBC will also carry a doubleheader on Martin Luther King Jr. Day , coverage of All-Star Weekend , and a slate of playoff games (including six conference finals over the length of the agreement). Rights to the NBA Finals will remain exclusive to ABC . The agreement also includes broadcasting rights to the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). NBC Sports' WNBA package includes more than 50 regular-season and first-round playoff games, seven WNBA semi-finals, and three WNBA Finals . WNBA games will air on NBC, USA Network, and Peacock. In 1964, NBC televised
13617-455: The diameter of the Moon. Its geographic center is in eastern Kiribati south of Kiritimati , just west from Starbuck Island at 4°58′S 158°45′W / 4.97°S 158.75°W / -4.97; -158.75 . The lowest known point on Earth – the Mariana Trench – lies 10,911 m (35,797 ft ; 5,966 fathoms ) below sea level. Its average depth
13770-402: The difference between temperatures aloft and sea surface temperatures is the greatest; however, each particular basin has its own seasonal patterns. On a worldwide scale, May is the least active month, while September is the most active month. November is the only month in which all the tropical cyclone basins are active. The Pacific hosts the two most active tropical cyclone basins , which are
13923-487: The east and the islands of Kiribati in the southeast. Melanesia, to the southwest, includes New Guinea , the world's second largest island after Greenland and by far the largest of the Pacific islands. The other main Melanesian groups from north to south are the Bismarck Archipelago , the Solomon Islands , Santa Cruz , Vanuatu , Fiji and New Caledonia . The largest area, Polynesia , stretching from Hawaii in
14076-493: The east coast of Russia contrasting with the milder weather off British Columbia during the winter months due to the preferred flow of ocean currents . In the tropical and subtropical Pacific, the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) affects weather conditions. To determine the phase of ENSO, the most recent three-month sea surface temperature average for the area approximately 3,000 km (1,900 mi) to
14229-634: The eastern edge of the Kamchatka Peninsula , the Kuril Islands , Japan, the Mariana Islands , the Solomon Islands , and New Zealand's North Island . The dissimilarity continues northeastward along the western edge of the Andes Cordillera along South America to Mexico, returning then to the islands off California. Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan, New Guinea, and New Zealand lie outside
14382-514: The edited, tape-delayed broadcasts that traditionally air on the NBC broadcast network's primetime coverage. NBC televised its first Olympic Games in 1964, when it broadcast that year's Summer Olympics from Tokyo . The network originally had intended to film the events from Tokyo but the Syncom team had a 1-hour test on the Syncom 3 satellite and it was discovered that it can transmit up to two hours from
14535-510: The eighteenth century. Magellan stopped at one uninhabited Pacific island before stopping at Guam in March 1521. Although Magellan himself died in the Philippines in 1521, Spanish navigator Juan Sebastián Elcano led the remains of the expedition back to Spain across the Indian Ocean and round the Cape of Good Hope , completing the first world circumnavigation in 1522. Sailing around and east of
14688-498: The end of the second hour of coverage, NBC had an exclusive as the network's Atlanta affiliate, WXIA-TV , was in the process of interviewing Janet Evans during the bombing. Beginning with the 2000 Summer Olympics , NBC became the sole U.S. rights holder for the Olympic Games for the entire decade. NBC made the longest and most expensive commitment ever anywhere in the world since the Olympics were first presented on television. For
14841-634: The equator into northern (North Pacific) and southern (South Pacific) portions. It extends from the Antarctic region in the South to the Arctic in the north. The Pacific Ocean encompasses approximately one-third of the Earth's surface, having an area of 165,200,000 km (63,800,000 sq mi) – larger than Earth's entire landmass combined, 150,000,000 km (58,000,000 sq mi). Extending approximately 15,500 km (9,600 mi) from
14994-585: The equator, which can have a salinity as low as 34 parts per thousand, is less salty than that found in the mid-latitudes because of abundant equatorial precipitation throughout the year. The lowest counts of less than 32 parts per thousand are found in the far north as less evaporation of seawater takes place in these frigid areas. The motion of Pacific waters is generally clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere (the North Pacific gyre ) and counter-clockwise in
15147-586: The first completely documented European landing in Australia (1606), in Cape York Peninsula , and Abel Janszoon Tasman circumnavigated and landed on parts of the Australian continental coast and arrived at Tasmania and New Zealand in 1642. In the 16th and 17th centuries, Spain considered the Pacific Ocean a mare clausum – a sea closed to other naval powers. As the only known entrance from
15300-469: The first humans to reach Remote Oceania , and the first to cross vast distances of open water. They also continued spreading southwards and settling the rest of Maritime Southeast Asia , reaching Indonesia and Malaysia by 1500 BCE, and further west to Madagascar and the Comoros in the Indian Ocean by around 500 CE. More recently, it is suggested that Austronesians expanded already earlier, arriving in
15453-521: The first time, Olympic Channel was incorporated into live event coverage, with a particular focus on the tennis and wrestling competitions. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic (which had already prompted the Games to be postponed by one year to 2021) and biosecurity protocols, NBC sent a significantly smaller number of employees to Tokyo than it usually did for previous Summer Olympics. While commentators were present in Tokyo for flagship events such as athletics,
15606-475: The games, the network teamed up with Cablevision for the Triplecast . The service consisted of red, white, and blue channels that allowed the viewer to watch anything they wanted even before it aired in the network's primetime telecast. However, the service was a dismal failure losing $ 100 million and had only 200,000 subscribers. In addition, the main network's coverage was cannibalized to the extent it seemed that
15759-485: The games. Each edition is hosted locally and contains a mixture of network-produced and, if station resources allow, local segments (similar to the PM Magazine format). A version of the program had been piloted by KCRA Sacramento during the 2004 games. At the 2008 Summer Olympics , events were streamed live for the first time on the Internet through the NBCOlympics.com website (also in 2008, Oxygen replaced Bravo as
15912-516: The games. The 2012 Summer Olympics also saw Universal HD removed from the company's cable/satellite coverage. Bravo aired supplemental coverage (mainly the tennis tournament) in place of Oxygen, with Universal Sports again solely providing analysis and pay television providers again carrying dedicated HD basketball and soccer networks. The 2014 Winter Olympics again saw NBCSN as the highlighted cable network, though NBCUniversal's cable networks had additional complications due to NBC's weekend coverage of
16065-523: The great "Southern Sea" which he named Mar del Sur (in Spanish). Afterwards, the ocean's current name was coined by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan during the Spanish circumnavigation of the world in 1521, as he encountered favorable winds on reaching the ocean. He called it Mar Pacífico , which in Portuguese means 'peaceful sea'. Top large seas: Across the continents of Asia, Australia and
16218-439: The incorporation of the island into Chile with native Rapanui in 1888. By occupying Easter Island, Chile joined the imperial nations. By 1900 nearly all Pacific islands were in control of Britain, France, United States, Germany, Japan, and Chile. Although the United States gained control of Guam and the Philippines from Spain in 1898, Japan controlled most of the western Pacific by 1914 and occupied many other islands during
16371-533: The islands in the world. There are about 25,000 islands in the Pacific Ocean. The islands entirely within the Pacific Ocean can be divided into three main groups known as Micronesia , Melanesia and Polynesia . Micronesia, which lies north of the equator and west of the International Date Line , includes the Mariana Islands in the northwest, the Caroline Islands in the center, the Marshall Islands to
16524-675: The islands of eastern Micronesia (including the Carolines , the Marshall Islands , and Kiribati ), mixing with earlier Austronesian migrations in the region. This remained the furthest extent of the Austronesian expansion into Polynesia until around 700 CE when there was another surge of island exploration. They reached the Cook Islands , Tahiti , and the Marquesas by 700 CE; Hawaiʻi by 900 CE; Rapa Nui by 1000 CE; and finally New Zealand by 1200 CE. Austronesians may have also reached as far as
16677-1515: The main coverage was overproduced and that viewers knew some results about 10 hours before they were aired over the air on NBC. For Atlanta, NBC had no supplemental cable coverage. For the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta , NBC used as commentators Marv Albert, Matt Goukas , Magic Johnson , and Jim Gray on men's basketball , Mike Breen and Cheryl Miller on women's basketball, Bob Papa , Al Bernstein, Beasley Reese on boxing , Charlie Jones and Bill Endicott on canoeing , Al Trautwig, Phil Liggett, and Paul Sherwen on cycling , Dan Hicks and Cynthia Potter on diving , Jim Simpson and Melanie Smith Taylor on equestrian , Jim Donovan and Seamus Malin on soccer , John Tesh, Tim Daggett, Elfi Schlegel, and Beth Ruyak on gymnastics , Charlie Jones and Bill Endicott on rowing , Dan Hicks, Summer Sanders , Rowdy Gaines , and Jim Gray on swimming , Don Criqui and Tracie Ruiz-Conforto on synchronized swimming , Bud Collins and Mary Carillo on tennis , Tom Hammond, Dwight Stones, Craig Masback, and Carol Lewis on track and field , Chris Marlowe, Randy Rosenbloom ( beach ), Paul Sunderland, Kirk Kilgour (beach), and Bill Walton on volleyball , Don Criqui and Jim Kruse on water polo , Bob Trumpy and Phil Simms on weightlifting , and Russ Hellickson and Jeff Blatnick on wrestling . As with Arledge in Munich , Ebersol had to deal with breaking news during
16830-564: The majority of commentators called events remotely from NBC Sports' headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut . Due to social distancing and remote production, NBC's staff was largely divided among the headquarters, other NBC facilities (such as 30 Rockefeller Plaza , and those of CNBC, Telemundo, and in some cases, Sky Sports in Great Britain), and a nearby hotel in Stamford, while makeshift commentary booths had to be constructed in storage areas of
16983-513: The network partnered with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) to establish the XFL – a new football league which introduced modified rules and debuted to tremendous, but short-lived fanfare, only lasting one season (NBC shared broadcast rights to the league's games, which were mainly held on Saturday nights, with UPN ). In 2003 , NBC obtained the broadcast rights and a minority interest in
17136-524: The next decade, with both the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona and the 1996 Summer Olympics . For the 1992 games, Ebersol surprised even his own staff as well as everybody else by paying a then record $ 401 million for the 1992 games. The network then paid $ 456 million to broadcast the 1996 Olympics. Previously hosting late night coverage in Seoul, Bob Costas made his debut, as primetime host, in Barcelona. It
17289-585: The north to New Zealand in the south, also encompasses Tuvalu , Tokelau , Samoa , Tonga and the Kermadec Islands to the west, the Cook Islands , Society Islands and Austral Islands in the center, and the Marquesas Islands , Tuamotu , Mangareva Islands , and Easter Island to the east. Islands in the Pacific Ocean are of four basic types: continental islands, high islands, coral reefs and uplifted coral platforms. Continental islands lie outside
17442-603: The northern Philippines , but also earlier groups associated with Austroasiatic-speakers , resulting in the modern peoples of Island Southeast Asia and Oceania. A later seaborne migration is the Neolithic Austronesian expansion of the Austronesian peoples . Austronesians originated from the island of Taiwan c. 3000 –1500 BCE. They are associated with distinctive maritime sailing technologies (notably outrigger boats , catamarans , lashed-lug boats, and
17595-557: The northwestern Pacific and the eastern Pacific. Pacific hurricanes form south of Mexico, sometimes striking the western Mexican coast and occasionally the Southwestern United States between June and October, while typhoons forming in the northwestern Pacific moving into southeast and east Asia from May to December. Tropical cyclones also form in the South Pacific basin , where they occasionally impact island nations. In
17748-399: The ocean was encountered by Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa in 1513 after his expedition crossed the Isthmus of Panama and reached a new ocean. He named it Mar del Sur ("Sea of the South" or "South Sea" ) because the ocean was to the south of the coast of the isthmus where he first observed the Pacific. In 1520, navigator Ferdinand Magellan and his crew were the first to cross
17901-549: The ocean's surface. One of the most dramatic is the Great Barrier Reef off northeastern Australia with chains of reef patches. A second island type formed of coral is the uplifted coral platform, which is usually slightly larger than the low coral islands. Examples include Banaba (formerly Ocean Island) and Makatea in the Tuamotu group of French Polynesia . The volume of the Pacific Ocean, representing about 50.1 percent of
18054-486: The official theme song for NBC's telecast of the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico . NBC then bid for, and won, the rights to televise the 1988 Summer Olympics . Due to American television companies providing most of the revenue for the organizers, they agreed to schedule most of the team finals in the afternoon, which corresponded to prime time of the previous night in the United States (due to both South Korea being located near
18207-474: The opening weekend of the Games (including the opening ceremony) from Beijing, but traveled back to the United States on February 8 for logistical reasons, with the remainder of the Games (with exceptions) being anchored from Stamford. After that night's coverage was guest hosted by Craig Melvin and Maria Taylor , Tirico returned the following night. He then traveled to Los Angeles to host NBC's coverage of Super Bowl LVI, and over Super Bowl weekend Tirico anchored
18360-660: The operations for NBC Sports and NBCSN began to be based out of a purpose-built facility in Stamford, Connecticut . The move was made mainly to take advantage of tax credits given by the state of Connecticut , which NBC has taken advantage of previously with the tabloid talk shows of its NBCUniversal Television Distribution . Only Football Night in America remained in New York City, at NBC Studios , until September 7, 2014, when production of that program also moved to Stamford. NASCAR returned to NBC Sports properties in 2015 under
18513-414: The other mainstream sports networks as reasoning. The channel was officially shut down on December 31, 2021; its remaining programming rights were moved to other NBCUniversal platforms, particularly USA Network and Peacock. NBC's contract with the NHL expired after the 2020–21 season , with the league signing new contracts with ESPN and TNT . On April 6, 2022, NBC Sports announced a deal to carry
18666-517: The planet's total surface area, larger than its entire land area (148,000,000 km (57,000,000 sq mi)). The centers of both the Water Hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere , as well as the oceanic pole of inaccessibility , are in the Pacific Ocean. Ocean circulation (caused by the Coriolis effect ) subdivides it into two largely independent volumes of water that meet at the equator ,
18819-602: The pole vault and gymnastics; the "Olympic Chronicles," profiles which highlighted athletes and moments from Olympics past; and an Olympic soundtrack which included an original Whitney Houston song, " One Moment in Time ". NBC won seven Emmy Awards for their Olympic coverage. A curious result was that, since in the United States, the 1988 NFL season had just started, NBC would plug the holes (primarily play-by-play broadcasters) with well-known older broadcasters such as Curt Gowdy, Ray Scott and Merle Harmon , among others. Marv Albert
18972-574: The prime time studio host role. Bryant Gumbel ultimately served as Seoul primetime host in 1988 while Dick Enberg co-hosted the Ceremonies through the 1996 closing. NBC Sports executive Don Ohlmeyer had originally commissioned to use "1980" , an instrumental theme written by Herb Alpert , for the network's planned coverage of the Summer Olympics in Moscow. It would ultimately be used seven years later as
19125-535: The primetime block began at 8:00 p.m ET/5:00 p.m PT, and unlike previous Olympics, was available for streaming. Event sessions in figure skating were deliberately scheduled with morning sessions so that they could air during primetime in the Americas (and in turn, NBC's coverage; due to the substantial fees NBC has paid for rights to the Olympics, the IOC has allowed NBC to have influence on event scheduling to maximize U.S. television ratings when possible; NBC agreed to
19278-412: The primetime block for the remaining weekdays of the Games. NBCUniversal integrated its Peacock streaming service into coverage beginning with the 2020 Summer Olympics . It carried a special "Tokyo Now" channel during the Games, featuring the studio programs Tokyo Live (event coverage and medal ceremonies), Tokyo Gold (an hour-long highlight show recapping the previous day's events), On Her Turf at
19431-553: The primetime block from an outdoor studio outside SoFi Stadium , before returning to Stamford for the remainder of the Games. All events were streamed live on Peacock. For the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, NBC maintained most of the format changes used in the three Asia-hosted Olympics, including live coverage on NBC during the U.S. daytime hours across the main network and NBCUniversal cable networks (including two dedicated "Paris Extra" channels), and all events streaming on Peacock. Due to
19584-569: The quest for Terra Australis ("the [great] Southern Land"), Spanish explorations in the 17th century, such as the expedition led by the Portuguese navigator Pedro Fernandes de Queirós , arrived at the Pitcairn and Vanuatu archipelagos, and sailed the Torres Strait between Australia and New Guinea, named after navigator Luís Vaz de Torres . Dutch explorers, sailing around southern Africa, also engaged in exploration and trade; Willem Janszoon , made
19737-453: The reach and availability of Olympic Games coverage. NBC returned to supplemental cable/satellite coverage in 2000 , with some events airing on CNBC and MSNBC ; traditionally CNBC has mainly aired coverage of boxing events . The 2002 Winter Olympics were the first Winter Olympics under a multi-year rights agreement between NBC and the IOC. NBC partnered with HDNet to produce an eight-hour block of daily coverage in high definition, which
19890-469: The relaunch of Versus as NBC Sports Network on January 2, 2012, and the 2012 NHL Winter Classic , NBC Sports also launched a comprehensive redesign of its branding, including a new on-air graphics design built around the NBC peacock, and an updated logo for the division as a whole (replacing a logo that had been in use since 1989). The new design was also intended to be modular, allowing it to be expanded for use in larger events across multiple networks (such as
20043-454: The rights for Super Bowl LVI and LV (2021) , so that both the 2022 Winter Olympics and Super Bowl LVI would be broadcast by NBC. In a break from the established practice of airing premieres or special episodes of television series after the Super Bowl to take advantage of its large audience, NBC aired its prime time coverage for Day 10 of the Games immediately following the game. Furthermore,
20196-550: The rights to the 2018 Winter Olympics (in Pyeongchang , South Korea) and $ 1.45 billion for the 2020 Summer Olympics (which were to be held in Tokyo , Japan but were later postponed to 2021 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic ). In response to criticism it received during previous Olympics, NBC also announced that beginning in 2012 , it planned to broadcast all events live through either television or digital platforms. Additionally,
20349-576: The season, along with qualifying and practice sessions) aired on NBCSN, while NBC aired the Monaco Grand Prix, Canadian Grand Prix and the final two races of the season, which in the first year of the deal included the United States Grand Prix . All races were also streamed online and through the NBC Sports Live Extra mobile app . They lost the broadcast rights to ESPN beginning from the 2018 season. On March 18, 2013, nearly all of
20502-503: The series flagship Indianapolis 500 , with the remaining races airing on NBCSN as before. An IndyCar package is also offered through NBC Sports Gold. Shortly after, NBC announced a six-year agreement with the International Motor Sports Association beginning in 2019, including the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship , with the majority of coverage on NBCSN. Following the launch of NBCUniversal's streaming service Peacock , NBC Sports began to migrate some of its overflow content (including
20655-450: The settlement of Buka by 32,000 B.P. and Manus by 25,000 B.P. Journeys of 180 kilometres (110 mi) and 230 kilometres (140 mi) are involved, respectively. The descendants of these migrations today are the Negritos , Melanesians , and Indigenous Australians . Their populations in maritime Southeast Asia , coastal New Guinea , and Island Melanesia later intermarried with the incoming Austronesian settlers from Taiwan and
20808-452: The southeast of Hawaii is computed, and if the region is more than 0.5 °C (0.9 °F) above or below normal for that period, then an El Niño or La Niña is considered in progress. In the tropical western Pacific, the monsoon and the related wet season during the summer months contrast with dry winds in the winter which blow over the ocean from the Asian landmass. Worldwide, tropical cyclone activity peaks in late summer, when
20961-453: The telecast to Sundays, Saturday and Sunday afternoon playoff games, and up to five games of the Stanley Cup . Additionally in 2008, NBC broadcast the 2008 NHL Winter Classic , an outdoor NHL game played on New Year's Day at Ralph Wilson Stadium , a success in attendance and television ratings. The following year's Winter Classic would become the most-watched regular season game in 34 years. In addition to this regular season success, Game 7 of
21114-420: The telecasts, as typically announced at the start of each broadcast and during sponsor billboards is always the official name of the games in question – for example, The Games of the XXIX Olympiad for the 2008 Summer Games . However, promotional logos may reflect the more common location-and-year name format, such as "Beijing 2008". NBC has held the American broadcasting rights to the Summer Olympic Games since
21267-403: The television rights for the 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2020 Olympics, beating out ESPN / ABC and Fox . The entire package was worth $ 4.38 billion, making it the most expensive television rights deal in Olympic history. NBC paid $ 775 million for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , Russia , and $ 1.23 billion for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil . NBC also paid $ 963 million for
21420-582: The time NBC found out, it was too late. The booths had been built and there were none to spare. Consequently, everyone worked off monitors. A young sportscaster making his network television debut at Sapporo was a 26-year-old Al Michaels , who did hockey play-by-play during the games. Eight years later, he would call the famous 1980 " Miracle On Ice " at that year's Winter Games in Lake Placid for ABC Sports . Other sportscasters utilized by NBC included Jim Simpson , Jay Randolph , Billy Kidd , Peggy Fleming , Art Devlin , and Terry McDermott . NBC had won
21573-572: The top division of English rugby union , through a three-year deal. The contract included up to 24 regularly-scheduled games on NBCSN per-season, and up to 50 streaming. Its first live match was on March 12, 2016, when London Irish hosted Saracens F.C. at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey . In June 2016, NBC Sports launched NBC Sports Gold , a suite of sport-specific over-the-top subscription services that would included expanded and overflow coverage of its properties. On July 15, 2017. NBCUniversal relaunched Universal HD as Olympic Channel ,
21726-399: The tournaments, with the Open subsequently debuting a year early in 2016. Universal Sports ceased operations in November 2015. NBCUniversal acquired the rights to the content that was previously held by Universal Sports Network. Much of the programming moved to either Universal HD , NBCSN and NBC Sports Live Extra. From 2016 until 2018, NBC Sports held the rights to Premiership Rugby ,
21879-624: The tropics and Antarctica, which records the coldest temperature readings on the planet. In the Southern hemisphere, because of the stormy and cloudy conditions associated with extratropical cyclones riding the jet stream, it is usual to refer to the Westerlies as the Roaring Forties, Furious Fifties and Shrieking Sixties according to the varying degrees of latitude. The ocean was first mapped by Abraham Ortelius ; he called it Maris Pacifici following Ferdinand Magellan 's description of it as "a pacific sea" during his circumnavigation from 1519 to 1522. To Magellan, it seemed much more calm (pacific) than
22032-407: The two sides to split advertising revenue after the network recouped the expenses. Games were supposed to begin airing on the network during the 2004–05 season , however a league lockout that resulted in the cancellation of that season delayed the start of the contract until the second half of the 2005–06 NHL season . NBC televised regular season games at first on Saturday afternoons before moving
22185-400: The west, and Drake Passage and the Strait of Magellan link the Pacific with the Atlantic Ocean on the east. To the north, the Bering Strait connects the Pacific with the Arctic Ocean . As the Pacific straddles the 180th meridian , the West Pacific (or western Pacific , near Asia) is in the Eastern Hemisphere , while the East Pacific (or eastern Pacific , near the Americas) is in
22338-400: The western border of the International Date Line , in addition to the differences in time zones). Today co-anchor Bryant Gumbel was the prime time host that year; Bob Costas hosted the late-night telecasts while Jane Pauley was one of the hosts of early-morning coverage. Gumbel and Dick Enberg were co-hosts for the opening and closing ceremonies. Michael Weisman led a team covering
22491-463: The width of the Pacific with precision for the first time in history. One of the earliest voyages of scientific exploration was organized by Spain in the Malaspina Expedition of 1789–1794. It sailed vast areas of the Pacific, from Cape Horn to Alaska, Guam and the Philippines, New Zealand, Australia, and the South Pacific. Growing imperialism during the 19th century resulted in the occupation of much of Oceania by European powers, and later Japan and
22644-434: The world's oceanic water, has been estimated at some 714 million cubic kilometers (171 million cubic miles). Surface water temperatures in the Pacific can vary from −1.4 °C (29.5 °F), the freezing point of seawater, in the poleward areas to about 30 °C (86 °F) near the equator. Salinity also varies latitudinally, reaching a maximum of 37 parts per thousand in the southeastern area. The water near
22797-523: Was calling boxing during the Olympics alongside Ferdie Pacheco . Meanwhile, Don Criqui and Bob Trumpy called swimming (alongside Candy Costie-Burke for the synchronized events and John Naber ) and volleyball (alongside Chris Marlowe ) respectively. Charlie Jones called track and field (alongside Frank Shorter and Dwight Stones ) and Jimmy Cefalo served as the daytime host. Bob Costas (as previously mentioned) and Gayle Gardner were NBC's late night hosts. Dick Enberg served as host for
22950-406: Was carried by HDNet and on the digital signals of participating NBC affiliates. Despite being held in a time zone only one hour ahead of Pacific Time, NBC still tape delayed much of its coverage for the west coast, although Salt Lake City's local NBC affiliate KSL-TV was given permission to air the live, east coast broadcasts to ensure their availability in the Games' host city. For the first time at
23103-461: Was named president of NBC Sports and Olympics. The 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver were watched by a total of 190 million viewers, including 27.6 million viewers of the gold medal game in men's hockey. During the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , Russia, over 500 hours of the games were broadcast across five NBC-owned television channels (NBC, NBCSN, CNBC , MSNBC and USA Network ), with 1,000 hours being streamed digitally. In January,
23256-438: Was offered. NBC affiliate WRAL-TV in Raleigh, North Carolina also carried this content via their experimental ATSC 3.0 digital signals. With the re-introduction of golf to the Olympics, Golf Channel was added to NBC's coverage, with Golf Channel on NBC providing production resources for the two tournaments on behalf of OBS. The primetime block of NBC's coverage in 2016 also featured Descriptive Video Service through
23409-469: Was the first to show the Americas separating two distinct oceans. Later, the Diogo Ribeiro map of 1529 was the first to show the Pacific at about its proper size. (Inhabited dependent territories are denoted by the asterisk (*), with names of the corresponding sovereign states in round brackets. Associated states in the Realm of New Zealand are denoted by the hash sign (#).) Territories with no permanent civilian population. The Pacific Ocean has most of
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