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Universal Sports to Broadcast U.S. Olympic Track Trials, Present Encore Presentations
Posted June 28th, 2008 at 8:00 AM by Adam Jacobs
Section: News & Results, Track & Field, Olympics
Coverage of the U.S. Olympic Trials, the pressure-packed competition held every four years to select the U.S. Olympic Team, continue on the networks of NBC Universal with nearly 20 hours of swimming and track & field trials over the next two weeks including 10 straight nights of live primetime coverage on NBC and USA. Additionally Universal Sports will present encore presentations of the trials.
Tyson Gay, Allyson Felix, Jeremy Wariner, Bernard Lagat, Reese Hoffa, Sanya Richards and Lauryn Williams are among the top competitors at the historic Hayward Field at the University of Oregon looking to earn a trip to Beijing to represent the U.S. at the Olympic Games. Tom Hammond, Carol Lewis, Lewis Johnson, Ato Boldon, Dwight Stones, Ed Eyestone and Bob Neumeier report from Eugene, Ore.
Fri., June 27
Midnight-1a.m.ET/PT (USA)
Featured events:
Women’s 10,000m Final
Women’s 100m Quarterfinal
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NBC Sports & WCSN Partner to Launch Universal Sports
Posted June 17th, 2008 at 8:30 AM by Adam Jacobs
Section: News & Results, Marathons, Track & Field, Olympics
Press Release: NBC Sports, a division of NBC Universal, and World Championship Sports Network (WCSN) have joined forces to create Universal Sports. Universal Sports will combine NBCU’s programming and production expertise and promotional power with WCSN’s leading online destination for Olympic sports plus its growing television network to create the preeminent multiplatform destination for Olympic sports programming.
The announcement was made today by Dick Ebersol, Chairman, NBC Universal Sports & Olympics and Leo Hindery, Jr., Managing Partner of InterMedia Partners, the controlling shareholder of WCSN. Universal Sports will include both a television network and a robust online platform UniversalSports.com.
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Jodi said:
I look forward to reading the series of articles. It promises to be informative and enlightening....