Going from Paris to Daytona Beach, Fla., may not sound like the most glamorous voyage. Diffey joins NBC’s NASCAR team this week after handling play-by-play duties calling track and field for the network during the recently completed Paris Olympics. This transition has the Brisbane, Australia, native thoroughly excited — a word Diffey used multiple times during an interview with The …
Welcome to today’s Olympic newsletter. —In 3 X 3 women’s play, the U.S. won the bronze medal after beating Canada 16-13. The U.S. men’s team of Chase Budinger and Miles Evans lost to the defending Olympic champions from Norway, while Taryn Kloth and Kristen Nuss lost to Canada. —The U.S. men’s water polo team closed pool play with a 14-11 …
For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy NBC announcer Leigh Diffey said …
As we hit Day 13 of the Olympic Games, here are 13 thoughts/items on the broadcast coverage of the Tokyo Olympics so far: 1. The latest Olympic viewership numbers from NBC had Monday’s prime-time coverage averaging 15.8 million viewers. NBC Digital’s best Summer Olympics streaming audience so far was 746,000 viewers on July 26, which Karp said accounted for only …
