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Podcast: Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
Episode: How do you televise an Olympics in 2024?: The guest is NBC executive producer Molly Solomon
Description: Episode 394 of Sports Media Podcast features Molly Solomon, the executive producer & president of NBC Olympics production. In this podcast, Solomon discusses what a primetime Olympics show on a network should look like in 2024 when the results will already be known; the viewership declines for the Olympics and why Paris might change the fortunes of the event; how a network televises an Olympic ceremony with 100 boats floating down the River Seine; how things change for Solomon being in Connecticut as opposed to being in Paris; covering the Chinese swimming scandal story and the prospect of competitors refusing to compete against e...