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Here are notes to

Here are notes to excogitate if you'll be watching all or any section of the XXI Winter Olympic marathon from Vancouver:

I. Bob Costas is undeveloped as your fundamental visit conduct. This is his eighth visit as NBC's prime-time troop. If NBC thinks something in reality conspicuous is chance at the Games, Costas settle upon serene the cheer of the studio owing the upshot to signal its gravitas.

II. These settle upon be the first-ever Games telecast in high-definition from initiation to closing ceremonies. You haven't in reality lived until you've watched biathlon and curling in hi-def.

III. NBC is ballyhooing 835 hours of coverage on its over-the-air network as adeptly as rope siblings USA, MSNBC, CNBC, Universal Sports HD and NBCOlympics.com. That's more than Turin (419 hours) in 2006 and Salt Lake City in 2002 (3751/2) combined.

IV. But not nearby 435 of those hours are inevitable owing goggle-box. The other 400 hours settle upon be elbow not at NBCOlympics.com.

V. The defeat put to use of as a rule NBC Olympics. com settle upon be owing on-demand coverage of something you strength possess missed or prerequisite to think over newly.

VI. Al Michaels' returns to between engagements an Olympics owing the essential every so often since Calgary in 1988. It's too the 30th anniversary of his career-making "Do you hold in miracles?" phone at Lake Placid. He replaces Jim Lampley as as a rule NBC's daytime as a rule troop.

VII. Most of the prime-time contention settle upon be observe and not slickly packaged taped goods.

VIII. As in perpetuity, the Olympics redefine prime every so often. This go-round, it settle upon be 7-11 p.m. on Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays and 7-10:30 p.m. on Wednesdays and Fridays and the essential Saturday. Only the bruised Saturday (Feb, 27) is it the common three hours (7-10 p.m.).

IX. Universal Sports HD, elbow in 57 million goggle-box homes, settle upon win five various studio and low-down shows from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The network settle upon not advance observe upshot coverage but settle upon replay events shown somewhere else. Think of it as NBC's Olympics SportsCenter.

X. NBC is paying $820 million owing the dextral to jacket blanket the Games. That's up from the $613 million it paid owing the Turin Games in 2006.

XI. NBC already has acknowledged that it settle upon suffer the squandering of $200 million on its investment because of manly money-making times. Still, it shouldn't force the dignity of the coverage.

XII. USA Network, elbow in 98.5 million homes, has dated designated the core owing at daybreak U.S. men's and women's curling and ice hockey. The hockey heroics settle upon be telecast observe. Curling? Think of it as filler midway hockey heroics.

XIII. MSNBC, 91.6 million homes, settle upon advance observe quarterfinal, semifinal and medal-round hockey contention. It settle upon too possess observe curling coverage, including the all-important medal-round heroics. It settle upon too advance observe promptness skating and fathom skating.

XIV. CNBC, 95 million homes, settle upon initiate its Olympics programming heyday at 4 p.m. and call contemplation to a doom of observe events not deemed quick owing prime every so often on NBC, biathlon and non-U.S. hockey heroics.

XV. Mike Emrick, the outstrip hockey play-by-play make known, may be the defeat play-by-play broadcaster in any fun in that stage.

XVI. What's fathom skating left out Dick Button? He'll be laboring his 17th Winter Olympics. However, he won't be rinkside with Tom Hammand, Scott Hamilton and Sandra Bezic. Rather, he'll away high-profile every so often alongside Costas owing overviews. Button settle upon be what Bela Karolyi was to NBC's gymnastics coverage in Beijing.

XVII. Cris Collinsworth, NBC's Sunday Night Football analyst, settle upon cruise Vancouver and environs in search of properties to make public.

XVIII. The biggest ratings chiefly belong with thwomen's unaffected by skate, which becomes the bruised Thursday of the Games on Feb. 25. U.S. women, extent, are considered big shots to medal.

XIX. Here are the U.S. athletes NBC is counting on to escape hype its coverage: Short-track promptness skater Apolo Ohno, a Dancing With The Stars champ who already owns five Olympic medals; two-time alpine skiing World Cup guardian Lindsey Vonn; speedskater Shani Davis: and snowboarder Shaun White.

XX. Ohno, Vonn, Davis and White should all be center tier on prime every so often Feb. 17, which some in the NBC one's own flesh are referring to as "White Hot Wednesday."

XXI. NBC has individual more Olympics in its vault. It plopped down $1.18 billion owing the 2012 Summer Games in London. There are already distinct networks jockeying owing put owing the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, and the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

835: Hours of coverage: 435 on TV, 400 at NBCOlympics.com.

$200,000,000: What NBC settle upon suffer the squandering of on its investment because of manly money-making times.

$613,000,000: What NBC paid owing the Turin Games in 2006.

$820,000,000: What NBC paid owing the Vancouver Games in 2010.

$1,180,000,000: What NBC settle upon fork out owing the London Games in 2012.

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