Eighteen months after making the 2008 Beijing Games the most-viewed event in U.S. television history, NBC resumes its Olympic run with the 2010 Winter Games from Vancouver, Canada.
From the Opening Ceremony on Friday, Feb. 12 through the Closing Ceremony on Sunday, Feb. 28, the networks of NBC Universal will deliver comprehensive coverage of all 15 sports on the Winter Games program, much of it live in primetime.
Bob Costas returns for his ninth Olympics with NBC, and eighth as anchor of the nightly primetime show. Al Michaels, who called the "Miracle on Ice" hockey game from Lake Placid in 1980, makes his NBC Olympic debut as host of the network's live weekend and weekday daytime coverage from Vancouver.
As part of the "Countdown to Vancouver" -- leading up to the Opening Ceremony on February 12th -- NBC Sports, Universal Sports TV and Universalsports.com will combine to deliver 1,250 original hours of programming of the 2009-2010 winter sports season.
The on-air and online coverage will include all World Cup Alpine skiing events, plus extensive coverage of speed skating, snowboarding, short track, bobsled, luge and skeleton. Broadcast plans for figure skating include the Grand Prix series on Universal Sports and the U.S. Nationals on NBC Sports in January.
The "Countdown to Vancouver" coverage will feature Olympic medal contenders across several sports, such as two-time world champion Lindsey Vonn (Alpine skiing); five-time Olympic medalist Apolo Ohno (short track); Olympic gold medalists Shani Davis (speed skating) and Shaun White (snowboarding); world champion Evan Lysacek (figure skating); and Olympic silver medalists Tanith Belbin & Ben Agosto (figure skating).
For detailed Universal Sports TV listings, click here.
Also, check out five can't-miss events in the "Countdown to Vancouver" programming plan.
An interactive broadcast schedule for NBC's coverage of the 2010 Vancouver Games will be made available soon on NBCOlympics.com.
