NBC SHOWS IT HASN'T FORGOTTEN ABOUT NEWS.Byline: TOM HOFFARTH The Media Live news broke late Sunday and NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. , even in tape delay, was there to fix it. An eventually confirmed report about a positive drug test from shot putter C.J. Hunter at a meet earlier this year made it onto NBC's prime- time broadcast in timely fashion - although three hours later on the West Coast than East Coast viewers found out about it. Nevertheless, it sure looked and sounded live. After a local news update at 11 p.m., Bob Costas Robert Quinlan Costas (born March 22, 1952) is an American sportscaster, on the air for the NBC network since the early 1980s. Life and honors Bob Costas was born in Queens, New York, and grew up in Commack on Long Island and went to Commack South High School. , who does his segments live for the Eastern Time Zone, appeared to set up the next event but instead reported the story, careful at first to refer to it as report in an Australian paper. Track and field analyst Lewis Johnson Lewis Johnson is a reporter for NBC Sports and Versus. Currently, he is the sideline reporter for Notre Dame football home games and in 2001 and 2002 was a sideline reporter for the NBA Finals on NBC and for the network's Arena Football telecasts from 2003 through 2006. also was in studio to give the story some perspective, talking about how Hunter had claimed a knee injury had kept him from that meet as well as these Olympic Games Olympic games, premier athletic meeting of ancient Greece, and, in modern times, series of international sports contests. The Olympics of Ancient Greece Although records cannot verify games earlier than 776 B.C. . The story's possible affect on Hunter's wife, sprinter Marion Jones Marion Jones, also known as Marion Jones-Thompson (born October 12, 1975 in Los Angeles, California), is an American former athlete in track and field. She was the winner of five medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, which she later relinquished after , also was discussed. As the final hour of coverage progressed, NBC reporters substantiated the story and eventually set up an interview with Hunter at what Costas described as a ``neutral location.'' Although Hunter eventually did not do the TV interview, he gave a statement that, for a long time, was the only comment he would make about the story. Monday morning's ``Today'' show continued reporting on it. Meanwhile, the 10 a.m. taped show with host Hannah Storm Hannah Storm (born Hannah Storen on June 13, 1962) is an American television news journalist and a current co-host of CBS' The Early Show. Early life and career led off with the latest-breaking event, about Romanian gymnast Andreea Raducan under investigation for a negative drug test. The subsequent news about her gold medal gold medal traditional first prize. [Western Cult: Misc.] See : Prize for the all-around event being stripped was finally announced at 7:30 p.m. on Monday night's prime-time coverage - although by then, all other news organizations had reported that news. --Figures and facts: Los Angeles has been one of the major markets that has posted higher local ratings than the national average for the NBC Olympic coverage. Through 10 days of the Sydney Games, the L.A. viewership is producing a 19.1 rating and 33 share, according to Neilsen research. The national average for NBC is 14.7/26, which went up a notch after Sunday's 16.1/26 posting. Sunday was the best night of ratings NBC has had so far, but it's equal to the figure that it had guaranteed advertisers who kicked in more than $900 million. Salt Lake City, which hosts the 2002 Winter Games, has the best local rating of any of the 48 metered markets with a 22.7/41 number. No. 1 TV market New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of is averaging 16.3/26. |
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