NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations Dispatches 31 Journalists to Pyeongchang To Deliver Olympics Coverage
By: Tori Hartshorn Jan. 25, 2018
As the networks of NBCUniversal prepare to present the most live Winter Olympics ever, NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations, a division of NBCUniversal, today announced that it has dispatched 31 journalists, including a member of its national digital team to the Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea. The station group's team includes news and sports anchors, reporters, producers and digital editors from 10 NBC/Telemundo owned stations, including Olympic veterans Bruce Beck from WNBC, Brian Curtis from KXAS, Kevin Nathan from WVIT, and journalist Jeremy Berg who will be solely dedicated to creating and delivering unique content around the winter Games for the stations' digital audiences. The XXIII Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea, begin on February 8.
"Our team - the largest team ever to cover a Winter Olympics - will deliver every heart pumping Olympic moment to our audiences like never before," said Valari Staab, President, NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations. "With a team of bilingual and digital reporters, and seasoned anchors, we'll personalize this exciting global event to our audiences through stories that will spotlight our local Olympic champions for 18 straight days."
Headquartered in the Gangneung Coastal Cluster Set at Olympic Park, the NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations' 2018 Winter Olympics team will report from various venues and locations throughout the Games for their viewers at home. The special content will be accessible through the stations' on-air, online, digital, mobile and social channels as well as out-of-home platforms such as taxi cabs. The PyeongChang station team will also contribute to "The Olympic Zone" a 30-minute nightly show, in collaboration with NBC Sports Regional Networks. "The Olympic Zone" will air Monday through Saturday at 7:30 PM ET on NBC owned stations and affiliates, beginning February 8 through February 24. The half-hour program will highlight local U.S. athletes, feature customized local content and preview NBC's live primetime coverage of the 2018 Winter Games.
To help local audiences get closer to all the Winter Olympic action taking place half-way around the world, the stations' digital content will feature:
- Exclusive stories from Jeremy Berg as he reports from all the competitions and Olympic venues in South Korea for the stations' digital audiences;
- A Winter Olympics-dedicated page, "The Winter Games" that is available to users across all station mobile/ digital platforms. The site will allow users to access the latest Olympics news and photos, medal counts and all competition results;
- A new video HUB that will feature dozens of interviews with Team USA athletes; and
- New interactive Olympics games, including the "What Are These Olympians Drawing?" game where users will be able to win drawings made by Team USA athletes.
Snap Shots
- Sports Anchor for NBC 4 New York / WNBC.
- Covering his eighth Olympic Games.
- Made his Olympic debut in 2002 during the Salt Lake City Olympic Games.
Jeremy Berg
- Senior Digital Video Editor. He joined NBCUniversal in 2016.
- He manages NBC owned television stations' "Digital Innovation Team."
- Reporting for his third Olympic Games.
- News Anchor for NBC 5 / KXAS since 2003.
- Reporting for his sixth Olympic Games.
Yarilys Domenech
- As manager of the Telemundo Station Group's news bureau's', she'll coordinate Winter Olympic content from PyeongChang for Telemundo stations.
- She joined NBCUniversal in 2004. Domenech will be on her inaugural Olympic assignment.
- "NBC 5 Investigates" Reporter for NBC 5 Chicago. She joined WMAQ in October 2014.
- She'll be reporting from PyeongChang for NBC 5's morning and late news newscasts.
- Her family is originally from Korea.
- Evening News Co-Anchor for NBC10 in Boston.
- She joined NBCUniversal in 2017. She will be covering the Games alongside her station colleagues across all dayparts for NBC10 viewers.
- This is her first Olympic Games assignment as an NBC owned station news anchor.
- News Anchor for NBC Connecticut. He joined WVIT in 1996.
- This is his fifth Olympics assignment.
- Morning News Co-Anchor for NBC4 Washington. She joined WRC-TV in 2002.
- She will be reporting from the Winter Olympics for WRC-TV.
- Yang was born in Seoul, Korea and moved to the Washington, D.C. area with her family as a young child. She lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband and three children.
NBCUniversal will present more than 2,400 hours of coverage of the XXIII Olympic Winter Games across its networks and digital platforms. NBC's coverage of the PyeongChang Games begins in primetime on Thursday, February 8, at 8 PM ET - one night before Opening Ceremony coverage on Friday, February 9 - and continues until the Closing Ceremony on Sunday, February 25. For the first time for a Winter Games, NBC will present Olympic primetime coverage live across all time zones.
About NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations
NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations is the division of NBCUniversal that includes 30 NBC and Telemundo local television stations, a regional news network and their associated websites and digital platforms, as well as a group of out-of-home properties, a production company, an in-house marketing and promotions company and two national multicast networks, Cozi TV and TeleXitos. The local stations, which can be viewed in 37 percent of U.S. homes and in Puerto Rico, produce and deliver their local communities compelling and unique local news, real-time weather forecasts, consumer and investigative reports and entertainment programming across all platforms to help keep their English and Spanish-speaking audiences informed anytime and anywhere.
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