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Live From Connecticut, It’s The Paris Olympics: NBCUniversal Embraces Remote Production As Covid-Shaped Path To Viewers
NBCUniversal's Olympics production base is a long way from Paris, in a hangar-sized building in Stamford, CT, where most staffers cover the Games.
As one of two hosts of Gold Zone, the popular curated show on Peacock spotlighting dramatic matchups and moments at the Summer Olympics, Siciliano’s task, like that of his 2,000 colleagues at NBCU’s production hub in Stamford, CT, is to quickly get up to speed on an event happening some 3,600 miles away and then present it to viewers in an authoritative, engaging way. With Stamford as its heartbeat, the Paris Games have turned out to be an impressive feat of technology, internal communication and a potent symbol of the strategic plan of NBCU and its corporate parent Comcast, which has Olympic rights through 2032. One lesson NBCU learned after Tokyo was that the company needed to overhaul its use of Peacock after missteps widely acknowledged by Mark Lazarus, chairman of the NBCUniversal Media Group and other execs.
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