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The Olympic Games ( Summer and Winter) have been televised in the United States since 1960. It has become one of the most popular programs on USA television every four and then two years. The Olympics has been exclusively broadcast on NBC and NBCUniversal 's TV networks in the United States since 1988 for the Summer Olympics and 2002 for the ...
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Dec 31, 2014 · From September 22, 1988, here is NBC's primetime coverage of day 7 of the 1988 Summer Olympics from Seoul, South Korea. This block includes full coverage of the women's marathon and opening round track heats (men's 100 meters, men's 400m hurdles, day 1 of the women's heptathlon), plus women's volleyball (US vs. Brazil), water polo (US vs. China ...
1960 Summer Olympics. CBS paid $394,000 ($3.11 million in 2023) for the exclusive rights to broadcast the Games in the United States. This was the first Summer Olympic games to be telecast in North America. In addition to CBS in the United States, the Olympics were telecast for the first time in Canada (on CBC Television) and in Mexico (through ...
Note the integration of the network logo into the Olympic symbol. The Olympic Games aired in the United States on the broadcast network ABC during the 1960s to the 1980s. ABC first televised the Winter Olympic Games in 1964, [1] and the Summer Olympic Games in 1968. [2] ABC last televised the Summer Olympics in 1984 and Winter Olympics in 1988 .
