Olympic Ratings Plunge and Star Athlete Stumbles Heat Up NBC’s Make-Good Talks With Advertisers

Different O.C energy. Season 1 of The Hills: New Beginnings could have had a completely different look according to Rachel Bilson, who revealed that she was almost cast in Mischa Barton‘s place.

Clint Eastwood is just as talented as always.

She is the first American woman to win the 800m since the 1968 Mexico City Games. #TokyoOlympicspic.twitter.com/WmJq2dYulrPrior to earning bronze in this 800-meter final, the 24-year-old Rogers earned a second-place finish in the 2019 World Athletics Championships.

Angela Bailey was a Canadian sprinter who won a silver medal at the 1984 Olympics.Bailey was poised to go to her first Olympics in 1980, but after the U.S. boycotted the Summer Olympics in Moscow, she didn’t make it to the Olympics until 1984 in Los Angeles.

Mike Planeta, one of the contestants on Katie Thurston‘s current season of The Bachelorette, is opening up about his sex life.

Christine Quinn is heating things up. The "Selling Sunset" star proudly unveiled her incredible bikini bod while enjoying a sun-soaked getaway in Taormina, Sicily.

Ciara, 35, was soaking up the sun in a cheeky one piece! The “Goodies” singer stunned in an ombré swimsuit as she vacationed in Mexico in new photos posted on Thursday, July 29. She channeled Baywatch with the low cut ensemble, pairing the one piece paired with a matching tie dye pant and stacked gold bracelets. From behind, the swimsuit was ultra-revealing with it’s high cut, exposing her toned derrière.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorTV ratings have fallen, top athletes have dropped out and live crowds aren’t around to cheer, but executives at Comcast still believe in the power of broadcasting the Olympics.“We’ve had some bad luck,” acknowledged Jeff Shell, chief executive of Comcast’s NBCUniversal, which has the rights to telecast the sports extravaganza, during a call with investors on Thursday.

health experts are becoming increasingly worried about next month’s Iowa State Fair, which will bring more than 1 million people to Des Moines from around the state, including many from counties with low vaccination rates and increasing prevalence of the disease.Iowa’s biggest annual event comes at a time when giant summer events will draw crowds throughout the nation, including in states that are experiencing more virus infections due to low vaccination rates and growth of the Delta variant.

Simone Biles left the competition floor with the Team USA medical trainer after her first rotation on the vault of the women's team final at the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday. The 24-year-old gymnast did not do the Amanar vault, but opted instead for another move, which earned her a 13.766, the lowest score of any of her Olympics showings. «Simone has withdrawn from the team final competition due to a medical issue,» USA Gymnastics said in a statement to multiple news outlets.

JUST IN:Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen crash verdict delivered by RosbergTensions were high after the race, with Red Bull furious, however now the dust has settled, Verstappen was more philosophical about his relationship with Hamilton. "I don't get intimidated," he told the Daily Mail.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNBCUniversal’s Olympics coverage is putting a spotlight not only on the world’s top athletes, but on the way American viewers are choosing to watch them.In decades past, fans of swimming competitions and gymnastic feats would tune in to a single network showing the Summer Olympics, and giant audiences would follow. In recent years, however, as U.S.

First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, 70, is out in full force at the Tokyo Olympics, showing her support for Team USA! The wife of President Joe Biden, 70, attended the first day of the 3×3 basketball and the swimming, after hosting a watch party at the United States Embassy in Japan for the Team USA vs Mexico softball game.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorSportscaster Maria Taylor has moved into a new role at NBC Sports, where she made her first appearance Friday during the network’s Olympics coverage.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorMany advertisers plan to interrupt the Olympics with their commercials. Comcast will interrupt its commercials with the Olympics.The cable-and-entertainment giant has a group of ads ready to run in the Tokyo Olympics that, if all goes well, will include footage from this year’s Games that viewers may have seen just a few hours beforehand.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorThe people putting 7,000 hours of Olympics coverage on screen for NBC are facing some Olympic challenges all their own.The coronavirus pandemic crimped the ability of producers at NBC Sports to get footage of members of Team USA and other competitors as they went through their training. NBC’s video profiles of the athletes usually take months to put together and are one of the signature elements of the company’s Olympics effort.