NBC, Olympics Unstoppable Sunday
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NEW YORK  - The Olympics bulldozed the  rest of the network primetime summer fare Sunday, delivering an  average 25.6 million viewers to NBC.
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If an athlete's true test is improving each time on the field, television network NBC is due for laurels when the Athens Olympics end on Sunday, but its greater challenge will be launching new shows like "Joey" in coming weeks.
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With the women's 1,600-meter relay team winning gold Saturday night, the United States picked up its 98th medal, topping the total won four years ago in Sydney. Next up: the goal of 100 set by the U.S. Olympic Committee. There was a chance of hitting it late Saturday through one more relay, the men's javelin and men's basketball. If not, it could be tight on Sunday.
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Among the things that have occurred frequently at the 2004 Olympics: Weird happenings, and success by American athletes. In the final event of the Games last night, both were in evidence.
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Serious fun lit up the Olympics last night. A showdown among the swaggering gunslingers who populate the sprint community, celebrated by 72,000 spectators for a full 10 minutes prior
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Now this was a duel in the pool. With Michael Phelps leading off Tuesday night, the United States bested its top rival in the most thrilling race of the Athens Games. Klete Keller held off Ian Thorpe and finished the Australians with a lunge for the wall that gave the Americans a gold medal in the 800-meter freestyle relay. The margin was only 13-hundredths of a second.
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Big ratings for the 2004 Summer Olympics and strong DVD sales for the newly merged NBC/Universal division made for a strong contribution to parent company General Electric&#39;s
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If an athlete's true test is  improving each time on the field, television network NBC is due  for laurels when the Athens Olympics end on Sunday, but its  greater challenge will be launching new shows like "Joey" in  coming weeks.
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The seven-hour time difference between here and Athens creates strange viewing patterns in NBC's all-Olympics-all-the-time world. As host Bob Costas said in signing off Wednesday at midnight Boston time (7 a.m. Athens time): &quot;Good night, good morning . . . take your choice.&quot;
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After a disastrous performance in Sydney, NBC proved its Olympic mettle with multi-network, vastly expanded coverage that both did better and was better.
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Successful launches of  the reality series "American Gladiators," "The Biggest Loser"  and "Celebrity Apprentice" as well as a big turnout for an NFL  wildcard game drove NBC to an across-the-board victory in the  first week of the new year.
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Though NBC is blanketing seven networks with 1,210 hours of Olympics coverage, there's this pesky, bill-paying task called work that keeps me from fully enjoying the televised competition.
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By Mark McGuire, Albany Times Union, N.Y.  Dec. 17--CBS dominated, NBC rebounded. The NFL Network starting showing live games, even though cable subscribers in this and many other markets can't get it.
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LOS ANGELES  Fast National ratings for Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2004. Michael Phelps was back in the pool, the USA women&#39;s gymnastics team was back on the mats and NBC was back on top with another day of improving Olympics ratings. For the third ...
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LOS ANGELES  - The spectacle in Athens  lured 56 million viewers to watch at least some portion of  NBC's Friday primetime telecast of the opening ceremonies of  the 2004 Summer Olympic Games.
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NEW YORK  - The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. and NBC engaged in eleventh-hour sessions Sunday to try to save the boycott-stricken Golden Globes, with NBC appearing to be seriously considering pulling the telecast as a result of the Hollywood writers strike.
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ATHENS - The spectacle and drama of the Olympics enthralled billions. Television paid handsomely to show it and sponsors spent fortunes to bathe in its reflected glory.