NBC's Summer Olympics coverage has been a worldwide effort, from Tokyo to London to Connecticut

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By Shannon in Sports
Updated 3 years ago

The pandemic upended how NBC produces televises the Olympics. Instead of deploying a full crew in Tokyo, NBC Sports shifted its production across facilities around the world. "This is the first year where our footprint here has eclipsed our footprint in-country," says NBC Sports vice president of engineering Tim Canary, who's been working out of NBC's facility in Stamford, Connecticut. The International Broadcast Center in Tokyo and NBC Sports' Stamford headquarters were the main hubs, but NBC has also used NBC headquarters in New York City's Rockefeller Plaza, CNBC's headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and Telemundo's facility in Miami, as well as Comcast-owned Sky in London. In fact, all of NBC's indoor volleyball coverage originates in London. The lack of friends and family in Tokyo has also led NBC Sports to deploy a "Friends and Family" strategy of trying to bring the celebrations that are happening in homes and hometowns around the country to viewers at home, such as th

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