David Mazza is Senior VP and CTO of NBC Sports Group and NBC Olympics. “In 1996 at Atlanta we had about 170 hours of content that came out of the whole of the Olympics. For Tokyo we’ll have over 7,000 hours across all of the broadcast and cable platforms and all of the live streaming. So in just the first day, we’ll double or triple the entire content we had at the Olympics in 1996 — with roughly 400 hours of content per day.
“I like to say we’re responsible for anything that plugs in. We have to design and build the International Broadcast Center, which is about a 70,000 square-foot space in the Olympic City, and equip it with all sorts of electronics and television hardware, in order to base our coverage there.....
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