“We’re not trying to be overly celebratory or pretend that we’re not living in a world that is in the midst of great difficulty. We are and it is,' says Savannah Guthrie.
Lester Holt was due to fly to Tokyo in less than 24 hours to cover the year-delayed Summer Games, when Toshiro Muto, chief of the organizing committee, said last Tuesday that he could not rule out an 11th hour cancellation of the troubled $15 billion event. It was only the latest in a steady stream of dire pronouncements emerging from Japan since the International Olympic Committee determined to forge ahead with a global sporting event in the midst of a pandemic.
“Lester and I had a good laugh about it,” says “Nightly” executive producer Jennifer Suozzo, who remains working Stateside. “You have to just kind of throw your hands up and go with it. The worst that happens is he gets over there, he turns around and comes back. It’s not like ‘Nightly News’ would have six black holes. That would be the story.”
NBCUniversal has paid dearly to maintain its grip on what has always been a crowd-pleaser, albeit with obligatory geopolitical hiccups. In 2011, the company paid $4.38 billion for four Olympic Games, including $1.5 billion for the U.S. broadcast rights to Tokyo. Three years later, it shelled out another $7.75 billion for the rights to the next six Olympics through 2032.
The “Today” crew is busy creating a large set on Rockefeller Plaza with the intention of hosting returning U.S. Olympians, beginning with the second week of competition. And because there were no fans in Tokyo, a top priority has been to curate a vaccinated audience of family and fans in the U.S. for the returning athletes.
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