The 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris will look a little different this year...
but only if you want them to. Not to be overly bossy, but you’re definitely going to want them to with the new whip-around coverage NBCUniversal and Peacock have lined up for consumers this go-around, called . For NFL fans, it probably sounds familiar, having been coined “Gold Zone” as a riff off of the endlessly popular NFL Red Zone — a Sunday tradition unlike any other.
This programming feature, which debuted at the start of the 2009 NFL season, showcases whip-around coverage from each live NFL game, hosted by anchor Scott Hanson. The magic formula for this type of coverage (and its namesake, of course) is the rotation of screen time based on which teams are entering the “red zone” — the area of the field between the 20-yard line and the goal line more likely to produce a scoring play — and all the big plays occurring throughout the league. Essentially, all of football’s most exciting moments are packaged into one catch-all program for the ultimate nonstop adrenaline rush ping-ponging between the most exciting moments of every game instead of staying in one spot.
That’s exactly what the group at NBC Sports hoped to accomplish with this debut feature in their Olympics coverage. There will be 329 events spanning 32 different sports with a total of 754 sessions (competitions and ceremonies) featuring 10,500 athletes. All of that competition over the span of 19 days? It’s enough to.