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Gary Zenkel

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first: 2016-07-04
most recent: 2016-07-04
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“Out of our home base in Stanford, Connecticut. So it's a wildly complex operation that has taken full advantage of the advancements of both broadcast and digital technology that have happened at a rapid pace over the last couple of decades.”
2016-07-04 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Gary Zenkel, President, NBC Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, of course not. Although I must tell you that we did begin to experiment with HD back in 2002 in the Salt Lake City Olympics before there was any HD content available. There were a couple of venues. But in any event, no, of course it wasn't. It is now fully HD and even advancing slowly will test out a 4K platform or format with a few hours in Rio. But the complexity, of course, of producing 6,000 hours versus 171 is enormous. It's taken more people, but more than the additional amount of people, it's equipment, technology. It's moving a lot of content around, some of which we now take back to the States and produce several of our cable platforms from there. We process a lot of the digital content that we distribute.”
2016-07-04 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Gary Zenkel, President, NBC Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So that's kind of how many hours and how you see it. I imagine a lot has changed in how you produce it and what it takes to go into it in addition to just more people for more hours. Was that even in HD for the Atlanta games? No?”
2016-07-04 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Gary Zenkel, President, NBC Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Sure. My first Olympics was in'92, came to NBC as a lawyer, so my role was limited to some contract work back then, but then did work on Atlanta and ever since. Atlanta in 1996 was one television channel with 171 total hours of coverage, I believe as we've recently announced Rio will be a total of 6,700 or so hours of Olympic coverage distributed across 11 different channels and of course digital platforms, web, mobile, set top, et cetera. It's changed quite a bit since 1996.”
2016-07-04 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Gary Zenkel, President, NBC Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think the role of live streaming and getting things on our mobile devices has really shifted, so some of that started already with London, but I think a lot more people are going to watch parts of it from mobile devices.”
2016-07-04 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Gary Zenkel, President, NBC Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, certainly the setting Brazil being obviously quite picturesque, you know, I think it's also a venue for the latest technology. I think they spend so much money to get the rights. They have to do everything they can to make us watch a million hours and short of beaming it into our eyeballs, which I think is going to have to wait for four years from now. You know, there's tons of stuff. Virtual reality, I'm excited to hear what's in store.”
2016-07-04 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Gary Zenkel, President, NBC Olympics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT