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|founded=May 17, 1939 ({{age|1939|5|17}} years ago) |
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|country=United States |
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|key people=Richard Cordella (president, NBC Sports) |
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|parent=[[NBCUniversal]] |
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|website= https://www.nbcsports.com/ |
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|subsidiaries=[[Golf Channel]]<br>[[Olympic Channel]]<br>[[MLB Network]]<br>[[NHL Network]]<br>[[Telemundo Deportes]]}} |
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===Background=== |
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'''NBC Sports''' is the commercial broadcast network's American sports programming division [[NBC]]. Which is responsible for sports broadcasts of diverse sports events, including the Olympics, the Premier League, motorsport events, Notre Dame Football, professional golf, Tour de France, thoroughbred horse racing, and NFL's ''Sunday Night Football''. NBC Sports can be traced back to May 17, 1939, when experimental television station [[W2XBS]] in New York (currently known as [[WNBC]]) televised a college baseball game between the Columbia Lions and the Princeton Tigers. Then later in 1939, W2XBS televised a boxing match between Max Baer and Lou Nova at Madison Square Garden, a doubleheader between the Cincinnati Reds and Brooklyn Dodgers (now relocated and currently known as the Los Angeles Dodgers) from Ebbets Field, and a professional football game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Brooklyn Dodgers of the [[National Football League]]. The firsts for the respective sports. During the time, with the rights of the NFL, NBA, Major League Baseball, and the Olympics, NBC Sports adopted the slogan of "America's Sports Leader". |
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In 1950, NBC Sports became the exclusive broadcaster of the World Series, which would last for 26 straight years. NBC began telecasting ''Game of the Week'' in 1957 and would televise Saturday afternoon baseball games for the next three decades. NBC Sports expanded its lineup to include the NBA, college football, and the NFL, as well as championship events. In 1964, [[CBS Sports|CBS]] took over the broadcasting rights to the NFL, including the championship game. The following year, NBC gained the broadcasting rights to the American Football League. Since the completion of the merger, NBC Sports broadcasts games from the American Football Conference. In 1969, NBC broadcasted college basketball, including the NCAA tournament. In 1972, NBC secured the rights to broadcast the National Hockey League from CBS until 2021. During the 1980s, the network was mired in third place in ratings, but in sports television, the ratings were valuable for NBC. In 1985, NBC acquired the broadcasting rights of the Summer Olympics from [[ABC Sports|ABC]] for the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, and beyond. NBC and ABC were outbid by CBS for the Major League Baseball broadcasting rights in December 1988, which ended NBC's baseball tenure after 43 years. |
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After CBS snatched MLB broadcasting rights from NBC, the network obtained the rights to broadcast the NBA in 1990. One year later, NBC agreed to the broadcasting rights to Notre Dame football games, the first for an individual college football team, in a $38 million deal. After a four-year hiatus in 1994, NBC returned to air Major League Baseball as part of a joint venture with ABC called "[[The Baseball Network]]", a broadcasting agreement in which the baseball league produced its telecasts with NBC and ABC. NBC continued to air baseball until 2000. In 1998, CBS secured the AFC package rights from NBC, resulting in NBC to an end with the 38-year tenure with the NFL. During the 2000s, NBC declined to renew its agreement with Major League Baseball. The network also experimented with broadcasting sports, as NBC obtained the rights to the XFL, the Arena Football League, and NASCAR. In 2004, the network reached an agreement with the National Hockey League. The NFL returned to NBC in 2006 after an eight-year layoff, under the new flagship 'Sunday Night Football' game. On March 18, 2013, all operations of NBC Sports and its sports television network [[NBCSN]] began to relocate to a purpose-built facility in Stanford, Connecticut. After the 2020-21 NHL season, NBC ended its contract with the National Hockey League, with new contracts from [[ESPN]] and [[TNT Sports|TNT]]. NBC Sports ceased NBCSN on New Year's Eve of 2021, with its remaining programming rights moved to [[USA Network]] and [[Peacock]]. |
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|Main Presentation| |
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{{ImageTOC |
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|NBC Sports (1981).png|{{Ordinal|1}} Logo (1981-1982) |
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|NBC Sports (1982).png|{{Ordinal|2}} Logo (1982-198?) |
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|NBC Sports (1984).png|{{Ordinal|3}} Logo (1984-1985) |
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|NBC Sports (1985).png|{{Ordinal|4}} Logo (1985-1986) |
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|NBC Sports (1986).png|{{Ordinal|5}} Logo (1986-1993) |
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|NBC Sports (1993).png|{{Ordinal|6}} Logo (1993-1995) |
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|NBC Sports outro (1993).png|{{Ordinal|7}} Logo (1993-1995) |
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|NBC Sports Video (1993, 1).png|{{Ordinal|8}} Logo (1993) |
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|NBC Sports (1995).png|{{Ordinal|9}} Logo (1995-1996) |
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|NBC Sports (1996).png|{{Ordinal|10}} Logo (1996-2000) |
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|NBC Sports (1998, Golf).png|{{Ordinal|11}} Logo (1998) |
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|NBC Sports (1999, NBA Showtime NBA on NBC).png|{{Ordinal|12}} Logo (1999) |
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|NBC Sports (2002).png|{{Ordinal|13}} Logo (2002-2007) |
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|NBC Sports (70th anniversary of the NFL on NBC) (2008) (1).png|{{Ordinal|14}} Logo (70th anniversary of the NFL on NBC) (September 2008-January 2009) |
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|NBC Sports (Sunday Night Football) (2009).png|{{Ordinal|15}} Logo (''Sunday Night Football'') (2010) |
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|NBC Sports Championship Season (2010).png|{{Ordinal|16}} Logo (NBC Sports Championship Season) (2010) |
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|NBC Sports (2012).png|{{Ordinal|17}} Logo (2012-2015) |
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|NBC Sports (2015).png|{{Ordinal|18}} Logo (2015-2023) |
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|NBC Sports (2023).png|{{Ordinal|19}} Logo (January 14, 2023-) |
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}} |
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|Olympic Presentation| |
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{{ImageTOC |
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|NBC Olympics (1986).png|{{Ordinal|1}} Logo (1986-1988) |
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|NBC Olympics (Games of the XXIV Olympiad) (1988) (1).png|{{Ordinal|2}} Logo (Games of the XXIV Olympiad) (1988) |
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|NBC Olympics (Barcelona 92) (1992).png|{{Ordinal|3}} Logo (Barcelona '92) (1992) |
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|NBC Olympics (America's Games) (1996).png|{{Ordinal|4}} Logo (America's Games) (1995-1996) |
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|NBC Olympics (Atlanta 1996) (1996).png|{{Ordinal|5}} Logo (Atlanta 1996) (1995-1996) |
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|NBC Olympics (America's Olympic Network) (2000).png|{{Ordinal|6}} Logo (America's Olympic Network/Sydney 2000) (2000) |
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|NBC Olympics (Salt Lake 2002) (2002).png|{{Ordinal|7}} Logo (Salt Lake 2002) (2002) |
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|NBC Olympics (America's Olympic Network) (2004).png|{{Ordinal|8}} Logo (America's Olympic Network/Athens 2004) (2004) |
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|NBC Olympics (America's Olympic Network) (2006).png|{{Ordinal|9}} Logo (America's Olympic Network/Torino 2006) (2005-2006) |
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|NBC Olympics (America's Olympic Network) (2008).png|{{Ordinal|10}} Logo (America's Olympic Network/Beijing 2008) (2008) |
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|NBC Olympics (America's Olympic Network) (2010).png|{{Ordinal|11}} Logo (America's Olympic Network/Vancouver 2010) (2010) |
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|NBC Olympics 2012.jpeg|{{Ordinal|12}} Logo (America's Olympic Network/London 2012) (2012) |
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|NBC Olympics (America's Olympic Network) (2016).png|{{Ordinal|13}} Logo (America's Olympic Network/Rio 2016) (2016) |
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|NBC Olympics (Home of the Olympics) (2018).png|{{Ordinal|14}} Logo (Home of the Olympics/PyeongChang 2018) (2018) |
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|NBC Olympics (Home of the Olympics) (2021).png|{{Ordinal|15}} Logo (Home of the Olympics) (July 23-August 8, 2021, February 4-20, 2022) |
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|NBC Olympics (copyright disclaimer) (2024).png|{{Ordinal|16}} Logo (Paris 2024) (July 26-August 11, 2023-) |
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|NFL Presentation| |
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{{ImageTOC |
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|NBC Sports (NFL presentation) (2006).png|{{Ordinal|1}} Logo (September 10, 2006-January 5, 2008) |
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|NBC Sports (NFL presentation) (2008).png|{{Ordinal|2}} Logo (September 4, 2008-January 3, 2009) |
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|NBC Sports (NFL presentation) (2009).png|{{Ordinal|3}} Logo (February 1, 2009-January 4, 2014) |
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|NBC Sports (NFL presentation) (2014).png|{{Ordinal|4}} Logo (September 4, 2014-January 10, 2015) |
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|NBC Sports (NFL presentation) (2015).png|{{Ordinal|5}} Logo (February 1, 2015-January 13, 2018) |
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|NBC Sports (NFL presentation) (2016) (Thursday Night Football).png|{{Ordinal|6}} Logo (''Thursday Night Football'') (November 17, 2016-December 25, 2017) |
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|NBC Sports (NFL presentation) (2018).png|{{Ordinal|7}} Logo (February 4, 2018-January 12, 2019) |
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|NBC Sports (NFL presentation) (2019).png|{{Ordinal|8}} Logo (September 5, 2019-January 11, 2020) |
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|NBC Sports (NFL presentation) (2020).png|{{Ordinal|9}} Logo (September 10, 2020-January 16, 2021) |
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|NBC Sports (NFL presentation) (2021).png|{{Ordinal|10}} Logo (September 9, 2021-January 23, 2022) |
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|NBC Sports (NFL presentation) (2022).png|{{Ordinal|11}} Logo (February 13, 2022-) |
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}} |
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}} |
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==Main Presentation== |
==Main Presentation== |
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==={{Ordinal|1}} Logo (1981-1982)=== |
==={{Ordinal|1}} Logo (1981-1982)=== |
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[[File:NBC Sports (1981).png|center|300x300px]] |
[[File:NBC Sports (1981).png|center|300x300px]] |
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Videos= |
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{{YouTube|id=Xs9qzhYFacA|id2=6mmB5F9CSXk}} |
{{YouTube|id=Xs9qzhYFacA|id2=6mmB5F9CSXk}} |
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</tabber> |
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'''Visuals:''' The 1979 NBC ID is shown over a starfield. When the NBC logo forms, it moves upward along with the white "NBC Sports" outlined. The copyright stamp appears underneath the logo. |
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'''Visuals:''' Over a starfield, the colorful neon lines form the peacock feathers. The lines move back and flash to the NBC peacock logo, then the Trapezoid "N". When the NBC logo forms, it moves upward along with the white "NBC Sports" outlined. The copyright stamp appears underneath the logo. |
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'''Technique:''' Scanimate. |
'''Technique:''' Scanimate. |
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'''Audio:''' The |
'''Audio:''' The abridged NBC's "Our Pride is Showing" campaign song with Les Marshak saying "This has been a presentation of NBC Sports, the leader in innovative sports television." |
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==={{Ordinal|2}} Logo (1982-198?)=== |
==={{Ordinal|2}} Logo (1982-198?)=== |
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[[File:NBC Sports (1982).png|center|300x300px]] |
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{{YouTube|id=PWsxkaXFdMw}} |
{{YouTube|id=PWsxkaXFdMw}} |
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</tabber> |
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'''Visuals:''' Over a different starfield, the NBC peacock with yellow “chaser” lights over the peacock, and the outline zooms out, then the peacock moves to the left along with the abstract N coming from the top-left and the bottom-right corners and the “NBC Sports” in ITC Serif Gothic slides from the right. Sparkles appear, and the NBC Sports logo zooms out and then it zooms back in rapidly. The copyright stamp appears underneath the logo. |
'''Visuals:''' Over a different starfield, the NBC peacock with yellow “chaser” lights over the peacock, and the outline zooms out, then the peacock moves to the left along with the abstract N coming from the top-left and the bottom-right corners and the “NBC Sports” in ITC Serif Gothic slides from the right. Sparkles appear, and the NBC Sports logo zooms out and then it zooms back in rapidly. The copyright stamp appears underneath the logo. |
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'''Technique:''' Scanimate. |
'''Technique:''' Scanimate. |
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'''Audio:''' A trumpet fanfare rendition of the NBC chimes with a drumroll which leads to the six-note synth, then finishing with a whoosh, with a different |
'''Audio:''' A trumpet fanfare rendition of the NBC chimes with a drumroll which leads to the six-note synth, then finishing with a whoosh, with a different voiceover saying "This has been a presentation of NBC Sports, the leader in innovative sports television." |
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==={{Ordinal|3}} Logo (1984-1985)=== |
==={{Ordinal|3}} Logo (1984-1985)=== |
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[[File:NBC Sports (1984).png|center|300x300px]] |
[[File:NBC Sports (1984).png|center|300x300px]] |
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{{YouTube|id=CtMvxDjXOJk}} |
{{YouTube|id=CtMvxDjXOJk}} |
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</tabber> |
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'''Visuals:''' On a black background, the NBC logo flies in from the right while the logo rotates clockwise. When the NBC logo got into the center, the logo moved vertically to see the logo in front. Then the white “NBC Sports” fades in at the bottom of the NBC logo. |
'''Visuals:''' On a black background, the NBC logo flies in from the right while the logo rotates clockwise. When the NBC logo got into the center, the logo moved vertically to see the logo in front. Then the white “NBC Sports” fades in at the bottom of the NBC logo. |
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'''Technique:''' CGI animation by Cranston/Csuri Productions. |
'''Technique:''' CGI animation by Cranston/Csuri Productions. |
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'''Audio:''' A triumph fanfare with an abridged version of NBC’s “Let’s All Be There” campaign song with Les Marshak saying “Programs regularly scheduled at this time will not be seen tonight, so that we may bring you the following NBC Sports special.” |
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'''Audio:''' |
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A triumph fanfare, then to an abridged version of NBC’s “Let’s All Be There” campaign song with Les Marshak saying “Programs regularly scheduled at this time will not be seen tonight, so that we may bring you the following NBC Sports special.” |
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==={{Ordinal|4}} Logo (1985-1986)=== |
==={{Ordinal|4}} Logo (1985-1986)=== |
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[[File:NBC Sports (1985).png|center|300x300px]] |
[[File:NBC Sports (1985).png|center|300x300px]] |
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{{YouTube|id=K1TmKHc_p8g|t=319}} |
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'''Visuals:''' A drone shot of three “NBC Sports” Windross trucks are seen driving over in snowy mountains. Then it cross-fades to the far view of two “NBC Sports” Windross trucks in the same snowy mountains. The copyright stamp appears underneath the logo. |
'''Visuals:''' A drone shot of three “NBC Sports” Windross trucks are seen driving over in snowy mountains. Then it cross-fades to the far view of two “NBC Sports” Windross trucks in the same snowy mountains. The copyright stamp appears underneath the logo. |
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'''Technique:''' Live-action. |
'''Technique:''' Live-action. |
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'''Audio:''' |
'''Audio:''' A triumph fanfare with an abridged version of NBC’s “Let’s All Be There” campaign song with a different voiceover saying "This has been a presentation of NBC Sports, the leader in innovative sports television.". |
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==={{Ordinal|5}} Logo (1986-1993)=== |
==={{Ordinal|5}} Logo (1986-1993)=== |
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{{YouTube|id=9ofHKsHxApk|id2=bZLRyQQ9LwI|id3=64-TxspIDT0|id4=VQy0kNtyvzM|id5=2wS3NHsNlJ4|id6=1YaEmLjJR5s|id7=OluJopaPkLg|id8=lKAPDwUtBXw|id9=K2lMfDC4zik|id10=-l_iBmQwFq8}} |
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'''Visuals:''' A red mound flies up, then rainbow colors spread out. The head of the peacock swings in, and then the mounds spreads to the peacock feathers. The peacock backs away with the color shine behind it, then the NBC wordmark with the “SPORTS” below it flies in. The logo turns into 2D when the logo moves back. |
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'''Visuals:''' Same as the NBC Productions logo, but the “SPORTS” is in place of “PRODUCTIONS”. |
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'''Variants:''' |
'''Variants:''' |
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* The <u>closing</u> variant has the copyright stamp |
* The <u>closing</u> variant has the copyright stamp underneath the logo, then it fades out when the head of the NBC peacock is shown. |
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* In 1990, the font on the copyright stamp was different. |
* In 1990, the font on the copyright stamp was different. |
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* In 1993, the font on the copyright stamp was changed into a more blocky font and slanted. |
* In 1993, the font on the copyright stamp was changed into a more blocky font and slanted. |
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'''Audio Variants:''' |
'''Audio Variants:''' |
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* The <u>closing</u> variant has either Les Marshak or Hal Douglas saying "This has been a presentation of NBC Sports, the leader in innovative sports television." |
* The <u>closing</u> variant has either Les Marshak or Hal Douglas saying "This has been a presentation of NBC Sports, the leader in innovative sports television." |
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* In 1989, Hal Douglas is heard saying "The preceding has been a presentation of NBC Sports." |
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* The <u>Orange Bowl</u> leads Les Marshak saying "Proud to be the network for Orange Bowl!" |
* The <u>Orange Bowl</u> leads Les Marshak saying "Proud to be the network for Orange Bowl!" |
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* The <u>60th anniversary of Major League Baseball</u> leads Les Marshak saying "Proud to have brought to you 60 years of Major League Baseball!" |
* The <u>60th anniversary of Major League Baseball</u> leads Les Marshak saying "Proud to have brought to you 60 years of Major League Baseball!" |
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==={{Ordinal|6}} Logo (1993-1995) === |
==={{Ordinal|6}} Logo (1993-1995) === |
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[[File:NBC Sports (1993).png|center|300x300px]] |
[[File:NBC Sports (1993).png|center|300x300px]] |
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{{YouTube|id=Wz_g_l5dVGE|id2=zuXFpmbkMFs}} |
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'''Visuals:''' On a dark gray background, the "NBC" in different Futura typeface (unlike NBC's proprietary font, NBC Futura) flies in from the left. Then the rainbow feathers swings in and spreads into the peacock. The cursive yellow "Sports" writes on. Five red streaks also fly-in to the right behind the "NBC" and the logo shines with light rays. The camera pans from the right to the left. |
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{{YouTube|id=Wz_g_l5dVGE|id2=zuXFpmbkMFs|id3=OuqH7hsT5bg|id4=ok--rHsQtAY}} |
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</tabber> |
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'''Visuals:''' On a dark gray background, the "NBC" in a different Futura typeface (unlike NBC's proprietary font, NBC Futura) flies in from the left. Then the rainbow feathers swing in and spread into the peacock. The cursive yellow "Sports" is written on. Five red streaks also fly to the right behind the "NBC" and the logo shines with light rays. The camera pans from the right to the left. |
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'''Variants:''' |
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'''Variant:''' A <u>short version</u> exists when the logo starts with feathers starting to spread. |
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* A <u>short version</u> exists when the logo starts with feathers starting to spread. |
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* The <u>1994 NBA Finals</u> have the black-and-white footage of the Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy spinning. |
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'''Technique:''' CGI. |
'''Technique:''' CGI. |
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'''Audio:''' The six |
'''Audio:''' The six-note trumpet tune with Hal Douglas saying "This is the NBC television network." |
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'''Audio Variants:''' |
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'''Audio Variant:''' On the <u>1993 NBA Finals</u>, the 1987 NBC special presentation music is heard while the announcer saying "Programs regularly scheduled will not be seen at this time, so that we may bring you exclusive coverage of the Bulls and Suns in the NBA finals." |
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* On the <u>1993 NBA Finals</u>, the 1987 NBC special presentation music is heard while Jim Fagan saying "Programs regularly scheduled will not be seen at this time, so that we may bring you exclusive coverage of the Bulls and Suns in the NBA Finals." |
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* The <u>1994 NBA Finals</u> has the 1987 NBC special presentation theme, except the former has Jim Fagan saying "Programs regularly scheduled will not be seen at this time. Now, NBC Sports presents the Rockets and Knicks, in Game 3 of the NBA Finals!", while the latter has the announcer saying "Now and Law and Order will not be seen at this time. Now, NBC Sports presents the Knicks and Rockets at Game 7 of the NBA Finals!" instead. |
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==={{Ordinal|7}} Logo (1993-1995) === |
==={{Ordinal|7}} Logo (1993-1995) === |
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{{YouTube|id1=g4wpwBZY_zk|id2=exGPra9ZPSE|id3=e9h658fmJnw}} |
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'''Visuals:''' Unknown. |
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[[File:NBC Sports outro (1993).png|center|300x300px]] |
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{{YouTube|id=g4wpwBZY_zk|id2=exGPra9ZPSE|id3=e9h658fmJnw|id4=rdhlO0hIv0M}} |
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</tabber> |
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'''Visuals:''' A clip of a basketball player from the Phoenix Suns making buckets appears while sliding slowly to the right on a black background with a red square, silver sphere, and a red outline basketball. It cuts to a clip of a female athlete jumping behind with a background of yellow, green, and red curves. Which also cuts to two Olympic athletes watching the Olympic flame scatter. On the left is also a clip of an Olympic cauldron lit up by an Olympic flame (which was taken from the opening ceremony of the 1992 Summer Olympics) at Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys in Barcelona, Spain. On the right are the two clips. The first is a Paralympic archer Antonio Rebollo, aiming at the Olympic cauldron with a flaming arrow. The second is a fireworks display, which was placed from the top-right. It cuts to a clip of a tennis player serving and fades to the same player with a trophy on a black background with a blue target, a yellow curve, and some horizontal lines. Following that, on a black background with green rectangles and some Xs and Os, there is a clip of a football player from the Kansas City Chiefs. There is also a whistle with an upside-down NBC peacock embossed on the top surface swinging to the right. Once it got to a blue glassy globe, a clip of a female figure skater appeared on the far left, with a white silhouette of a figure skater and a yellow curve orbiting around the blue globe. Then the clip changes to various clips of golf sports with white rectangles, and it cuts to the 1989 NBC Sports logo (albeit the NBC wordmark is in blue and the cursive Sports is in white) rotates to the front. An orange curve and a grayscale crowd are appearing as well. The globe starts to spin. A copyright stamp appears underneath the logo. |
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'''Logo Variants:''' |
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* Sometimes, the closing logo lacks the copyright stamp. |
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* The font on the copyright stamp was changed to a wide font in 1994. |
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'''Technique:''' 2D and CGI animation with live-action. |
'''Technique:''' 2D and CGI animation with live-action. |
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'''Audio:''' A majestic trumpet fanfare |
'''Audio:''' A majestic trumpet fanfare, with NBC chimes in the middle, accompanied by a voiceover saying "In a new world, a new standard of excellence, NBC Sports". |
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==={{Ordinal|8}} Logo ( |
=== {{Ordinal|8}} Logo (1993) === |
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<tabber> |
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<gallery mode="packed" heights="200"> |
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NBC Sports Video (1993, 1).png| |
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NBC Sports Video (1993, 2).png| |
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{{YouTube|id=gwoT7Hl3Avk}} |
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</tabber> |
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'''Visuals:''' The NBC peacock moves back as it rotates from the top-right angle to the front angle. The NBC wordmark (in Futura) flies in and moves below the NBC peacock. Then, the cursive "Sports" is written on it, and it also flies in. |
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'''Variant:''' The closing variant has the "Sports" in red and it's stretched. In which it rotates from the bottom-left angle to the front angle. The texture of the NBC Sports logo is different. The "Sport" removes the write-on effect. |
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'''Technique:''' 3D CGI animation. |
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'''Audio:''' None. |
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'''Availability:''' Can be seen on NBC Sports Video releases, such as ''The Albert Achievement Awards'' and ''World Champions on Ice''. |
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==={{Ordinal|9}} Logo (1995-1996) === |
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<tabber> |
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[[File:NBC Sports (1995).png|center|300x300px]] |
[[File:NBC Sports (1995).png|center|300x300px]] |
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Videos= |
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{{YouTube|id=cU8Whynoslg|id2=ITJxbjFNYdI|id3=6yfe_TtDyGo|id4=j2ycc_TX5RQ|id5=q2w3tRC8joQ|id6=Q3q7X2YKFlg}} |
{{YouTube|id=cU8Whynoslg|id2=ITJxbjFNYdI|id3=6yfe_TtDyGo|id4=j2ycc_TX5RQ|id5=q2w3tRC8joQ|id6=Q3q7X2YKFlg}} |
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</tabber> |
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'''Visuals:''' |
'''Visuals:''' |
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*Opening: On a blue starry background, the NBC Sports (albeit the "Sports" in NBC Sports is |
*Opening: On a blue starry background, the NBC Sports (albeit the "Sports" in NBC Sports is red) logo flies in. As the logo got into the center, a white lens flare flashes in at the top-right of the "N" in NBC and the bottom-left of the NBC peacock, then dies down. A faint thin white circle can be seen enlarging behind. |
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*Closing: |
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**1995-late 1995: A close-up of a CGI-rendered NBC peacock is seen with white translucent rectangles. A white flash appears, and then footage of various sports (In order: American football, basketball, baseball, golfing, and the Olympics) appear along with white translucent rectangles. Then, another flash appears, which transitions to the short version of the opening logo. A copyright stamp can be seen underneath. |
**1995-late 1995: A close-up of a CGI-rendered NBC peacock is seen with white translucent rectangles. A white flash appears, and then footage of various sports (In order: American football, basketball, baseball, golfing, and the Olympics) appear along with white translucent rectangles. Then, another flash appears, which transitions to the short version of the opening logo. A copyright stamp can be seen underneath. |
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**late-1995- |
**late-1995-1996: Over a blue different starfield background, footage of various sports with trophies (including a cauldron for the Olympics) for each sport (which changed throughout) (all overlayed in ellipses) appears. The yellow text and the small NBC peacock logo from the bottom right also appear. Then it fades out, and the same opening logo fades in sans the white lens flare. Like the previous closing logos, a copyright stamp can be seen underneath. |
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'''Variants:''' |
'''Variants:''' |
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* Sometimes, the closing |
* Sometimes, the closing logo lacks the copyright stamp. |
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* Some sports in the closing logo may vary every time NBC Sports broadcasted throughout. |
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* The <u>NBA on NBC</u> broadcasts include the closing logo, but it's shorter, and the various sports footage is replaced by footage of past NBA broadcasts. |
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* The <u>NBA on NBC</u> broadcasts include the closing logo, but it's shorter, and past NBA broadcasts replace the various sports footage. |
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'''Technique: '''CGI animation and live-action for the closing. |
'''Technique: '''CGI animation and live-action for the closing. |
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'''Audio:''' |
'''Audio:''' |
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*Opening: |
*Opening: The six-note trumpet tune, but a different male voiceover says "The following is a presentation of NBC Sports." |
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*Closing: |
*Closing: |
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**1995-late 1995: |
**1995-late 1995: A majestic trumpet fanfare, accompanied with audio from various sports footage and a whoosh when the flash to the NBC Sports heard with Jim Fagan saying "Where America turns for the best in sports television, NBC Sports!" |
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**late 1995-1996: The NFL on NBC theme by Randy Edelman accompanied by Hal Douglas saying each sports event and then "All on America's sports leader, NBC". |
**late 1995-1996: The NFL on NBC theme by Randy Edelman accompanied by Hal Douglas saying each sports event and then "All on America's sports leader, NBC". |
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'''Audio Variant:''' The <u>NBA on NBC</u> broadcasts have the NBA theme "Roundball Rock" accompanied by |
'''Audio Variant:''' The <u>NBA on NBC</u> broadcasts have the NBA theme "Roundball Rock" by John Tesh (which was reused by [[Fox Sports]] in 2018 as a theme for Fox College Hoops) accompanied by Jim Fagan saying "You're watching NBA on NBC!" |
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'''Legacy:''' The NBA on NBC theme was well-received amongst basketball fans. |
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=== {{Ordinal|9}} Logo (1996-2000) === |
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=== {{Ordinal|10}} Logo (1996-2000) === |
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all centered with lines stacked to each word zooms in slowly. Then the white translucent text is shown zooming in faster than usual. And the CGI-rendered NBC Sports logo flies in while fading in. |
all centered with lines stacked to each word zooms in slowly. Then the white translucent text is shown zooming in faster than usual. And the CGI-rendered NBC Sports logo flies in while fading in. |
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**Early-Mid 1996: Some sports footage corresponding to the NBC Sports broadcasting contract since 1996 with a white parallelogram on the left side appears. The NFL, NBA, MLB, PGA Tour, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, the USGA, Wimbledon, PGA Ryder Cup, French Open, and the 1996 NBC Olympics logo tilts in while zooming in at the top-left corner. The NBC peacock logo is also seen at the bottom right. Then it flashes to the opening logo. |
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**Mid-Late 1996: On a blue-white glowing background, some sports footage (post-NFL season) cropped in ellipses with barely visible scanlines that move to the left as footage changes by each sport appears. The text and logos (In order: the 1996 NBA Playoffs, the USGA, French Open, the USGA (again), Wimbledon, the NBA Finals, Major League Baseball, and the 1996 NBC Olympics) correspond to every sport NBC Sports has contracted, also appears as well. The text at the bottom zooms in, while the logos at the top left also spins. The NBC peacock logo can be seen at the bottom right. Then, a white flash brightens, transitioning to the same opening logo. |
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**Late 1996-1997: The silver rings display sports clips inside a yellow bokeh background with white NBC peacocks. Logos of sports events and professional sports leagues are located at the top-left corner while it spins. The NBC peacock logo also appears at the bottom left. Then it flashes to the opening logo. |
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**1997-2000: Sports clips masked in ellipses with blue outlines, which constantly move around by each sport, are shown on a white background with circled text orbiting around the clips clockwise. The positioning of logos of sports events and professional sports leagues varies by sport. Then it flashes to the opening logo. |
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'''Variants:''' |
'''Variants:''' |
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*Like the last closing logo, the closing |
*Like the last closing logo, the closing logo sometimes lacks the copyright stamp. |
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*The <u>extended variant of the opening logo</u> exists, where it starts with a random clip of various sports with a blue outline on a white background. Logos of sports and leagues appear either at the bottom left or the top left. (NBA Finals, Super Bowl XXXII, the U.S. Open, World Series, etc.) Then it flashes or crossfades to the opening logo. |
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*The <u>Olympic Games</u> variant has the closing logo. Still, the following replaces the sports footage in order: A sailboat view of the Sydney Opera House, the snowy mountains in Utah, a view of Athens at sunset, a skier jumping up, and women athletes running on the track. The Olympic logos corresponded in order: Sydney 2000, Salt Lake 2002, Athens 2004 (the bidding logo), and NBC Olympics for the 2006 and 2008 Olympics. In the end, the text reads "'''America's Olympic Network'''" set in the Futura typeface. |
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*<u>Two variants of the late 1996-1997 closing logos</u> exist in the Olympic Games part. |
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**The former includes the purple background, in which the three silver rings form the "2000," and underneath the year is the "Olympic Games in Sydney." The clip of the Sydney part is a bird's eye view of the Sydney Opera House. Then it becomes "2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City" in the text and the clip is replaced with snowy mountains in Utah. The logos of Sydney 2000 and Salt Lake City 2002, both bidding logos, appear at the top left. |
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**The latter transitions from the USGA Championships with clips of the reused Sydney Opera House and a different view of snowy mountains in Utah displayed in the silver rings. The official Sydney 2000 logo appears on the top left, while the bidding Salt Lake City 2002 is on the bottom right. The NBC peacock fades once it makes space for the Salt Lake City 2002 logo. |
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*The <u>Olympic Games variant of the 1997-2000 closing logo</u> has the following footage in order: A sailboat view of the Sydney Opera House, the snowy mountains in Utah, a view of Athens at sunset, a skier jumping up, and women athletes running on the track. The Olympic logos corresponded: Sydney 2000, Salt Lake 2002, Athens 2004 (the bidding logo from 1997), and NBC Olympics for 2006 and 2008 (likely to be a placeholder logo). In the end, the text reads "'''America's Olympic Network'''" set in the Futura typeface. The circled text moves in the opposite direction. |
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*Sometimes, sports can be rearranged in different orders. |
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'''Technique:''' A mix of 2D and CGI animation. |
'''Technique:''' A mix of 2D and CGI animation. |
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'''Audio:''' |
'''Audio:''' |
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* Opening: |
* Opening: An abridged version of the Major League Baseball on NBC theme, accompanied by Hal Douglas saying "You're watching America's sports leader, NBC!" |
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* Closing: |
* Closing: |
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**Early-Mid 1996: The NFL on NBC theme with sound effects of a baseball bat and a tennis racket hitting in the Major League Baseball and the French Open sections. Hal Douglas says each sports event, then "The great events on all on America's sports leader, NBC!" |
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**Mid-1996-1997: The NFL on NBC theme without the sound effects. Hal Douglas says each sports event, then "The great events on all on America's sports leader, NBC!" |
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**1996-2000: Unknown. |
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**Late 1996-1997: The Major League Baseball on NBC theme with the sound effects reused in Major League Baseball and French Open, with Hal Douglas saying "All on America's sports leader, NBC!" |
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**1997-2000: The Major League Baseball on NBC theme except the sound effects are muted. |
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'''Audio Variant:''' |
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'''Audio Variant:''' The <u>Olympic Games</u> variant has a rendition of "Summon the Heroes" by John Williams, accompanied by an announcer saying "The 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake, the 2004 Olympics in Athens, the 2006 Olympic Winter Games, and the 2008 Olympics. All on America's Olympic Network, NBC". |
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* The <u>extended variant of the opening logo</u> has Hal Douglas saying "You are watching the home of (any sports event)! America's sports leader, NBC!" |
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* The <u>Olympic Games</u> variant has a rendition of "Summon the Heroes" by John Williams, accompanied by an announcer saying "The 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake, the 2004 Olympics in Athens, the 2006 Olympic Winter Games, and the 2008 Olympics. All on America's Olympic Network, NBC!" |
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=== {{Ordinal|11}} Logo (1998) === |
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'''Visuals:''' Different variants for each sport are used: |
'''Visuals:''' Different variants for each sport are used: |
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*Golfing: |
*Golfing: A giant golf ball that spins zooms out on a blue background. As the golf ball zooms out, the NBC peacock rotates to the front of a golf ball and the CGI-rendered "NBC" and "Sports" (which is written on) fly into the center. Then, the translucent blue starfield appears behind the logo. |
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*Baseball: On a dark sunset sky background, the NBC Sports logo, on which it shines, moves from the bottom-right corner to the center. The red and blue |
*Major League Baseball: On a dark sunset sky background, the NBC Sports logo, on which it shines, moves from the bottom-right corner to the center. The red and blue rhombus (which is a baseball field) and two baseball bats crossed to each other fly in behind the logo. After the NBC Sports logo formed (which formed the logo for ''Major League Baseball on NBC'' between 1997 and 2000), three baseballs came out from behind to fly around. |
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*Super Bowl XXXII: On a black and white sunburst background, the 1931 NBC logo in red with neon bolts zooms in, crossfading to the NBC Snake logo. It fades to the 1962 Laramie Peacock logo, then to the 1976 Trapezoid N logo shown in the outline, and finally to the 1979 Proud N logo. The NBC Sports logo zooms out. Then a yellow spark moves to the center and the logo explodes, segueing to the opening credits. |
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'''Technique:''' CGI. |
'''Technique:''' CGI. |
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*Golfing: Two whooshes with the NBC chimes played on a xylophone. |
*Golfing: Two whooshes with the NBC chimes played on a xylophone. |
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*Baseball: A dark synth rendition of the NBC chimes, then a whoosh when three baseballs appear. |
*Major League Baseball: A dark synth rendition of the NBC chimes, then a whoosh when three baseballs appear. |
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*Super Bowl XXXII: A dark synth rendition of the NBC chimes with extra whooshes and explosions when it segues to the opening credits. |
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=== {{Ordinal|12}} Logo (1999) === |
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[[File:NBC Sports (1999, NBA Showtime NBA on NBC).png|center|300x300px]] |
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'''Visuals:''' The 3D-rendered NBC Sports logo, tilted slightly to the left with a drop shadow, is on a glossy basketball court. The outside border of the basketball court is blue, and the outlines are in white. |
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'''Technique:''' A still, computer-generated graphic. |
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'''Audio:''' None. |
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'''Availability:''' It can be seen on ''NBA Showtime: NBA on NBC'' for the Dreamcast, PlayStation, Nintendo 64, and in Arcade. |
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=== {{Ordinal|13}} Logo (2002-2007) === |
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* 2002-2003: Various sports footage appear with embossed glass peacock feathers moving around throughout the logo and text (depending on an NBC Sports program) sliding to the right while shining. Then a flare appears, which transitions to the 1995 NBC Sports opening logo (albeit the "Sports" is now yellow, with enhanced CGI effects), except it is now on a waving blue-red background (which is the US flag). |
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* 2003-2007: Various sports footage appear on a white background cropped in widescreen occupied with translucent rainbow peacock feathers orbiting around. Then a white flash brightens in, and the reused 1995 NBC Sports logo is seen on a cloudy background. |
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'''Variants:''' |
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=== {{Ordinal|12}} Logo (2012-2015) === |
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* The <u>Olympics variant</u> has the NBC Sports logo zooming out to a comfortable view, then the NBC Olympics logo zooms out with white bars surrounding the cloudy background. The "America's Olympic Network" appears underneath the logo. |
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* For the <u>NHL variant</u>, there is a clip of the past NHL games (before the 2004 lockout) cropped in widescreen on a blue cloudy background. A CGI NBC Sports logo is at the bottom right before it zooms out quickly with a radial blur. The NBC Olympics logo is at the bottom right once the NBC Sports logo is out of view. More clips of the past NHL games are shown. Once the clip gets to the hockey goal net, it cuts to the 2005 NHL on NBC logo zooming out with a radial blur on a blue cloudy background. it then zooms in. |
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* On one program, the logo is on a screen with video walls surrounding it. The camera zooms out slowly. |
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'''Technique:''' A mix of CGI animation with live-action. |
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'''Audio:''' Depends on every sport: |
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* Ryder Cup: A cinematic orchestral theme, accompanied by a voiceover saying "Golf's ultimate challenge, the Ryder Cup. Only on NBC!" |
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* Wimbledon: A new age-inspired fanfare, accompanied by a voiceover saying "...tennis Championship, Wimbledon. Only on NBC!" (Apparently, the first part of the announcer's spiel was cut out) |
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* NASCAR/Daytona 500: A heavy metal/hard rock theme with race car sound effects. The former has the voiceover saying either "You are watching NBC, home of NASCAR!" or "You are watching NBC, home of NASCAR's Race for the Championships!". In contrast, the latter has "The great American race, the ultimate victory lane, the Daytona 500! Returning February 15th, to NBC!" |
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* Notre Dame Fighting Irish Football: An 8-note marching drum intro with a whistle leading to an 18-note orchestral theme played by a marching band. The voiceover says "You are watching NBC Sports! Home of the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame!" |
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* NHL: A corporate news theme with a voiceover saying "You are watching NBC Sports! Broadcast home of the National Hockey League!" |
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'''Audio Variant:''' The <u>Olympics variant</u> has "Summon The Heroes" by John Williams, with an announcer saying, "You watching NBC. Through the next decade, America's Olympic Network." |
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=== {{Ordinal|14}} Logo (70th anniversary of the NFL on NBC) (September 2008-January 2009) === |
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'''Visuals:''' The 1993 Historical ID is seen. Once the 1986 NBC peacock was formed, it crossfades to the NBC Sports logo on a black-grey blue background with yellow light streaks forming the "Sports" in NBC Sports. Then, it crossfades to the NFL copyright ID used from 2008 to 2013, but the difference is that the 1940 NFL logo was replaced with the 1962 one, and the 1983 logo morphs into the 2008 one quickly. The National Football League copyright stamp is absent. It then fades to the big metallic "70<sup>TH</sup>" and the "ANNIVERSARY" underneath it, with the 2008 NFL shield and the NBC peacock (with gradients on the peacock feathers, which is a variant for the NFL on NBC) logos on a gray background. A faint orange flare is seen from the number 7 in "70<sup>TH</sup>". |
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'''Technique:''' CGI animation. |
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'''Audio:''' The NBC chimes, then a triumph fanfare played by a brass band, accompanied by a deep male voiceover saying "You watching NBC. Celebrating our 70th anniversary with the National Football League." |
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=== {{Ordinal|15}} Logo (''Sunday Night Football'') (2009) === |
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'''Visuals:''' There is the NBC Sunday Night Football logo on a high-technology room with fireworks outside at a Dutch angle. The camera moves to the right of the ''NBC Sunday Night Football'' logo to reveal a video wall of ''Sunday Night Football'' clips. There is the NBC peacock logo placed on a wall in the background. A blue flash lightens in, transitioning to more video clips of ''Sunday Night Football''. One landscape video wall at the left, and one portrait video wall at the right. It cuts to a clip of former ''Sunday Night Football'' play-by-play commentators (Al Michaels, etc.), in which the camera zooms out to a comfortable position. Then another blue flash lightens in, into yet another video wall of a Super Bowl XLIII clip. The camera zooms out to see the 3D-rendered NBC Sports logo. |
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'''Technique:''' A mix of 3D animation and live-action. |
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'''Audio:''' A rock guitar rendition of the NBC chimes, then the 2009 Sunday Night Football theme (which is a remix of "Wide Receiver" by John Williams debuted for Super Bowl XLIII with some rock elements onto it) is heard with play-by-play commentators, Al Michaels and John Madden. A male voiceover, known for its NFL presentation IDs, says "Sunday Night Football returns, with the biggest games, the brightest stars, and the best team. Only on NBC!" |
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=== {{Ordinal|16}} Logo (NBC Sports Championship Season) (2010) === |
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'''Visuals:''' There is a clip of the 2009 Stanley Cup Final (where the Pittsburgh Penguins won the Stanley Cup), then it cuts to a CGI ice rink in a cloudy sky atmosphere. It zooms out to see more ice hockey players from the Detroit Red Wings and the Pittsburgh Penguins. The NBC peacock and the NHL shield logos can be seen on the sign of an ice rink wall. The ice particles come in from the left, which leads to the Kentucky Derby clip. The Kentucky Derby clip cuts to a golf player shooting a hole-in-one on a CGI golf course. The camera zooms out to see the pole as the golf ball gets in the distance. In a CGI golf course, there are trees, a lake, and some bunkers in the environment. The CGI golf course cuts to clips of The Players Championship, Preakness Stakes, the French Open, the U.S. Open, and Wimbledon. There is the NBC Sports Championship Season logo at the bottom-left, which is slightly close to the center. Then it flashes to reveal a close-up of a tennis court, a golf course, an ice rink, a clay court, another golf course, and a horse racing track on peacock feathers. The camera pans back and sports surfaces change to the rainbow NBC peacock logo. Then the NBC wordmark (in Futura) flies in, as well as the "CHAMPIONSHIP" also flying in while the letters move down letter by letter with the "SEASON" below. The yellow "Sports" is written in. The finished product is on a cloudy background. |
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'''Variant:''' A <u>short variant for the Stanley Cup Finals</u> exists. Here, is a clip of Day 7 of the 2009 Stanley Cup Finals where the Pittsburgh Penguins won the Stanley Cup against the Detroit Red Wings. Then it cuts to the same CGI ice rink. The other sports are replaced with the NBC Sports logo forming. |
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'''Technique:''' A mixture of CGI and live-action. |
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'''Audio:''' A male announcer saying "You watching the Stanley Cup Finals.", with some audio from play-by-play commentators and some whooshes. Then at the end, a male voiceover from the beginning says "Part of NBC Sports Championship Season." The music is an alternative rock song called "All These Heroes Coming Gold." |
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'''Audio Variant:''' For the <u>short variant for the Stanley Cup Finals</u>, Mike Emrick is heard saying "And the Penguins have won the Stanley Cup!" (from a clip of Day 7 of the 2009 Stanley Cup Finals), then a male voiceover saying "You watching the Stanley Cup Finals. Part of NBC Sports Championship Season." |
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=== {{Ordinal|17}} Logo (2012-2015) === |
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'''Visuals:''' The camera zooms out to show glass panels displaying footage of Super Bowl XLVI coverage (with the Vince Lombardi trophy presentation to the New York Giants after the Super Bowl victory and a close-up of Justin Tuck) with yellow neon tube lights (which lights up) over the football field in a daytime environment. The camera moves to the right, leading to more glass panels displaying footage of the PGA Tour on a green golfing field with green neon tubes this time. The camera also moves to the left, this time, it's the yellow neon tubes with glass panels showing the Breeder's Cup footage over a horse racing track in a sunset environment. The dirt particles from the horse racing track come in, which transition to red neon tubes with glass panels with the 2012 Stanley Cup Finals footage (where the Los Angeles Kings won the championships) over an ice rink inside the indoor arena. Then the camera moves to blue neon tubes with Michael Phelps swimming and screaming (possibly because he set a new world record according to commentators) footage (representing the Olympics) in glass panels over a swimming pool. Finally, it transitions to the NBC Sports logo (which features the "NBC" written in a modified version of Gotham and the "Sports" is redesigned) which forms in different ways. The feathers from the NBC peacock are seen filling in, while the letters of NBC rotate to the front, and the "Sports" shines in. Behind the NBC Sports logo are all the glass panels and neon tubes arranged corresponding to the color order of the NBC peacock over a nighttime environment. The logo finishes up with the camera at the bottom-left angle. |
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'''Technique:''' A mix of live action and 3D animation, designed by Troika Design Group. |
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=== {{Ordinal|13}} Logo (2015-2023) === |
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'''Audio:''' The male voiceover says "You're watching NBC Sports", with a cinematic orchestral tune, accompanied by play-by-play commentators (Al Michaels, Mike Emrick, etc.) from various sports footage. |
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=== {{Ordinal|18}} Logo (2015-2023) === |
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{{YouTube|id=XAd5u_GFxTs|id2=VRkGyAV1dcU|id3=WJXvTkoBpdU|id4=OVvcU6zGvTw|id5=IWrfXRwXqpg|id6=tYOnNt0cvrc|id7=tMS9WmnRtGE|id8=sCrNcDOuBfY|id9=0b51B3yu7ho|id10=khjPkcmnxYI|id11=pjjHxHnIuyE|id12=63ZA5l6fY-M|id13=kd7XE-padfM|id14=MT91VbqeAUU|id15=NFB8K4i-mA4}} |
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'''Visuals:''' On a dark blue background, the multicolored feathers from the NBC peacock open up like a paper fan while the "NBC Sports" slides in (a la the Microsoft PowerPoint "Peek In" effect). Then, the NBC Sports logo zooms out and cross-fades to footage of past NBC Olympics broadcasts in a video reel sliding to the left. Then, a yellow rectangle covers the video reel, which moves to see more footage. Then, the reel zooms out to show more footage in the background, and another yellow rectangle slides in, transitioning to another sports footage. The footage zooms out while sliding out from footage to footage and then zooms back in. Then it cuts to footage of past ''Sunday Night Football'' games, and a yellow rectangle wipes to a football stadium at nighttime while the ''NBC Sunday Night Football'' logo zooms out. Then another yellow rectangle appears, which transitions to the "S" of "Sports" and zooms out while it deforms, and the NBC peacock (without the "NBC Sports" wordmark) forms just like the beginning. |
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'''Variants:''' |
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=== {{Ordinal|14}} Logo (2023-) === |
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* Like the past logos, sports footage will vary based on the contracts NBC Sports had. |
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* The <u>Super Bowl LII variant</u> has the Super Bowl LII logo with the horizontal version of the 1986 NBC logo embossed on a silver rectangle replacing the ''Sunday Night Football'' logo, which ends with the NBC peacock logo being formed. |
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* To <u>promote both Super Bowl LII and the 2018 Winter Olympics</u> in early 2018, the last two pieces of footage were replaced by the Super Bowl LII logo with the horizontal version of the 1986 NBC logo embossed on a silver rectangle zooming out on a black background with blue flare and silver confetti and the peacock feathers spinning to create the NBC peacock with three blue abstract triangles that look like mountains forming in and the "PyeongChang 2018" and the white Olympic ring slides in from the top, forming NBC PyeongChang 2018 logo (which was designed by Trollbäck + Company, along with the NBC Rio 2016 logo earlier) on footage of the closing ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia when the fifth ring opens up. Then, it cross-fades to the "S" in "Sports" writing instead of a yellow rectangle wiping. |
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* In 2018, the ''Sunday Night Football'' sequence was updated, which consists of the ''NBC Sunday Night Football'' logo spinning on a silver abstract background looking like deconstructivist architecture. |
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* The <u>Super Bowl LVI variant</u> has footage of someone holding a Vince Lombardi trophy with blue, red, and white trophy-shaped confetti replacing the ''Sunday Night Football'' sequence. |
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** There is a <u>late 2021 variant</u>, in which the detailed NBC peacock from 2013 zooms in with the NBC wordmark (in Sweet Sans Pro font) sliding in from the top (a la the Microsoft PowerPoint "Peek In" effect) and the white "America's Most Watched Network" (in NBC Tinker, a modified version of Sweet Sans Pro designed by Capacity) appearing word-by-word as well. |
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* In 2022, the already-formed 2013 NBC logo replaces the NBC peacock at the end. |
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* A <u>special variant exists in the 10th season of Premier League</u> in 2022. Here, the NBC Sports logo zooms in on a white cloth background, in which the background changes to purple. The logo opens up to reveal clips of Premier League moments, with purple and white diagonal lines sliding. The Premier League symbol can be seen when the lines fill in. Then the "10th Season" is written in small caps wiped in via the diagonal lines, and ends with the 2018 NBC logo (in 2D) zooming in on a white cloth background. |
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* In Fall 2022, logos by each sport appear from the bottom-left corner, including the new ''Sunday Night Football'' logo (for the 2022 NFL season to today) with an updated sequence. In the end, [[Peacock]], [[USA Network]], [[Golf Channel]] (with the PGA Tour logo at the right), and the [[NBC]] logos zoom out instead of "S" forming. |
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** In 2023, the NBC peacock (without the outlines, modified feathers, and more saturated colors) enlarges with glowing edges. The "Sports" slides down, forming the current NBC Sports (without the NBC wordmark) logo. Then, the horizontal version of the current NBC logo replaces the former logo. |
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'''Technique:''' A combination of 2D animation, CGI animation, and live action by Imaginary Forces. |
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'''Audio:''' An energetic rock theme, occupied with sound effects of whooshing and crowd cheering, with Brian Lee saying "NBC Sports!" first, leading to him saying "Home of..." when various sports clips appear during the opening logo. Then it ends with the NBC chimes played on an electric guitar, and Brian Lee says, "Only on NBC." The sports clips have Brian Lee saying: |
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* Olympics: "The Olympic Games." |
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* NHL: "The NHL." |
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* Premier League: Either "Premier League" or "the Premier League". |
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* NASCAR: Either "The NASCAR playoffs," "The Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup," or "NASCAR." |
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* Indianapolis 500: "The Indianapolis 500." |
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* Golfing: Either "the PGA Tour," "the FedEx Cup Playoffs," "the US Open," or "the Ryder Cup." |
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* Notre Dame Football: "Notre Dame Football". |
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* Kentucky Derby: "The Kentucky Derby". |
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* ''NBC Sunday Night Football'': "And primetime's number one show, ''Sunday Night Football''!" |
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'''Audio Variants:''' |
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* The <u>Super Bowl LII variant</u> has Brian Lee saying "Primetime's number one show ''Sunday Night Football'', and Super Bowl 52 on NBC!" at the ''Sunday Night Football'' portion. |
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* The <u>Super Bowl LII and PyeongChang 2018 variants</u> have Brian Lee saying, "Super Bowl 52, and in four days, the Winter Olympics, on NBC!" |
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* The <u>Super Bowl LVI variant</u> has Brian Lee saying "''Sunday Night Football'', and Super Bowl 56 on NBC!" for the former and "Primetime's number one show ''Sunday Night Football'', and Super Bowl 56 on NBC!" for the latter. |
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* In 2022, the "Only on NBC" line is removed. |
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* The <u>10th season of the Premier League variant</u> has audio from the Premier League moments and play-by-play commentators, then a male voiceover with a British accent saying "NBC Sports welcomes you to the 10th season of Premier League on NBC." |
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=== {{Ordinal|19}} Logo (January 14, 2023-) === |
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[[File:NBC Sports (2023).png|center|300x300px]] |
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{{YouTube|id=2hFT-gSA3fY}} |
{{YouTube|id=2hFT-gSA3fY}} |
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'''Visuals:''' On a dark background, the peacock feathers, which rotate throughout, while displaying various sports footage zoom in, creating a feather-shaped tunnel. One of the peacock feathers starts with footage from London 2012 and Tokyo 2020 (representing the Olympic Games). The red feather zooms in behind, transitioning to feather-shaped footage of a soccer player cheering after scoring a goal (representing the Premier League) while the yellow feather comes in too. Another feather-shaped footage of multiple racing cars and a racer winning a championship (representing NASCAR), while another red feather zooms in. This then transitions to another three feather-shaped footage of horse racing and the audience cheering for them (representing the Breeder's Cup) with orange feathers zooming in. Another feather transition, this time a golfer winning a trophy at the championship (representing the PGA Tour) with a green feather as well. Then, the feather-shaped tunnel ends with the footage of the past ''Sunday Night Football'' games. The cyan and red feathers fill in, transitioning to footage of Patrick Malones from the Kansas City Chiefs. Then the blue-green-orange feathers zoom in, and it transitions to the current NBC Sports (without the NBC wordmark) logo forming (the NBC peacock logo popping in while the "Sports" writing in just like the 1993 and 2012 logos) on a dark background with CGI-rendered feathers while zooming out. |
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[[Category:NBCUniversal]][[Category:Comcast]][[Category:Television logos]][[Category:United States]][[Category:American television logos]][[Category:NBC]] |
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'''Trivia:''' This logo is inspired by the current NBC graphics from 2023 until the present day, all done by Sibling Rivalry. |
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'''Technique:''' CGI and 2D animation with live action. |
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'''Audio:''' A majestic and dramatic orchestral tune accompanied by play-by-play commentators (Mike Tirico, etc.) from past broadcasts and the audience cheering, ending with familiar NBC chimes from the 1950s. |
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'''Availability:''' This can be seen on current NBC Sports broadcasts since 2023, such as ''Sunday Night Football'', ''NASCAR on NBC'', the ''PGA on NBC'', the ''USFL on NBC, the ''Big 10 Saturday Night'', etc. |
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==Olympic Presentation== |
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=== {{Ordinal|1}} Logo (1986-1988) === |
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<tabber> |
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Images= |
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[[File:NBC Olympics (1986).png|center|300px]] |
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Videos= |
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{{YouTube|id=Mo61tRppgOs|id2=a_25qQwLKI8}} |
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</tabber> |
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'''Visuals:''' Multiple blue platforms fly everywhere over a black background while the camera moves up. At the top of the platforms is a cauldron (unlike the cauldron from the 1988 Summer Olympics) in which the Olympic flame ignited the bowl. Then the base of the then-current NBC Olympics logo flies in, with the NBC peacock and the golden Olympic ring flying in from the top front. The closing logo has the copyright stamp underneath. |
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'''Technique:''' CGI animation by Cranston-Csuri Productions. |
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'''Audio:''' A violin and flute theme with the NBC chimes at the end, accompanied by Les Marshak saying "The following is a presentation of NBC Sports. Proud to be the network of the 1988 Summer Olympic Games!" |
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'''Audio Variant:''' The <u>closing variant</u> has Les Marshak saying "This has been a presentation of NBC Sports. Proud to be the network of the 1988 Summer Olympic Games!" The low-tone version is used. |
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=== {{Ordinal|2}} Logo (Games of the XXIV Olympiad) (1988) === |
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<tabber> |
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<gallery mode=packed heights=200> |
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NBC Olympics (Games of the XXIV Olympiad) (1988) (1).png|Opening 1 |
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NBC Olympics (Games of the XXIV Olympiad) (1988) (2).png|Opening 2 |
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NBC Olympics (Games of the XXIV Olympiad) (1988) (closing).png|Closing |
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{{YouTube|id=0nJcVFIGhmw|id2=JyWFwbg4cjY|id3=tE44enp8cCM|id4=AW0cIW9ODXQ}} |
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</tabber> |
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'''Visuals:''' |
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* Opening 1: On a sepia background, the base of the 1988 NBC Olympics logo emerges with a drop shadow coming. Two gold Xs come in from the top-left and the bottom-left to the center, revealing the NBC peacock and the Olympic rings fully colored at the base. Then the front X moves next to the back X, showing the text "Games of the XXIV Olympiad", which appears from the right. Then "Games of the XXIV Olympiad" moves to the bottom center of the NBC Olympics logo. |
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* Opening 2: Glass tiles with the Olympic cauldron (similar to the cauldron from the 1988 Summer Olympics) in which the Olympic flame ignited the bowl with the golden Olympic rings atop the cauldron and two pillars with globes atop it appear over a sunset atmosphere. Then the glass tiles rotate to the other side, revealing the Roman pillar on the cauldron and the 1988 NBC Olympics logo. Then "Games of the XXIV Olympiad" fades in as the camera is positioned to the bottom-right angle. |
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* Closing: Glassy rainbow peacock feathers rise from a blue surface. The golden rings emerge to form the Olympic rings. Then the blue surface flips to the base of the 1988 NBC Olympics logo as the feathers form the NBC peacock with a white border emerging in. The logo forms the 1988 NBC Olympics logo on a black background. The copyright stamp appears underneath the logo. |
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'''Variants:''' |
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* The <u>closing variant of Opening 2</u> has the copyright stamp replacing "Games of the XXIV Olympiad". |
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* Sometimes, the copyright stamp from the closing logo lacks the copyright stamp. |
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'''Technique:''' CGI animation with live-action. |
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'''Audio:''' |
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* Opening 1: The six-note trumpet tune with Hal Douglas saying "This is the NBC television network." |
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* Opening 2: A re-orchestrated version of the six-note tune with additional instruments, accompanied by Hal Douglas saying "This is NBC. Proud to be the network of the Summer Olympic Games." |
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* Closing: A lighter rendition of "The Olympic Spirit" by John Williams. |
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'''Audio Variant:''' The <u>closing variant of Opening 2</u> has Hal Douglas saying "This broadcast has been a presentation of NBC Sports. Proud to be the network of the Summer Olympic Games". |
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'''Availability:''' It appeared on NBC Sports broadcasts throughout and before the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. |
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=== {{Ordinal|3}} Logo (Barcelona '92) (1992) === |
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<tabber> |
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[[File:NBC Olympics (Barcelona 92) (1992).png|center|300px]] |
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{{YouTube|id=emBYlOqEt58|id2=sFh9DlvkzAo|id3=YnfKsyOyNgw|id4=CFKfb1qv35c}} |
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</tabber> |
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'''Visuals:''' A dark purple globe appears zooming out on a dark cloudy background. The world shines, duplicating into five globes as it fades into the golden Olympic rings. The multicolored intersecting shapes fade in, forming the NBC peacock logo. The camera then rotates, revealing the 1988 NBC Olympics logo, shining, and zooming out as the big globe (showing parts of Europe with a purple light at Barcelona, Spain) on the background fades in. Then "BARCELONA '92" shines in atop the NBC Olympics logo. |
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'''Variants:''' |
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* A <u>short version</u> exists, starting when the camera rotates to the front of the NBC Olympics logo. |
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* The <u>closing variant</u> has a copyright stamp appearing underneath the logo. |
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'''Technique:''' CGI animation by Telezign using Alias Research. |
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'''Audio:''' A majestic fanfare with shining and sparkling sound effects, ending with the NBC chimes, accompanied by a voiceover saying "The following is a presentation of NBC Sports. Network of the games of the 25th Olympiad." |
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'''Audio Variants:''' |
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* A version with the extended six-note trumpet tune exists. |
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* The <u>short version</u> has the NBC chimes playing with a different majestic fanfare with Danny Dark saying "NBC, Home of the '92 Summer Olympics!" |
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* The <u>closing variant</u> has a voiceover saying "The preceding has been a presentation of NBC Sports. Network of the games of the 25th Olympiad." |
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'''Availability:''' It appeared on NBC Sports broadcasts throughout and before the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. |
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=== {{Ordinal|4}} Logo (America's Games) (1995-1996) === |
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<tabber>Image=[[File:NBC Olympics (America's Games) (1996).png|center|300px]]|-|Video={{YouTube|id=d_pKDrptmdo}}</tabber> |
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'''Visuals:''' On a waving Olympic flag, the NBC Atlanta 1996 logo zooms out to a comfortable distance while the white "America's Games" surrounding the logo emerges. |
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'''Technique:''' A combination of CGI and live-action. |
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'''Audio:''' A new-age tune with NBC chimes at the end, accompanied by Danny Dark saying, "You watching NBC. The home of America's Games, the 1996 Summer Olympics." |
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'''Availability:''' It appeared on NBC Sports broadcasts before the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. |
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=== {{Ordinal|5}} Logo (Atlanta 1996) (1995-1996) === |
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<tabber> |
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Image= |
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<gallery mode="packed" heights="200"> |
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NBC Olympics (Atlanta 1996) (1996).png| |
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NBC Olympics copyright disclaimer (1996).png|Copyright disclaimer |
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</gallery> |
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{{YouTube|id=K2QHd4IXHDE|id2=hQ4ujQpJk1Y|id3=Wcdpkwp3dWw|id4=3ghFq_VVJwM|id5=cFpo7LV55As}} |
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</tabber> |
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'''Visuals:''' There is a podium with a human figure holding an Olympic torch while lifting it to the sky and a cauldron lit with an Olympic flame. Clouds appear from the front, slowly disappearing. The camera zooms out, showing the black text "America" with an NBC peacock in front of the text at the right and three blue banners with yellow NBC Atlanta 1996 logos from the left on a dark wireframe globe with yellow light rays coming from behind. Once the camera reaches a comfortable distance, the aspect ratio shifts from 4:3 to 16:9. (a la how aspect ratio shifts in films and series in the Marvel Cinematic Universe) |
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'''Variant:''' A <u>copyright disclaimer variant</u> exists, consisting of the NBC Atlanta 1996 logo slowly zooming in on a blue background with faint optics. Between the logo are some black bars with the far left and right sides extended, with a white monospaced text reading "This program has been produced by NBC in association with the IOC and the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games." |
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'''Technique:''' CGI animation. |
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'''Audio:''' An abridged version of "Olympic Fanfare" by John Williams. |
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'''Audio Variants:''' |
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* In 1995, Hal Douglas said, "Next summer in Atlanta, the greatest spectacle in sports, the Olympic Games return to America, on NBC." |
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* In 1996, Hal Douglas said, "This summer in Atlanta, the greatest spectacle in sports, the Olympic Games return to America, on NBC." |
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* One week before the 1996 Summer Olympics, Hal Douglas said, "Next week in Atlanta, the greatest spectacle in sports, the Olympic Games return to America, on NBC." |
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* The <u>copyright disclaimer variant</u> has a different male voiceover saying "This broadcast is presented by authority of NBC and the International Olympic Committee, and may not be reproduced or retransmitted in any form without the expressed written consent of NBC and the International Olympic Committee." |
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'''Availability:''' It appeared on NBC Sports broadcasts throughout and before the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. |
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=== {{Ordinal|6}} Logo (America's Olympic Network/Sydney 2000) (2000)=== |
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<tabber> |
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<gallery mode=packed heights=200> |
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NBC Olympics (America's Olympic Network) (2000).png|Original logo |
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NBC Olympics (America's Olympic Network) (2000) (4 Days to Sydney).png|Countdown variant |
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NBC Olympics (America's Olympic Network) (2000) (Alternate).png|Alternate variant |
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NBC Olympics (2000).png| |
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{{YouTube|id=h1pjAiL2iNw|id2=PqUeEdh6DRE|id3=HAz6hsvwISA|id4=hug2TyJ8efw}} |
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</tabber> |
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'''Visuals:''' On a white background with what appears to be the exterior of the Sydney Opera House and a skyline of Sydney (with a said landmark and Harbour Bridge behind it) set in daytime cropped in a rectangle, the transparent "2000" enlarges in front of the skyline. Then a shine appears, revealing the NBC wordmark and the NBC peacock zooming in while the blue rectangle flies in from the top. The NBC peacock and the gold rings zoom out, in which the rings form the Olympic rings. The "AMERICA'S OLYMPIC NETWORK" flips in from the bottom. |
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'''Variants:''' |
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* The <u>countdown variant</u> has a text appearing atop the NBC Olympics logo, saying how many days to Sydney. |
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* An <u>alternate variant</u> exists, which has a floatplane flying through Port Jackson in Sydney, three kangaroos hopping on yellow fields, and a skyline of Sydney with the Sydney Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Then the NBC Olympics logo atop the Sydney Harbour Bridge fades in with "America's Olympic Network" in a Friz Quadrata-like font underneath the landmarks. |
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* During the Olympic Games, three clips of the opening ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympics are shown. After the third clip, it crossfades to the NBC Sydney 2000 logo (sans the box) form on a panning skyline of Sydney, showing the buildings, the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and the Sydney Opera House. |
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'''Technique:''' CGI animation with live action. |
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'''Audio:''' An abridged version of "Summon the Heroes" by John Williams, with Hal Douglas saying, "The following is a presentation of NBC. America's Olympic Network." |
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'''Audio Variants:''' |
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* The <u>countdown variant</u> has the voiceover saying, "The countdown continues to the Sydney Olympics on NBC." |
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* An <u>alternate variant</u> has Hal Douglas saying, "This September, the Olympics from Sydney, Australia on NBC. America's Olympic Network." |
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* During the Olympic Games, the abridged version of "Olympic Fanfare" by John Williams can be heard with a voiceover saying, "The Olympic Games from Sydney, Australia had begun on NBC, America's Olympic Network!" |
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=== {{Ordinal|7}} Logo (Salt Lake 2002) (2002)=== |
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<tabber>Image=[[File:NBC Olympics (Salt Lake 2002) (2002).png|center|300px]]|-|Videos={{YouTube|id=CSIq1RzBgB8|id2=L_NAhtB9sBA}}</tabber> |
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'''Visuals:''' A giant blue crystal slides to the right, revealing the NBC Olympics logo on a blue globe with some rings. The logo shines and zooms in slowly. |
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'''Technique:''' Computer animation with model work. |
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'''Audio:''' An abridged version of "Olympic Fanfare" by John Williams. |
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=== {{Ordinal|8}} Logo (America's Olympic Network/Athens 2004) (2004)=== |
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<tabber> |
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NBC Olympics (America's Olympic Network) (2004).png|Logo with "America's Olympic Network" |
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NBC Olympics (The Complete Olympics) (2004).png|Alternate logo with "The Complete Olympics" and sister channels. |
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</gallery> |
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Videos= |
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{{YouTube|id=IuTPn79G2OI|id2=x3w4rGscBXQ}} |
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</tabber> |
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'''Visuals:''' Several screens displaying Olympic footage from the past are seen in a dark sunset background angled from the bottom left. At the front of the screens is footage of Michael Johnson in a track and field race during the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Then, a blue flash appears, transitioning to screens of cities, including years given and logos of the Olympic Games. These include a view of the Parthenon in Athens, Greece (for 2004), some snowy mountains in Northern Italy and Western Canada (both for 2006 and 2010), and a path of the Great Wall of China in Beijing (for 2008). The four logos given are two official logos and two bidding logos. Then, another blue flash appears, which goes to the NBC peacock and the Olympic rings zooming out to emerge the NBC Olympics logo on the top. Beneath the logo is "AMERICA'S OLYMPIC NETWORK" shining in. Blue particles from the background also appear. |
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'''Variant:''' An <u>alternate variant</u> exists, in which the finished product has the NBC Olympics logo making room for the [[CNBC]], Bravo, [[USA Network]], [[Telemundo]], NBC HDTV, and [[MSNBC]] logos and the "America's Olympic Network" was rewritten to "The Complete Olympics Athens 2004". |
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'''Technique:''' CGI animation and live action. |
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'''Audio:''' An abridged version of "Summon the Heroes" by John Williams, accompanied by commentators ("Michael Johnson, into the Olympic history!") and a voiceover saying, "The past, the present, and for the next decade, America's Olympic Network is NBC!" |
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=== {{Ordinal|9}} Logo (America's Olympic Network/Torino 2006) (2005-2006)=== |
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<tabber> |
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<gallery mode="packed" heights="200"> |
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NBC Olympics (America's Olympic Network) (2006).png| |
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NBC Olympics copyright disclaimer (2006).png|Copyright disclaimer |
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</gallery> |
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Videos={{YouTube|id=zS8RrCYdXBw}} |
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</tabber> |
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'''Visuals:''' In a dark room with banners of the past Olympic Games and the 1986 NBC logo behind the banners, a gold ring (a la the rings from Sonic the Hedgehog) zooms out, displaying a drone view of a church in Turin, Italy, with "Torino 2006" on the top-left. The first ring flies out, which leads to another ring, displaying a nighttime shot of a Chinese palace in Beijing, China, with the white text "Beijing 2008" on the top-left again. The ring then switches to the third ring, with a drone shot of a snowy mountain in Canada. There is another text at the bottom center, reading "Vancouver 2010" in blue. A fourth ring comes out, with a close-up of a clock face from Big Ben at noon with a text from the left reading "London 2012." Then, all the rings zoom out, including a fifth ring, transitioning to another room of Olympic banners. Between is the NBC Olympics logo in the middle, with the "America's Olympic Network" underneath the logo. Fireworks can be seen from the background. |
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'''Variant:''' There was a <u>copyright disclaimer variant</u>, where it starts with the camera zooming out from the NBC Olympics logo with vertical glass panes moving up on a dark room with lights and horizontal glass panes. The logo and the vertical glass panes slowly tilt to the right. Once the camera moves into a comfortable position, a black bar with the "This broadcast is presented by authority of the International Olympic Committee and may not be reproduced or retransmitted in any form without the expressed written consent of the International Olympic Committee." written in small caps. |
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'''Technique:''' CGI animation and live action by David Barton. |
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'''Audio:''' An abridged version of "Olympic Fanfare" by John Williams, accompanied by Hal Douglas saying, "Coming in February, Torino. Then, Beijing in 2008. Vancouver in 2010 and London in 2012. The Olympic legacy continues on NBC!" |
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=== {{Ordinal|10}} Logo (America's Olympic Network/Beijing 2008) (2008) === |
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<tabber> |
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<gallery mode="packed" heights="200"> |
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NBC Olympics (America's Olympic Network) (2008).png |
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NBC Olympics copyright disclaimer (2008).png|Copyright disclaimer |
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</gallery> |
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{{YouTube|id=SO4ssOYcjbA|id2=aDLhZ5raMJg}} |
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{{Vimeo|id=301312936}} |
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</tabber> |
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'''Visuals:''' On a blue-gold cloudy background with blue and yellow lines, an array of biconvex rectangles with clips of the past Summer Olympics with gold outlines zooms out. (If you look closely at the reflection, the NBC Olympics logo is seen before the logo is formed) Then, the NBC peacock spins to the left as the Olympic rings form. The base and the gold outlines also form. The "America's Olympic Network" also turns to the front, as the "Olympic" in "America's Olympic Network" extrudes out. |
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'''Variant:''' The <u>copyright disclaimer variant</u> has the NBC Olympics logo zooming out on a sunset cloudy background with yellow and red arcs with jagged squares (which look like the floor texture on the Great Wall of China). Some white text is scrolling in the background. Then there is a yellow-red biconvex message box that reads "This broadcast is presented by authority of the International Olympic Committee and may not be reproduced or retransmitted in any form without the expressed written consent of the International Olympic Committee." written in all caps and a narrow font. |
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'''Technique:''' CGI animation and live-action by David Barton. |
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'''Audio:''' An abridged version of "Olympic Fanfare" by John Williams. |
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'''Audio Variants:''' The <u>copyright disclaimer variant</u> has the male voiceover (which is the same voiceover heard in the NBC Sports NFL presentation IDs) saying "This program has been produced by NBCUniversal, in association with the International Olympic Committee and the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games." |
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=== {{Ordinal|11}} Logo (America's Olympic Network/Vancouver 2010) (2010)=== |
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<tabber> |
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<gallery mode="packed" heights="200"> |
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NBC Olympics (America's Olympic Network) (2010).png| |
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NBC Olympics copyright disclaimer (2010).png|Copyright disclaimer |
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</gallery> |
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Videos= |
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{{YouTube|id=oQGg47HpfDA|id2=M5-Tnjj2TJU}} |
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{{Vimeo|id=301511914}} |
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</tabber> |
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'''Visuals:''' Clips of the past Olympic Games zoom out on a black background into a blue video wall. Then, the NBC Olympics logo flies in from the bottom, with "America's Olympic Network" flying in while the letters spin. A white line appears between "America's" and "Olympic." |
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'''Variant:''' For the <u>copyright disclaimer variant</u>, The NBC Olympics logo zooms out to a comfortable position on a cloudy background with some blue diagonal lines. The marquee text "Vancouver 2010" can be seen from the right. Underneath the logo is |
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the International Olympic Committee copyright stamp. |
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'''Technique:''' CGI animation and live action by David Barton. |
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'''Audio:''' An abridged version of "Bulger's Dream" by Leo Arnaud, accompanied by a voiceover (also the same voiceover from the NFL presentation IDs for NBC Sports) saying "...encore presentation of NBC's primetime coverage of the 21st Olympic Winter Games." |
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'''Audio Trivia:''' "Bulger's Dream" by Leo Arnaud was used as an Olympic theme for [[ABC Sports]] from the 1960s until 1988 when ABC transferred the rights to NBC for the Summer Olympics, and CBS for the Winter Olympics. |
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'''Audio Variant:''' For the <u>copyright disclaimer variant</u>, it has an abridged version of "Olympic Fanfare" by John Williams with a voiceover saying "This program has been produced by NBCUniversal, in association with the International Olympic Committee and the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games." |
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=== {{Ordinal|12}} Logo (America's Olympic Network/London 2012) (2012)=== |
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<tabber> |
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<gallery mode="packed" heights="200"> |
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NBC_Olympics_2012.jpeg| |
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NBC Olympics copyright disclaimer (2012).png|Copyright disclaimer |
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</gallery> |
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Videos= |
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{{YouTube|id=MUd-cMk9FKA|id2=Azi8m7THwJg}} |
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{{Vimeo|id=301524056}} |
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</tabber> |
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'''Visuals:''' There is a glassy right triangle with the "London 2012" in the ITC Lubalin Graph font appearing with lines of the Union Jack zooming in over clips of the past Summer Olympic Games. A stack of text can be seen at the right, reading the past Summer Olympic Games in a city and year format. Then, diagonal lines transition to multiple glass panels displaying Summer Olympics clips zooming out over a cloudy sky atmosphere. A glass panel (also a part of the Union Jack) is at the bottom. The NBC Olympics logo zooms out, surrounded by glass panels with horizontal text reading "AMERICA'S OLYMPIC NETWORK" set in ITC Lubalin Graph. |
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'''Variants:''' |
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* An alternate variant has glass panels of the Summer Olympics clips replaced with the NBC Olympics (without the base and the NBC wordmark), Bravo, [[Telemundo]], [[NBCSN|NBC Sports Network]], [[CNBC]], [[MSNBC]], and NBCOlympics.com logos. |
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* On most occasions, the "London 2012" in the beginning is changed to "Beijing 2008" with the clip of the 2008 Summer Olympics highlights. |
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* On a <u>copyright disclaimer variant</u>, some glass lines, which are meant to be parts of the Union Jack, are seen in a cloudy sky atmosphere. A faint skyline of London can be seen before the logo is seen. In which the camera spins to appear the NBC Olympics logo with the marquee texts "London 2012" and "Games of the XXX Olympiad" appearing behind the logo. Once the logo reaches a comfortable position, the International Olympic Committee copyright stamp appears via the Union Jack lines. |
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'''Technique:''' CGI animation and live action by David Barton. |
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'''Audio:''' An abridged version of "Bulger's Dream" by Leo Arnaud with audio from commentators and cheering. |
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'''Audio Variant:''' On a <u>copyright disclaimer variant</u>, it has the abridged version of "Olympic Fanfare" by John Williams, accompanied by a male announcer saying "This broadcast is presented by authority of the International Olympic Committee and may not be reproduced or retransmitted in any form without the expressed written consent of the International Olympic Committee." |
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=== {{Ordinal|13}} Logo (America's Olympic Network/Rio 2016) (2016)=== |
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<tabber>Image=[[File:NBC Olympics (America's Olympic Network) (2016).png|center|400px]]|-|Video={{YouTube|id=LWtg1ApYDns}}</tabber> |
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'''Visuals:''' A random clip from the 2012 Summer Olympics in London appears with blue-gold-green (representing the Brazilian flag's colors) moving arcs from the right side. A text of the past Olympic Games can be seen on the arcs. The organic shapes transition to the silver NBC Olympics logo with a collage of past Olympic Games clips, in which the camera zooms out. Then "America's Olympic Network" wipes in. |
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'''Technique:''' CGI computer animation and live action by David Barton. |
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'''Audio:''' An abridged version of "Bulger's Dream" by Leo Arnaud with audio from commentators and cheering. |
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=== {{Ordinal|14}} Logo (Home of the Olympics/PyeongChang 2018) (2018)=== |
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<tabber>Image=[[File:NBC Olympics (Home of the Olympics) (2018).png|center|400px]]|-|Videos={{YouTube|id=5pO_LdYZ-pk}}</tabber> |
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'''Visuals:''' A drone shot of a snowy mountain in South Korea flies by with the other mountains visible far away. The live-action footage fades to a background of photos of Olympic athletes from the past Winter Olympic games, appearing both at left and right. There is a glass-rendered NBC Olympics logo shining while zooming in slowly. Then the photos fade to the blue background of mountains and hills with the blue-silver NBC Olympics logo. The "Home of the Olympics" appears underneath the NBC Olympics logo. |
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'''Technique:''' CGI computer animation and live action by David Barton. |
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'''Audio:''' An abridged version of "Summon the Heroes" by John Williams. |
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=== {{Ordinal|15}} Logo (Home of the Olympics) (July 23-August 8, 2021, February 4-20, 2022)=== |
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<tabber> |
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<gallery mode=packed heights=200> |
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NBC Olympics (Home of the Olympics) (2021).png|Tokyo 2020 variant |
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NBC Olympics (copyright disclaimer) (2021).png|Tokyo 2020/Copyright disclaimer (2021) |
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NBC Olympics (Home of the Olympics) (2022).png|Beijing 2022 variant |
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</gallery> |
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{{YouTube|id=iEY0JsJcfJM|id2=-YB35A-u3tA|id3=cvqy3lENkdI}} |
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</tabber> |
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'''Visuals:''' An extreme close-up of the gold NBC peacock appears with the past Summer Olympics clips being overlayed. The feathers from the NBC peacock move backward slowly. The camera cuts to three different positions of the NBC peacock with more clips. Then the golden rings fly in as the NBC Olympics logo (in gold) fades in on a blue background. The logo then centers in and moves to the top. The letters "Home of the Olympics" spin to the front, underneath the NBC Olympics logo. |
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'''Variants:''' |
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* A <u>copyright disclaimer variant</u> has the International Olympic Committee copyright stamp instead of "Home of the Olympics." The logo starts when the rings form the Olympic rings. |
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* There was the <u>2022 Winter Olympics variant</u>, in which the Summer Olympics clips were replaced with Winter Olympics clips. The background is brighter, and the NBC Olympics logo is now silver. Some snows are falling throughout the logo. |
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'''Technique:''' CGI computer animation and live action by David Barton. |
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'''Audio:''' An abridged version of "Summon the Heroes" by John Williams with commentators and audience cheering and a whoosh when the NBC Olympics logo zooms out. |
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'''Audio Variants:''' |
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* The copyright disclaimer variant has an abridged version of "Olympic Fanfare" by John Williams, accompanied by a male voiceover saying, "This broadcast is presented by the authority of the International Olympic CommitteeA and may not be reproduced or retransmitted in any form without the expressed written consent of the International Olympic Committee." |
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* The <u>2022 Winter Olympics variant</u> has twinkle sounds with different commentators corresponding to the Winter Olympics. |
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=== {{Ordinal|16}} Logo (Paris 2024) (July 26-August 11, 2023) === |
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[[File:NBC Olympics (copyright disclaimer) (2024).png|400px|center]] |
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'''Visuals:''' A panning shot of the Arc de Triomphe with light particles at night is seen. The Arc de Triomphe shot cuts to the Louvre Museum. The camera zooms out to see the glass pyramid, as it comes in focus from the museum. Then into the close-up shot of the Eiffel Tower with more light particles, which the camera zooms out from. The text "The Games of the XXXIII Olympiad" is in the Eiffel Tower's middle structure. Then a far shot of the said landmark to get a clear shot of Parc du Champ de Mars with a white lens flare at the top of the Eiffel Tower. Then the "The Games of the XXXIII Olympiad" fades out and the NBC Paris 2024 logo in a brass texture zooms out as the white flare brightens. Once the NBC Paris 2024 logo comes into view, the International Olympic Committee copyright stamp appears underneath it. |
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'''Technique:''' CGI animation done by Imaginary Forces. |
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'''Audio:''' A cinematic rendition of "Olympic Fanfare" by John Williams with a female voiceover saying "This broadcast is presented by authority of the International Olympic Committee and may not be reproduced or retransmitted without expressed written consent of the International Olympic Committee." |
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==NFL Presentation== |
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=== {{Ordinal|1}} Logo (September 10, 2006-January 5, 2008) === |
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<tabber>Image=[[File:NBC Sports (NFL presentation) (2006).png|400px|center]]|-|Video={{YouTube|id=IH1vZCTO5xY}}</tabber> |
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'''Visuals:''' A lens flare lightens in to see the close-up of the NBC peacock and the NBC wordmark rotate in the X and Y-axes. It flashes to another angle of the NBC Sports logo rotating. Then another angle of the NBC Sports logo is seen as it flies to the left. Then the logo moves back to a comfortable distance as the logo rotates to a low angle on a dark background with a honeycomb pattern. The shapes have the same honeycomb texture, and the logo is wiped. It then brightens. As the shapes clear the NBC Sports logo, parts of the pre-2008 NFL logo are seen before being formed. The stars from the NFL logo fly in and the football on the logo also zooms out. Once the shapes fly away from the screen, the NFL logo is seen from the bottom-right angle on the same dark background, but there are black and white bars with distance indicators coming from the bottom right corner. |
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'''Technique:''' 3D computer animation by Troika Design Group. |
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'''Audio:''' The 2003-2013 NFL theme. |
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'''Voiceover:''' A deep male voiceover saying the spiels in either: |
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* Opening: "NBC Sports welcomes you to the following presentation of the National Football League!" |
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* Closing: "NBC Sports thanks you for watching this presentation of the National Football League!" |
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=== {{Ordinal|2}} Logo (September 4, 2008-January 3, 2009) === |
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[[File:NBC Sports (NFL presentation) (2008).png|400px|center]] |
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'''Visuals:''' On a room of red and white glass hollow cylinders and semi-curves, the NBC Sports logo is inside the hollow cylinder in which it rotates. The camera is Dutch-angled. Stars are seen falling in the logo. The camera booms down and rolls to the right as the NBC Sports logo transitions to the Super Bowl XLIII logo with the NBC logo below with white intersecting shapes. As the camera moves down, the hollow cylinders clear the Super Bowl XLIII logo (which was designed by Landor) to make room for the NFL logo in a balcony-like high-tech room. The spheres that surround the NFL logo are seen spinning slowly. A gray metallic platform is seen underneath the NFL logo. Then the honeycomb-textured and solid metallic curves slide in. |
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'''Technique:''' 3D computer animation. |
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'''Audio:''' The 2003-2013 NFL theme. |
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'''Voiceover:''' The same deep male voiceover as the last, saying the spiels in either: |
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* Opening: "NBC Sports, home of Super Bowl 43, welcomes you to the following presentation of the National Football League!" |
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* Closing: "NBC Sports, home of Super Bowl 43, thanks you for watching this presentation of the National Football League!" |
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=== {{Ordinal|3}} Logo (February 1, 2009-January 4, 2014) === |
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<gallery mode="packed" heights="200"> |
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NBC Sports (NFL presentation) (2009).png|2009-2010 |
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NBC Sports (NFL presentation) (2011).png|2011 |
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NBC Sports (NFL presentation) (2012) (Super Bowl XLVI).png|Super Bowl XLVI variant (2012) |
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NBC Sports (NFL presentation) (2012).png|2012-14 |
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</gallery> |
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'''Visuals:''' The NBC Sports logo is surrounded by encircling stars, spheres, red and white hollow cylinders, and semi-curves on a dark blue background. The camera starts at the top-left angle and moves down throughout the presentation. When the camera moves down as the cylinders cover the NBC Sports logo, the NFL logo replaces the NBC Sports logo. The logo is in a room of stars surrounding it, a platform, a red hollow cylinder, and three tubes. The white flare brightens and dims from the top left corner of the NFL logo. If one looks closely, tiny stars are falling in the NFL logo from the top. |
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'''Variants:''' |
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* In <u>the 2011 NFL season</u>, the lighting and texture are completely different. The backlighting on the NBC Sports logo is removed and repositioned. The semi-curve from above rotates to the right before the NBC Sports logo crossfades to the Super Bowl XLVI logo via a white flare. In the end, the NFL logo gained a glossy texture with different sizing and positioning. There is a spotlight halo from the top. Plus, the camera moves very differently. |
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* The <u>Super Bowl XLVI variant</u> is the same as the 2011 variant, but the NBC Sports logo is redesigned to have a different lettering in "SPORTS" and "NBC" (set in a modified version of Gotham) and a different texture for the NBC peacock. The red hollow cylinders are changed to blue. The logos, except for NBC Sports, were swapped in different orders. The NFL is in the middle of the sequence and the Super Bowl XLVI logo is in the last. |
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* In <u>the 2012 and 2013 NFL seasons</u>, the 1989 NBC Sports logo was swapped for the 2012 logo. Like the Super Bowl XLVI variant, the red hollow cylinders are changed to blue. When the camera pans down to the NFL logo, a green floor (which looks like a football field) is placed underneath the cylinders. The spheres surrounding gained glow. Both the NBC Sports and the NFL logos moved slightly down. Once the camera moves down, there is a white flare that came from the Super Bowl XLVI and the 2011 variants. Also, there is a glow from the top left corner of the NFL logo. |
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* For <u> the 2012 and 2013 Pro Bowl variants</u>, it's the same as the Super Bowl XLVI variant, except the Super Bowl XLVI logo is replaced with the Pro Bowl logo used from 2011 and beyond. |
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'''Technique:''' 3D computer animation. |
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'''Audio:''' The 2003-2013 NFL theme. |
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'''Voiceover:''' The same deep male voiceover as the 1st and 2nd presentation IDs, saying the spiels in: |
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* 2009 (Super Bowl XLIII): |
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** Opening: "NBC Sports welcomes you to the following special presentation of the National Football League! Super Bowl 43!" |
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** Closing: "NBC Sports thanks you for watching this special presentation of the National Football League! Super Bowl 43!" |
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* 2009-10, 2012-14: |
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** Opening: "NBC Sports welcomes you to the following presentation of the National Football League!" |
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** Closing: "NBC Sports thanks you for watching this presentation of the National Football League!" |
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* 2011-12: |
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** Opening: "NBC Sports, home of Super Bowl 46, welcomes you to the following presentation of the National Football League!" |
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** Closing: "NBC Sports, home of Super Bowl 46, thanks you for watching this presentation of the National Football League!" |
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* 2012 (Super Bowl XLVI): |
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** Opening: "NBC Sports welcomes you to the following special presentation of the National Football League! Super Bowl 46!" |
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** Closing: "NBC Sports thanks you for watching this special presentation of the National Football League! Super Bowl 46!" |
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* 2012 (Pro Bowl): |
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** Opening: "NBC Sports welcomes you to the following presentation of the National Football League! The 2012 Pro Bowl!" |
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** Closing: "NBC Sports thanks you for watching this presentation of the National Football League! The 2012 Pro Bowl!" |
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* 2013 (Pro Bowl): |
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** Opening: "NBC Sports welcomes you to the following presentation of the National Football League! The 2013 Pro Bowl!" |
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** Closing: "NBC Sports thanks you for watching this presentation of the National Football League! The 2013 Pro Bowl!" |
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=== {{Ordinal|4}} Logo (September 4, 2014-January 10, 2015) === |
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[[File:NBC Sports (NFL presentation) (2014).png|400px|center]] |
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'''Visuals:''' Over the dark cloudy atmosphere, the NBC peacock rotates to the front as the feathers spin and fill colors. The outline of the NBC peacock fades in. As well as "NBC" fades in while rotating to the front letter by letter. It shines a glow when it is formed. Some curved glass panes surround the logo. The camera moves down. A curved glass pane spins around the NBC Sports logo, leading to the Super Bowl XLIX logo with a metallic rectangle with the 1986 horizontal NBC logo engraved onto it, over the atmosphere of the Monument Valley in Arizona. An orange lens flare moves to the top right when the curved glass pane spins. Then, another curved glass pane spins around the Super Bowl XLIX logo and proceeds to the NFL logo on a football stadium at night. The camera stops moving, and grass particles come in from the bottom. Both the Super Bowl XLIX and the NFL logos are seen spinning very slowly. |
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'''Technique:''' A mix of 3D computer animation and live-action. |
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'''Audio:''' The current NFL theme. |
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'''Voiceover:''' Same deep male voiceover from the last presentation IDs, saying the same spiels in either: |
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*Opening: "NBC Sports, home of Super Bowl 49, welcomes you to the following presentation of the National Football League!" |
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*Closing: "NBC Sports, home of Super Bowl 49, thanks you for watching this presentation of the National Football League!" |
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=== {{Ordinal|5}} Logo (February 1, 2015-January 13, 2018) === |
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<gallery mode="packed" heights="200"> |
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NBC Sports (NFL presentation) (2015) (Super Bowl XLIX).png|Super Bowl XLIX (2015) |
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NBC Sports (NFL presentation) (2015).png|2015-17 |
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NBC Sports (NFL presentation) (2015) (10 Years of SNF).png|10 Years of ''Sunday Night Football'' (2015) |
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</gallery> |
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'''Visuals:''' Over the cloudy atmosphere, the NBC Sports logo animates in the way from the last presentation intro. The camera moves from the left to the right. Then the camera gets closer to the bottom-right side of the NBC Sports logo, transitioning to the NFL logo over the football stadium with lens flares at night. There are some dirt and grass particles when it transitions. |
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'''Variants:''' |
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* For <u>the Super Bowl XLIX variant</u>, the cloudy atmosphere and the lighting in the NBC Sports logo are changed. The camera spins to the NFL logo with the stadium moving to the right. Then it spins to the Super Bowl XLIX logo with a metallic rectangle with the 1986 horizontal logo engraved onto it, over the Grand Canyon Nation Park in Arizona at sunset. |
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* The <u>2015 NFL season</u> has the gold NFL logo with lens flares colored in gold. |
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* The <u>10 Years of ''Sunday Night Football''</u> has a very different cloudy background from the Super Bowl XLIX and the regular variants. The NBC Sports logo animates faster. When the camera moves closer to the NBC Sports logo, it transitions to the ''NBC Sunday Night Football'' logo over the stadium lights. Surrounding the ''NBC Sunday Night Football'' logo are video clips of past Sunday Night Football games with metallic bracket-like frames. Then it proceeds to the gold NFL logo. |
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* For <u>2017 NFL season</u>, the beginning part is played faster. The camera moves and transitions to the Super Bowl LII logo with a metallic rectangle with the 1986 horizontal logo engraved onto it over a blue room with past Super Bowl logos with the marquee text "SUPER BOWL LII". Again, the camera then moves to the right. In which it transitions to the NFL logo. |
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'''Technique:''' A mix of 3D computer animation and live-action. |
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'''Audio:''' The current NFL theme. |
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'''Voiceover:''' The same voiceover from the last 4 presentation IDs, saying in: |
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*2015 (Super Bowl XLIX): |
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**Opening: "NBC Sports welcomes you to the following special presentation of the National Football League! Super Bowl 49!" |
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**Closing: "NBC Sports thanks you for watching this special presentation of the National Football League! Super Bowl 49!" |
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*2015-2017: |
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**Opening: "NBC Sports welcomes you to the following presentation of the National Football League!" |
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**Closing: "NBC Sports thanks you for watching this presentation of the National Football League!" |
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*2015 (10 Years of ''Sunday Night Football''): |
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**Opening: "Celebrating 10 years of ''Sunday Night Football''! NBC Sports welcomes you to the following presentation of the National Football League!" |
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**Closing: "Celebrating 10 years of ''Sunday Night Football''! NBC Sports thanks you for watching this presentation of the National Football League!" |
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*2017-2018: |
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**Opening: "NBC Sports, home of Super Bowl 52, welcomes you to the following presentation of the National Football League!" |
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**Closing: "NBC Sports, home of Super Bowl 52, thanks you for watching this presentation of the National Football League!" |
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=== {{Ordinal|6}} Logo (''Thursday Night Football'') (November 17, 2016-December 25, 2017) === |
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[[File:NBC Sports (NFL presentation) (2016) (Thursday Night Football).png|400px|center]] |
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'''Visuals:''' The NBC peacock is shown without the lighting. In which the NBC peacock and its feathers emit and gain light, like a lightbox. The NBC wordmark rotates while gaining light letter-by-letter in sync with the voiceover, with the "Sports" gaining a light. The NBC Sports logo is shown with lights illuminated on a dark background with blue-white-cyan lines flying downward to the horizon. Then it zooms out to see the NFL logo in a 20th Century Fox-esque angle. Behind the NFL logo are the same lines with an additional orange line flying upward. |
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'''Variant:''' The 2017 NFL season has the additional Super Bowl LII logo with a metallic rectangle with the 1986 horizontal NBC logo engraved onto it. In which the NBC Sports logo zooms out to see the Super Bowl LII logo. |
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'''Technique:''' 3D computer animation. |
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'''Audio:''' The current NFL theme, accompanied by whooshing sounds. |
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'''Voiceover:''' Same deep male voiceover, saying the same spiels in: |
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*2016: |
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**Opening: "NBC Sports welcomes you to the following presentation of the National Football League!" |
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**Closing: "NBC Sports thanks you for watching this presentation of the National Football League!" |
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*2017: |
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**Opening: "NBC Sports, home of Super Bowl 52, welcomes you to the following presentation of the National Football League!" |
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**Closing: "NBC Sports, home of Super Bowl 52, thanks you for watching this presentation of the National Football League!" |
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=== {{Ordinal|7}} Logo (February 4, 2018-January 12, 2019) === |
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[[File:NBC Sports (NFL presentation) (2018).png|400px|center]] |
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'''Visuals:''' Against the dark abstract metallic background with structures looking like deconstructivist architecture, several lines form the hexagonal shape pattern in the NBC peacock feathers. Five stacked metallic outlines and the outline of the NBC peacock logo also form. The camera cuts to a close-up shot of the NBC Sports logo forming. In which the camera moves down. The "NBC" wordmark is revealed underneath the NBC peacock, which it expands from the bottom to the top. The camera then comfortably shows the NBC Sports logo, as the "Sports" retrogrades to place underneath the "NBC". Underneath the NBC Sports logo is a blue flare traveling to the left. There is a faint blue glow at the top-left corner. Which dims after the NBC Sports logo spins. Then the NBC Sports logo spins to proceed to the NFL logo (the blue part has a hexagonal pattern made with lines) with a blue glow surrounding it, and the confetti falls over the NFL logo. Once before the NFL logo spins to the front, it cuts to a close-up shot of the NFL logo. In which the stars in the NFL logo spin counter-clockwise once. It cuts back to the NFL logo in a comfortable view. |
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'''Variant:''' The <u>Super Bowl LII variant</u> has the NBC Sports logo animation sped up at the speed level of the blue flare. The confetti that falls over the NFL logo is excluded. It cuts to an extreme close-up of the NFL logo, which deforms the shield via vertical lines sliding down. The stars in the NFL logo spin clockwise and disappear away, leaving the metallic football and the NFL lettering. As the football and the NFL lettering starts to spin, it forms the Super Bowl LII logo. The camera moves to the back view of the NFL logo/front view of the Super Bowl LII logo. The "NFL" morphs into the "LII", while the football transforms into a Vince Lombardi trophy. The white-blue metallic biconvex rectangle fades in. The "SUPER BOWL", placed on a blue part of the box, appears letter-by-letter. Then, a metallic biconvex box with the chiseled 1986 horizontal NBC logo slides down, similarly to the Microsoft PowerPoint "Peek In" effect. |
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'''Technique:''' 3D computer animation. |
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'''Audio:''' The current NFL theme. |
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'''Voiceover:''' The same NBC Sports deep male voiceover, saying the same spiels in: |
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*Super Bowl LII: |
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**Opening: "NBC Sports welcomes you to the following special presentation of the National Football League! Super Bowl 52!" |
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**Closing: "NBC Sports thanks you for watching this special presentation of the National Football League! Super Bowl 52!" |
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*Regular: |
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**Opening: "NBC Sports welcomes you to the following presentation of the National Football League!" |
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**Closing: "NBC Sports thanks you for watching this presentation of the National Football League!" |
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=== {{Ordinal|8}} Logo (September 5, 2019-January 11, 2020) === |
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[[File:NBC Sports (NFL presentation) (2019).png|400px|center]] |
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'''Visuals:''' Inside a neo-futurist chamber with curved line structures (all painted in white, red, and blue at the bottoms) and a bright window at the roof, the NBC Sports logo animates like the last presentation ID, except the outlines of the NBC peacock and the "NBC" are made of glossy plastic. Behind it is a curvy structure and below it are four white platforms stacked atop each other. The camera zooms out from the NBC Sports logo and spins to the back of the curvy structure, revealing the NFL 100 logo. Once the NFL 100 logo is shown to the camera, archived pictures of NFL games appear from afar. |
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'''Technique:''' 3D computer animation. |
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'''Audio:''' The NFL 100 presentation theme composed by David Robidoux. |
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'''Voiceover:''' The same NBC Sports male voiceover, saying the spiels in either: |
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*Opening: "NBC Sports welcomes you to the following presentation of the National Football League! Celebrating 100 seasons!" |
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*Closing: "NBC Sports thanks you for watching this presentation of the National Football League! Celebrating 100 seasons!" |
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=== {{Ordinal|9}} Logo (September 10, 2020-January 16, 2021) === |
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<gallery mode="packed" heights="200"> |
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NBC Sports (NFL presentation) (2020).png|Regular |
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NBC Sports (NFL presentation) (2020) (15 Seasons of Sunday Night Football).png|15 Seasons of ''Sunday Night Football'' (2020) |
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</gallery> |
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'''Visuals:''' The NBC Sports logo animates like the last 2 presentation IDs, except the "Sports" remained in place. The camera zooms away from the NBC Sports logo to see clips of old ''Sunday Night Football'' games displayed on walls with supports. When the camera moves up, the numerical "15" with handrails around the border is revealed with the NBC Sunday Night Football logo above it. The bottom base of the Sunday Night Football slides down as the NFL logo tilts to the front. The "''SEASONS''" is shown at the bottom right of the big tile in the middle. Beyond the tiles are portraits of football quarterbacks of each respective football team. Then, the tiles of football quarterbacks flip to monochromatic football team logos corresponding to each quarterback. The big tile flips to the NFL logo, and the stars in the NFL logo spin once. |
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'''Variant:''' The <u>regular variant</u> starts with a close-up of the NBC Sports logo, with some clips of old ''Sunday Night Football'' games changed differently. The "1" structure is reflected. When the camera zooms up, the NFL logo replaces the "15 Seasons of Sunday Night Football" logo. In which the base in the NFL logo closes. The portraits of quarterbacks in the tiles are removed. Plus, the lighting at the end is different. |
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'''Technique:''' A mix of 3D computer animation and live-action. |
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'''Audio:''' The current NFL theme. |
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'''Voiceover:''' The same NBC Sports male voiceover, saying the spiels in: |
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*15 Seasons of Sunday Night Football |
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**Opening: "NBC Sports, celebrating 15 seasons of ''Sunday Night Football'', welcomes you to the following presentation of the National Football League!" |
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**Closing: "NBC Sports, celebrating 15 seasons of ''Sunday Night Football'', thanks you for watching this presentation of the National Football League!" |
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*Regular: |
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**Opening: "NBC Sports welcomes you to the following presentation of the National Football League!" |
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**Closing: "NBC Sports thanks you for watching this presentation of the National Football League!" |
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=== {{Ordinal|10}} Logo (September 9, 2021-January 23, 2022) === |
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'''Visuals:''' Inside the hexagonal tunnel with years since 2006, light tubes around the hexagonal shape, and some clips of ''Sunday Night Football'' on the sides, the hexagonal platform with the NBC Sports logo (sans the NBC wordmark) rises. The outline of the NBC peacock gains light. As the platform grows, the camera pans back while rotating to the right. When the platform gets closer to the camera, it cuts to a Tron-like room with video walls of SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California (the host stadium for Super Bowl LVI in 2022) with a dark violet-dark blue gradient background with the "SUPER BOWL LVI" text (the LVI is rotated to the right) and behind them is another video wall of palm trees over the beaches at Southern California with the same "SUPER BOWL LVI" text from the SoFi Stadium video walls, except "Super Bowl LVI" is rotated horizontally and next to "SUPER BOWL LVI" is another text saying "LOS ANGELES". When the hexagonal platform reaches a Tron-like hologram base, it generates a hologram render of the Super Bowl LVI logo with the 2018 horizontal NBC logo, then the solid render, and the solid floor changes to a glossy floor, via the octagonal patterns. Then the Super Bowl LVI logo transforms into the NFL logo in the same texture as above, via the football part of the Vince Lombardi trophy. The Super Bowl LVI logo slides to the position of the NFL wording. As the Super Bowl LVI logo transforms into the NFL logo, the video walls transition to the logos of the NFL conferences with team logos in between. The logos of the American Football Conference (Red) is at the left, and the logos of the National Football Conference (Blue) is at the right. The end product has the camera set in a Dutch angle. |
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'''Technique:''' A mix of 3D computer animation and live-action. |
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'''Audio:''' The current NFL theme. |
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'''Voiceover:''' A different normal-sounding male voiceover saying the spiels in either: |
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* Opening: "NBC Sports, home of Super Bowl 56, welcomes you to the following presentation of the National Football League!" |
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* Closing: "NBC Sports, home of Super Bowl 56, thanks you for watching this presentation of the National Football League!" |
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=== {{Ordinal|11}} Logo (February 13, 2022-) === |
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'''Visuals:''' The NBC peacock is seen without the colored feathers. In which the camera zooms out. Then the colored feathers appear via triangles. The camera angle changes to a bottom-left view to get a clear view of the current NBC Sports logo in an irregular blue LED light tunnel. Zooming out of the NBC Sports logo, it cuts to 6 glass panels displaying either some football players or archived games of ''Sunday Night Football''. Venetian blinds-like vertical panels are between the glass panels with cyan LED lights. There is an LED light tunnel far behind the glass panels. The camera zooms out and crossfades to the NFL logo via the white base in a dark neo-futurist chamber with blue LED lights going up. The stars in the NFL logo spin like the previous presentation IDs. Once the NFL logo is seen at a comfortable distance, monochromatic NFL team logos are displayed below. |
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'''Variants:''' |
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* A <u>Telemundo Deportes variant</u> exists. In which the [[Telemundo Deportes]] logo replaces the NBC Sports logo. |
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* For <u>the Super Bowl LVI variant</u>, a metallic outline of the NBC peacock logo appears. Then the peacock feathers grow in size. The way that the LED light tunnel is turned on is different, in that the lights are turned on from behind to the front. The light tunnel is blurred to focus on the NBC Sports logo. The glass panels are reduced to four, displaying clips of the past Super Bowl games NBC broadcasted since XLIII. Also, the vertical panels are narrowed down to include a roof. The camera zooms out, as it fades to the NFL logo placed on a Vince Lombardi trophy. The NFL lettering moves back to place to the shield as the stars spin. When the camera zooms out, the NFL logo becomes monochromatic. The camera cuts to the top-left angle of the Super Bowl LVI logo, then at the front angle over the Los Angeles skyline at night. The Super Bowl LVI logo with the 2018 horizontal NBC logo underneath it, is seen floating over the platform with searchlights. |
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* The <u>closing variant of the Super Bowl LVI variant</u> has the NFL logo instead of the Super Bowl LVI logo, just like the regular presentation ID. |
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* Some monochromatic NFL team logos are inverted in <u> the 2023 NFL season</u>. Plus, the blue halo surrounding the NFL logo is absent and the 1974 Chicago Bears logo is replaced with a "Bear Head" logo, due to the Bears adopting it as a primary logo. |
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* The New York Jets logo is changed to the wordmark logo used from 1978 until 1997 in <u>the 2024 NFL season</u>. |
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'''Technique:''' A mix of 3D computer animation and live-action. |
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'''Audio:''' The current NFL theme. |
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'''Voiceovers:''' |
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*2022-present: A deep male voiceover that sounded unlike the one from 2006 until 2020. |
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**Opening: "NBC Sports welcomes you to the following presentation of the National Football League!" |
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**Closing: "NBC Sports thanks you for watching this presentation of the National Football League!" |
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*2022 (Super Bowl LVI): A normal-sounding male voiceover. |
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**Opening: "NBC Sports welcomes you to the following special presentation of the National Football League! Super Bowl 56!" |
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**Closing: "NBC Sports thanks you for watching this special presentation of the National Football League! Super Bowl 56!" |
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*Telemundo Deportes: A Spanish female voiceover. |
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**Opening: "¡Telemundo Deportes te dan la bienvenida a una presentación de la NFL!" |
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**Closing: "¡Esta fue la presentación de Telemundo Deportes de la NFL!" |
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== External Links == |
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* {{Wikipedia link|NBC Sports}} |
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* [https://www.nbcsports.com/ Official website] |
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NBC Sports is the commercial broadcast network's American sports programming division NBC. Which is responsible for sports broadcasts of diverse sports events, including the Olympics, the Premier League, motorsport events, Notre Dame Football, professional golf, Tour de France, thoroughbred horse racing, and NFL's Sunday Night Football. NBC Sports can be traced back to May 17, 1939, when experimental television station W2XBS in New York (currently known as WNBC) televised a college baseball game between the Columbia Lions and the Princeton Tigers. Then later in 1939, W2XBS televised a boxing match between Max Baer and Lou Nova at Madison Square Garden, a doubleheader between the Cincinnati Reds and Brooklyn Dodgers (now relocated and currently known as the Los Angeles Dodgers) from Ebbets Field, and a professional football game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Brooklyn Dodgers of the National Football League. The firsts for the respective sports. During the time, with the rights of the NFL, NBA, Major League Baseball, and the Olympics, NBC Sports adopted the slogan of "America's Sports Leader".
In 1950, NBC Sports became the exclusive broadcaster of the World Series, which would last for 26 straight years. NBC began telecasting Game of the Week in 1957 and would televise Saturday afternoon baseball games for the next three decades. NBC Sports expanded its lineup to include the NBA, college football, and the NFL, as well as championship events. In 1964, CBS took over the broadcasting rights to the NFL, including the championship game. The following year, NBC gained the broadcasting rights to the American Football League. Since the completion of the merger, NBC Sports broadcasts games from the American Football Conference. In 1969, NBC broadcasted college basketball, including the NCAA tournament. In 1972, NBC secured the rights to broadcast the National Hockey League from CBS until 2021. During the 1980s, the network was mired in third place in ratings, but in sports television, the ratings were valuable for NBC. In 1985, NBC acquired the broadcasting rights of the Summer Olympics from ABC for the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, and beyond. NBC and ABC were outbid by CBS for the Major League Baseball broadcasting rights in December 1988, which ended NBC's baseball tenure after 43 years.
After CBS snatched MLB broadcasting rights from NBC, the network obtained the rights to broadcast the NBA in 1990. One year later, NBC agreed to the broadcasting rights to Notre Dame football games, the first for an individual college football team, in a $38 million deal. After a four-year hiatus in 1994, NBC returned to air Major League Baseball as part of a joint venture with ABC called "The Baseball Network", a broadcasting agreement in which the baseball league produced its telecasts with NBC and ABC. NBC continued to air baseball until 2000. In 1998, CBS secured the AFC package rights from NBC, resulting in NBC to an end with the 38-year tenure with the NFL. During the 2000s, NBC declined to renew its agreement with Major League Baseball. The network also experimented with broadcasting sports, as NBC obtained the rights to the XFL, the Arena Football League, and NASCAR. In 2004, the network reached an agreement with the National Hockey League. The NFL returned to NBC in 2006 after an eight-year layoff, under the new flagship 'Sunday Night Football' game. On March 18, 2013, all operations of NBC Sports and its sports television network NBCSN began to relocate to a purpose-built facility in Stanford, Connecticut. After the 2020-21 NHL season, NBC ended its contract with the National Hockey League, with new contracts from ESPN and TNT. NBC Sports ceased NBCSN on New Year's Eve of 2021, with its remaining programming rights moved to USA Network and Peacock.
Visuals: Over a starfield, the colorful neon lines form the peacock feathers. The lines move back and flash to the NBC peacock logo, then the Trapezoid "N". When the NBC logo forms, it moves upward along with the white "NBC Sports" outlined. The copyright stamp appears underneath the logo.
Technique: Scanimate.
Audio: The abridged NBC's "Our Pride is Showing" campaign song with Les Marshak saying "This has been a presentation of NBC Sports, the leader in innovative sports television."
Visuals: Over a different starfield, the NBC peacock with yellow “chaser” lights over the peacock, and the outline zooms out, then the peacock moves to the left along with the abstract N coming from the top-left and the bottom-right corners and the “NBC Sports” in ITC Serif Gothic slides from the right. Sparkles appear, and the NBC Sports logo zooms out and then it zooms back in rapidly. The copyright stamp appears underneath the logo.
Technique: Scanimate.
Audio: A trumpet fanfare rendition of the NBC chimes with a drumroll which leads to the six-note synth, then finishing with a whoosh, with a different voiceover saying "This has been a presentation of NBC Sports, the leader in innovative sports television."
Visuals: On a black background, the NBC logo flies in from the right while the logo rotates clockwise. When the NBC logo got into the center, the logo moved vertically to see the logo in front. Then the white “NBC Sports” fades in at the bottom of the NBC logo.
Technique: CGI animation by Cranston/Csuri Productions.
Audio: A triumph fanfare with an abridged version of NBC’s “Let’s All Be There” campaign song with Les Marshak saying “Programs regularly scheduled at this time will not be seen tonight, so that we may bring you the following NBC Sports special.”
Visuals: A drone shot of three “NBC Sports” Windross trucks are seen driving over in snowy mountains. Then it cross-fades to the far view of two “NBC Sports” Windross trucks in the same snowy mountains. The copyright stamp appears underneath the logo.
Technique: Live-action.
Audio: A triumph fanfare with an abridged version of NBC’s “Let’s All Be There” campaign song with a different voiceover saying "This has been a presentation of NBC Sports, the leader in innovative sports television.".
Visuals: A red mound flies up, then rainbow colors spread out. The head of the peacock swings in, and then the mounds spreads to the peacock feathers. The peacock backs away with the color shine behind it, then the NBC wordmark with the “SPORTS” below it flies in. The logo turns into 2D when the logo moves back.
Variants:
Technique: CGI animated by Pacific Data Images.
Audio:
Audio Variants:
Visuals: On a dark gray background, the "NBC" in a different Futura typeface (unlike NBC's proprietary font, NBC Futura) flies in from the left. Then the rainbow feathers swing in and spread into the peacock. The cursive yellow "Sports" is written on. Five red streaks also fly to the right behind the "NBC" and the logo shines with light rays. The camera pans from the right to the left.
Variants:
Technique: CGI.
Audio: The six-note trumpet tune with Hal Douglas saying "This is the NBC television network."
Audio Variants:
Visuals: A clip of a basketball player from the Phoenix Suns making buckets appears while sliding slowly to the right on a black background with a red square, silver sphere, and a red outline basketball. It cuts to a clip of a female athlete jumping behind with a background of yellow, green, and red curves. Which also cuts to two Olympic athletes watching the Olympic flame scatter. On the left is also a clip of an Olympic cauldron lit up by an Olympic flame (which was taken from the opening ceremony of the 1992 Summer Olympics) at Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys in Barcelona, Spain. On the right are the two clips. The first is a Paralympic archer Antonio Rebollo, aiming at the Olympic cauldron with a flaming arrow. The second is a fireworks display, which was placed from the top-right. It cuts to a clip of a tennis player serving and fades to the same player with a trophy on a black background with a blue target, a yellow curve, and some horizontal lines. Following that, on a black background with green rectangles and some Xs and Os, there is a clip of a football player from the Kansas City Chiefs. There is also a whistle with an upside-down NBC peacock embossed on the top surface swinging to the right. Once it got to a blue glassy globe, a clip of a female figure skater appeared on the far left, with a white silhouette of a figure skater and a yellow curve orbiting around the blue globe. Then the clip changes to various clips of golf sports with white rectangles, and it cuts to the 1989 NBC Sports logo (albeit the NBC wordmark is in blue and the cursive Sports is in white) rotates to the front. An orange curve and a grayscale crowd are appearing as well. The globe starts to spin. A copyright stamp appears underneath the logo.
Logo Variants:
Technique: 2D and CGI animation with live-action.
Audio: A majestic trumpet fanfare, with NBC chimes in the middle, accompanied by a voiceover saying "In a new world, a new standard of excellence, NBC Sports".
Visuals: The NBC peacock moves back as it rotates from the top-right angle to the front angle. The NBC wordmark (in Futura) flies in and moves below the NBC peacock. Then, the cursive "Sports" is written on it, and it also flies in.
Variant: The closing variant has the "Sports" in red and it's stretched. In which it rotates from the bottom-left angle to the front angle. The texture of the NBC Sports logo is different. The "Sport" removes the write-on effect.
Technique: 3D CGI animation.
Audio: None.
Availability: Can be seen on NBC Sports Video releases, such as The Albert Achievement Awards and World Champions on Ice.
Visuals:
Variants:
Technique: CGI animation and live-action for the closing.
Audio:
Audio Variant: The NBA on NBC broadcasts have the NBA theme "Roundball Rock" by John Tesh (which was reused by Fox Sports in 2018 as a theme for Fox College Hoops) accompanied by Jim Fagan saying "You're watching NBA on NBC!"
Legacy: The NBA on NBC theme was well-received amongst basketball fans.
Visuals:
America's
Sports
Leader
all centered with lines stacked to each word zooms in slowly. Then the white translucent text is shown zooming in faster than usual. And the CGI-rendered NBC Sports logo flies in while fading in.
Variants:
Technique: A mix of 2D and CGI animation.
Audio:
Audio Variant:
Visuals: Different variants for each sport are used:
Technique: CGI.
Audio:
Visuals: The 3D-rendered NBC Sports logo, tilted slightly to the left with a drop shadow, is on a glossy basketball court. The outside border of the basketball court is blue, and the outlines are in white.
Technique: A still, computer-generated graphic.
Audio: None.
Availability: It can be seen on NBA Showtime: NBA on NBC for the Dreamcast, PlayStation, Nintendo 64, and in Arcade.
Visuals:
Variants:
Technique: A mix of CGI animation with live-action.
Audio: Depends on every sport:
Audio Variant: The Olympics variant has "Summon The Heroes" by John Williams, with an announcer saying, "You watching NBC. Through the next decade, America's Olympic Network."
Visuals: The 1993 Historical ID is seen. Once the 1986 NBC peacock was formed, it crossfades to the NBC Sports logo on a black-grey blue background with yellow light streaks forming the "Sports" in NBC Sports. Then, it crossfades to the NFL copyright ID used from 2008 to 2013, but the difference is that the 1940 NFL logo was replaced with the 1962 one, and the 1983 logo morphs into the 2008 one quickly. The National Football League copyright stamp is absent. It then fades to the big metallic "70TH" and the "ANNIVERSARY" underneath it, with the 2008 NFL shield and the NBC peacock (with gradients on the peacock feathers, which is a variant for the NFL on NBC) logos on a gray background. A faint orange flare is seen from the number 7 in "70TH".
Technique: CGI animation.
Audio: The NBC chimes, then a triumph fanfare played by a brass band, accompanied by a deep male voiceover saying "You watching NBC. Celebrating our 70th anniversary with the National Football League."
Visuals: There is the NBC Sunday Night Football logo on a high-technology room with fireworks outside at a Dutch angle. The camera moves to the right of the NBC Sunday Night Football logo to reveal a video wall of Sunday Night Football clips. There is the NBC peacock logo placed on a wall in the background. A blue flash lightens in, transitioning to more video clips of Sunday Night Football. One landscape video wall at the left, and one portrait video wall at the right. It cuts to a clip of former Sunday Night Football play-by-play commentators (Al Michaels, etc.), in which the camera zooms out to a comfortable position. Then another blue flash lightens in, into yet another video wall of a Super Bowl XLIII clip. The camera zooms out to see the 3D-rendered NBC Sports logo.
Technique: A mix of 3D animation and live-action.
Audio: A rock guitar rendition of the NBC chimes, then the 2009 Sunday Night Football theme (which is a remix of "Wide Receiver" by John Williams debuted for Super Bowl XLIII with some rock elements onto it) is heard with play-by-play commentators, Al Michaels and John Madden. A male voiceover, known for its NFL presentation IDs, says "Sunday Night Football returns, with the biggest games, the brightest stars, and the best team. Only on NBC!"
Visuals: There is a clip of the 2009 Stanley Cup Final (where the Pittsburgh Penguins won the Stanley Cup), then it cuts to a CGI ice rink in a cloudy sky atmosphere. It zooms out to see more ice hockey players from the Detroit Red Wings and the Pittsburgh Penguins. The NBC peacock and the NHL shield logos can be seen on the sign of an ice rink wall. The ice particles come in from the left, which leads to the Kentucky Derby clip. The Kentucky Derby clip cuts to a golf player shooting a hole-in-one on a CGI golf course. The camera zooms out to see the pole as the golf ball gets in the distance. In a CGI golf course, there are trees, a lake, and some bunkers in the environment. The CGI golf course cuts to clips of The Players Championship, Preakness Stakes, the French Open, the U.S. Open, and Wimbledon. There is the NBC Sports Championship Season logo at the bottom-left, which is slightly close to the center. Then it flashes to reveal a close-up of a tennis court, a golf course, an ice rink, a clay court, another golf course, and a horse racing track on peacock feathers. The camera pans back and sports surfaces change to the rainbow NBC peacock logo. Then the NBC wordmark (in Futura) flies in, as well as the "CHAMPIONSHIP" also flying in while the letters move down letter by letter with the "SEASON" below. The yellow "Sports" is written in. The finished product is on a cloudy background.
Variant: A short variant for the Stanley Cup Finals exists. Here, is a clip of Day 7 of the 2009 Stanley Cup Finals where the Pittsburgh Penguins won the Stanley Cup against the Detroit Red Wings. Then it cuts to the same CGI ice rink. The other sports are replaced with the NBC Sports logo forming.
Technique: A mixture of CGI and live-action.
Audio: A male announcer saying "You watching the Stanley Cup Finals.", with some audio from play-by-play commentators and some whooshes. Then at the end, a male voiceover from the beginning says "Part of NBC Sports Championship Season." The music is an alternative rock song called "All These Heroes Coming Gold."
Audio Variant: For the short variant for the Stanley Cup Finals, Mike Emrick is heard saying "And the Penguins have won the Stanley Cup!" (from a clip of Day 7 of the 2009 Stanley Cup Finals), then a male voiceover saying "You watching the Stanley Cup Finals. Part of NBC Sports Championship Season."
Visuals: The camera zooms out to show glass panels displaying footage of Super Bowl XLVI coverage (with the Vince Lombardi trophy presentation to the New York Giants after the Super Bowl victory and a close-up of Justin Tuck) with yellow neon tube lights (which lights up) over the football field in a daytime environment. The camera moves to the right, leading to more glass panels displaying footage of the PGA Tour on a green golfing field with green neon tubes this time. The camera also moves to the left, this time, it's the yellow neon tubes with glass panels showing the Breeder's Cup footage over a horse racing track in a sunset environment. The dirt particles from the horse racing track come in, which transition to red neon tubes with glass panels with the 2012 Stanley Cup Finals footage (where the Los Angeles Kings won the championships) over an ice rink inside the indoor arena. Then the camera moves to blue neon tubes with Michael Phelps swimming and screaming (possibly because he set a new world record according to commentators) footage (representing the Olympics) in glass panels over a swimming pool. Finally, it transitions to the NBC Sports logo (which features the "NBC" written in a modified version of Gotham and the "Sports" is redesigned) which forms in different ways. The feathers from the NBC peacock are seen filling in, while the letters of NBC rotate to the front, and the "Sports" shines in. Behind the NBC Sports logo are all the glass panels and neon tubes arranged corresponding to the color order of the NBC peacock over a nighttime environment. The logo finishes up with the camera at the bottom-left angle.
Technique: A mix of live action and 3D animation, designed by Troika Design Group.
Audio: The male voiceover says "You're watching NBC Sports", with a cinematic orchestral tune, accompanied by play-by-play commentators (Al Michaels, Mike Emrick, etc.) from various sports footage.
Visuals: On a dark blue background, the multicolored feathers from the NBC peacock open up like a paper fan while the "NBC Sports" slides in (a la the Microsoft PowerPoint "Peek In" effect). Then, the NBC Sports logo zooms out and cross-fades to footage of past NBC Olympics broadcasts in a video reel sliding to the left. Then, a yellow rectangle covers the video reel, which moves to see more footage. Then, the reel zooms out to show more footage in the background, and another yellow rectangle slides in, transitioning to another sports footage. The footage zooms out while sliding out from footage to footage and then zooms back in. Then it cuts to footage of past Sunday Night Football games, and a yellow rectangle wipes to a football stadium at nighttime while the NBC Sunday Night Football logo zooms out. Then another yellow rectangle appears, which transitions to the "S" of "Sports" and zooms out while it deforms, and the NBC peacock (without the "NBC Sports" wordmark) forms just like the beginning.
Variants:
Technique: A combination of 2D animation, CGI animation, and live action by Imaginary Forces.
Audio: An energetic rock theme, occupied with sound effects of whooshing and crowd cheering, with Brian Lee saying "NBC Sports!" first, leading to him saying "Home of..." when various sports clips appear during the opening logo. Then it ends with the NBC chimes played on an electric guitar, and Brian Lee says, "Only on NBC." The sports clips have Brian Lee saying:
Audio Variants:
Visuals: On a dark background, the peacock feathers, which rotate throughout, while displaying various sports footage zoom in, creating a feather-shaped tunnel. One of the peacock feathers starts with footage from London 2012 and Tokyo 2020 (representing the Olympic Games). The red feather zooms in behind, transitioning to feather-shaped footage of a soccer player cheering after scoring a goal (representing the Premier League) while the yellow feather comes in too. Another feather-shaped footage of multiple racing cars and a racer winning a championship (representing NASCAR), while another red feather zooms in. This then transitions to another three feather-shaped footage of horse racing and the audience cheering for them (representing the Breeder's Cup) with orange feathers zooming in. Another feather transition, this time a golfer winning a trophy at the championship (representing the PGA Tour) with a green feather as well. Then, the feather-shaped tunnel ends with the footage of the past Sunday Night Football games. The cyan and red feathers fill in, transitioning to footage of Patrick Malones from the Kansas City Chiefs. Then the blue-green-orange feathers zoom in, and it transitions to the current NBC Sports (without the NBC wordmark) logo forming (the NBC peacock logo popping in while the "Sports" writing in just like the 1993 and 2012 logos) on a dark background with CGI-rendered feathers while zooming out.
Trivia: This logo is inspired by the current NBC graphics from 2023 until the present day, all done by Sibling Rivalry.
Technique: CGI and 2D animation with live action.
Audio: A majestic and dramatic orchestral tune accompanied by play-by-play commentators (Mike Tirico, etc.) from past broadcasts and the audience cheering, ending with familiar NBC chimes from the 1950s.
Availability: This can be seen on current NBC Sports broadcasts since 2023, such as Sunday Night Football, NASCAR on NBC, the PGA on NBC, the USFL on NBC, the Big 10 Saturday Night, etc.
Visuals: Multiple blue platforms fly everywhere over a black background while the camera moves up. At the top of the platforms is a cauldron (unlike the cauldron from the 1988 Summer Olympics) in which the Olympic flame ignited the bowl. Then the base of the then-current NBC Olympics logo flies in, with the NBC peacock and the golden Olympic ring flying in from the top front. The closing logo has the copyright stamp underneath.
Technique: CGI animation by Cranston-Csuri Productions.
Audio: A violin and flute theme with the NBC chimes at the end, accompanied by Les Marshak saying "The following is a presentation of NBC Sports. Proud to be the network of the 1988 Summer Olympic Games!"
Audio Variant: The closing variant has Les Marshak saying "This has been a presentation of NBC Sports. Proud to be the network of the 1988 Summer Olympic Games!" The low-tone version is used.
Visuals:
Variants:
Technique: CGI animation with live-action.
Audio:
Audio Variant: The closing variant of Opening 2 has Hal Douglas saying "This broadcast has been a presentation of NBC Sports. Proud to be the network of the Summer Olympic Games".
Availability: It appeared on NBC Sports broadcasts throughout and before the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.
Visuals: A dark purple globe appears zooming out on a dark cloudy background. The world shines, duplicating into five globes as it fades into the golden Olympic rings. The multicolored intersecting shapes fade in, forming the NBC peacock logo. The camera then rotates, revealing the 1988 NBC Olympics logo, shining, and zooming out as the big globe (showing parts of Europe with a purple light at Barcelona, Spain) on the background fades in. Then "BARCELONA '92" shines in atop the NBC Olympics logo.
Variants:
Technique: CGI animation by Telezign using Alias Research.
Audio: A majestic fanfare with shining and sparkling sound effects, ending with the NBC chimes, accompanied by a voiceover saying "The following is a presentation of NBC Sports. Network of the games of the 25th Olympiad."
Audio Variants:
Availability: It appeared on NBC Sports broadcasts throughout and before the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.
Visuals: On a waving Olympic flag, the NBC Atlanta 1996 logo zooms out to a comfortable distance while the white "America's Games" surrounding the logo emerges.
Technique: A combination of CGI and live-action.
Audio: A new-age tune with NBC chimes at the end, accompanied by Danny Dark saying, "You watching NBC. The home of America's Games, the 1996 Summer Olympics."
Availability: It appeared on NBC Sports broadcasts before the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.
Visuals: There is a podium with a human figure holding an Olympic torch while lifting it to the sky and a cauldron lit with an Olympic flame. Clouds appear from the front, slowly disappearing. The camera zooms out, showing the black text "America" with an NBC peacock in front of the text at the right and three blue banners with yellow NBC Atlanta 1996 logos from the left on a dark wireframe globe with yellow light rays coming from behind. Once the camera reaches a comfortable distance, the aspect ratio shifts from 4:3 to 16:9. (a la how aspect ratio shifts in films and series in the Marvel Cinematic Universe)
Variant: A copyright disclaimer variant exists, consisting of the NBC Atlanta 1996 logo slowly zooming in on a blue background with faint optics. Between the logo are some black bars with the far left and right sides extended, with a white monospaced text reading "This program has been produced by NBC in association with the IOC and the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games."
Technique: CGI animation.
Audio: An abridged version of "Olympic Fanfare" by John Williams.
Audio Variants:
Availability: It appeared on NBC Sports broadcasts throughout and before the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.
Visuals: On a white background with what appears to be the exterior of the Sydney Opera House and a skyline of Sydney (with a said landmark and Harbour Bridge behind it) set in daytime cropped in a rectangle, the transparent "2000" enlarges in front of the skyline. Then a shine appears, revealing the NBC wordmark and the NBC peacock zooming in while the blue rectangle flies in from the top. The NBC peacock and the gold rings zoom out, in which the rings form the Olympic rings. The "AMERICA'S OLYMPIC NETWORK" flips in from the bottom.
Variants:
Technique: CGI animation with live action.
Audio: An abridged version of "Summon the Heroes" by John Williams, with Hal Douglas saying, "The following is a presentation of NBC. America's Olympic Network."
Audio Variants:
Visuals: A giant blue crystal slides to the right, revealing the NBC Olympics logo on a blue globe with some rings. The logo shines and zooms in slowly.
Technique: Computer animation with model work.
Audio: An abridged version of "Olympic Fanfare" by John Williams.
Visuals: Several screens displaying Olympic footage from the past are seen in a dark sunset background angled from the bottom left. At the front of the screens is footage of Michael Johnson in a track and field race during the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Then, a blue flash appears, transitioning to screens of cities, including years given and logos of the Olympic Games. These include a view of the Parthenon in Athens, Greece (for 2004), some snowy mountains in Northern Italy and Western Canada (both for 2006 and 2010), and a path of the Great Wall of China in Beijing (for 2008). The four logos given are two official logos and two bidding logos. Then, another blue flash appears, which goes to the NBC peacock and the Olympic rings zooming out to emerge the NBC Olympics logo on the top. Beneath the logo is "AMERICA'S OLYMPIC NETWORK" shining in. Blue particles from the background also appear.
Variant: An alternate variant exists, in which the finished product has the NBC Olympics logo making room for the CNBC, Bravo, USA Network, Telemundo, NBC HDTV, and MSNBC logos and the "America's Olympic Network" was rewritten to "The Complete Olympics Athens 2004".
Technique: CGI animation and live action.
Audio: An abridged version of "Summon the Heroes" by John Williams, accompanied by commentators ("Michael Johnson, into the Olympic history!") and a voiceover saying, "The past, the present, and for the next decade, America's Olympic Network is NBC!"
Visuals: In a dark room with banners of the past Olympic Games and the 1986 NBC logo behind the banners, a gold ring (a la the rings from Sonic the Hedgehog) zooms out, displaying a drone view of a church in Turin, Italy, with "Torino 2006" on the top-left. The first ring flies out, which leads to another ring, displaying a nighttime shot of a Chinese palace in Beijing, China, with the white text "Beijing 2008" on the top-left again. The ring then switches to the third ring, with a drone shot of a snowy mountain in Canada. There is another text at the bottom center, reading "Vancouver 2010" in blue. A fourth ring comes out, with a close-up of a clock face from Big Ben at noon with a text from the left reading "London 2012." Then, all the rings zoom out, including a fifth ring, transitioning to another room of Olympic banners. Between is the NBC Olympics logo in the middle, with the "America's Olympic Network" underneath the logo. Fireworks can be seen from the background.
Variant: There was a copyright disclaimer variant, where it starts with the camera zooming out from the NBC Olympics logo with vertical glass panes moving up on a dark room with lights and horizontal glass panes. The logo and the vertical glass panes slowly tilt to the right. Once the camera moves into a comfortable position, a black bar with the "This broadcast is presented by authority of the International Olympic Committee and may not be reproduced or retransmitted in any form without the expressed written consent of the International Olympic Committee." written in small caps.
Technique: CGI animation and live action by David Barton.
Audio: An abridged version of "Olympic Fanfare" by John Williams, accompanied by Hal Douglas saying, "Coming in February, Torino. Then, Beijing in 2008. Vancouver in 2010 and London in 2012. The Olympic legacy continues on NBC!"
Visuals: On a blue-gold cloudy background with blue and yellow lines, an array of biconvex rectangles with clips of the past Summer Olympics with gold outlines zooms out. (If you look closely at the reflection, the NBC Olympics logo is seen before the logo is formed) Then, the NBC peacock spins to the left as the Olympic rings form. The base and the gold outlines also form. The "America's Olympic Network" also turns to the front, as the "Olympic" in "America's Olympic Network" extrudes out.
Variant: The copyright disclaimer variant has the NBC Olympics logo zooming out on a sunset cloudy background with yellow and red arcs with jagged squares (which look like the floor texture on the Great Wall of China). Some white text is scrolling in the background. Then there is a yellow-red biconvex message box that reads "This broadcast is presented by authority of the International Olympic Committee and may not be reproduced or retransmitted in any form without the expressed written consent of the International Olympic Committee." written in all caps and a narrow font.
Technique: CGI animation and live-action by David Barton.
Audio: An abridged version of "Olympic Fanfare" by John Williams.
Audio Variants: The copyright disclaimer variant has the male voiceover (which is the same voiceover heard in the NBC Sports NFL presentation IDs) saying "This program has been produced by NBCUniversal, in association with the International Olympic Committee and the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games."
Visuals: Clips of the past Olympic Games zoom out on a black background into a blue video wall. Then, the NBC Olympics logo flies in from the bottom, with "America's Olympic Network" flying in while the letters spin. A white line appears between "America's" and "Olympic."
Variant: For the copyright disclaimer variant, The NBC Olympics logo zooms out to a comfortable position on a cloudy background with some blue diagonal lines. The marquee text "Vancouver 2010" can be seen from the right. Underneath the logo is the International Olympic Committee copyright stamp.
Technique: CGI animation and live action by David Barton.
Audio: An abridged version of "Bulger's Dream" by Leo Arnaud, accompanied by a voiceover (also the same voiceover from the NFL presentation IDs for NBC Sports) saying "...encore presentation of NBC's primetime coverage of the 21st Olympic Winter Games."
Audio Trivia: "Bulger's Dream" by Leo Arnaud was used as an Olympic theme for ABC Sports from the 1960s until 1988 when ABC transferred the rights to NBC for the Summer Olympics, and CBS for the Winter Olympics.
Audio Variant: For the copyright disclaimer variant, it has an abridged version of "Olympic Fanfare" by John Williams with a voiceover saying "This program has been produced by NBCUniversal, in association with the International Olympic Committee and the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games."
Visuals: There is a glassy right triangle with the "London 2012" in the ITC Lubalin Graph font appearing with lines of the Union Jack zooming in over clips of the past Summer Olympic Games. A stack of text can be seen at the right, reading the past Summer Olympic Games in a city and year format. Then, diagonal lines transition to multiple glass panels displaying Summer Olympics clips zooming out over a cloudy sky atmosphere. A glass panel (also a part of the Union Jack) is at the bottom. The NBC Olympics logo zooms out, surrounded by glass panels with horizontal text reading "AMERICA'S OLYMPIC NETWORK" set in ITC Lubalin Graph.
Variants:
Technique: CGI animation and live action by David Barton.
Audio: An abridged version of "Bulger's Dream" by Leo Arnaud with audio from commentators and cheering.
Audio Variant: On a copyright disclaimer variant, it has the abridged version of "Olympic Fanfare" by John Williams, accompanied by a male announcer saying "This broadcast is presented by authority of the International Olympic Committee and may not be reproduced or retransmitted in any form without the expressed written consent of the International Olympic Committee."
Visuals: A random clip from the 2012 Summer Olympics in London appears with blue-gold-green (representing the Brazilian flag's colors) moving arcs from the right side. A text of the past Olympic Games can be seen on the arcs. The organic shapes transition to the silver NBC Olympics logo with a collage of past Olympic Games clips, in which the camera zooms out. Then "America's Olympic Network" wipes in.
Technique: CGI computer animation and live action by David Barton.
Audio: An abridged version of "Bulger's Dream" by Leo Arnaud with audio from commentators and cheering.
Visuals: A drone shot of a snowy mountain in South Korea flies by with the other mountains visible far away. The live-action footage fades to a background of photos of Olympic athletes from the past Winter Olympic games, appearing both at left and right. There is a glass-rendered NBC Olympics logo shining while zooming in slowly. Then the photos fade to the blue background of mountains and hills with the blue-silver NBC Olympics logo. The "Home of the Olympics" appears underneath the NBC Olympics logo.
Technique: CGI computer animation and live action by David Barton.
Audio: An abridged version of "Summon the Heroes" by John Williams.
Visuals: An extreme close-up of the gold NBC peacock appears with the past Summer Olympics clips being overlayed. The feathers from the NBC peacock move backward slowly. The camera cuts to three different positions of the NBC peacock with more clips. Then the golden rings fly in as the NBC Olympics logo (in gold) fades in on a blue background. The logo then centers in and moves to the top. The letters "Home of the Olympics" spin to the front, underneath the NBC Olympics logo.
Variants:
Technique: CGI computer animation and live action by David Barton.
Audio: An abridged version of "Summon the Heroes" by John Williams with commentators and audience cheering and a whoosh when the NBC Olympics logo zooms out.
Audio Variants:
Visuals: A panning shot of the Arc de Triomphe with light particles at night is seen. The Arc de Triomphe shot cuts to the Louvre Museum. The camera zooms out to see the glass pyramid, as it comes in focus from the museum. Then into the close-up shot of the Eiffel Tower with more light particles, which the camera zooms out from. The text "The Games of the XXXIII Olympiad" is in the Eiffel Tower's middle structure. Then a far shot of the said landmark to get a clear shot of Parc du Champ de Mars with a white lens flare at the top of the Eiffel Tower. Then the "The Games of the XXXIII Olympiad" fades out and the NBC Paris 2024 logo in a brass texture zooms out as the white flare brightens. Once the NBC Paris 2024 logo comes into view, the International Olympic Committee copyright stamp appears underneath it.
Technique: CGI animation done by Imaginary Forces.
Audio: A cinematic rendition of "Olympic Fanfare" by John Williams with a female voiceover saying "This broadcast is presented by authority of the International Olympic Committee and may not be reproduced or retransmitted without expressed written consent of the International Olympic Committee."
Visuals: A lens flare lightens in to see the close-up of the NBC peacock and the NBC wordmark rotate in the X and Y-axes. It flashes to another angle of the NBC Sports logo rotating. Then another angle of the NBC Sports logo is seen as it flies to the left. Then the logo moves back to a comfortable distance as the logo rotates to a low angle on a dark background with a honeycomb pattern. The shapes have the same honeycomb texture, and the logo is wiped. It then brightens. As the shapes clear the NBC Sports logo, parts of the pre-2008 NFL logo are seen before being formed. The stars from the NFL logo fly in and the football on the logo also zooms out. Once the shapes fly away from the screen, the NFL logo is seen from the bottom-right angle on the same dark background, but there are black and white bars with distance indicators coming from the bottom right corner.
Technique: 3D computer animation by Troika Design Group.
Audio: The 2003-2013 NFL theme.
Voiceover: A deep male voiceover saying the spiels in either:
Visuals: On a room of red and white glass hollow cylinders and semi-curves, the NBC Sports logo is inside the hollow cylinder in which it rotates. The camera is Dutch-angled. Stars are seen falling in the logo. The camera booms down and rolls to the right as the NBC Sports logo transitions to the Super Bowl XLIII logo with the NBC logo below with white intersecting shapes. As the camera moves down, the hollow cylinders clear the Super Bowl XLIII logo (which was designed by Landor) to make room for the NFL logo in a balcony-like high-tech room. The spheres that surround the NFL logo are seen spinning slowly. A gray metallic platform is seen underneath the NFL logo. Then the honeycomb-textured and solid metallic curves slide in.
Technique: 3D computer animation.
Audio: The 2003-2013 NFL theme.
Voiceover: The same deep male voiceover as the last, saying the spiels in either:
Visuals: The NBC Sports logo is surrounded by encircling stars, spheres, red and white hollow cylinders, and semi-curves on a dark blue background. The camera starts at the top-left angle and moves down throughout the presentation. When the camera moves down as the cylinders cover the NBC Sports logo, the NFL logo replaces the NBC Sports logo. The logo is in a room of stars surrounding it, a platform, a red hollow cylinder, and three tubes. The white flare brightens and dims from the top left corner of the NFL logo. If one looks closely, tiny stars are falling in the NFL logo from the top.
Variants:
Technique: 3D computer animation.
Audio: The 2003-2013 NFL theme.
Voiceover: The same deep male voiceover as the 1st and 2nd presentation IDs, saying the spiels in:
Visuals: Over the dark cloudy atmosphere, the NBC peacock rotates to the front as the feathers spin and fill colors. The outline of the NBC peacock fades in. As well as "NBC" fades in while rotating to the front letter by letter. It shines a glow when it is formed. Some curved glass panes surround the logo. The camera moves down. A curved glass pane spins around the NBC Sports logo, leading to the Super Bowl XLIX logo with a metallic rectangle with the 1986 horizontal NBC logo engraved onto it, over the atmosphere of the Monument Valley in Arizona. An orange lens flare moves to the top right when the curved glass pane spins. Then, another curved glass pane spins around the Super Bowl XLIX logo and proceeds to the NFL logo on a football stadium at night. The camera stops moving, and grass particles come in from the bottom. Both the Super Bowl XLIX and the NFL logos are seen spinning very slowly.
Technique: A mix of 3D computer animation and live-action.
Audio: The current NFL theme.
Voiceover: Same deep male voiceover from the last presentation IDs, saying the same spiels in either:
Visuals: Over the cloudy atmosphere, the NBC Sports logo animates in the way from the last presentation intro. The camera moves from the left to the right. Then the camera gets closer to the bottom-right side of the NBC Sports logo, transitioning to the NFL logo over the football stadium with lens flares at night. There are some dirt and grass particles when it transitions.
Variants:
Technique: A mix of 3D computer animation and live-action.
Audio: The current NFL theme.
Voiceover: The same voiceover from the last 4 presentation IDs, saying in:
Visuals: The NBC peacock is shown without the lighting. In which the NBC peacock and its feathers emit and gain light, like a lightbox. The NBC wordmark rotates while gaining light letter-by-letter in sync with the voiceover, with the "Sports" gaining a light. The NBC Sports logo is shown with lights illuminated on a dark background with blue-white-cyan lines flying downward to the horizon. Then it zooms out to see the NFL logo in a 20th Century Fox-esque angle. Behind the NFL logo are the same lines with an additional orange line flying upward.
Variant: The 2017 NFL season has the additional Super Bowl LII logo with a metallic rectangle with the 1986 horizontal NBC logo engraved onto it. In which the NBC Sports logo zooms out to see the Super Bowl LII logo.
Technique: 3D computer animation.
Audio: The current NFL theme, accompanied by whooshing sounds.
Voiceover: Same deep male voiceover, saying the same spiels in:
Visuals: Against the dark abstract metallic background with structures looking like deconstructivist architecture, several lines form the hexagonal shape pattern in the NBC peacock feathers. Five stacked metallic outlines and the outline of the NBC peacock logo also form. The camera cuts to a close-up shot of the NBC Sports logo forming. In which the camera moves down. The "NBC" wordmark is revealed underneath the NBC peacock, which it expands from the bottom to the top. The camera then comfortably shows the NBC Sports logo, as the "Sports" retrogrades to place underneath the "NBC". Underneath the NBC Sports logo is a blue flare traveling to the left. There is a faint blue glow at the top-left corner. Which dims after the NBC Sports logo spins. Then the NBC Sports logo spins to proceed to the NFL logo (the blue part has a hexagonal pattern made with lines) with a blue glow surrounding it, and the confetti falls over the NFL logo. Once before the NFL logo spins to the front, it cuts to a close-up shot of the NFL logo. In which the stars in the NFL logo spin counter-clockwise once. It cuts back to the NFL logo in a comfortable view.
Variant: The Super Bowl LII variant has the NBC Sports logo animation sped up at the speed level of the blue flare. The confetti that falls over the NFL logo is excluded. It cuts to an extreme close-up of the NFL logo, which deforms the shield via vertical lines sliding down. The stars in the NFL logo spin clockwise and disappear away, leaving the metallic football and the NFL lettering. As the football and the NFL lettering starts to spin, it forms the Super Bowl LII logo. The camera moves to the back view of the NFL logo/front view of the Super Bowl LII logo. The "NFL" morphs into the "LII", while the football transforms into a Vince Lombardi trophy. The white-blue metallic biconvex rectangle fades in. The "SUPER BOWL", placed on a blue part of the box, appears letter-by-letter. Then, a metallic biconvex box with the chiseled 1986 horizontal NBC logo slides down, similarly to the Microsoft PowerPoint "Peek In" effect.
Technique: 3D computer animation.
Audio: The current NFL theme.
Voiceover: The same NBC Sports deep male voiceover, saying the same spiels in:
Visuals: Inside a neo-futurist chamber with curved line structures (all painted in white, red, and blue at the bottoms) and a bright window at the roof, the NBC Sports logo animates like the last presentation ID, except the outlines of the NBC peacock and the "NBC" are made of glossy plastic. Behind it is a curvy structure and below it are four white platforms stacked atop each other. The camera zooms out from the NBC Sports logo and spins to the back of the curvy structure, revealing the NFL 100 logo. Once the NFL 100 logo is shown to the camera, archived pictures of NFL games appear from afar.
Technique: 3D computer animation.
Audio: The NFL 100 presentation theme composed by David Robidoux.
Voiceover: The same NBC Sports male voiceover, saying the spiels in either:
Visuals: The NBC Sports logo animates like the last 2 presentation IDs, except the "Sports" remained in place. The camera zooms away from the NBC Sports logo to see clips of old Sunday Night Football games displayed on walls with supports. When the camera moves up, the numerical "15" with handrails around the border is revealed with the NBC Sunday Night Football logo above it. The bottom base of the Sunday Night Football slides down as the NFL logo tilts to the front. The "SEASONS" is shown at the bottom right of the big tile in the middle. Beyond the tiles are portraits of football quarterbacks of each respective football team. Then, the tiles of football quarterbacks flip to monochromatic football team logos corresponding to each quarterback. The big tile flips to the NFL logo, and the stars in the NFL logo spin once.
Variant: The regular variant starts with a close-up of the NBC Sports logo, with some clips of old Sunday Night Football games changed differently. The "1" structure is reflected. When the camera zooms up, the NFL logo replaces the "15 Seasons of Sunday Night Football" logo. In which the base in the NFL logo closes. The portraits of quarterbacks in the tiles are removed. Plus, the lighting at the end is different.
Technique: A mix of 3D computer animation and live-action.
Audio: The current NFL theme.
Voiceover: The same NBC Sports male voiceover, saying the spiels in:
Visuals: Inside the hexagonal tunnel with years since 2006, light tubes around the hexagonal shape, and some clips of Sunday Night Football on the sides, the hexagonal platform with the NBC Sports logo (sans the NBC wordmark) rises. The outline of the NBC peacock gains light. As the platform grows, the camera pans back while rotating to the right. When the platform gets closer to the camera, it cuts to a Tron-like room with video walls of SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California (the host stadium for Super Bowl LVI in 2022) with a dark violet-dark blue gradient background with the "SUPER BOWL LVI" text (the LVI is rotated to the right) and behind them is another video wall of palm trees over the beaches at Southern California with the same "SUPER BOWL LVI" text from the SoFi Stadium video walls, except "Super Bowl LVI" is rotated horizontally and next to "SUPER BOWL LVI" is another text saying "LOS ANGELES". When the hexagonal platform reaches a Tron-like hologram base, it generates a hologram render of the Super Bowl LVI logo with the 2018 horizontal NBC logo, then the solid render, and the solid floor changes to a glossy floor, via the octagonal patterns. Then the Super Bowl LVI logo transforms into the NFL logo in the same texture as above, via the football part of the Vince Lombardi trophy. The Super Bowl LVI logo slides to the position of the NFL wording. As the Super Bowl LVI logo transforms into the NFL logo, the video walls transition to the logos of the NFL conferences with team logos in between. The logos of the American Football Conference (Red) is at the left, and the logos of the National Football Conference (Blue) is at the right. The end product has the camera set in a Dutch angle.
Technique: A mix of 3D computer animation and live-action.
Audio: The current NFL theme.
Voiceover: A different normal-sounding male voiceover saying the spiels in either:
Visuals: The NBC peacock is seen without the colored feathers. In which the camera zooms out. Then the colored feathers appear via triangles. The camera angle changes to a bottom-left view to get a clear view of the current NBC Sports logo in an irregular blue LED light tunnel. Zooming out of the NBC Sports logo, it cuts to 6 glass panels displaying either some football players or archived games of Sunday Night Football. Venetian blinds-like vertical panels are between the glass panels with cyan LED lights. There is an LED light tunnel far behind the glass panels. The camera zooms out and crossfades to the NFL logo via the white base in a dark neo-futurist chamber with blue LED lights going up. The stars in the NFL logo spin like the previous presentation IDs. Once the NFL logo is seen at a comfortable distance, monochromatic NFL team logos are displayed below.
Variants:
Technique: A mix of 3D computer animation and live-action.
Audio: The current NFL theme.
Voiceovers: