22 May 2025 – NBCUniversal’s coverage of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 topped the 46th Sports Emmy Awards with 10 wins, including Outstanding Live Special – Championship Event: The Games of the XXXIII Olympiad (NBC/Peacock).
A complete list of winners is available here.
The awards were presented by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences at Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Centre.
Notably, Peter Diamond, former EVP, NBC Olympics Programming, and Rob Hyland, Coordinating Producer, NBC Sunday Night Football and Primetime Producer, NBC Olympics, earned special recognition for “individuals who have performed distinguished service within the television industry, setting standards for achievement, mentoring, leadership and professional accolades for 25 or 50 years.”
The complete list of NBCUniversal Olympic winners:
- Outstanding Live Special – Championship Event: The Games of the XXXIII Olympiad (NBC/Peacock)
- Outstanding Short Feature: The Games of the XXXIII Olympiad: Caeleb & The Critic (NBC/Peacock)
- Outstanding Open/Tease: The Games of the XXXIII Olympiad: Land of Stories (NBC/Peacock)
- Outstanding Interactive Experience: The Games of the XXXIII Olympiad (NBC/Peacock)
- Outstanding Technical Team Event: The Games of the XXXIII Olympiad (NBC/Peacock)
- Outstanding Technical Team Studio: The Games of the XXXIII Olympiad (NBC/Peacock)
- Outstanding Editing – Short Form: The Games of the XXXIII Olympiad: Land of Stories (NBC/Peacock)
- The Dick Schaap Outstanding Writing Award – Short Form: The Games of the XXXIII Olympiad: Land of Stories (NBC/Peacock)
- Outstanding Audio/Sound – Live Event: The Games of the XXXIII Olympiad (NBC/Peacock)
- Outstanding Graphic Design – Event/Show: The Games of the XXXIII Olympiad (NBC/Peacock/USA Network/CNBC/E!/NBCOlympics.com/Telemundo/Universo/GOLF Channel)
NBCUniversal’s fully distributed coverage of Paris 2024 generated consumption records and milestones wherever fans were watching. The company’s coverage from Paris reached an average of 67 million total viewers per day across its broadcast, cable and streaming platforms. Fans streamed 23.5 billion minutes of NBCUniversal’s Paris 2024 coverage, led by streaming service Peacock – 40 per cent more than all prior Olympic Summer and Winter Games combined. Gen Z powered a record 6.55 billion impressions across NBCUniversal’s social media platforms for Paris 2024, a 184 per cent increase compared to Tokyo 2020.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Comcast NBCUniversal have agreed on a new groundbreaking partnership for the new digital era, taking advantage of the opportunities offered by the rapidly developing media landscape and the unique expertise of the global media and technology company.
The announcement means that at the conclusion of the Summer Games in 2036, NBCUniversal will have presented 25 Olympic Games and 19 consecutive editions.
