NBC is bringing some NFL flavor to the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Many football fans are familiar with NFL RedZone, binge watching the program every Sunday during the regular season. Scott Hanson takes the reigns, leading millions of fans through the best live moments of the NFL slate.
Hanson will bring his same energetic style to Paris for the Summer Games on NBC's Gold Zone. It's the network's version of NFL RedZone, so it only makes sense to bring Hanson onto the team.
Here's all you need to know about Hanson's role at NBC for the 2024 Paris Olympics.
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Why is Scott Hanson at the Olympics?
Hanson is a part of NBC's broadcast team for the 2024 Paris Olympics. He'll be one of four hosts for the Gold Zone, a program dedicated to showing the best and most exciting highlights live as they occur.
The show has been around since the 2012 Summer Games, but it's evolved significantly since. The original program did not have a host and it was online only.
The 2024 version will have Hanson, Andrew Siciliano, Matt Iseman, and Jac Collinsworth as the hosts. It's the first time Hanson will be at and cover the Olympics.
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Although he's excited about the opportunity, it wasn't easy to sell Hanson on the idea. He's used to dealing with just NFL all Sunday. Now, he'll have to focus on nearly 40 sports and hundreds of medal events.
"NBC Sports approached me with this idea. I’ll admit it, when they came to me, it was daunting," Hanson told Sports Illustrated. "To have to conceptualize bringing 39 sports, multiple disciplines within those sports, 329 medal events, involving more than 10,000 athletes, whose names I’ve never pronounced. To bring all of those things into a Red Zone–style format was daunting."
He eventually agreed to host the show after multiple attempts from NBC Sports executives. He said it was a "hard sell" because "how much does anyone know about Bahrain handball? Or Turkish water polo?"
Hanson will be the host to start each morning's broadcast on Gold Zone, which begins at 7 a.m. ET each day from July 27 to Aug. 10. The show concludes at 5 p.m. ET and will be broadcast on Peacock.
