He went for gold during the day; it was simply shown on the prime-time broadcast.
That's good, even magnificent, news for fans exasperated by NBC's policy of tape-delaying all or parts of the Olympics to feed its prime-time broadcasts.
Meanwhile, controversy over the prime-time broadcast, staged in the style of the televised town hall meetings that have become popular with American politicians, threatened to overshadow the president's message.
After being the first host of the 1960 prime-time broadcast "Eyewitness" (he was promoted over Walter Cronkite) Mr. Kuralt went on to report from Africa and Latin America.
And one network, CBS, is even considering expanding its "Evening News" program into an hourlong prime-time broadcast.
(He may have been influenced by it being a prime-time broadcast).
In its second week on the air, the NBC talent competition with Regis Philbin, below, as its host was the most-watched prime-time broadcast, Reuters reported.
They are one of the clubs with a huge local television package that could be directly affected by the regional prime-time broadcasts.
A total of 187 million unique, or unduplicated, viewers watched at least six minutes of the total prime-time broadcast.
The so-called "feminizing" of NBC's prime-time broadcast, which has gotten much attention recently, is a golden example of blaming the victim.