Beat it Costas: Meet NBC's Newest Sports Broadcaster: Steven Colbert
In perhaps the smartest move NBC has made since…since…man, it’s been awhile…I don’t know, Seinfeld?…the network has added Stephen Colbert to its Winter Olympics team to cover speedskating.
Colbert got the gig in large part thanks to his fundraising efforts on behalf of the U.S. speedskating team. From the L.A. Times:
[T]hanks to an on-air invitation from Dick Ebersol, the head of NBC Sports, Colbert will be reporting for the network and will be spending, as he puts it, “hours and hours” at the speedskating oval.
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