When you consider front-facing anchors for NBC’s Olympics protection, Mike Tirico, the present host of the community’s prime-time protection, might be the primary one who involves thoughts. If you need to return in historical past, Bob Costas would definitely come up, a mainstay on NBC’s prime-time protection over 11 Olympics.
But you is perhaps shocked to study who has the longest internet hosting streak amongst present NBC Olympics broadcasters: Rebecca Lowe.
Lowe will function a host for her seventh consecutive Olympics, a supply briefed on the transfer instructed The Athletic. She will be NBC’s daytime host for its protection of the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics, which begins Feb. 6, 2026, on NBC and Peacock. She’ll additionally anchor a prime-time preview — the “Milan-Cortina Olympic Preview Show” — on Feb. 5 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on NBC and Peacock.
It’s been an eventful stretch for Lowe. As first reported by The Athletic, Lowe will work as a host for Fox Sports’ World Cup protection later this summer season. It is uncommon for a presenter to be a part of the 2 greatest international sporting occasions in the identical 12 months for 2 networks. Most U.S. sports activities followers know Lowe because the host of the “Premier League Mornings,” “Premier League Live” and “Goal Zone” pre- and post-match exhibits. This is her thirteenth season in that function, which will proceed long-term, because the Fox task is a one-off.
Lowe’s NBC Olympics broadcast profession started on the 2014 Sochi Olympics. She has since labored the 2016 Rio Olympics, 2018 PyeongChang Olympics, 2020 Tokyo Olympics, 2022 Beijing Olympics and 2024 Paris Olympics.
Milan-Cortina is six hours forward of the U.S. Eastern time zone, so Lowe will be on the air when occasions are occurring dwell, the identical setup she had for the Paris Games, which had been additionally six hours forward.
“Every Games has been different purely because of the time zone,” Lowe instructed The Athletic final 12 months. “For example, in PyeongChang and Tokyo, for us to be live on the NBC daytime show, we were working the overnight shift. That not only meant a challenge in itself personally, but also we didn’t have live sports to bring the audience. We’ll be live during daylight hours in France while live sport is happening. That brings an extra energy and dynamic to the show, as you get to react to stories as they happen in the moment.”
The Olympics had a major revival in curiosity on the 2024 Paris Games. Before the occasions in France, Olympic viewership had tumbled considerably in current cycles. The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics averaged 11.4 million viewers throughout all platforms, the least-watched Olympics within the trendy period. It was a pointy decline from the 19.8 million common for the 2018 Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea. But the Olympics bloomed once more in France’s capital, delivering 30.4 million viewers throughout NBCU, Peacock and NBCU Platforms, up 80 % from Tokyo.