NEW YORK (AP) — Between Olympic soccer matches, NBC analyst Marcelo Balboa fields texts and emails from friends who ask him, “How’s London?”
He wouldn’t know. The three-time World Cup participant turned sportscaster is one of many at NBC covering the Olympics from a cubby equipped with a television monitor in New York, one of a warren of them lined up in the studio where “Saturday Night Live” usually originates. NBC has a team of 650 people working on London Olympics coverage from New York.
Outside of the soundproof booth’s closed door, you wouldn’t be able to hear Balboa if he shouted, “goooaaallll!” That’s so as not to disturb Jason Knapp and Rich McKinney, calling an archery match from a different booth a few steps away.
