Some news. I am humbled to partner with Andrew Miller and Henry Holt to write my first book, THE RIVER TOOK THEM. Writing about the 2025 flood in my hometown is a heavy, necessary responsibility. Grateful to my agent Gail Ross, Olivia Metzger, & the entire team for their support.
.@NBCNews scores a grand slam: four programs, four #1 rankings.
@TODAYshow, @NBCNightlyNews, @MeetThePress & NBC News Daily each beat their respective competitors despite a week packed with major sports programming.
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This is …. And I don’t say this lightly…. The single greatest piece of writing I have ever seen in my life
The Japanese have discovered unlimited chips & salsa and it’s beautiful
It’s very clear to me that a lot of this generation of Spurs fans didn’t live through:
- Spurs losing a 2-0 lead to OKC in 2012
- Manu fouling Dirk in 2006 WCSF
- Spurs going down 4-2 to 8 seed Memphis in 2011
- Tim Duncan missing a bunny in the 2013 finals
- Manu TO in 2013 finals
- Spurs blowing clinching game to DET in 2005 before winning Game 7.
It’s really showing this morning.
As “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” celebrates the 40th anniversary of its release on June 11, a new book by Jason Klamm revisits this ageless comedy and what fans may not know about how it was made. https://t.co/faSWEzA5jE
everybody i know who is from NY or rooting for NY:
i love u and respect u but for the next 2 wks you are my enemy
i wish you ill will
i wish you bad days & worse nights
i wish you heartache & heartbreak
i wish you poor 3-pt shooting %s and a high turnover rate
go spurs go
The Spurs are giving up to 1,000 tickets during the Finals to local nonprofits serving youth across San Antonio. It allows opportunities for young people and families who may not otherwise have the chance to attend a Spurs game. This is not new. this season alone they gave away 22,000 tickets to community organizations.
RATINGS: @NBCNightlyNews continues to deliver its best year-over-year key demo growth streak since 2008.
For the month, Nightly marked its largest May audiences across the board in four years.
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After Uvalde, Texas undertook an ambitious effort to station a police officer at every school.
Since then, students have been tackled, pepper sprayed and Tasered. Many episodes began over minor infractions like breaking dress code or vaping.
Our report: https://t.co/kSJ6lFudqo
.@HallieOnNBC will launch on @nbcbayarea in San Francisco on Monday June 1, just before the June 2 California primary elections.
“I started my NBC career in California, so it’s especially meaningful to expand Hallie Jackson NOW to Bay Area viewers on NBC,” said @HallieJackson. “Our goal every day is to deliver sharp reporting and meaningful conversations that meet viewers where they are, and that now includes local Bay Area audiences on NBC.”
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NBC deploys up to 40 cameras for a single NBA playoff game. Every operator needs to identify players from behind, at full sprint, in real-time.
That headshot grid on the monitor is how the camera operator knows who they're tracking when the director calls "iso Wemby" through their headset. They get maybe two seconds to find him, lock on, and deliver a broadcast-quality shot for 4 million viewers.
The production behind a conference finals game runs deeper than people realize. Six hard cameras, six handhelds, four robotic rigs, a Steadicam, and a cable cam, all feeding a control truck where a director cuts between feeds live. The All-Star Game this year required seven mobile production units processing 200+ simultaneous video signals.
Tracking cameras in the rafters capture every player's position 25 times per second. 72,000 data points per game, processed live alongside the broadcast work to generate the replays and overlays you take for granted.
A Hollywood film crew shoots maybe 2-5 minutes of usable footage per day. An NBA broadcast team delivers 48 minutes of live, unscripted, multi-camera footage as a finished product in real-time. Every game. 82 times a season. Plus playoffs.
The person in this video will work the entire game tracking players at full speed, and nobody watching will think about them once.