Now, this 17-hour time lapse will surely mess with our wait-loss and weight-gain prime-time experience as NBC’s pledge to go live as much as possible means we have to be ready to go by 5 p.m. each weeknight (picking up the East Coast feed, finally).

And while it won’t ultimately explain why Winter Olympic TV ratings continue to erode like a mini Nielsen avalanche, it certainly will come up in the discussion about why the coverage couldn’t have been more skewed to those curling fans in Wind Chill, Wisc., instead the Inclusiveness, Calif.

MORE MULTIFORMITY ON STAGE While the 51-year-old Tirico doesn’t quite have the resume yet of a Costas – someone who couldn’t even keep his job on last week’s NBC Super Bowl pregame show – this is a moment in Sports TV History when you can actually see a torch as it’s more-than-metaphorically being passed.

The openly gay former two-time Olympic skater has effectively sent fan favorite Scott Hamilton off to become a “special correspondent” for NBC after he was the main Figure Skating analyst going back to 2002.

John Moody, the executive editor and vice president of Fox News, felt that was enough of a chilling effect, so he wrote an op-ed piec e on the company’s site lamenting the U.S. team’s diversity mantra.

= An ESPN special called “Dear Black Athlete,” taped last week in front of a live audience at the Sixth Avenue Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., airs Sunday at 5 p.m., presented by TheUndefeated.com.

A piece in Vanity Fair calls this first “Swimsuit Issue of the #MeToo Era” and includes editor MJ Day saying: “It’s about allowing women to exist in the world without being harassed or judged regardless of how they like to present themselves.