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Mike Tirico Completes Super Bowl-to-Olympics Turnaround After 6,000-Mile Flight

NBC chartered Global 7500 jets to move Tirico overnight to Milan, underscoring its plan to fuse Super Bowl LX with Olympic primetime across NBC and Peacock.

Overview

  • After calling Super Bowl LX at Levi’s Stadium, Tirico immediately hosted NBC’s “Primetime in Milan” from the field in a handoff slated for about 10:45 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock.
  • NBC Sports confirmed Monday that Tirico landed in Milan and returned to the air that night to anchor Olympic primetime as scheduled.
  • Sports business reporter Joe Pompliano reported NBC used two Bombardier Global 7500s for the trip, departing California around 1:30 a.m. local and arriving near 9 p.m. in Milan after roughly 10–11 hours in the air.
  • News outlets reported Tirico became the first U.S. broadcaster to call the Super Bowl and host Olympic coverage in the same year.
  • NBCU framed the pairing as a unified ‘Legendary February’ strategy, with the handoff carried on Peacock and a promoted 4K HDR presentation spanning both Super Bowl and Winter Olympics coverage.