below are videos of CBS Sports coverage of the 1992 Winter Olympic Games that were held in the village of Albertville, France; were anchored by Paula Zahn and Tim McCarver; and featured a piece narrated by Charles Kuralt, and another piece anchored by Morley Safer.

CBS Sports NASCAR announcer Ken Squier had called the Speed Skating events for these Winter Olympic Games, and the succeeding 1994 Winter Olympic Games that were held in Lillehammer, Norway (which CBS also had the rights to). Ken Squier had badly wanted to travel to Nagano, Japan to call the Speed Skating events for those Winter Olympic Games-the last, to date; that CBS Sports would have the rights to, but the schedule of the 1998 Winter Olympic Games had interfered with this year’s Daytona 500 that Dale Earnhardt Sr. would go on to win; and so Ken had opted against calling the Speed Skating Events in Nagano.

Using Tim McCarver as the co-host of the host of CBS’s coverage of the 1992 Winter Olympic Games that were held in the village of Albertville, France was considered to be a mistake on CBS’s part; as Tim McCarver-primarily a Baseball announcer, was not very good as the host or an announcer for the coverage of a Winter Olympic Games. Executives who had worked at CBS at the time now wish that they had instead used Jim Nantz as the co-host for the coverage of the 1992 Winter Olympic Games and the 1994 Winter Olympic Games, and had finally gotten their wish when they had used Jim Nantz as the lone studio host for the 1998 Winter Olympic Games; but overall, they were far more satisfied with using Greg Gumbel as the co-host of the 1994 Winter Olympic games than they were for using Tim McCarver for the prior 1992 Winter Olympic Games.

Tim McCarver was working for CBS at the time because CBS, in an ill-fated business move; held the rights to the MLB that were long held by NBC from 1966-1989; when the rights to the MLB were up for grabs in 1988, and CBS had successfully grabbed the rights to the MLB from NBC; and CBS would begin to televise a far fewer amount of MLB games than NBC ever had in 1990, and CBS would lose money with their rights to the MLB due to three factors: them airing far fewer MLB games when compared to NBC during their storied 33 year tenure with the MLB, the average salary of an MLB player, coach, and other MLB personnel going up by tenfold throughout CBS’s four year tenure with the MLB when compared to the time when CBS had first obtained the rights in 1988; and therefore-leading to the price that CBS had paid for the rights to the MLB not being able to cover the cost towards MLB players and coaches’ paychecks; and as CBS had aired far fewer MLB games, they could only do so due to the scheduling conflicts caused by CBS’s rights to NASCAR, the PGA Tour, the NFL AFC rights, several Tennis events, several Indy Car events, and several Figure Skating events; alongside the network’s core News and Entertainment programming.

NBC, meanwhile, at this time; would grab the rights to the NBA that had been long held by CBS since 1972; and would begin to air NBA games around the same time that CBS would begin to air any MLB games. By the late 1990’s, NBC would begin to lose money with their rights to the NBA; just like how CBS had lost money during their four year tenure of holding the rights to the MLB, and that would eventually lead to NBC bowing out of the bidding wars for the rights to the NBA in 2001; and ABC/ESPN picking up the rights to the NBA starting in late 2002. To this day, ABC/ESPN still holds the rights to the NBA; and it is unknown if another broadcasting outlet will grab the rights to the NBA from ABC/ESPN when the NBA rights are up for grabs once again sometime in the early 2020’s.

The Evil Iacocca’s Chrysler Corporation was a major television sponsor of CBS’s coverage of the 1992 Winter Olympic Games, and also a sponsor of the United States Olympic Team at this time; and these commercials had spread Lee Iacocca’s puff pieces about his paltry K-Cars and minivans. However, there were ads for the highly pleasant Jeeps, since Chrysler had already owned Jeep after purchasing it and AMC in 1987; and the Mitsubishi captive imports that were rebadged as a Plymouth, Dodge, or an Eagle that were even more pleasant than Lee Iacocca’s paltry K-Cars and minivans.

Not only are the Jeeps many more times pleasant than the paltry K-Cars and minivans, Jeeps have also been eternally more pleasant than the Chevrolet S-10 Pickup and Blazer, Ford Ranger and the Bronco II/Truck-based Explorer, Toyota Hi Lux Surf/4Runner, the Nissan Terrano/Pathfinder, Daihatsu Rocky; Suzuki Samurai, and the Suzuki Escudo/Sidekick/Vitara/Geo-Chevrolet Tracker.

The only other SUVs that have ever been equal to a Jeep are the Isuzu Trooper, the Isuzu Rodeo/Amigo; any Land Rover, and also-the Toyota Land Cruiser.