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The 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville were actually broadcast on CBS, which makes that 1992 Super Bowl halftime show more logical. I know I watched Super Bowls XXV and XXVI but I have absolutely no memory of watching either halftime show. I was nine in early 1992 and had just started becoming a sports nut in the year or two before that, and the 1992 Olympics were the first games that I was old enough pay attention to. CBS had broadcast the Olympics at several points, but by the late 1980s NBC became the traditional network for the Summer Games and ABC broadcast the 1988 Winter games. CBS got the broadcast rights for the Winter games in 1992, 1994, and 1998, while NBC broadcast every Summer games during that period, and since 1998 NBC has broadcast every Olympic games, both winter and summer. When CBS had the winter games they used a different theme than the familiar John Williams-penned fanfare so prominently used in NBC's coverage. Tamara Kline composed the CBS Olympic theme, and I became familiar with it before I ever had a conscious memory of hearing the far better John Williams Olympic fanfare. It's pretty good, but also sounds like it was created by a CBS Sports music theme generator. You can here it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP2kkwMlpiM

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