NBC is making 4,500 hours of Olympics coverage available at NBCOlympics.com and the NBC Sports app, starting with preliminary soccer events on Wednesday, two days before Friday’s formal start of the Olympics. As with the London Olympics in 2012, NBC will broadcast a daily show in primetime, between 8pm and midnight, which should feature the best of the live action and a round-up of the day’s biggest stories. Verizon is in the process of acquiring Yahoo’s operating business. There are options. Although NBC is offering Olympic video through a staggering array of platforms-everything from Snapchat to Twitter-it’s impossible to legally stream major events online for free.
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Fans of the Olympics have a binge-watching marathon ahead of them with NBC’s coverage of the Summer Games in Rio.
NBC, the network that has the rights to air the worldwide event in the United States, will be offering live internet streams through its website, mobile and television apps – but only if you subscribe directly to a supported television provider such as cable or satellite.
In addition to basketball and soccer, coverage will include track and field, archery, boxing, cycling, fencing, field hockey, judo, open water swimming, rugby, shooting, soccer, synchronized swimming, table tennis, weightlifting, wrestling and more.
“I have been told that of the record number of announcers NBC is using this year (170 total) apparently I am calling more sports than anyone”, he said in an email.
The world is watching this summer’s Olympic games.unless you are in the United States and don’t pay for a traditional television subscription.
Twitter is leaning into the Olympics this year if you want to follow Olympics Moments, since, odds are, you were planning on checking Twitter anyway.
PlayStation Vue (pictured here), along with Sling TV, are both available on Roku. But the bottom line, unfortunately, is: if you don’t have a pay TV subscription you’ll find it tough to watch the Games. They each offer seven free days, which combined back-to-back will set you up with 14 free days of games.
The easiest way to stream the Olympics is through NBC’s website or the NBC Sports app (which is free on iOS, Apple TV Android, Roku, Xbox and Windows devices).
The opening ceremony will be delayed an hour before being shown on NBC because the network wants the entertainment spectacle, which was seen by 40.7 million people in 2012, to be shown completely in USA prime time.
“SportsCenter” and other ESPN shows may not air any Olympic highlights until NBC’s prime time coverage ends – on the West Coast. You’ll also have full access to scores, schedules and guides to understanding obscure events.
Sling’s Blue package costs $25 a month and includes NBC, NBCSN, USA, and Bravo.
YouTube has more than TMO videos and PewDiePie.
Playstation Vue, which recently expanded to the entire U.S., also includes NBCUniversal channels in its base package (which runs $40). You can get Golf Channel and NBC Universo for an additional $5 each.
Of course, most of the ways to watch require cable subscriptions and not everyone has those means.
Most of the online video will come from OBS as well.
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“There was a time when there was some validity to the critique that some of the athlete profiles were a bit over the top – too much hearts and flowers, too many violin strings”, Costas said”.
