Number of Comcast-owned channels the games will be shown on.
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“The winter Olympics in Sochi was the first time we integrated the NBC Sports app into our X1 platform”, said Gilbert.
With over 4,500 hours of live event coverage during the Olympic Summer Games from Rio, keeping up with the Games while away from your TV is easier than ever. For those that want to the events, they can be seen on TV on NBC and watched online via NBC Olympics. NBC Olympics executive producer Jim Bell described the foray into virtual reality as experimental.
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Put PS Vue and SlingTV together and you’re covered for the whole Olympics sans money. In Spanish, the Olympics are on Telemundo and NBC Universo. This time around, NBC is promising to stream 4500 hours of live programming on its website and apps – but you’ll have to subscribe to pay TV to tune in.
Dan Walker takes over from Ore at 7pm on BBC Four with as the latest swimming heats continue at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium, including the women’s 4x100m freestyle from 19.01.
This set up – whereby Facebook and NBC Olympics’ linear TV content feed into each other – corresponds to modern consumers’ TV-viewing habits, as illustrated in a recent study by Mindshare which surveyed 1,034 adults nationwide.
NBC’s over-the-air network remains the primary destination, though. Here in the United States, NBC is advertising Olympics coverage almost every third minute, and other broadcasters are doing the same in their respective countries. But “if you’re on the West Coast and you want to watch it live, you can stream it live”. You don’t even need a PlayStation to register-and you can use your Vue login to watch the live footage on NBC.com, too. Contact your local satellite or cable provider for channel information, though not every service will carry the temporary networks.
This year, for the first time, USA service members worldwide will have access to streaming NBC Olympics live coverage of the 2016 Rio Olympics from their desktop and personal devices. During the Olympics, Sling is adding MSNBC and CNBC for free. $10 more gets viewers access to the Core package, which includes the Golf Channel. Luckily, it’s a monthly service so you could also just pony up 20 bones and cancel after the Olympics are over.
Although it will be using a lot of still images, as it does during the NCAA men’s basketball tournament and soccer’s World Cup, ESPN still has a big team in Rio. You can alternatively grab the VR coverage through a web browser on CBC’s site here. But there’s no cable to install – or disconnect after the Olympics. To vicariously experience the thrill of victory and agony of defeat, here’s an overview of options for watching the Summer Olympic games, which began August 5 and continue through August 21.
Not surprisingly, the Golf Channel will only broadcast golf, though NBC will also have coverage of the sport. On both the iOS and Android Google app, users can also choose to receive automatic Olympic updates.
Ironically, the International Olympic Committee’s least-promoted app is by far the most helpful one they offer. NBC isn’t directly involved with either the 4K or VR production, but will rely on worldwide feeds provided by the global Olympic Committee’s Olympic Broadcasting Services.
“In another example, attackers emulated a major airline’s Twitter account and tweeted malicious links to an Olympics sponsor”, said the researchers.
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Most of the online video will come from OBS as well. Another plus with watching worldwide Olympics broadcasts is that, unlike NBC, they don’t time-delay the broadcasts. That makes the digital destinations a good way for immigrants to follow athletes from their home countries.
