In what is becoming an Olympics tradition, the run-up to the games was filled with foreboding stories: the Zika virus, polluted water, security concerns.
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Without further ado, here is some information about the Games and some tips about how to best enjoy them. According to NBC’s website, there will be 83 hours of 4K coverage of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, swimming, track and field, basketball, the men’s soccer final, judo and Rio scenery available on a one-day delay.
The Games – held in South America for the first time – officially take place between 5 and 21 August, but they have actually already started.
It will have five sets in Rio and 450 staff on the ground. Also worth noting: This is the first time that US service members overseas will be able to stream the Olympics through the NBC apps by authenticating with their Exchange account.
NBC is offering the entire Olympics online, live and customizable to what you want to watch, for all authenticated pay TV subscribers (aka do you have Comcast cable?). That’s up from 3,500 in London, when NBC Olympic Digital reported almost 2 billion page views and 159 million video streams, as well as record-setting engagement time. NBCUniversal will broadcast 6,755 hours of coverage in total across multiple channels and digital platforms.
Normally, when someone watches soccer on ESPN, NBC, Fox, beIN or any other sports network in the United States, it’s largely been accepted that you do not show a commercial during the actual match. So it would be a good time to learn how to transfer websites to your television via Chromecast or some other media streaming device. You’ll also find your HD antenna comes in handy for all sorts of other major sporting and cultural events to which the networks try to restrict access.
Insomniacs Rejoice: If you work at night or plan to go out tonight and don’t have a DVR, NBC is replaying its prime time coverage nightly at 1:30 a.m., starting with the opening ceremonies early Saturday morning.
On the radio: Westwood One has live radio rights for many updates and live events that will pop on KSPN-AM (710) and KXPS-AM (1010) in Palm Desert.
On most days, NBC’s primetime (hosted by Bob Costas) runs with edited coverage from 8 p.m.to midnight, across all time zones.
Networks used to show the Olympics only on their over-the-air broadcast channels. But led by Branford-born Jim Bell, the executive producer of Olympics coverage, NBC is ready to rescue TV viewers from mostly bad summer prime-time viewing as it indulges Olympics mega-fans in record-setting coverage on various “platforms” – network TV and cable channels, NBC.com (with first-time live streams to Wi Fi TVs) and the NBC sports app on other devices. They know just about everybody is going to be watching the Olympics.
Carli Lloyd – Now co-captain of the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team, Lloyd talks about her secret life at the London Olympics, where she started on the bench, and how she’s motivated by being largely unrecognized until the last World Cup. “So many of these sports you’re calling it off a monitor anyway”. CNBC’s coverage will air after the market closes and won’t impact its traditional business and financial programming.
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No problem. Just go to NBC’s athlete bio page.
