The game is set to get underway at 9 p.m. EST. If you want information on a specific athlete, say his or her name into the voice remote.
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NBC has created a dedicated application for the Olympics which is called NBC Olympics: Rio News and Results. HBO’s “Real Sports” aired a thorough investigation last month into the International Olympic Committee and demands placed on host countries, but don’t expect something similar on NBC. There’ll be plenty of coverage of swimming, beach volleyball, gymnastics, track and field, swimming, diving, and basketball, along with athlete profiles and features on Rio.
The Golf Channel, for example, concentrates on the Olympic return of its namesake sport.
Bravo will be the Olympic home of tennis.
In the Pacific time zone, NBC coverage will start at 7:30 p.m. on all the network’s platforms – television, NBColympics.com, and the NBC Sports mobile app.
NBC Olympics: NBC did not only manage to secure the exclusive broadcasting rights of the Rio Olympics but also to be the first to report any news and development before and after every Olympic event through its dedicated “Rio News and Results” app.
It time for Rio Olympics 2016, and while NBC network is the official broadcast channel for the games in the USA, there are countries where the games are unfortunately not being broadcasted live.
To catch most of the action, you’ll have to use the NBC Sports app which is accessed through your subscription to a cable provider.
The attention speaks to the huge economic opportunity the games provide NBC in a fragmented media world.
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Entitled The Most Beautiful Things In The World, the 5-minute film will focus on the sights, sounds, beauty and vibe of the Brazilian metropolis and the around 11,000 Olympians and 207 nations who are officially competing from August 5 to 21. “I think it will be nice, fingers crossed, if we can have a couple of weeks to give people something to cheer about”.
