After a busy slate of men’s gymnastics on Day 1 of the Rio Olympics, the much-anticipated women’s competition gets underway on Sunday morning. We’ll tell you what time they are competing, what channel you can see it on, and we’ll even give you links to the live stream of the event.
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NBC has paid billions for the exclusive rights to carry the Olympic Games live through 2032 and, although ESPN covers sports as a news outlet, restrictions are placed on its use of highlights. Also, NBC Sports Group is partnering with Buzzfeed to provide games coverage over the new Olympics Discover channel on Snapchat, set to launch on or around August 5. In addition to their Olympic relationship, Yahoo and NBC Sports are now in the fourth year of a digital sports alliance that widens NBCs distribution.
Other Olympics have taken place without significant difficulties and he hopes it will be the same for Rio, Costas said Tuesday.
For the cord-cutting sector, Sling TV is a top priority. PlayStation Vue’s base package, dubbed Access, costs $40 a month and includes access to NBC, CNBC, MSNBC, Telemundo, NBCSN, Bravo and United States of America, which carry numerous game’s main events.
Tablo. Many of the Olympic’s main events will be available for viewing on NBC’s main broadcast network, with others being aired on Telemundo.
NBC will begin its prime-time coverage with an hour-long preview Thursday night, and will televise the opening ceremony on Friday. View the full schedule, broken up by sport and date. Viewers in Chicago, New York, San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Dallas/Fort Worth, Washington, DC, Miami/Fort Lauderdale, San Diego, and Hartford/New Haven can subscribe to Sling Blue for $25 per month, and access NBC, Bravo, NBC Sports Network and USA.
The catch is you must watch everything in real time. “In my own way, I finally get to go to the Olympics”.
Vue offers most NBC cable channels as part of its basic plan, which costs $30 or $40 a month, depending on the market. Each networks TV coverage will also include athlete features, segments on the host city and country, and interviews with newsmakers and medal-winning athletes.
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Many cable and satellite providers will add a 4K channel for the Olympics to show selected events, typically with a one-day delay. More coverage equals more advertising, which means more money for the network, Zika mosquitos be-damned.
