NBC has announced that their cable channel NBCSN will air 330 hours of events during the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, the most of any of NBCUniversal’s TV networks.
NBCSN will provide extensive coverage of men’s and women’s soccer and men’s and women’s basketball, including coverage of the U.S. men’s basketball and U.S. women’s soccer.
Other sports included in their coverage will be track and field, archery, boxing, cycling, fencing, field hockey, judo, open-water swimming, rugby, shooting, soccer, synchronized swimming, table tennis, weightlifting, wrestling and more. Medals will be won on NBCSN every day of the Olympics.
NBC Olympics executive producer Jim Bell commented on the coverage NBCSN will provide, calling it “the perfect complement to our NBC broadcasts, allowing us to present long-form coverage of many of the games’ most popular sports and athletes.”
Coverage on NBCSN will begin two days before the Opening Ceremonies with women’s soccer on August 3rd. Their schedule will vary a bit, but on most days they will have coverage for 16 hours a day, 8 AM to 12 AM EDT.
Full programming information for NBC is expected to be announced soon.
Read the full article on the NBC Olympics website here.
Find full Olympic Trials scheduling information for swimming and other sports here.
NBC is offering 1700 hours of television coverage and 4500 hours of streaming of the Olympics. And the first comment I read here is that NBC’s coverage isn’t enough. Yea, there’s going to be a ton of commercials (although probably not much more than any other TV shows) and the primetime shows will have the usual features (less so on the cable nets). But if people are still complaining there isn’t enough coverage of the Olympics.. come on. 20 years ago there was literally 1/10th of the TV coverage and 0 streaming.
I made a comment about commercials because as Frenchman I can’t understand how US people can bear that.
That’s probably why France can’t afford to get the broadcasting rights like NBC can.
Actually nbcsn is one of five or six channels that will have Olympic coverage (the others are USA, MSNBC, CNBC, bravo, Nbcuniverso). I do agree that the repeatitve ads can get very annoying but posters are exaggerating on the amount of time (nbc is the worst 18 mins of ads per hour, nbcsn would be 14 mins per hour). In addition to the six tv channels NBCOlympics.com is streaming every event live and in its entirety. London had more than 2000 hrs worth of material and rio will be the same. if that isn’t enough then I guess we have become totally insatiable!!!
Great points. No need to worry, we can consume as much coverage as needed. I remember streaming the swim coverage in the AM while at work and watching it live on TV when I got home. May have to take a few days off this year, especially during the swimming events.
Thankfully I’ll have the BBC’s top classcoverage to watch instead.
And I will have 8 channels 24-7, in 2 days I would had more available coverage than the whole NBC! If I considerd only competition time in 3 days I would have more coverage..
You realize that 330 number is only for NBCSN, right? NBC’s total coverage if 1700 hours of TV and 4500 hours of streaming. So that’s the equivalent of 4 full TV networks going 24-7 (and there aren’t Olympic events on 24 hours a day) and all the events streamed. What more do you think NBC should do that they’re not?
Me too – BBC dont do the silly Us tricks around
Over 330 hours of coverage I predict at least 100 hours of commercials. 😆
Don’t be overly optimistic, messr. Gigi,
I reckon there’ll be around 190 hours of commercials, not counting sappy stories about the athletes and how they overcame personal tragedy/illness/family loss/neighbourhood drama/PTSD parents/job loss/childhood trauma etc etc to get to Rio..
LOL Loved it, Smoothswimmer! I thought I was the only one who saw this from NBC.
Coverage for US viewers is bad.. just to say it.. At last olympics Brazilian channel Sportv (which has usually 3 channels) had 5 channels full time covering the olympics. For Rio olympics there will be 8 channels covering full time.. US viewers should really have more.. they will get more medals than anyone but the coverage is really subpar..
330 hours of coverage on just one of the channels and I don’t plan on watching even 10% of that. Maybe 15% tops with a good portion of it recorded because of all the commercials. The commercial rate is usually 18 minutes for every one hour and I’m guessing they’ll ramp that up.
I’ve never had a problem being able to watch the sports that interest me. What I’m more interested in is being able to watch events on demand.
Not judging though. If you desire more than 16 hours a day coverage or the couple events that aren’t covered, then more power to you:)