NBC Olympics TV Schedule

[Weights&Shoes]

I'm trying to prep for this.

So NBC's online live stream is U.S. only so Canadians can't watch. I'm really worried about this CTV/TSN/Sportsnet coverage in Canada.

- In 2008 CBC did all the Olympic coverage (like past years). And they did a fantastic job of showing all the track events live, Rounds, everything. Very easy to record as all the main events from Rounds to Finals were on the main CBC network.

- Looking at the CTV schedule for the London games, looks like CTV and Sportsnet will do all the T&F coverage. On some days both will be showing some form of athletics simultaneously, I'm just worried since they don't specify what will be shown when that happens. I'll be wasting time recording TWO networks?

- Also Canadian networks here are notorious for cutting things off. For instance the Men's 100m Final is at 4:50pm EST. The T&F coverage that day ends at 5:00pm, will we see the victory lap? will we get a post-race interview?


I plan on buying two extra PVR extenders to record all the footage from both CTV and NBC in HD.

[rsb2]

Pretending that gh is not listening, there is no problem watching all the action online. There are sites all over the World who will be live streaming not only all the NBC family options and CTV, but also BBC, EuroSport, etc., etc. I am assuming that, as these sites are well known and have been for quite a while, the fact they are still in business seems to preclude the possibility that are doing something illegal. I refuse to believe that the big networks wouldn't have shut them down, if they were able to, either technically or legally.

[Marlow]

Pretending that gh is not listening, there is no problem watching all the action online. There are sites all over the World who will be live streaming not only all the NBC family options and CTV, but also BBC, EuroSport, etc., etc.

All of which are effectively blocked thru USA ISPs. Last time we watched on a pirate Bahamas site and that was DREADFUL.

[Weights&Shoes]

Yeah those other sites are blocked here too. I don't mind watching everything live on TV. My only worry is with the change over from CBC to CTV will they give athletics the same look. Hopefully the actual broadcast schedule with a breakdown of what's being shown will come closer to the games.

[rsb2]

Sorry guys, you are looking at the wrong sites. I'm in Canada, have no cable service, just wireless internet, and have not missed an event all year, and have not paid a cent. I have passed on sites to many Americans as well as Canadians, who have received the same service. I feel not the slightest pang of guilt, because the people paying for the rights are actually mostly paying to keep others from showing events that they have no interest in anyway, and almost never show. In other words, paying to keep wannabe fans from watching what they want to watch. That doesn't sit very well with me, and if I can get around it somehow, legally, I will do. I will be posting links on my facebook page as we get closer.

[Vault-emort]

Pay-TV subscribers will be able to flick between 8 live HD channels showing full coverage of different sports. 1 of these channels will feature live track & 1 live field events exclusively. They promise that every single gold medal event in every sport will be broadcast live and in full. They also offer a free mobile app which allows access to the 8 channels on a tablet/laptop away from the home.

Can't wait!

I would pay for this on a pay per view model but I still refuse to subscribe for 6 months to access it. Everything else they provide is of no value to me.

I guess that's the Pay-TV model. Get a few very attractive pieces of exclusive shows/sports to persuade people to sign up for the complete range of dross.

I am pleased this year that (apparently opposite to the NBC position) both Aussie broadcasters realise they are competing with the web and social media like never before and have to feature as much live sport as possible - supposedly reducing 'human interest' buildup pieces - or become irrelevant. I hope this also means less 'talking head spouting cliches in the studio' as well.

And - with the pay-TV option - I like the sound of the 'medal chance in equestrian on Channel 6 in 5 minutes' or 'Men's 100m final with Usain Bolt in 2 minutes on Channel 1' alerts that you will supposedly see on all of the 8 live channels.

Usually I'm looking forward to the sport and dreading the coverage. This year, I can't wait to direct the coverage.

[Athleticsimaging]

Usually I'm looking forward to the sport and dreading the coverage. This year, I can't wait to direct the coverage.

Awwww, you almost had me ringing Foxtel.........

[guru]

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[bruce3404]

Anxiously awaiting the start of the late night shift for live streaming T&F, I ran a little experiment today since it's the first day of live streaming. As you probably know, NBC is touting its HD quality streaming so I hooked up my PC with an HDMI cable to my HD projector and watched on a 10' screen. While being short of a good quality Blu Ray, it was very watchable and blows away the Universal streaming broadcasts which I refuse to watch on anything bigger than a 22" monitor. Also hooked up to a 47" 1080p flat screen and it looked as good as any quality TV broadcast. Bravo NBC!

[Weights&Shoes]

^ NBCOlympics.com right?

[bruce3404]

^ NBCOlympics.com right?

This is where I go for online listings: http://www.nbcolympics.com/online-listi ... index.html

[donley2]

Anxiously awaiting the start of the late night shift for live streaming T&F, I ran a little experiment today since it's the first day of live streaming. As you probably know, NBC is touting its HD quality streaming so I hooked up my PC with an HDMI cable to my HD projector and watched on a 10' screen. While being short of a good quality Blu Ray, it was very watchable and blows away the Universal streaming broadcasts which I refuse to watch on anything bigger than a 22" monitor. Also hooked up to a 47" 1080p flat screen and it looked as good as any quality TV broadcast. Bravo NBC!

What internet speed do you have? Were you using the 720p stream or the 1080p stream? I used the 720p stream (previous tests had shown buffering withe 1080p stream and my 12Mb per second internet) and I agree it looked pretty darn good. Mine has a bit of jerkiness/jitter, but if the video resolution/quality stays this good for the track and field I will be ecstatic.

[bruce3404]

What internet speed do you have? Were you using the 720p stream or the 1080p stream?

I generally run about 15mbps on a Comcast Performance plan. As to the stream, I didn't realize NBC offered a choice and I couldn't find a choice on their website; I simply clicked on the offering and there it was. Not sure that it will make much difference (if any), but I plan to run an ethernet cable from my router into my laptop. Yesterday's tests were done wirelessly, but only about 20' from the router, so the signal was very good with no jerkiness. I ran my tests around 10PM last night and wasn't subject to a lot of neighborhood use and reduced bandwidth, though that generally isn't a problem where I live.

[Pego]

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[Bijan]

What's the ETA men's 4 x 100 semis and finals?

http://www.nbcolympics.com/tv-listings/index.html

I ask becuase I'll be out of town Aug. 1-3.

[bruce3404]

What's the ETA men's 4 x 100 semis and finals?

http://www.nbcolympics.com/tv-listings/index.html

I ask becuase I'll be out of town Aug. 1-3.

http://www.nbcolympics.com/track-and-fi ... index.html

[Jim Rorick]

Tried to access streaming today but I cannot find anywhere on the live video site to enter my Comcast user name and password (to verify I subscribe to a cable system that carries MSNBC and CNBC). There's a drop-down box in FAQs to enter "Comcast XFINITY" but nothing happens when I do that. So all I can get is the black blank screen. The Carson Daly demo video shows buttons to click on to enter this data, but the current site doesn't have those buttons (anymore?). And I do have the browser, Adobe Flash, broadband etc. that is required. Can anyone provide any helpful info? Didn't use streaming for Trials because I was in Eugene. Thanks.

[TN1965]

I keep getting this very insulting message that I don't have subcription to view the video.

I have tried using both my Charter account ID and email address. As far as I know, my Charter subscrition includes both CNBC and MSNBC.

[CookyMonzta]

If Dick Ebersol was still in charge, we wouldn't even get live streaming. I don't understand what American TV producers have against live TV.

Which is why I hope ABC and ESPN get the next Summer Olympics. NBC has had it long enough.

[Mighty Favog]

I've always wondered if Ebersol still feels burnt from the economic failure of the 1992 TripleCast, and presumes that its problems were live, intelligent, in-depth coverage of the Olympics as an actual sporting event.

[Conor Dary]

I am curious why anyone will think another network will be any different. All of the American networks are businesses. They all lose money on the operation. If you want to blame anyone, blame the IOC, which sells their 'product' to the highest bidder, without regard what they do with it.

[jamaica50]

If Dick Ebersol was still in charge, we wouldn't even get live streaming. I don't understand what American TV producers have against live TV.

Which is why I hope ABC and ESPN get the next Summer Olympics. NBC has had it long enough.

NBC bought the Olympic rights through 2020.

[jamaica50]

What time(US EDT) does the opening cermonies begin today?

I assume it will be streamed live online at http://www.nbcolympics.com

[gh]

I've always wondered if Ebersol still feels burnt from the economic failure of the 1992 TripleCast, and presumes that its problems were live, intelligent, in-depth coverage of the Olympics as an actual sporting event.

I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but the tale is told in the halls at Rock Center that if NBC had taken everybody who bought the triplecast and flew them to Barcelona, put them up in a hotel and got them tickets they would have lost less money than they did by actually putting on the production.

Which indicates that the execution had nothign to do with it; it was either marketed very poorly, or it's indeed a concept that few people were interested in even trying. It's tough being a hardcore fanof something and having trouble conceiving of why the rest of the planet doesn't think the same way you do.

[DrJay]

What time(US EDT) does the opening cermonies begin today?

I assume it will be streamed lived online at http://www.nbcolympics.com

Is it being streamed? I can't get on the site at work (our Internet comes through the building's T1 line and the hospital owns that and they have various sites blocked, like that one. I'm working on getting an exception for the site for our office!) I figured they wouldn't stream the Opening Ceremony as it's the only enchilada to get people to watch tonight.

[bruce3404]

I figured they wouldn't stream the Opening Ceremony as it's the only enchilada to get people to watch tonight.

Opening Ceremonies aside, as I understand it, anything that will be shown at prime time will have limited streaming and in some cases if you miss the live stream, you won't be able to watch until the evening prime time broadcast. Contrasting examples might be the men's SP qualifying which we can assume will be available for a streaming re-play, thus if you don't want to be up at 2AM on the left coast, you can watch it whenever; the other side would be men's 100m qualifying which we'll be able to watch live online, but probably not on an online replay until after the prime time broadcast since NBC will want to feature Bolt et al. Please correct me if I'm mis-interpreting this policy.

I also just found this on the NBC website: For track & field, users can watch a single feed bouncing from event to event, or feeds dedicated to specific events (javelin, pole vault, etc.).

Since there's definitely a lag switching back and forth as the stream buffers, seems like it might make sense to bring every laptop one owns into a room, hook one up to the TV and have the others on different feeds. Might have to switch to Comcast's super-duper bandwidth package for a couple of weeks. Oh, this is gonna be fun!

[bruce3404]

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[jamaica50]

Thanks NBC for not showing the Olympic opening ceremony live on TV. I think the US is the only country in the world that never(except Altanta Games) show the opening ceremony and most of the Olympics live.

Thank God for the internet for now we have a choice. Great ceremony so far. Things are wrapping up now.

[Weights&Shoes]

So just to get a feel of the scheduling, I was looking at the lineup for tomorrow on NBC (TV). Looks like the opening rounds of swimming will be live during their 5am EST telecast. But the evening swims (400 I.M. finals with Phelps) won't be shown live during the 12pm afternoon telecast. Will have to wait until primetime to watch it on tape delay.

This whole damn thing is confusing, lol.

[rsb2]

I am confused as to why you are even looking at NBC scheduling, if you live in Toronto. At a quick glance there are 4 different Canadian channels, starting in a few hours at 1:30 am Pacific time, and covering virtually everything for the next 2 weeks, not to mention a lot of additional online options. Unless you are specifically looking for USA up-close and personals and lots of advertising, it's all on the CTV/TSN/Sportsnet/OLN group.

[Weights&Shoes]

I am confused as to why you are even looking at NBC scheduling, if you live in Toronto. At a quick glance there are 4 different Canadian channels, starting in a few hours at 1:30 am Pacific time, and covering virtually everything for the next 2 weeks, not to mention a lot of additional online options. Unless you are specifically looking for USA up-close and personals and lots of advertising, it's all on the CTV/TSN/Sportsnet/OLN group.

I think NBC's coverage is better when it comes to T&F (not including BBC). Their story lead ups, actual race calls etc. For Beijing I recorded both NBC and CBC (Canadian network that had the Olympic rights before) broadcasts for T&F.

[noone]

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I doubt I'll have need of such a service, but I find if hard to believe that NBC has the ability to quickly shut down some pirate feed coming from Estonia (random example). If the movie and music studios can't do, why do you think NBC will be able to?

Maybe they can't, but one can always hope.

For those who think that piracy is fun, please do me a favor and stop locking your house, and send me your address. I'll wander by some time and help myself to whatever I want because you obviously believe that there's no such thing as property rights so your shit is my shit.

Garry if you want to make analogies, try this: You have somehow acquired the right to be the only one in town who may sell food. But the only food you provide tastes bad and is stale. Then people find a way to bring in the food they really want.

[Conor Dary]

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I doubt I'll have need of such a service, but I find if hard to believe that NBC has the ability to quickly shut down some pirate feed coming from Estonia (random example). If the movie and music studios can't do, why do you think NBC will be able to?

Maybe they can't, but one can always hope.

For those who think that piracy is fun, please do me a favor and stop locking your house, and send me your address. I'll wander by some time and help myself to whatever I want because you obviously believe that there's no such thing as property rights so your shit is my shit.

Garry if you want to make analogies, try this: You have somehow acquired the right to be the only one in town who may sell food. But the only food you provide tastes bad and is stale. Then people find a way to bring in the food they really want.

Which they stole from the local farmers....

[TN1965]

I am curious why anyone will think another network will be any different. All of the American networks are businesses. They all lose money on the operation. If you want to blame anyone, blame the IOC, which sells their 'product' to the highest bidder, without regard what they do with it.

I think ABC/ESPN could be different. Did you notice the Wimbledon coverage drastically changed when it moved from NBC to ESPN? Their World Cup coverage is also different from the NBC approach.

When CBS had the Winter Olympics, they were no better than NBC. I don't miss them...

[Conor Dary]

I am curious why anyone will think another network will be any different. All of the American networks are businesses. They all lose money on the operation. If you want to blame anyone, blame the IOC, which sells their 'product' to the highest bidder, without regard what they do with it.

I think ABC/ESPN could be different. Did you notice the Wimbledon coverage drastically changed when it moved from NBC to ESPN? Their World Cup coverage is also different from the NBC approach.

When CBS had the Winter Olympics, they were no better than NBC. I don't miss them...

The coverage of the cycling this morning was fine. And they are showing everything, somewhere, live. What more do you want?

Yes, ESPN does a fine job with the WC. But that is a lot easier than the Olympics. A: They don't pay as much and B: the American Jingoism is minor.

I am really looking forward to watching the WC in 2 years. As for the Olympics, in 2 weeks it will all be over....


I haven't watched more than 10 minutes of Wimbledon since the 1980's.