Tag: Olympics
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NBC Partners with Twitch for Live Coverage of the Tokyo Olympics
NBC will partner with Twitch to provide a new way for fans to stream the Summer Olympics. The NBC Olympics Twitch channel will livestream coverage of the Tokyo Summer Olympics and events leading up to them. The content will be geared toward Twitch viewers with athlete interviews, Olympic-themed competition shows, and more. The NBC Olympics…
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Peacock Will Stream Winter Olympics Sports Coverage
Peacock announced today that NBC Sports Gold’s “Snow Pass” will be moving to Peacock Premium this month. The programming will complement coverage of the sports on NBC, NBCSN, and Olympic Channel. On Peacock, you’ll find live and on-demand coverage of seven winter sports including alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, freestyle skiing, snowboarding, Nordic combined, ski jumping,…
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Peacock Launches Olympic Pop Up Channel ‘Road to Tokyo’
Today NBC’s new streaming service Peacock announced its first pop-up channel, “Road to Tokyo,” exactly one year out from the new start date of the delayed Olympic Games. The channel will be a 24/7 stream of highlights and classic moments from the Olympics and Paralympics past. The channel lineup also features 10 documentaries produced by…
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Celebrate Past Olympics and More on The Criterion Channel in July
Summer is heating up and so is the Criterion Channel’s lineup of content. The Tokyo Olympics may be postponed this summer, but you can still celebrate with 100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912–2012, or get your dose of drama with the Marriage Stories feature on Sunday, July 12. Here’s what’s on the Criterion Channel in…
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How to Watch the 2018 Winter Olympics on Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, & More
The 2018 Winter Olympics kick off this week with the opening ceremonies getting started on Friday, February 9th 2018. The good news for cord cutters is for the first time you can enjoy the Winter Olympics without missing anything. Many of the biggest events will be 100% free on NBC with an antenna, but an additional…
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Hulu & NBC Team Up to Stream the 2018 Winter Olympics
Are you a fan of the Winter Olympics? Hulu and NBC have teamed up to give Hulu’s live TV customers special access to the 2018 Winter Olympics. With this partnership, Hulu subscribers will have full access to NBC’s coverage of the Winter Olympics both live and on demand. Not only will you get access to…
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How to Watch the 2018 Winter Olympics Without Paying For Cable TV
NBC yesterday finally announced their plans to cover the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Many of the biggest events will be 100% free on NBC with an antenna, but an additional 365.5 hours of Olympic coverage will be aired on NBCUniversal cable networks, which include NBCSN, CNBC, and the USA Network. The good…
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The Olympics Set New Records for Antenna Sales
This year’s Olympics ended up being the first time that cord cutters could access every event even though there was no free option. Not only was the Olympics Games friendly to cord cutters it also ended up being friendly to antenna companies. According to Channel Master, antenna companies saw an over 1,200% increase in antenna…
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The Rio Olympics: The Most Streamed Event Ever
The Rio Olympics was possibly the most streamed event ever and definitely marked a massive change for covering live events. “The Rio Olympics will be looked at as the last games where traditional TV was priorities over other channels. For future Olympics, social media and on demand video will become equal partners to live TV.…
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How to Watch The 2016 Summer Olympics on Roku, Fire TV, and Apple TV
The Olympics are back and this time cord cutters have many options to watch all the content cable subscribers pay a lot more for. How can you watch the 2016 Summer Olympics? The 2016 Olympic coverage will be on the following channels: NBC NBCSN Golf Channel Bravo CNBC MSNBC USA Network For most Americans an…