NBC Announces 3,600 Hours of Olympic Coverage

Filed in archive Outdoor News on August 8, 2007

Worried you'll miss your favorite event at the Olympics? Get ready because NBC announced it will broadcast 3,600 hours of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. is coming a television and a computer near you. Most of it will be online courtesy of the first live streaming video of the Olympics.

The 3,600 hours of coverage are more than the combined total of every previous Summer Games televised in the U.S.

NBC's prime-time coverage will feature swimming, gymnastics and beach volleyball shown live despite the 12-hour time difference between the United States' Eastern time zone and Beijing.

Olympic coverage also will air on USA, MSNBC, CNBC and Telemundo. About 2,200 hours of live streaming broadband video will be available on NBCOlympics.com.

NBC broadcast 1,210 hours of coverage from Athens in 2004.

The Beijing Games take place Aug. 8-24, 2008.

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