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The links below are the best hope for figuring out the broadcast schedules for events.
http://www.nbcolympics.com/tv-listings/zone=ET/sport=AS/index.html
It looks like, as usual, many daytime events will be broadcast delayed, that evening. I'm still fishing to find real time feeds. Anyone?


NBC and its cable siblings will be airing 835 hours of coverage of the Winter Olympics from Vancouver starting Friday (Feb. 12). Considering that's more than twice as many hours as are actually in the 17 days of competition, we thought it would be helpful to give you a guide to what's on where.

The NBC network will save the marquee events -- primarily figure skating, but also some speed skating, snowboarding and alpine skiing contests -- for its primetime broadcasts each night. Unlike 2006, when the Olympics were held in Turin, Italy -- six hours ahead of the Eastern time zone in the U.S. -- some events will air live in primetime for the eastern half of the country (West Coast viewers are still out of luck).

USA, MSNBC and CNBC will devote their daytime coverage primarily to the two team sports, hockey and curling. Zap2it will also have daily highlights posts each day during the Olympics to help you sort out your viewing choices, but here's a broad overview of what each network will carry.

NBC

Daytime coverage will air from 3-5 p.m. ET/PT most days (occasionally it will start at 2:30) and focus primarily on nordic skiing events and snowboarding.

In primetime (8 o'clock each night, 7 on Sundays), the focus will be on figure skating (pairs is up first, followed by the men, ice dancing and the women) along with medal events in speed skating, snowboarding, alpine skiing, short track and bobsled.

Late-night broadcasts (11:30 p.m. or midnight most nights) will feature the luge and skeleton events, medal ceremonies and a recap of the day's events.

USA, CNBC, MSNBC


The three cable channels will feature extensive coverage of men's and women's hockey and curling matches. USA will be on the air at noon ET/9 a.m. PT every weekday starting Tuesday, Feb. 16, with coverage most days running until 5:30 ET/2:30 PT.

MSNBC will take over from 5:30 to 8 p.m. weekdays (2:30-5 PT) and offer late-night wrapups at 3 a.m. ET/midnight PT. CNBC, meanwhile, will devote 12 hours a day to Olympic coverage, starting at 5 p.m. ET/2 p.m. PT.

In addition, Universal HD will offer replays of select events in the mornings, and NBCOlympics.com will have live streams of events, full-event replays and tons of highlights. For detailed listings, check Zap2it's grid and NBCOlympics.com.
 
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Pretty vague

American Ryan St. Onge competes in Freestyle skiing. What does that mean?

They should have a search that narrows it down to specific events.
 

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When NBC owns the rights, they call the shots :(

I think the majority of alpine broadcast events will be time delayed.
It's not clear if we will have vids posted at universalsports.com, a NBC company.
I suspect you'll only see like the last 12 racers, or the most important racers in each playback, as they always have been. It's too bad we can't just get a live streaming feed, in this day of webcasting. Cripes, Cspan does it. Yeah, yeah, I know, NBC paid for the rights.

Lineups
http://www.nbcolympics.com/alpine-sk...les/index.html

Official Schedule Results
http://www.vancouver2010.com/olympic-alpine-skiing-schedule-results/
 

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For the summer games in Beijing, NBC streamed everything online. I'd be surprised if they don't do it again.

It was fun watching my friends win Olympic medals (fencing) live from my couch (laptop hooked up to TV). The only thing that stunk was there wasn't any spoken commentary. One of my other friends was hired by NBC to sit in front of the stream and type commentary though, so at least there was something.

That setup was fine for a sport I know a lot about (fencing), but I would have been totally lost watching something like Judo.

Hopefully they'll have a similar (or better) setup for these games.

IIRC, nothing was really posted about it until the games started last time.

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Canada's online stuff won't be seen outside the country, and NBC vows to police the web for any rogue live feeds of video posted before they show it. They had trouble doing it two years ago, I can't imagine how hard of a time they'll have this year.

I believe most Alpine events are delayed, and the only live web broadcasts NBC will have are of hockey and curling. Figure skating, meanwhile, will be live, which should mean even more of it seeing as they won't splice it to death like the Alpine stuff.

Everything will be seen on tape on the West Coast, where, you know, they're only taking place.

You can't make up how stupid this network is.
 

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For the summer games in Beijing, NBC streamed everything online. I'd be surprised if they don't do it again.

It was fun watching my friends win Olympic medals (fencing) live from my couch (laptop hooked up to TV). The only thing that stunk was there wasn't any spoken commentary. One of my other friends was hired by NBC to sit in front of the stream and type commentary though, so at least there was something.

That setup was fine for a sport I know a lot about (fencing), but I would have been totally lost watching something like Judo.

Hopefully they'll have a similar (or better) setup for these games.

IIRC, nothing was really posted about it until the games started last time.

-w


I thought the coverage was great in beijing, due mainly to what you described above.

Only things that seems to be missing is the dedicated olympic channels they ran for beijing. I think something like that would work for hockey, much like they did for basketball in 2008.
 

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With ALL the events making-up the Olympics, why oh why do American networks think that the only events Americans want to watch during primetime are figure skating, hockey and curling?
 

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Don't dismiss the role of government subsidies in all this.

CBC has the luxury of hundreds of millions of dollars from the CDN government. Makes "benevolent" programming decisions a lot easier.

NBC, like it or not, has to drive max primetime viewership to avoid losing more than $250MM they are forecasting.
 

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With ALL the events making-up the Olympics, why oh why do American networks think that the only events Americans want to watch during primetime are figure skating, hockey and curling?

Strange 4 sure. I can sort of understand the first two. But curling? Really? Is this 1960 when they broadcast bowling competition?
 

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I don't mind curling. I find it soothing.

Short-track skating on the other hand does nothing for me. Not sure why, but I like long-track better.

Figure skating....oy.
 

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Two words, ski jumping! You can't tell me someone, anyone wouldn't rather watch ski jumping than curling? Even my two ADHD boys stopped in their tracks during a commercial when they saw ski jumping!
 

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Two words, ski jumping! You can't tell me someone, anyone wouldn't rather watch ski jumping than curling? Even my two ADHD boys stopped in their tracks during a commercial when they saw ski jumping!
Absolutely. If you ever get the chance, go to Lake Placid and haul up to the top of the 120 meter jump, go out and stand at the start line. Freaking most intimidating thing I've ever seen on skis. Makes headwalls seem simple, mostly because you've gotta know how to turn skis into airfoils.
 

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NBC, like it or not, has to drive max primetime viewership to avoid losing more than $250MM they are forecasting.

That's all well and good, but it's a very short list of things that will make me change the channel faster than figure skating... And I'm sure I'm not alone.

-w
 

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I can't watch NBColympics.com events live online from my computer. When I try to watch an event live they want to know if your internet provider is from a list they have. I have Verizon DSL which is not on the list, but Verison FIOS is. I'm not happy. Oh well.
 
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