NBC Announces 3,600 Hours of Olympic Coverage

Posted August 9, 2007 at 06:25 PM by Jimmie R. Markham

Section: Beijing 2008, Live Coverage

NBC Universal Sports & Olympics chairman Dick Ebersol announced today that NBC plans on broadcasting more than 3,600 hours of coverage of the 2008 Olympic Games from Beijing, China. However, the majority of that coverage will be on the internet with live streaming video on NBCOlympics.com.

This is the first time the Olympic Games will be broadcast on the internet. According to the NBC website, the 2008 Olympic Games will feature “302 medal events across 34 sports.”

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