NBC Universal Lines Up 3,600 Hours of Olympics Coverage

BEIJING, August 8: NBC Universal’s various assets are
gearing up for more than 3,600 hours of coverage of next year’s Olympics in
Beijing, 1,000 more hours than the combined total of every Summer Olympics ever
televised in the U.S.

The Beijing Olympic Games kick
off one year from today and run till August 24. The coverage on NBC Universal
will average almost 212 hours per day for 17 days and will span on-air, online,
on-demand and wireless platforms.

On air, NBC, USA, MSNBC and
CNBC will all provide coverage from Beijing with high definition coverage on
NBC's HD affiliates, USA HD and Universal HD. Spanish-language Olympic coverage
will be seen on Telemundo.

Online, viewers will have
access to approximately 2,200 total hours of live streaming Olympic broadband
video coverage on NBCOlympics.com. On demand, NBCOlympics.com also will feature
approximately 3,000 hours of highlights, rewinds and encores. Plans for mobile
content will be unveiled in the coming months.