When the mixed doubles round-robin matches begin in curling Wednesday morning in Beijing, so too will XIV Olympic Winter Games, underway in China less than six months after the torch was extinguished to wrap up the delayed Tokyo Summer Olympics.It will kick off a record 2,800 hours of Olympics coverage from February 2-20 across U.S.
rightsholders NBC and its network siblings USA Network (400 hours of coverage planned beginning February 2) and CNBC (80 hours planned).
Coverage is also available at NBCOlympics.com and the NBC Sports app via authentication (2,100 hours planned) as well as on the Peacock streaming service, which is ramping up from its Tokyo debut and will air every event from all 15 sports live in real time via its premium tier as well as offer full replays.NBC’s main coverage launches its primetime coverage on Thursday, February 3, with live team figure skating getting underway along with men’s and women’s moguls, leading into the Opening Ceremony on Friday live in the early morning (6:30 a.m.
ET) and again in primetime (5 p.m.; encore at 8 p.m.; replay at 12:38 a.m. PT Saturday). Mike Tirico from Beijing and Savannah Guthrie from New York will anchor the coverage.In all, NBC will broadcast almost 200 hours of coverage across 18 nights of primetime live across all U.S.
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