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- Morrisville(August 5, 2008) – Time Warner Cable in agreement with NBC Universal (NBCU), today unveiled plans to provide its customers with NBCU’s coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. A complete schedule of NBCU’s Olympic coverage is available at NBCOlympics.com.
In addition to the more than 1,200 total hours of Olympics coverage on six NBCU networks – NBC, USA Network, MSNBC, CNBC, Oxygen, and Universal HD – –Time Warner Cable will allow customers to watch and be a part of the Olympics in-Games with Free On Demand and HD services, as well as broadband content from NBCOlympics.com via a link from the Time Warner Cable Road Runner website. Customers will also enjoy two HD sport-specific channels for soccer and basketball.
In Games Free on Demand content will feature daily highlights, in addition to access to the best events each day. Content includes overall daily highlights by sport (approximately 15 per day, some in HD), and “Rewind,” approximately 10 of the best sessions/games per day. Available in standard definition and high definition, standard definition on demand content will be available through the Sports on Demand portal and the high definition content will be available through HD Showcase on Demand. Content will be made available on demand beginning 8/10 until 8/30.
Via the RoadRunner.com portal, Road Runner subscribers will be able to link to NBCOlympics.com to access 2,200 hours of 25 events streamed live, plus full-event video replays, extensive highlights, including daily recaps of key events, best-of montages, commentator analysis and athlete-specific clips each day.
For the duration of the Olympic Games, Time Warner Cable will also make available more than 800 hours of HD coverage on select NBCU HD networks:
· NBC HD: 225 hours
· Universal HD: 379 hours of simulcasts and re-airs of CNBC and MSNBC
· USA HD: Simulcast, 165 hours
· HD sport-specific channels: NBC Olympic Soccer Channel and NBC Olympic Basketball Channel, approximately 12 hours per day during Games.
Time Warner Cable is making Universal HD available as part of the free HD tier for the duration of the Olympic Games. Universal HD will be providing high definition coverage of select events carried on MSNBC and CNBC. At the conclusion of the Olympics it will be returned to the HD tier.
“We are pleased to be offering our customers NBC Universal’s coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games which showcases the power of Time Warner Cable’s digital video and Road Runner High Speed services,” said Dan Santelle, Time Warner Cable vice president of programming and product development. “We hope everyone enjoys this programming, which includes an unprecedented amount of High Definition, On Demand and Broadband Olympics-related content, all made easily accessible for no additional charge to our digital video and Road Runner subscribers.”
Please check with local listings for detailed information on event coverage. For more information for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, please visit NBCOlympics.com
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OLYMPICS 2008 |
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AVAILABLE NETWORKS |
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NBC |
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CNBC |
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MSNBC |
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Oxygen |
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Sports On Demand |
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HD Showcase On Demand |
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Temp carriage/placement for Olympics (8/8 - 8/25 only) |
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NBC HD |
1500 |
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USA HD (temp carriage for Olympic Games) |
1501 |
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Universal HD (free preview from HD tier) |
1502 |
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Olympics Soccer HD Channel (temp carriage for Olympic Games)
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1503 |
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Olympics Basketball HD Channel (temp carriage for Olympic Games) |
1504 |
About Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable is the second-largest cable operator in the U.S., with technologically advanced, well-clustered systems located mainly in five geographic areas — New York state (including New York City), the Carolinas, Ohio, southern California (including Los Angeles) and Texas. As of March 31, 2008, Time Warner Cable served approximately 14.7 million customers who subscribed to one or more of its video, high-speed data and voice services.
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