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NBC Announces 3,600 Hours of Olympic Coverage
Posted August 9th, 2007 at 10:40 AM by Jimmie R. Markham
Section: News & Results, Olympics
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.”
According to Yahoo! news:
“The 3,600 broadcast hours that are planned by NBC are more than the combined total of every previous Summer Games televised in the U.S.”
For more information, please visit: [Yahoo! News]
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