The NBCUniversal (CMCSA) backed Olympic Channel made its TV debut on Saturday in 35 million homes. The television channel, which has a digital counterpart, will provide 24/7 coverage of Olympic sports and the American athletes who star in them. Live events, original olympic-themed content and archived footage will fill the broadcast schedule. Despite its large potential viewership base, questions certainly remain about public interest during non-Olympic periods. Programming Note: Beginning on August 28th and running through September 4th, the channel will replay all eight original broadcasts of the 1992 Dream Team’s run to gold.
Olympic Channel hits TVs Saturday, will air 1992 Dream Team games in late August
Howie Long-Short opines: ZzzZZZzzz. This only works because NBC has a big brother in Comcast to pick up carriage of the channel.
Fan Marino says: Mark Twain once said “Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is never enough.” I say too much curling is bad, and there isn’t enough whiskey in NYC for me to watch synchronized swimming and fencing. Hard pass, though I will tune in for the Dream Team broadcasts.