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At the 2008 Summer Olympics, events were streamed live for the first time on the Internet through the NBCOlympics.com website (also in 2008, Oxygen replaced Bravo as a supplemental network, and NBC launched high-definition channels dedicated to the basketball and soccer competitions).
Broadcast information for the 2008 Summer Olympics on NBC and all of its partners: CNBC, MSNBC, Telemundo (in Spanish), USA Network, Oxygen, Universal HD and sport-specific channels for basketball and soccer. All times are Eastern Daylight Time and are subject to change.
Watch video footage of medal-winning performances from Beijing 2008. See the world's greatest athletes make Olympic history.
The nightly Primetime shows will feature live swimming, gymnastics and beach volleyball action, broadcast the following morning from Beijing (12 hours ahead of Eastern Time). Extensive cable coverage will be offered on USA, MSNBC, CNBC and Oxygen, with high-definition broadcasts on NBC's HD affiliates, USA HD and Universal HD.
24 sie 2008 · The Beijing Olympics will be remembered by media executives as the most-viewed event in United States television history. The Summer Games of 2008 were seen by a cumulative audience of 211...
11 sie 2008 · It turns out that no Olympic event that NBC promotes as being live in prime time is shown live in the Mountain and Pacific time zones, as they are in any other TV series.
NBC’s prime time telecasts on the final Friday and Saturday of the Olympics were the two lowest rated prime time Summer Olympics telecasts since at least 1988. Even so, NBC averaged a 13.9 rating in prime time during the second week of the Olympics, once again trouncing second-place CBS — this time, by 266%.
