NBC's Olympic channel will launch on Saturday (July 15)

Reaching in my pocket..... wrote:

Hahahahahahahahahaha!!!! No kidding. Getting a dollar a month from millions of people who have no interest is like hitting the lottery. Why do you think Rutgers is in the Big 10?

That's why I haven't had cable or satellite for years.

And you haven't watched ESPN either. I liked the cable bundle until the networks got greedy and kept raising the fees.

I freely admit to being irrationally excited to get this on my directv (I don't have the fancy sports package either). Based on the amount of the swimming world champs they are showing tonight and tomorrow (granted a lot overnight), I would imagine a lot of the track championships will be shown as well. Also at least on my version the rabat meet will be on live tomorrow (2-4 EST), hoping it is the international feed/broadcasters and not the American one.

usnspecialist wrote:

I freely admit to being irrationally excited to get this on my directv (I don't have the fancy sports package either). Based on the amount of the swimming world champs they are showing tonight and tomorrow (granted a lot overnight), I would imagine a lot of the track championships will be shown as well. Also at least on my version the rabat meet will be on live tomorrow (2-4 EST), hoping it is the international feed/broadcasters and not the American one.

From what wejo said you might get prelims at Worlds that will not get on to the NBCSN/NBC programs

I have Comcast and it doesn't come in. Its in the guide but if you select it you get an error. Discussed with two agents who both reset my box. No go.

I've got comcast also. Didn't have Universal HD and after extensive searching, it looks like won't have Olympic channel either. This means i probably won't get the meets that i'm getting now on NBCHD.

Also, nbc covered the vuelta. this year, it will be on Olympic channel which means no vuelta viewing.

NBC OWNS comcast! they make this huge deal out of this channel but don't offer it to everyone. wtf!

I have Comcast/Xfinity and I have the Olympic channel. Channel 787 here.

If you posers would convert your TV watching time into training time, maybe you'd be IN the Diamond League instead of just watching it.

Losers.

for real wrote:

If you posers would convert your TV watching time into training time, maybe you'd be IN the Diamond League instead of just watching it.

Losers.

Dude...I'm in my mid-50's...lol.

30:45XC1978 wrote:

So my stupid cable company *(Optimum) takes away Universal HD where lots of T & F was televised, and only includes the Olympic Channel in a package I must pay $9.00 per month for,

What a RIP OFF.

Not only is this about 30 years too late, but, typical bizzarro world "packaging" tactics from an industry in decline.

I wonder what kind of payout Comcast got from the IOC.

Fun fact, you have to go back 20 (more?) years to a time the USOC was trying to launch a cable channel similar to what finally happened. IOC shut that down.

Rojo wrote:

Reaching in my pocket..... wrote:

Hahahahahahahahahaha!!!! No kidding. Getting a dollar a month from millions of people who have no interest is like hitting the lottery. Why do you think Rutgers is in the Big 10?

That's why I haven't had cable or satellite for years.

And you haven't watched ESPN either. I liked the cable bundle until the networks got greedy and kept raising the fees.

Espn was the reason I ejected. They were buying up all the programming that would have been shown on FREE broadcast tv and holding it hostage on some new channel they were forming so they could get it put on a basic cable package. This raised prices for everybody. It also made all the broadcasts "national" instead of local so you are subjected to listening to some moronic idiot (like Dan Dakich) who knows very little about your team.

Notice any similarity to what blotrack has been doing with meets that were already going to be streamed for free?

Did you have Universal HD network?

Cablesubscriberr wrote:

I have Comcast/Xfinity and I have the Olympic channel. Channel 787 here.

Boutros Boutros Golly wrote:

I have Comcast and it doesn't come in. Its in the guide but if you select it you get an error. Discussed with two agents who both reset my box. No go.

I have DirectTV and it is listed on my "Xtra Classic" package as in the lineup, but my experience is the same as yours. I get an error when I tune to the channel and refreshing the box doesn't help.

Ultradude wrote:

I have DirectTV and it is listed on my "Xtra Classic" package as in the lineup, but my experience is the same as yours. I get an error when I tune to the channel and refreshing the box doesn't help.

Call and switch to the Xtra package (it's different from Xtra Classic). It's $1 less per month and you will get the Olympic Channel. You'll lose 7 channels (I hadn't heard of any of them, much less watched them) and you'll get 13 new channels, one of which is the Olympic Channel. It was very confusing, but the Olympic Channel not being available on Xtra Classic had something to do with Xtra Classic no longer being offered to new customers, but old customers were grandfathered in and the website sayng the OC was included in Xtra Classic is an error. I switched and had immediate access to the Olympic Channel and was able to see the Rabat DL meet.