NBC will shut down NBCSN by end of the year. Where will track and field be broadcast moving forward?

Why does everyone hate paying for content? I thought everyone here made $250k a year.

I have Internet only, subscribe to the content I want and pay less than internet + TV packages. If one is on a budget.

The best thing about NBCSN was you could buy a Gold Package for an individual sport. The cycling pass was $55 and got you a ton of races and full replays of all of them. That is actually a very fair price for the amount of content (Tour, Giro, Vuelta, Spring Classics, Worlds of all disciplines, the only thing it really lacked was cyclocross).

The smart move for NBC (and the move that would suck for the people) is to bundle the package like a cable company would. You can't buy just cycling or just T&F anymore, you have to buy all of Peacock for a whole lot more.

Peacock is 50 bucks a year w/ads that includes live sports.

Peacock premium is 100 bucks a year w/o ads that includes live sports.

https://www.peacocktv.com/sports

- we'll be able to watch the olympics free. My guess is non-olympic track coverage will be Premium only.

I've been around long enough to see our sport go from:

WCSN to Universal Sports to NBCSN.

As long as there is a way to watch it I'll watch it. And I like watching the Cycling races. If they bundle all that into one package than works for me. I'll pay whatever fee they put on it -- because I choose to make running (watching the sport and participating) a priority for me as it should be for you. As it should be for you. We are a small niche and we have NO control over pricing. Just be happy that it's being streamed at all. Think about how people watched things in the 90s (ESPN showed 30 minute highlight package of PRO meets). It sucked. I don't want to go back to that crap.

I've subscribed to NBC Sports Gold's T&F package for the past few years. I wonder how they are going to integrate that in. I'm guessing they'll just throw that and the other niche sports under the Peacock brand, but I have no idea how the bundling will work--will you have to pay for peacock and then pay a T&F subscription fee on top of that to get everything? How will the coverage for the Olympics work?

I see no one has posted the biggest concern. Sure for hardcore fans Peacock will be worth it. But sports that are almost primarily on a service behind a paywall they will not expand their viewing audience. I tell young athletes all the time to watch a meet that is on NBCSN and it hooks them. None of these young athletes are going to be investing money to watch as new or casual viewers.

Maybe we will get lucky and they will be on USA.

They already moved all non main stream sports to Peacock. Which so far has been better anyways. I’ve been watching biathlon and nordic ski races in full. No commentators and it’s already provided if you have Comcast.

Not sure what this means for the Olympic Channel but streaming platforms actually allow for more and better coverage of non mainstream sporting events.

I watched ESPN last week and saw a show where they made electrical work and HVAC a competition and aired it.

TRACK AND FIELD ISNT ON TV BUT THAT IS?

I’m a runner and track fan and honestly I’d rather watch competitive home repair than a track meet.

Runner10287 wrote:

I’m a runner and track fan and honestly I’d rather watch competitive home repair than a track meet.

Most the time I just want to watch the distance events. XC meets are pretty fun to watch though.

This will be very bad for T&F, Cycling, & the EPL. They will lose a lot of fans that don't want to pay for the service.

Great idea! We should also send someone with an iPhone to any pro sports event and stream it live for free. I don't know why no one has ever thought of that. Unless it's the fact that pro events charge millions for the right to broadcast and networks pay for exclusive rights.