i bet we are gonna see this channel go bye-bye and replaced by a second NBCSN to add even more sports on there that may have a conflict with NBCSN without forcing CNBC or USA to air sporting events meant for NBCSN to air there.
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NBCU, IOC, USOC team for Olympic-themed TV network
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As long as the IOC has a 50% share in the channel... NO WAY its going away temporarily, just because the games are over now.
After all, the Olympic Channel are known as the channel Where The Games Never End.
https://www.nbcolympics.com/news/2018-winter-paralympics-live-stream-schedule
Yes the 2018 Paralympics are underway and yes this time its The Olympic Channel that's going wall to wall with the Paralympic games along with NBC Sports Net and NBC Sports app.
Yes the 2018 Paralympics are underway and yes this time its The Olympic Channel that's going wall to wall with the Paralympic games along with NBC Sports Net and NBC Sports app.
Why did NBC never launch a second sports channel of NBCSN anyway before? It's weird how there is only one channel for all the sports rights they have and for a fairly big player in the US. When you look at other sports networks around the world most sports networks have several channels. Could they not have converted one of the networks they closed into NBCSN2?
Good point...I imagine the issue is the money. Having the IOC as a partner offsets some of the cost of the Olympic channel. With ratings for cable channels dropping, especially sports channels, money is often the biggest impediment.
NBC might have been spooked by the problems Fox's second sports channel, FS2, has had getting into even the premium sports tiers of some cable providers. ESPN2 is carried by just about all systems, and ESPNU has found widespread acceptance, too. But while FS1 was a prompt add for most systems (with the others falling in line when MLB and major college football wound up there), FS2, with its focus on European soccer (not the Premier League, though) and minor-conference college sports, has found itself largely unwanted and unmissed. Perhaps Fox should have made it more like ESPN3, a nonlinear, internet-only channel available as part of basic internet service with most major telecoms, whether the viewer is a subscriber to the telecom's cable television service or not.
Also the NBC Sports app is being advertised as much as I want to argue for the Olympic channel to be converted into NBC Sports Net 2. We also have to consider other factors here like Amazon, Facebook and Twitter fighting for Sports Broadcast rights too on their apps. Maybe its not as simple as I wanted to argue with that. But For Now NBC Sports App and Olympic Channel are running with the 2018 Paralympics games wall to wall for now according to this schedule that NBC Sports has released.
ABC made a living out of "Wide World of Sports" back in the days without all the current competition. Older generation might tune in but I doubt the millennials would.
Good thing they called it "games" because a huge number of their events are definitely not sports.
If "Wide World" were to be revived today, the only way it could survive with a steady diet of off-the-wall sports like cliff diving, Irish hurling, and my favorite, figure-8 auto racing from Islip, Long Island, would be to present them with a heavy dose of snark, with loud music, rhythmic of course, blasting, and oh-so-trendy jump cuts in the video. Even then, there really isn't a time slot available for the show anymore on weekend afternoons. The affiliates would rather sell spare afternoon hours to infomercial buyers than run something from a network that doesn't have any baseball, basketball or football to show at that time, anyway.
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