Time Warner Cable North Texas has reached a distribution agreement with NBC Universal (NBCU) to broadcast 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Time Warner Cable agreement will allow the cable operator to broadcast more than 1,200 total hours of Olympics coverage on seven of NBCU networks like NBC, USA Network, MSNBC, CNBC, Oxygen, Telemundo and Universal HD. Time Warner Cable North Texas is delivering to its customers Free On Demand and HD services, as well as broadband content from NBCOlympics.com via a link from the Time Warner Cable Road Runner website.
Time Warner Cable’s HD sport-specific channels will be delivered to subscribers in the upgraded HD areas including Dallas, Plano, Richardson, Flower Mound, Double Oak, Highland Village Lewisville, Coppell, Grapevine, Irving, Mesquite, Bedford, Colleyville and Euless.
Time Warner will also deliver more than 800 hours of HD coverage on select NBCU HD networks
NBC HD Local – 225 hours of HD coverage
NBC Universal HD – Channel 742 – 379 hours of simulcasts and re-airs of CNBC and MSNBC
CNBC HD+ – Channel 742 – Simulcast, 95.5 hours
USA HD – Channel 743 – Simulcast, 165 hours
HD sport-specific channels: NBC Olympic Soccer Channel and NBC Olympic Basketball Channel, approximately 12 hours per day during the Games.
“We are pleased to be offering our customers NBC Universal’s coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games which showcases the power of Time Warner Cable’s digital video and Road Runner High Speed services,” said Robert V. Moel, division president Time Warner Cable North Texas. “We hope everyone enjoys this
programming, which includes an unprecedented amount of high definition, On Demand and broadband Olympics-related content, all made easily accessible for no additional charge to our HD digital video and Road Runner subscribers.”
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