Verizon FiOS is the latest company to partner with NBCUniversal to offer its customer multi-platform content coverage of the London 2012 Summer Olympics. The package, beginning July 25, will include live and on demand coverage across multiple digital, mobile and tablet platforms.
In addition to extensive coverage on the networks of NBCUniversal – NBC, NBC Sports Network, MSNBC, CNBC, Bravo and Telemundo, two HD specialty channels and a 3D channel – subscribers, wherever they go, can stay connected to the London Summer Olympic Games exclusively via NBCOlympics.com, and the “NBC Olympics” and “NBC Olympics Live Extra” apps available to mobile and tablet users. 
For the first time, 242 hours of the games will be available in 3D.
As part of a FiOS TV customer’s video subscription, which includes all Olympic television content, NBCUniversal is bringing Olympic content to subscribers live and on demand, online, and on mobile and tablet devices via applications. This additional access to NBCUniversal’s Olympic programming extends FiOS TV customers’ opportunities to watch the games.
Following are multiplatform offerings that will allow FiOS TV customers to watch and be a part of the 2012 London Olympic Summer Games:
* NBCOlympics.com — Will live stream more than 3,500 total programming hours from NBCUniversal networks, including NBC Sports Network, MSNBC, CNBC and Bravo, for the first time so that FiOS TV customers can easily verify their subscriptions and watch Olympic coverage live online at no additional charge.
* Mobile and Tablet Apps — NBCUniversal will offer two apps for mobile and tablet viewing. “The NBC Olympics Live Extra” and will offer the same live streaming and event replays available via NBCOlympics.com/LiveExtra.
* On Demand — NBCUniversal is making Olympic highlights and full-event rewinds available via FiOS TV’s Video-On-Demand service. See U.S. athletes compete in diving, gymnastics, swimming, and track and field with more than 100 highlights covering the U.S. Olympic trials.
* Pre-Games — Viewers can access more than 120, four- to eight-minute clips available in SD and HD.
In Games — NBCU will offer more than 550 highlight clips, in addition to 240 full-length event replays, available within 24 hours of an event’s completion, all in HD and SD.
* Interactive TV — FiOS TV customers will have access to an on-screen interactive application with NBCUniversal’s real-time medal counts, athlete bios, team USA reports, Olympic news and more.
* 3D — Panasonic Corporation of North America and the NBC Sports Group have partnered to make the London 2012 Olympic Games available in 3D to FiOS TV customers. The effort will produce 242 hours of coverage and marks the first time that the Olympic Games will be distributed in the U.S. in 3D.
* Specialty Channels — Dedicated 24/7 basketball and soccer channels are available to FiOS TV customers and will total 770 hours of NBC’s HD coverage. FiOS TV customers can find Olympics basketball on Channel 594, and Olympics soccer on Channel 596.
For more information, visit www.NBCOlympics.com or http://entertainment.verizon.com/nbclondongames
James Raia is an editor and publisher in Sacramento, California. Visit his site: www.tourdefrancelife.com
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