The availability of Olympics events on cable is my next big project this morning: I live in Metro Puget Sound, about 175 miles from where the Winter Olympics are taking place, but across the Canada/US border.
I'm assuming that Comcast (sorry :-/ ) will carry Olympics coverage; the only question is which channels Comcast carries will show any Olympics coverage.
[I just posted this as a comment that is pretty well buried in other stuff, so I thought I'd put it up as a Diary as well.]
I'm assuming that Comcast (sorry :-/ ) will carry Olympics coverage; the only question is which channels Comcast carries will be showing whatever Olympics coverage Comcast offers.
Checking quickly in the Comcast Guide:
NBC doesn't show any Olympics programming until tonight at 7:30pm PST, the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics iPhone app shows the Opening Ceremonies at 6:00pm PST.
(The iPhone app shows qualifications for Ski Jumping at 10:00am today PST as the very first event).
CBUT (Comcast 99) shows no Olympics programming whatsoever (!) today -- in fact CBUT has "Jeopardy" and "Wheel of Fortune" on while NBC is showing the Opening Ceremonies on delay.
US (Comcast 115 - Universal Sports - an NBC affiliate) has apparently live Olympics commentary on right now (7:00am PST) and shows commentary but apparently no events until they go to taped stuff (FIS World Cup from Europe) at 4:00pm PST.
Doing a program title search for "winter" yeilds the 7:30pm PST NBC programming only.
If NBC thinks I'm going to watch their monopoly-supported version of what they think the American public will watch (one commentator has already called NBC's approach the "Ice Skating Olympics") NBC is dead wrong: I won't watch one minute of it, and I'll find what I can anywhere else.
- bp