ST. LOUIS, July 23, 2012
/PRNewswire/ -- Charter Communications, in agreement with
NBCUniversal, today announced a multiplatform content offering for
NBCUniversal's coverage of the 2012 London Summer Olympic Games to
commence on Wednesday, July 25
through Sunday, August 12. Designed
to provide video customers with access to more than 4,523 hours of
NBCUniversal's unprecedented Olympic programming, this offering
represents the largest number of total Olympics hours ever. Charter
will offer NBCUniversal's Olympic content live and on-demand,
across multiple digital, mobile and tablet platforms.
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"We are thrilled to bring our customers NBCUniversal's
around-the-clock, multiplatform coverage of the 2012 London
Olympics," said Allan Samson,
Charter Senior Vice President, Marketing. "Access to NBCUniversal's
Olympic programming via Charter On Demand, high speed Internet
services and crystal-clear HD, is as close to physically being at
each event in London as you can
get."
In addition to extensive coverage on the networks of
NBCUniversal, including NBC, NBC Sports Network, MSNBC, CNBC, Bravo
and Telemundo, Charter customers can stay connected to the London
Summer Olympic Games wherever they go exclusively via
NBCOlympics.com, and the NBC Olympics and NBC Olympics
Live Extra apps via mobile and tablet devices.
As part of a Charter customer's video subscription, NBCUniversal
is bringing Olympic content to them live and on-demand, online, and
on mobile and tablet devices via applications.
Following are multiplatform offerings that will allow Charter
customers to watch and be a part of the 2012 London Olympic
Summer Games, including live streaming, VOD, mobile and tablet
apps.
NBCUniversal's Olympics Experience on Charter
Includes:
- NBCOlympics.com: NBC Olympics Live Extra, the
exclusive home of Olympic live stream content at
NBCOlympics.com/LiveExtra, is available now to verified customers
who subscribe to a package that includes CNBC and MSNBC and who
sign-in. 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 ever so
that Charter customers can easily verify their subscriptions and
watch Olympic coverage live online at no additional charge.
Customers who sign in and verify their subscriptions by
Friday, July 27 can enter the NBC
Olympics Live Extra Sweepstakes for a chance to win a trip to the
US Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, an HDTV, and other
prizes, courtesy of NBCUniversal. Charter customers should follow
these verification procedures to access Olympic programming via
NBCOlympics.com:
1. Go to
NBCOlympics.com/LiveExtra
2. Click the "Click here & Get
Ready" button
3. Select Charter
4. Enter the username and password
that corresponds with your Charter account
5. You are signed in throughout the
Games on that device!
- Mobile and Tablet Apps: NBCUniversal will offer two apps
for mobile and tablet viewing. The NBC Olympics Live Extra
app will be available to verified Charter customers and will offer
the same live streaming and event replays available via
NBCOlympics.com/LiveExtra. The NBC Olympics app will include
short-form highlights, schedules, results, columns and more and
will also link to the NBC Olympics Live Extra app.
- On Demand: NBCUniversal is making Olympic highlights and
full-event rewinds available via Charter's Video-On-Demand service.
See U.S. athletes compete in Diving, Gymnastics, Swimming, and
Track & Field with over 100 highlights covering the U.S.
Trials.
Pre-Games: Viewers can access more than 120, 4-8 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 the event completion, all in HD and SD.
The 2012 London Olympic Summer Games will run throughout 19
unforgettable days and nights, covering every sport, medal,
champion and riveting moment. For more information, visit
www.NBCOlympics.com or Charter.net/NBClondongames
About NBC Olympics
A division of the NBC Sports Group, NBC Olympics is responsible
for producing, programming and promoting NBCUniversal's Olympic
coverage. It is renowned for its unsurpassed Olympic heritage,
award-winning production, and ability to aggregate the largest
audiences in U.S. television history.
Having produced every Summer Olympics since Seoul in 1988 and every Winter Olympics since
Salt Lake City in 2002, the
networks of NBCUniversal are synonymous with the Games in
the United States. In 2011,
NBCUniversal acquired the U.S. media rights on all platforms to the
2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics, the 2018
Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, and the 2020 Summer Olympics. At the
conclusion of the 2020 Games, NBCUniversal will have presented 17
total Olympic Games and 11 consecutive, the most for a U.S. media
company in both categories.
NBC has won an unprecedented 91 Emmy Awards for its Olympics
coverage, as well as a prestigious Peabody Award for its
presentation of the Beijing Opening Ceremony in 2008, which
USA Today said was "the
best overall Olympic experience ever provided by a U.S.
network."
In addition to its unsurpassed heritage and award-winning
production, NBCUniversal is known for aggregating large Olympic
audiences, as nine of the top 11 most-watched U.S. television
events of all time are Olympic Games presented across the networks
of NBCUniversal. The Beijing Summer Olympics rank No. 1 with 215
million viewers.
About Charter
Charter (NASDAQ: CHTR) is a leading broadband communications
company and the fourth-largest cable operator in the United States. Charter provides a full
range of advanced broadband services, including advanced Charter
TV® video entertainment programming, Charter Internet® access, and
Charter Phone®. Charter Business® similarly provides scalable,
tailored, and cost-effective broadband communications solutions to
business organizations, such as business-to-business Internet
access, data networking, business telephone, video and music
entertainment services, and wireless backhaul. Charter's
advertising sales and production services are sold under the
Charter Media® brand. More information about Charter can be found
at charter.com.
SOURCE Charter Communications