Latest NBC Stories
ATLANTA, July 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cox 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 NBCUniversal's more than 5,535 hours of unprecedented Olympic programming, this offering represents the largest number of total Olympics hours ever. Cox Communications...
DALLAS, July 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- AT&T* U-verse(®), in agreement with NBCUniversal, today announced a multiplatform content offering for NBCUniversal's coverage of the London 2012 Summer Olympic Games to commence on Wednesday, July 25 through Sunday, August 12. Designed to provide AT&T U-verse customers with access to more than 5,293 hours of NBCUniversal's coverage of unprecedented Olympic programming, this offering represents the largest number of total Olympics hours...
NEW YORK, July 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon FiOS, in agreement with NBCUniversal, today announced a multiplatform content offering for NBCUniversal's coverage of the London 2012 Summer Olympic Games to commence on Wednesday, July 25, through Sunday, August 12. Designed to provide video subscribers with access to NBCUniversal's more than 5,535 hours of unprecedented Olympic programming, this offering represents the largest number of total Olympics hours ever. Verizon will offer...
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...
SECAUCUS, N.J., July 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- NBC Olympics, a division of the NBC Sports Group and Panasonic Corporation of North America today announced that the first-ever 3D coverage of the Olympic Games, beginning in London later this month, will be available to subscribers of MVPD's (multichannel video programming distributors) representing nearly 80% of U.S. TV households. The daily 3D programming, which will be shown on next-day delay, will be carried by many cable,...
AKRON, Ohio, July 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- NBC Olympics, a division of the NBC Sports Group, has selected Goodyear (NYSE: GT) to provide aerial images of its coverage of the London Olympics. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20050204/GTLOGO ) Goodyear will lend its aerial presence to NBC Olympics' coverage of the Olympic Games for the tenth time. Goodyear worked most recently for NBC Olympics during the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver. "Goodyear's reputation as a...
NEW YORK, July 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- NBC Publishing and NBC Sports team up with Rodale Books to release the children's illustrated chapter book RING FORCE [July 17, 2012; $6.99; ISBN 978-1-60961-568-0 Trade Paperback, Rodale Books; ISBN 978-1-938069-30-7 eBook, NBC Publishing]. This adventure story about a team of exceptional young athletes fighting a mysterious evil force will be released in both paperback and eBook editions to coincide with the 2012 Olympic Games, opening in...
The Partners at Starburns Industries, which include Dan Harmon, creator of NBC’s Community, and Dino Stamatopoulos, creator of the animated series’ Moral Orel and Mary Shelley’s Frankenhole, have acquired the rights to a play written by Charlie Kaufman entitled, Anomalisa. Burbank, California (PRWEB) July 13, 2012 The Partners at Starburns Industries, which include Dan Harmon, creator of NBC’s Community, and Dino Stamatopoulos, creator of the animated series’ Moral Orel and Mary...
Peter Suciu for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online The Summer Olympic Games in London promises to be a very high-tech affair – with numerous innovations in skin suits for the track and pool – but it could be the way that the games are seen that is the most revolutionary. While viewers around the world watched the Beijing Games in 2008 and the Vancouver Games in 2010 on mobile devices, this year’s Olympics promises to be a major game changer as Adobe Systems and NBC have teamed up to...
AUSTIN, Texas, July 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- NBC News and parent company NBC Universal have signed a development agreement with Austin startup latakoo (https://latakoo.com/) to provide fast video transfer services for its global newsgathering operations. The news network has been testing latakoo's technology for the past year and is launching a pilot project to integrate the video service into NBC's communications systems. "We think this is a great moment for us and NBC News,"...
