For 2008, NBC will be the official network of the Summer Olympics. The Beijing games will be the 11th Olympics that NBC has broadcast.1
With its 11th Olympics in 2008, NBC surpasses ABC for most Olympics broadcast by a network. NBC will provide 3,600 hours of coverage across seven networks. NBCOlympics.com will provide 2,200 hours of live streaming video from the games. This will be the first live online coverage of the Olympics in the United States.1
"In the 41 years since my first Olympics, it's staggering to me to be involved in a Games where we are producing 2,900 hours of live coverage - especially from an Olympics half-a-world away. It's more live coverage from a single Olympics than the total of all previous Summer Olympics combined. The enormity of what we're doing just blows me away."—NBC Chairman Dick Ebersol1