Dish Delivers Interactive Winter Olympics
Highlights Include Six-Screen Mosaic Channel, VOD, Showcase Feature
Mike Reynolds -- Multichannel News, 2/12/2010 11:52:55 AM
Dish Network will go interactive with NBC Universal's coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics from Vancouver.
The No. 2 satellite provider will offer 2010 Games coverage on NBC Universal networks free through its interactive TV mosaic, a six-screen showcase available to all Dish iTV-enabled set-top boxes.
The mosaic will provide more than 835 hours of NBCU's 2010 Vancouver Games content, which begins with the Feb. 12 opening ceremony from BC Place and continue through Feb. 28. The featured channels: CNBC, MSNBC, USA Network and three Olympic highlight channels. Dish subscribers can watch all six screens simultaneously or select one channel to watch in full-screen.
In addition, Dish will present the NBC Olympics Showcase on DishHOME channel 100, where viewers can use their remote to access athlete profiles; read late-breaking news; view daily video highlights; track each country's medal counts; screen the team USA Report' learn more about Vancouver and the event venues; and learn more about each Olympic sport.
Dish will also deliver video-on-demand content featuring more than 40 free clips produced by NBC. Dish subs can access this fare by pressing the DVR button on their remote control and selecting the "TV Entertainment" section from the list. At the start of the Olympics, the in-Games package will feature daily highlights, in addition to access to the best events each day. Content includes overall daily highlights by sport --approximately 15 per day, with up to three in HD -- and "rewind" functionality, with up to five daily long-form replays of the top sessions/games per day.
"Dish Network's iTV platform is a terrific way to experience NBC's coverage of the Vancouver Games, from live programming via our six-screen mosaic to up-to-the-minute medal counts and news through our interactive DishHOME feature," said Dave Shull, senior vice president of programming for Dish in a statement.
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