NBC officially completed its buyout of Universal Sports this week, as expected when news broke of the acquisition last month.
TVNewsCheck.com reports that Universal Sports’ wide range of sports media coverage rights – including the rights to most major swimming competitions – will now join the NBC Sports Group’s roster.
NBC will divvy up the various sport coverage rights to its various networks, which includes NBCSN, Universal HD and the NBC Sports Live Extra, a streaming app for computers and mobile devices among other things.
NBC Sports has also published a schedule of its upcoming events, including the Arena Pro Swim Series at Austin, which will be broadcast between the Live Extra streaming platform and the Universal HD network.
According to the schedule, which you can view here, the last two days of the Austin Pro Swim Series meet will be aired on both the Live Extra and Universal HD platforms.
It appears finals on both Saturday and Sunday night will be streamed live (the airtimes are listed as 7-8:30 p.m both nights), with a tape-delayed broadcast appearing on Universal HD from 9:30-11 p.m.
NBC Sports’ schedule only runs through the end of February, so it doesn’t yet include any information on the Orlando stop of the Pro Swim Series, which is set for March 3-5.
WHAT CHANEL CAN I SEE NOW UNIVERSAL SPORT?
This is mostly good. the nbc live extra steaming is of very good quality and a significant upgrade from anything usa swimming has offered before. Plus all the live streaming events are archived for 9-10 days and are easily accessible at any time. It is also positive that there will be some tv coverage (on universal HD not nbcsn) but unfortunetely none live. I am sure that as we get closer to the trials there will be even more coverage.
….and the bad news is this likely means no usas livestream of Friday/Saturday finals.