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Comcast, NBC Won’t Let Lower-Tier Cable Subscribers Stream Olympics Online

Comcast, NBC Won’t Let Lower-Tier Cable Subscribers Stream Olympics Online

If you don’t like the idea of watching pre-taped, heavily edited rebroadcasts of sporting events that happened eight to 24 hours earlier (and which have probably been spoiled for you by the Internet anyway), NBC is letting some viewers of most cable providers stream all the events live online. Unfortunately, those with the most basic of cable packages apparently don’t count as far as NBC is concerned. [More]