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I did the same. I tried to find a live stream online, and failed. Everything I tried wanted me to login with cable credentials. Ended up watching it on my broad

• js2 10y ago
  Too late now, but you could have purchased a Playstation Vue subscription for one month ($30, one week free trial) which would have given you full access to the NBC Sports app and nbcolympics.com. You can sign up on the web and don't need a Playstation. That's what I did since I don't have a TV subscription and it worked well. The NBC iOS and tvOS app was pretty awful in forcing ads, but the Roku app let you skip mostly skip through them, which is how I did most of my watching.
  • dv_dt 10y ago
    I wish I knew that before, tried a Sling Tv sub, and that didn't give one access to nbcolympics streaming content. I kept it for the (poor) live NBC streaming of the Olympics, but cancelled it after. Having to watch shows at a fixed time is crazy in the modern age. I watched much fewer sports and the advertisers probably lost out on quite a bit of exposure too.
    • rhizome 10y ago
      I wish I knew that before Which is directly due to NBC being the exclusive licensee for Olympic IP in the US, so the Vue could not advertise itself in terms of providing Olympic coverage. You could have come across one of the many articles and howtos for watching the games without cable, but it never would have been advertised to you.