upcoming Olympic Channel to air all original broadcasts of 1992 Dream Team's gold medal run

soxhop411

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according to RICHARD DEITSCH, this channel (which will launch on numerous carriers) will be airing all of the original broadcasts of 1992 Dream Team's gold medal run.


We live in an endless era of basketball debates—LeBron versus Durant, should you or should you not trust The Process, and is Danny Ainge crazy or crazy like a leprechaun? Here’s the one thing most pro basketball fans can agree on is this: The 1992 United States Olympic Team is the greatest in the history of the sport.

Multiple generations of basketball fans—especially under 25—have likely never watched the team play in full. But you are about to get a great treat if you are a hoops junkie.

The upcoming Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA, which is launching Saturday on a number of cable systems and streaming services, will air all eight original broadcasts on eight consecutive nights in primetime this August. The games debut on Monday, Aug. 28, at 8 p.m. ET and will culminate with an 11-hour marathon on Labor Day on Sept. 4.
NBC Sports said the Olympic Channel, a partnership between the International Olympic Committee, the United States Olympic Committee, and NBCUniversal, will be available in more than 35 million homes at launch. The channel will be distributed via outlets including Altice, AT&T DirecTV, Comcast, Spectrum, Verizon, DirecTV Now, Fubo, Hulu, Sony PlayStation Vue and YouTube TV. NBC said the first month of programming on Olympic Channel will include the 2017 FINA World Swimming and Diving Championships from Budapest, the IAAF Track and Field World Championships from London, and the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships from Vienna.
As someone who was not alive when this originally aired, this is something I will most definitely be watching...

https://www.si.com/tech-media/2017/07/11/olympic-channel-1992-dream-team-usa-basketball
 

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The Olympics tend to be polarizing, but I'll admit to being a total junkie.

I'm always looking for a sports alternative in the evening to watch in addition to the Sox. I'm about NBA Summer League'd out, though the TdF is still going strong.

I will most definitely check this out.
 

Ale Xander

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Channel starts Saturday, bball in late August. Hope I get the channel Saturday

junkie like DPU

thanks, soxhop, for posting
 

Ale Xander

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it's also HD only right?
on Comcast yes. maybe not for other carriers

http://www.sportsvideo.org/2017/05/22/nbcus-olympic-channel-will-officially-launch-on-july-15-universal-hd-to-cease-operations/

Based on that, I expect it to take over the Universal channel, so 846 for Comcast Boston

I'm kind of bummed NBCU is ceasing operations, had some nice stuff like beach volleyball tour. But I guess the 2018 and 2020 replays/summaries will be put on this Olympic channel following the games, like 2016 were on U
 

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I did see it on TV as it was happening. Maybe I was already too old to think that "Wow, our guys beating these hapless teams by 300 points is so great" but I didn't go out of my way too see much of it, once the nature of the slaughter became obvious. (It was tough to avoid, as there weren't 17 different channels showing the games.)

To me, there were two worthwhile things:

1)seeing Larry Bird's last minutes on a basketball court. He was irretrievably broken, but there were flashes of brilliance

2) in hindsight, it was NBA pros playing in those Olympics that led to faster development of basketball in other countries, which led to the great impact that international players now have on the league (for the better).

There were 5 eventual NBA players on the Croatia team (Radja, Petrovcic, Vrankovic, Kukoc and Tabak), Schrempf and Blab on Germany, Marciulionis and a mostly-cooked Sabonis on Lithuania, but that was about it.
 

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Speaking of Bird, I was watching a show about Indiana's 74-75 and 75-76 teams (a one loss season* followed by an undefeated national champion). They mentioned Bird being an incoming recruit in 1974 that only stayed a few weeks ..imagine Larry Bird being on a college team so good that they didn't even need him?

*their best player got hurt in the last regular season game and was only able to play 7 minutes in the game they lost...by two points.
 

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Speaking of Bird, I was watching a show about Indiana's 74-75 and 75-76 teams (a one loss season* followed by an undefeated national champion). They mentioned Bird being an incoming recruit in 1974 that only stayed a few weeks ..imagine Larry Bird being on a college team so good that they didn't even need him?

*their best player got hurt in the last regular season game and was only able to play 7 minutes in the game they lost...by two points.
I remember reading in Larry Bird's book, Drive, a long time ago that he was turned off by Bobby Knight