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DISH Network And Ensequence To Provide Interactive TV Experience For NBCU’s Coverage of 2008 Beijing Olympic Games

August 9, 2008 · 2 comments

NBC Universal (NBCU) has selected Ensequence and DISH Network to transform NBCU’s coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games into a fully interactive experience. NBCU has chosen Ensequence to provide a separate interactive application on DishHOME on DISH Network Channel-100. NBCU’s 2008 Beijing Olympic Games experience wraps interactivity around live programming on DISH Network. DISH [...]

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DISH Network has announced that they have signed an agreement with NBC Universal (NBCU) to bring 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. DISH Network will deliver Beijing Olympic Games in HD speciality channels solely dedicated to the Olympic games. NBC Olympic Soccer Channel and NBC Olympic Basketball Channel are the channels available on channel 99 and 98 [...]

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DirecTV is also joining the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games broadcast as the satecaster has reached an agreement with NBC Universal. This agreement will allow DirecTV to launch a special video on demand (VOD) Olympics programming package to its subscribers who have the DIRECTV Plus HD DVR or R22 DVR receiver. NBC Universal will provide DirecTV [...]

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NBC Universal, Bain Capital and Blackstone Group have reached an agreement to buy The Weather Channel from Landmark Communications, which ended many major media companies interest in acquiring the channel. The financial deal were not disclosed but the industry sources reveal that the deal would worth about $3.5 billion and the deal would also include [...]

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