NBC’s Olympic Soccer Schedule, on TV and Online

I called Charter but they would’t give me anyone to talk to, they have this automated system where you say what you want to talk about, but SOCCER and CHANNELS did nothing for me. I was able to do an online chat with a guy from there and he said he didn’t know about anything like that at this time, so I’m guessing that was just a straight up no and he didn’t want to tell me.

Ryan, I’m considering contacting NBC to see what cable providers they’ve been in contact with. Stay tuned.

NBC is retarded, why the hell would you not schedule specific events? Im not even going to watch the Olympics, I think NBC’s coverage is bullshit and I will never get up at 4am to watch a u-23 match in dirty China. God this pisses me off.

Wow, thanks for this, Laurie.

Perhaps this is a more stupid question, but…is there a list of teams that made it and brackets lying around somewhere? I don’t even know who’s in.

oh I love how for some of these instead of waking up early I’m going to have to stay up late.
Thanks for the list, Laurie

I’ve contacted Brighthouse networks and requested this channel. We’ll see what happens. I drove over a hundred miles to see the U-23’s, don’t mind getting up early at all.

Juliet, I meant to link to the post that listed the teams and the groups but forgot. Thanks for the reminder — it’s now in the post also.

http://www.worldcupblog.org/olympics-2008/here-are-the-groups-for-mens-and-womens-olympic-soccer.html

It would also be nice to get a final list of the players playing for teams like Nigeria, the Netherlands and Ivory Coast.

Mauro, I’ve been waiting till all the teams were announced. The US went today, so I think we’re getting close (and may be there.) I’ll check tonight to see if we’re still missing anybody. If not, I’ll put it up tomorrow.

man i love DVR.
(4am? what the heck are they thinking?!?!?!?!?!)

Thanks for doing this!

It reminds me of the 2002 World Cup in Korea/Japan. Watching Brazil/Germany final at 2am in the morning. yuck.

I guess the world doesn’t revolve around America. ;)

I’ve just emailed Cablevision in order to see if they will carry the NBC Olympic Soccer Channel. My guess is that if they’ve never heard of it, then they will definitely have the excuse to not carry it.

I think it’s great that the games are being broadcast live. So what if I’ll have some wacky sleeping hours for a couple of weeks…..well worth it. Go USA!!

Question:
What is the comcast soccer channel?

Mele, I’m going to see what I can do to track down more info in the coming weeks. I have an email into NBC about this channel, and I’m going to call my Comcast company later this week. I’ll report back on what I find out.

Any news on netherlands line-ups? I enjoyed watching them in the Uefa Euro 2008 so much! I’m really hoping to see Ruud Van Nistel Rooy, Robben, and Sneijder there.

Jwill, I’m putting up a post on the lineups soon, but not all teams have named their squads yet. But as a preview, here’s Netherlands:

NETHERLANDS
GOALKEEPERS: Piet Velthuizen (Vitesse), Kenneth Vermeer (Ajax)

DEFENDERS: Kew Jaliens (AZ), Calvin Jong-A-Pin (SC Heerenveen), Kees Luijcks (AZ), Dirk Marcelis (PSV), Erik Pieters (PSV), Gianni Zuiverloon (West Bromwich Albion)

MIDFIELDERS: Otman Bakkal (PSV), Urby Emanuelson (Ajax), Jonathan de Guzman (Feyenoord), Hedwiges Maduro (Valencia), Evander Sno (Celtic)

FORWARDS: Roy Beerens (sc Heerenveen), Ryan Babel (Liverpool), Royston Drenthe (Real Madrid), Roy Makaay (Feyenoord), Gerald Sibon (sc Heerenveen).

Thank you for doing this!
Please, please keep your eye out to see if anyone will be televising
the women’s Brazil v Germany round robin game on August 6.
Go Marta!

I was at my parents house this weekend and i noticed on their Verizon cable that they already had the NBC Olympic channels on thier guide (obviously no content yet)I have RCN cabke in NY and I do not see the channels on my guide.

FIFA has stated that the official squad lists will be announced on July 31. Here is a tidy one-page schedule for the men’s matches: http://www.fifa.com/mensolympic/matches/index.html

Re. Brazil, here’s an interesting twist of events – plenty of press on this right about now:
“Rafinha, Diego join up with Brazilian Olympic team without clubs’ permission”

As usual the best place to find the soccer match you really want to watch in the USA (ie Brazil or Argentina) will be on P2P/bittorrent for delayed but high quality or streaming live on Chinese or Singapore tv with your p2p streaming client of choice. Bonus on that side should be that since it’s the Olympics, there should be lots of users contributing bandwidth. Downside, I don’t speak Mandarin. Fortunately, I’m fluent in Beautiful Game.

You mentioned that Comcast would carry the NBC Soccer Channel but today, July 29th, I just got off the phone with them and they are not planning to add this channel for Seattle anyway. The woman said they usually know a couple of weeks ahead of any broadcasting.
Rats!!
Rita

Rita, I was just planning to call Comcast about this, and you’re breaking my heart with this news! I think we should all call Comcast and complain.

i just called Comcast in PA, she said she doesn’t believe so, i asked her to double check her emails on upcoming tv changes, she said she would, she sounded competent and will call me back, i am really hoping 4 good news, i live this stuff every 4 yrs~GIVE IT TO ME~

I would suggest also checking out this site. They have tons of live matches everyday from all over the world. I watch Arsenal matches that aren’t on TV there all the time. The streams are usually good. I’m sure they’ll have the olymic stuff, but they might not be in English. I’ve seen a lot of French, Japanese, and Korean stuff on there, but it’s better than nothing.

http://livefooty.doctor-serv.com/

Damn. I really can’t be up at like 4am to watch this stuff. Any word on replays or on-demand stuff thats during reasonable hours? And this Comcast news is lame.

Here’s my most recent email from the NBC hirelings:

“I passed your question along to my colleagues and from what I understand NBC Olympic Soccer coverage will be available via Video On Demand depending on your area and cable service provider. I will definitely keep you informed if I find out any additional information.”

As I said in the other Olympics coverage post, I have a post all written up about the fact that none of the cable providers seem to have heard of this channel. I’ll post it if I don’t hear anything else from NBC or Comcast.

i just spoke to a guy at comcast yesterday (29 july) and asked if the san francisco area comcast subscribers would get the nbc olympic soccer channel…the guy had NO CLUE! he hadn’t heard of it…i read him the press release where it stated comcast would carry this channel…he was just silent…thanks, comcast.

so, i’m going to contact them next week, maybe the day before it all starts (5 august) and see what kind of answer i get then.

I just checked with Comcast. As reported by others above, the customer service rep had never heard of NBC Soccer Channel or NBC Olympics Soccer Channel. She went off and checked with a bunch of people, and they too had never heard of it. So where did Laurie get the info (a) that it exists, and (b) that Comcast carries it? Perhaps he could help those of us struggling to pin it down before the games start.

In Philadelphia neither Comcast, nor Direct TV, mine, nor Dish Network have ever heard of the Olympic Soccer Channel. What is the point of NBC instituting these new channels and not ensuring that they will be shown? None of the above respond to enquiries by e-mail.

guys, if u want to watch the upcoming olympics, go NBC tv and it’s family of stations as shown on the top page by laurie.

the midsouth will not have the nbc olympic channels according to our rep. “those are national commercials, and our area is not involved.” not likely to add at this time.

this website: http://www.livesoccertv.com/fixture-2008-08-06.php
says British Eurosport 1 will show the Germany Brazil game live on Wednesday August 6! Maybe that’s some satelite channel. Just an FYI
Rita

Thank you thank you thank you. God bless dvrs. At least this time we should be able to watch our team play….especially the women’s team!

Is there any news on whether Dish will be carring the NBC Soccer Chanel? Anyone – I cannot get a reply from the Dish site or from their reps. Thanks.

I just finished talking with my cable company, Charter. Their website says that they will carry coverage of Olympic soccer, NBC’s website says Charter will be carrying the NBC Soccer Channel, but it appears that they will not be carrying it.

Thanks. I started a list like yours about an hour ago and then found your site. You just saved me hours of research.

Verizon FIOS is running both the SD Olympic channel and has both the basketball and soccer HD Olympic channels, and have added both CNBC HD and USA Network HD just in time for the Olympics.

It’s a whole lotta HD goin’ on, when you add NBC and Universal HD to those. Six channels of HD. Craziness, never thought I’d see the day.

David,

I can’t provide a definitive answer about Dish, but here is what I’ve found so far. I’ll try and post a couple of the links in here. Navigating through the NBC Olympics website, they indicate that at least where I am (The Los Angeles Market), there will be six channels available. I just found a link on another website that indicated that Universal HD will be available on a number of outlets. What I found interesting is that they cite an Olympic Soccer Channel and Olympic Basketball channel available on most distributors, to include satellite. On my system, on channels 99-00 and 98-00, I see channel names of OLMPB and OLMPS which I’m hoping translates to the basketball and soccer channels. Anyway, here are a couple of the links I’ve found:

http://www.nbcumv.com/special/S__Press_DEPTS_NBCMV_Press_Kits_2008_olympics_schedule9.pdf

http://www.nbcolympics.com/tv_and_online_listings/zone=PT/day=-2/sport=FB/tv.html

Laurie, Thank you so much for providing all of the info.

This link is to the media schedule for NBC olympics coverage.

It actually has the channel, date, and time, for all events.

See, if NBC had just released this to everyone, it would have saved us a lot of time and angst.

http://www.nbcumv.com/special/S__Press_DEPTS_NBCMV_Press_Kits_2008_Beijing_24-HR_Listings_Document_080208.pdf

I have AT&T’s U-verse TV, and they are definetly carrying all of the special olympic channels: Olympic Soccer, Olympic Basketball, and the Olympic Mandarin and Olympic Korean channels. They all are showing up on my TV

woops. correctyion: i meant to say that the channels were special as to that they only showed the olympics, not that it was the special olympics the channels were showing. sorry…

I don’t think the US will get anywhere near the final, especially since GIAPPONE will destroy them tomorrow.

Bless you for putting this schedule together! Its a fantastic help!

Is Direct TV going to have the Olympic Soccer channel?

is there anywhere to watch these games online??

NBC Olympic Soccer website:

http://www.nbcolympics.com/soccer/index.html

I hardly think Freddy Adu is a player to watch, he has made little progress as a player and is technically poor, overhyped. Altidore I will give more credit but he wont see first team action at villareal.

How horrible was the referee in the Japan Us game, clear cut penalty, pulled down in the box and he lets it go. The americans looked the poorer side and defended a poor goal that any other goalie would have safely covered. Guzan is the face of america, brutish, arrogant, and his little time wasting antics were despicable.

You can watch all the soccer matches of Beijing Olympic from start to finish here.

http://www.nbcolympics.com/soccer/video/index.html

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NBC has elected to truncate the Australia vs. Serbia match, jumping in well after the 30th minute.

Same old NBC. Please use the contact form on NBC.com to let them know this is unacceptable. If anyone finds out when this game is going to be rebroadcast in its entirety, please post.

For those in the DC/Maryland area, I’ve heard the NBC Olympic Soccer Channel actually exists, on Channel 221 if you have Comcast Digital Cable.

In Central Texas (Austin area), Time Warner has the Olypmic soccer channel on HD channel 1553.

Time Warner in the Raleigh/Durham, NC area will have the Soccer Channel on 1503.

DISH NETWORK NBC OLYMPIC SOCCER CHANNEL. Watching Brazil right now on channel 098, also 367 if I remember correctly.

I left this same reply in another post.

We’ve also published the full broadcast schedule for both mens and women’s olympic soccer. This is the coverage for UK, US, and Canada. Hope this helps:

Men’s http://www.livesoccertv.com/competitions/olympics/
Women’s http://www.livesoccertv.com/competitions/olympics-women/

What are the game starting times ??
Eastern, Pacific ?????

Oscar, that’s not as easy a question as you might think. The majority are Eastern time. BUT according to NBC, “NBC weekday daytime show airs at same time in all time zones.” Whatever that means.

If you’d like more info, go to this post from NBC: http://www.nbcumv.com/special/S__Press_DEPTS_NBCMV_Press_Kits_2008_Beijing_24-HR_Listings_Document_080208.pdf

The US women are about to brutishly and arrogantly drop a deuce on Japan; I can’t wait until our whiny friend comes back to complain about that.

Who is the former USWNT player doing the play-by-play for the Brazil v N Korea game? Brandy Chastain? Whoever it is, I really like her commentary, way better than anybody currently on ESPN, FSC or HDNet.

The punishment you Americans will suffer is your own. The most brutish, disrespectful and wasteful culture in fact what is American culture but poorly written television and obesity. Your national dish is the hot dog?

The only country to blatantly ignore the Kyoto agreement, continuing to produce street tank SUV’s, and out right dismissing the united nations decision by going to a hopeless war where there was a supposed threat of nuclear weapons.

The only nuclear threat are the Americans, who still to this day do not say a word in their papers about the two atomic bombs dropped on civilian city centers 63 years ago. A paragraph mention in the history books, supposedly the only way to win the war.

Well now that the Candian money is stronger will you still make fun of Canadians? Now that the Euro is stronger will you arrogantly look down at them still? And yes our Yen is stronger as well.

So live blindly, panem et circenses, bread and circuses to all of you cattle who live blindly under the despicable banner “Proud to be American”.

Honda, yes young jedi, that is it! Connect with your hate and anger. It is the true way to the dark side. LOL!

Give me a break. You want to bring up events from 60 years ago but you conveniently say nothing of the things your own country was doing at the time? Nothing about the pathetic leadership that was in charge which could actually make the last 8 years of the U.S. seem somewhat sane? Then you get put in your place and want to whine about it? Well go ahead little man, whine all you want.

The fact is Japan and the U.S. are both countries that have great things as well as negatives. Unfortunately every country has ignorantly blind morons like yourself.

As for the sour grapes: Seriously bad form. Hopefully for your National team their attitude is not as pathetic as yours. Looking to excuses is the sure way to blind yourself from your true weaknesses and completely hinder all chance of improvement.

What a hypocrite you are. Pathetic. There is some truth to the things you decided to point out, but you posted from….where? the United States. Get you ars out of here and go back to your crowded and pathetic country – where by the way, your unpeaceful, follower people have raped and pillaged all they could in history – china, korea, etc. Gotta love the pathetic hypocrits who stay in the US and bash it.

Doug, nice name, hahaha what a name, d o u g

Brandi Chastain is rockin’ on commentary..best one so far!!! Why didn’t someone hire her..sooner?? She can actually teach soccer novices about the game..duh America!

You are a saint for posting the schedule. NBC should have done a better job.

Olympics Soccer Channel on DirecTV 755

Thanks!! I was looking everywhere for a soccer schedule, the Olympics schedule is so hard to interpret, especially when it is placed in a block of 2:00 am – 2:00 pm! Unfortunately I found this after the first two US games, but will be ready for the Nigeria game and their run to the gold!!!

It’s not showing up on my tv…weird. The last channel is 753. I tried to imput 755 and it said channel does not exist. Maybe it’s not on direct tv in my area…if so…uhh

The Olympic soccer channel is an HD channel on DirecTV. If you don’t have a HD receiver you can’t get it. It is on 755 and 756 is Universal HD during the Olympics for non-subscribers of the channel. Both are fantastic! One of our receivers is standard and both channels act exactly as you described.

THANK YOU, GREAT JOB LAURIE………. NOW IF YOU COULD TELL ME HOW I COULD FIND THE SCHEDULES FOR THE WHOLE SHABANG I’D BE THRILLED LOL. NBC DID A VERY POOR JOB.

Jeri, NBC didn’t do a horrible job, they just did a horrible job publicizing it. Try
this link for starters. If that doesn’t work, try this one.

Brandi Chastain has not been “rockin’” on commentary. She has not been hired sooner because she is possibly the most annoying person I’ve ever heard on TV. She just won’t shut up. Soccer Loony, people new to the game won’t be won over by someone who ruins a telecast with incessant talking. I feel very bad for her booth partners and for everyone who already likes soccer and doesn’t need to be lectured to death.

Leave Brandi alone. She is very knowledgeable about the game and very fair in her observations. She is also very pretty too. Her husband must feel blessed

In the Boston area on Comcast, NBC Soccer Channel is on 865 in HD.

Big thank you for the Direct tv posts. I was getting tired of waiting for the ‘rewind’ on the NBCOlympics site. Still better than listening to the monotone blathering of Brandi Chastain though!

So many sites list the game times as the start of the channel coverage.
For example, the Tuesday women’s match between the U.S. and New Zealand is listed as 4:00 AM U.S. Central time. However, the ussoccer.com shows the actual match time as starting at 6:45 AM U.S. Central.

My DISH listing for MSNBC only shows 4:00 AM Central as the start of coverage.

So far, the us soccer web site has given the correct times for the start of the match so I can record it.

See http://www.ussoccer.com/schedule/index.jsp.html

Great goals by Brazil’s Cristaine

Please tell me why American soccer broadcasters insist on using the word SERVICE in describing what everyone in the soccer world knows is a PASS.As in english meaning: Passing the ball from one player to another
Example: a bad pass.a terrible pass. a great pass.a lousy pass. a terrific pass.There is a sport for the correct unlimited use of the word SERVICE and that sport is TENNIS. In wanting to be different Americans often get things wrong because they refuse to follow anything that is traditional, in fact, they enjoy breaking down traditions and replacing it for the most part with utter rubbish and destroying whats left of their understanding of the English language.

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Is there a way to watch the games without seeing what the final score was?

I tried the rewind but the screen darkened and a popup just sat their in the middle of the screen.

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Wow. Thanks for the post. You’d think NBC might actually tell people about soccer or even broadcast some games in primetime. But I did get to get see synchronized diving. It was right after Olympic Checkers.

Thank you Laurie for all your efforts to untangle the soccer schedule mess that NBC has presented to its viewers. I am waking up at 5 am to watch soccer on NBC (ch 2 and or MSNBC ch 356)scheduled sometime between 5 am – 2 pm. The whole thing is such a fiasco,with getting the results of matches you want to watch LIVE. This has crippled my viewing enjoyment so now I wait for the results at the end of the day. I am sure there a lot of people out there as disappointed as I am.To NBC I say “The way to hell is paved with good intentions.

I am new to this blog. can you
fellows tell me more about this blog?
What is the main focus here? thanks
a lot

Isn’t this supposed to be a blog specifically written about soccer? I am only 18 and see the immaturity in the people who insist on arguing over countries on here. GROW UP. Just watch the Olympics and if you have something to say just shut up because no one cares. The US will win because we are the best country of all :)

Thank you for taking the time to post a soccer schedule. It was helpful.

Any updates on QF matches? No info as to what matches will be live and where.

There are 2 matches at 6am and 2 at 9am. Which will be shown live on HD (soccer channel)?

It’s good to see that traitor Rossi and his diving teammates sent home by a team who was a man down. Ciao!

Brandi Chastain is a HORRIBLE commentator. I hope this is the last time I hear her on TV… ever. Great player… great defender… horrible TV personaltiy.

At least she’s not negative 100% of the time anymore like she was during the group stages. Was like watching a game with an angry old lady.

I feel bad for JP. Just let Balboa do men’s and women’s.

thank you brian and jason!
brandi is killing us.
brandi -please just STOP TALKING!!

When and what channel for teh women’s soccer gold medal game?

Ditto on rossi and teh divers sent home

Al, right now I’m seeing it on at 9:00 a.m. Eastern, 6:00 Pacific on Thursday, 8/21.

Live on:
– Olympic Soccer Channel (for those lucky enough not to have a cable company that sucks. Comcast, for sheer suckitude, I’m lookin’ at you.)
– USA and USA HD
– Telemundo

That may change though, now that the US is in the finals. I’ll keep an eye out and update the post if I see anything.

The American Commentators almost completely ruin the beautiful experience of soccer. Their comments are narrow and shallow and they don’t even know how much frustration they cause.

NBC Soccer Channel is also available on Verizon FIOS TV HD Channel 897 (at least in the DC Metro area).

Please can you clarify the actual time for the men’s final? you list it on 2 days (friday and saturday). Also anyone know what channel on TimeWarner NBC Soccer channel is?

The best schedule I found online after much searching was the Seattle Times @ http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/olympics/2008093760_olytv07.html
but I’m still unsure about the Eastern/Western time zone.

So, the US Women are playing a Gold Medal match against Brazil and IT’S NOT ON ANY CABLE CHANNEL. This is ridiculous. Im pissed.

love Brandi Chastain as a player…

but good grief, please gag her…she is one of these people who some long winded comment about everything, and especially the obvious things. Just one platitude after another. Turn the sound off.

Please help! Thank you for this great listing! I missed the Women’s game and I want to catch a repeat; however, I can’t find this so called “NBC Olympic Soccer Channel”. How do I go about finding out the what channel it corresponds to in my area?

Melanie, you’ll have to call your cable company to see if they offer it. Good luck! (P.S. It was a fantastic game.)

thanks for this site. I’ve enjoyed all the games and hope that Brandi Chastain loses her voice