Fubo, NBCUniversal Negotiate Paris Olympics Content Deal Amid Venu Antitrust Suit

Fubo partners with NBCUniversal to offer subscribers access to the 2024 Paris Olympic Games across multiple platforms from July 26 to August 11 at no additional charge.

Financial terms of the deal, which includes live coverage of the event starting July 24 and on-demand viewing, were not disclosed.

In addition to linear broadcasts on NBC, USA Network, E!, CNBC, Golf Channel, Telemundo and Universo, fubo subscribers can also watch the Olympic Games via NBCOlympics.com, NBC.com and the NBC Sports app.

NBC’s linear networks will be the backbone of the company’s coverage, providing fans with at least nine hours of daytime coverage, including live finals in swimming, gymnastics, track and field and more. They will also host “Primetime in Paris” for 16 consecutive nights, providing three hours of coverage each night that will take viewers inside the Olympic competition, moments, stories and raw emotion.

Paris Extra 1 and 2 will offer 24/7 live coverage on competition days with repeats at night. Paris Extra 1 will focus on basketball, handball, water polo and field hockey, while Paris Extra 2 will focus on combat and racket sports such as judo, taekwondo, badminton, table tennis and others. Telemundo and Universo will also provide commentary in Spanish, including a live coverage of the opening ceremony from the Seine for the first time ever on Telemundo.

NBCOlympics.com, NBC.com and the NBC Sports app will collectively broadcast more than 5,000 hours of content across platforms, available on mobile devices, tablets and connected TVs. Coverage will include live competition in all 39 sports and all 329 medal events, as well as streaming of all linear coverage and the digital “Gold Zone” show.

Olympic highlights, extended clips and select replays of full events will be available on demand via fubo and its TV Everywhere platforms. On-demand viewing will also include access to clips from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, videos about the athletes, venues and sports from the Paris Games, live coverage of training sessions and a proactive news desk that will regularly update the Olympics each day.

The partnership with NBCUniversal comes as Fubo is locked in a legal battle with Fox, Warner Bros. Discovery and Disney’s upcoming sports broadcasting joint venture Venu Sports. A preliminary injunction hearing in the case is scheduled for Aug. 7.

All of NBCUniversal’s channels that include Olympic coverage are available with Fubo’s Pro package for $80 per month, while the channels and 4K streaming are available with the Elite package for $90 per month.

Fubo stock, which was trading at $1.26 per share on Monday afternoon, has fallen 60% over the past six months and 44% over the past year.

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