Cord Cutter's Diary

The Olympics for cord cutters

I’ve already written about this, so just a quick review and update…

NBC Universal owns the rights to broadcast the Olympics in the U.S. Most of the good stuff will air on NBC, which you can access for free with a simple antenna. (I use Aereo for this.) Hooray!

The bad news is that lesser Olympic fare will be on NBCU’s cable channels like MSNBC and Bravo, which are out of my reach. And pretty much everything will be live streamed, but that also requires a cable subscription. (It looks like you can get an hour of viewing on the mobile and tablets apps before proving you’re a subscriber.)

As predicted, NBC no longer describes the process of authenticating your cable subscription as “painful.” That moment of candor has been replaced by cheerier instructions. But here are the old ones: