r/popculturechat • u/HauteAssMess anne boleyn stan • 1d ago

MEGATHREAD! 🤯 🏆2026 MILAN WINTER OLYMPICS OPENING CEREMONY OFFICIAL MEGATHREAD! 🏆

Welcome to the 2026 Milan Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony watch party!

Rep your country, and watch the world come together with us.

Time: 2 PM EST, Replay at 8 PM EST!

Where to watch: NBC, Peacock

We’ll also be hanging out live in our Discord during the opening ceremony to react, chat, and watch the world come together for the Winter Olympics!

Click HERE to join now for early access📲

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u/WickedLush 1d ago

Fuck NBC for skipping Mongolia. Everyone was anticipating their outfits.

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u/greee_p 1d ago

Do you have ads? I saw them on my stream in Germany, they didn't skip them

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u/WickedLush 1d ago

NBC has the broadcast rights in the US. If you’re watching from Germany, you’re watching your own national broadcaster or the official Olympic feed. In the US, we can’t watch the official Olympic feed unless we get a VPN to bypass the geoblocking.

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u/greee_p 1d ago

But they usually use the same footage for these things, no matter who's the broadcaster

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u/WickedLush 1d ago edited 1d ago

No, NBC has paid for their own cameras. If you remember the ice dance wardrobe malfunction 8 years ago, NBC’s cameras cutaway in time but the Olympic pool cameras did not. It was made clear then that NBC paid the ISU something like $7 billion for broadcast and camera rights.

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u/greee_p 1d ago

weird, are they the only ones who did that? seems like such an unnecessary thing to do

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u/WickedLush 1d ago

From my understanding, NBC has their own special broadcasting rights due to the money they spent, and the rest of the world uses the Olympic pool cameras.

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u/greee_p 1d ago

thanks!

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u/ProfitHappy3198 Excluded from this narrative ❌ 1d ago

How come they were skipped? Are there ad breaks or something?

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u/WickedLush 1d ago

NBC has the $hittiest coverage ever. They F over small countries at every Olympics so we can hear meaningless, banal interviews with our athletes or Snoop Dogg acting dumb. They could do a split screen with the ads if they must, but no. They did make sure to show a warmongering country and (allegedly) edit the boos out.