Optimum Brings Customers NBCUniversal’s Coverage of the Milan Cortina Winter Olympic Games February 6 – 22, 2026

Video Subscribers Gain Access to NBCU's Unprecedented Multi-Platform Coverage of The Milan Cortina Olympics, Featuring Live Daytime Coverage of Top Events and Enhanced Primetime Show

Long Island City, NY - January 30, 2026 - Optimum Communications, Inc., in collaboration with NBCUniversal, today announced a multi-platform content offering for NBCU's coverage of The Milan Cortina Olympics, scheduled for February 6-22. Optimum's video subscribers will have access to NBCU's extensive coverage of Olympic programming, including live competition sessions (which start with team competitions on February 5) and on-demand, and featuring more hours of Olympic programming on the NBC broadcast network than any previous Winter Games.

In addition to enjoying NBCUniversal's extensive linear coverage on the NBC broadcast network and on Versant's USA Network and CNBC cable networks, Optimum subscribers can stay connected to The Winter Olympics wherever they go with NBCOlympics.com, the NBC Sports app and the NBC app, via authentication. On NBCOlympics.com and NBCU's other digital platforms, users can use OLI, NBCU's AI-powered Olympic discoverability tool and chatbot, to find real-time U.S. programming information about the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympic Winter Games.

*Live streaming of the NBC broadcast network on Optimum TV lineups is available only in markets where Optimum carries NBC.

The following multi-platform offerings from NBCU will allow Optimum customers to watch and be a part of The Milan Cortina Olympics through their televisions, PCs, mobile and tablet apps, and connected TVs.

NBCU's 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics Experience Available to Optimum Customers Includes:

• Linear Networks: The NBC broadcast network will once again be the backbone of NBCU's coverage, presenting more programming hours than any previous Winter Olympics. Every day, NBC will provide Olympic fans with at least five hours of daytime coverage of The Winter Olympic Games' most exciting events, including live finals coverage of figure skating, speed skating, snowboarding, freestyle skiing and more. With Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo six hours ahead of the United States' eastern time zone, the daytime takeover will feature that day's most popular events live on NBC in the morning and afternoon.

NBC will deliver 17 consecutive nights of primetime coverage, starting with the Opening Ceremony on February 6 and continuing with 16 episodes of "Primetime in Milan", including after Super Bowl LX (also broadcast on NBC), providing three hours of edge-of-your-seat entertainment on most nights. The program will take the American audience up close and inside the Olympic day, weaving together the great competitions, moments, stories, and raw emotion for the primetime audience to share.

Two Versant cable networks - USA Network and CNBC - will present additional live Olympics coverage.

NBCOlympics.com, NBC.com, and NBC Sports app: NBC Sports Digital will stream more than 2,400 hours of the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics across its TV Everywhere platforms, via authentication, including NBCOlympics.com (desktop), NBC.com (desktop) the NBC Sports App, the NBC App and all other NBCU Apps, which are available across mobile, tablet and connected TVs. The comprehensive offering features live competition across all 16 sports and all 116 medal events, plus simulstreaming of all linear coverage and the digital Gold Zone whip-around show.

NBCOlympics.com, NBC.com, and the NBC Sports app will once again feature full-event replays of all event streams, plus extensive video highlights. Optimum customers can access this streaming coverage of the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics at no additional charge

As part of the ultimate Olympic web experience, NBCOlympics.com will have the most up-to-date streaming schedule, plus news articles, written features, live blogs, real-time results, medal standings, athlete pages and more. NBCOlympics.com will also provide access to live streams of select training runs and practice sessions from sports such as Alpine Skiing and Figure Skating, and "Best of Milan Cortina," a 24/7 live stream built from the latest Olympic highlights.

• In-Games On-Demand: NBCU is making Olympic highlights and select full-event replays available to Optimum customers On-Demand. This includes daily Olympic highlights, key event recaps, viral moments, and full-event replays of top events.

• Pre-Games On-Demand: Available now and continuing through The Milan Cortina Olympics, viewers can access clips looking back to top moments from the 2022 Beijing Olympics and looking ahead to the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics athletes and sports.

• 4K HDR: Optimum will present NBCU's coverage of The Milan Cortina Olympics in 4K High Dynamic Range (HDR) that appears on USA Network to its customers in 4K on Optimum's 4K channel where available.

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