NBCUniversal Programming for Day 0 of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games

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Friday marks the official start of the 2014 Sochi Winter Games with the Opening Ceremony at the Lazarevskoye Site.

NBC will air the festivities on tape delay beginning at 7:30 p.m. ET. Bob Costas will skip his first Opening Ceremony since becoming official host of NBC Olympics in 1992. He’ll be anchoring from the International Broadcast Center in Sochi. Replacing him will be the team that came under widespread criticism for their poor performance in London, current Today show co-host Matt Lauer and his former partner, Meredith Viera.

Joining Matt and Meredith will be New Yorker magazine editor David Remnick, a former Washington Post Moscow bureau chief. Remnick will be a regular contributor to NBC throughout the Sochi Olympics.

Here’s what NBC is saying about Friday’s coverage.

Stamford, Conn, – February 6, 2014 – NBCUniversal’s coverage of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi continues tomorrow, Friday, February 7 at 7:30 p.m. ET on NBC with the Opening Ceremony hosted by Matt Lauer, co-anchor of TODAY, and Meredith Vieira, special correspondent for TODAY.

Lauer and Vieira will be joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and New Yorker editor David Remnick, with NBC Olympics primetime host Bob Costas anchoring the ceremony from the International Broadcast Center in Sochi. The Opening Ceremony will feature a compelling journey through Russia’s history and culture and the Parade of Nations, culminating with the lighting of the Olympic flame.

NBCOlympics.com and the NBC Sports Live Extra app will allow cable, satellite and telco customers to live stream more than 1,000 exclusive hours of Sochi Olympics content, including all sports, all competition and all medal events. The NBC Olympics Highlights and Results app will be home to up-to-date TV and online streaming schedules, live results, athlete profiles and replays of the Games’ most memorable moments. In addition, through the “Primetime Companion” section, the app will serve as the signature second-screen tool for NBC’s nightly primetime coverage.

For more information on live streaming, please go to: NBCOlympics.com/LiveExtra

For the full schedule of NBCUniversal’s Olympic coverage, please go to: NBCOlympics.com

Listings subject to change (all times ET unless otherwise noted).

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7 (DAY 0)

NBC

7:30 p.m. – 11:30 p.m.
Opening Ceremony

­1:05 a.m. – 5 a.m.
Primetime Encore

NBC HIGHLIGHTS (Primetime): The Opening Ceremony will feature a compelling journey through Russia’s history and culture and the Parade of Nations, culminating with the lighting of the Olympic flame.

There you have it.

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