Universal Sports Network and NBC Sports will provide more than 10 hours of combined television and online coverage of the 2011 ING New York City Marathon this Sunday 6 November beginning at 09:00 ET. The marathon will air live on Universal Sports Network, with live streaming available on NYCMarathon.org and UniversalSports.com presented by MOTOACTV from Motorola.
NBC will present a two-hour marathon special from 14:00-16:00 ET. The television and online coverage will showcase the 26.2-mile race featuring more than 45,000 runners traversing New York City’s five boroughs: Staten Island, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Manhattan, and the finish in the world-famous Central Park.
Universal Sports Network recently launched a national US marketing campaign alerting viewers about its transition from over-the-air distribution to a multi-platform, high definition cable, satellite and IPTV service beginning in 2012.
Universal Sports, a partnership between NBC Sports and InterMedia Partners LP, is the premier multi-platform media destination for Olympic-related sports programming in the United States. Universal Sports is currently available over the air in 52 markets nationwide, including all of the nation’s top 10 media markets and 20 of the top 25, and on DIRECTV.
Major world championship sports events aired on Universal Sports include track and field, skiing, swimming, gymnastics, marathons, figure skating, cycling, rugby and triathlon.
