Comcast Corporation: NBCUniversal will offer 6,000 hours of Olympic content through 11 channels with live-streamed availability

Brian Roberts, Chairman and CEO at Comcast Corporation unveiled the great technological effort his company is doing to cover and offer the 2016 Olympic in the U.S. on August via NBCUniversal.Roberts said that the Olympics coverage entails more than 6,000 hours and it will be available 24 hours per day. “This summer in Rio, NBCUniversal will have more coverage than ever. 11 channels with 6,000 hours of content and 306 events. All available in live-streamed” he explained.The X1 platform -cloud based system- functions allow clients to enjoy this sports event as never before, Roberts said. X1 will be on 35% of Comcast users’ homes and they estimate that for the Olympics this will soar to 50%. “We’re adding an average of 40,000 users per day.”The X1 voice control remote already answers to more than 7 million voice commands and receives approximateley180 million voice commands per month, he added.