Domestic broadcast rights for the event have been assigned to NBC and OLN, which will be airing their coverage on Sunday, January 22 at 3 p.m. EST on NBC, and 5 p.m. on OLN. NBC and OLN are exercising their right to broadcast exclusivity over the Saturday night finals, including news access, until their airing.
Knowing the importance of coverage, Mountain Creek and USSA have worked with NBC and OLN to permit access under the following provisions prior to NBC’s airing:
• Non-rights holding broadcast television companies and websites will be permitted news access to the following:
January 19 10:00am – 2:00pm Slopestyle practice
5:30am – 9:00pm Halfpipe practice
January 20 10:00am – 3:00pm Slopestyle qualifier
7:00pm – 8:25pm Halfpipe finals
January 21 11:00am – 12:30pm Slopestyle finals
12:45 pm – 1:00pm SCS Slednecks demo
6:15pm – 8:00pm Fountains of Wayne concert / Slednecks demo
8:00pm – 8:45pm Olympic Announcement Ceremony/Fireworks
9:00pm – 9:30pm Press Conference
January 22 12:00pm – 1:30pm Junior Jam
• Up to 60 seconds of Friday competition highlights, Saturday slopestyle finals and the Junior Jam competition may be used in regularly-scheduled newscasts prior to NBC’s broadcast.
• Up to 60 seconds of Saturday night’s final competition highlights may be used in regularly-scheduled newscasts following NBC’s broadcast.
• There is no limitation on interviews, press conference footage and any other non-competition highlights, including evening entertainment.
• These parameters apply to all television broadcast companies, web sites producing video packages or independent film companies filming for stock footage, regardless of network affiliation. All independent film companies need to contact Peter Glass with USSA (pglass@ussa.org) prior to filming.
Please understand that the rights-holder will have priority access to the venue, location and athletes. Any attempt to violate this priority could result in removal from the venue. Again, our goal is to assist our local affiliates in providing meaningful news coverage of this historic event while at the same time, respecting the broadcast rights of our domestic rights holder.
A Media Room with wireless internet, DSL and phone service has been set up for your convenience, which is located in the
