Coverage Begins from Innsbruck, Austria on Saturday, Nov. 24 at 4 p.m. ET on Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA
Event Highlights Include World Cup Stops at Five Past Olympic Tracks & 2019 FIL World Luge Championships in Winterberg, Germany
STAMFORD, Conn. – Nov. 19, 2018 – NBC Sports presents more than 40 hours of coverage of the 2018-19 FIL Luge World Cup season across NBCSN, Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA, NBCSports.com, the NBC Sports app, OlympicChannel.com and the Olympic Channel app, as part of a five-year exclusive media rights agreement struck between NBC Sports Group, USA Luge and the International Luge Federation in 2017.
The season kicks off with the first World Cup in Innsbruck, Austria, followed by a stop in Whistler, British Columbia. 2018 Olympic singles silver medalist Chris Mazdzer will compete in men’s singles, as well as doubles with two-time Olympian Jayson Terdiman, who was his junior doubles partner. Two-time Olympian Summer Britcher, along with 2018 Olympian Emily Sweeney, are expected to lead the American women following the retirement of Sochi Olympic bronze medalist Erin Hamlin.
NBC Sports’ 2018-19 FIL Luge World Cup schedule continues from Calgary, Alberta (Dec. 7 – 9); Lake Placid, N.Y. (Dec. 15 – 16); Koenigssee, Germany (Jan. 5 – 6); Sigulda, Latvia (Jan. 12 – 14); Altenberg, Germany (Feb. 2 – 3); Oberhof, Germany (Feb. 9 – 10); and Sochi, Russia (Feb. 22 – 25). Coverage of the 2019 FIL World Luge Championships from Winterberg, Germany, begin Saturday, Jan. 26 at 8 a.m. ET on NBCSN. NBCSN and Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA will present nearly 10 hours of World Championships programming.
STREAMING COVERAGE OF FIL LUGE WORLD CUP
NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports app — NBC Sports Group’s live streaming platforms for desktops, mobile devices, tablets, and connected TVs — will provide streaming coverage of the 2018-19 FIL Luge World Cup events airing on NBCSN and Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA via “TV Everywhere,” giving consumers additional value for their subscription service, and making high quality content available to MVPD customers both in and out of the home and on multiple platforms.
NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports app are powered by Playmaker Media and available on the iTunes App Store, Google Play, Windows Store, Roku Channel Store, Apple TV and Amazon Fire.
All linear coverage on NBCSN will stream on NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports app. All linear coverage on Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA will stream on OlympicChannel.com and the Olympic Channel app, in addition to NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports app.
All events will stream live on OlympicChannel.com and the Olympic Channel app.
Following is NBC Sports’ telecast schedule for the upcoming 2018-19 FIL Luge World Cup season:
Date | Time (ET) | Event | Network |
11/24/2018 | 04:00 PM | Women’s Singles - Innsbruck, Austria* | Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA |
11/24/2018 | 05:00 PM | Doubles - Innsbruck, Austria* | Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA |
11/24/2018 | 10:00 PM | Women’s Singles - Innsbruck, Austria* | NBCSN |
11/25/2018 | 01:00 PM | Men’s Singles - Innsbruck, Austria* | Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA |
11/30/2018 | 08:30 PM | Doubles - Whistler, British Columbia* | Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA |
11/30/2018 | 09:15 PM | Men’s Singles - Whistler, British Columbia (LIVE) | Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA |
12/1/2018 | 04:00 PM | Women’s Singles - Whistler, British Columbia** | Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA |
12/2/2018 | 07:00 PM | From Whistler, British Columbia* | NBCSN |
12/7/2018 | 09:30 PM | Doubles - Calgary, Alberta* | Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA |
12/7/2018 | 10:00 PM | Men’s Singles - Calgary, Alberta* | Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA |
12/8/2018 | 11:30 PM | Women’s Singles - Calgary, Alberta** | Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA |
12/9/2018 | 06:00 PM | From Calgary, Alberta* | NBCSN |
12/15/2018 | 08:00 PM | Men’s Singles - Lake Placid, New York* | Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA |
12/15/2018 | 09:00 PM | Doubles - Lake Placid, New York** | Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA |
12/16/2018 | 04:00 PM | From Lake Placid, New York* | NBCSN |
12/16/2018 | 08:00 PM | Women’s Singles - Lake Placid, New York* | Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA |
1/5/2019 | 06:00 PM | Doubles - Koenigssee, Germany* | Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA |
1/5/2019 | 06:30 PM | Women’s Singles - Koenigssee, Germany* | Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA |
1/6/2019 | 05:00 PM | Men’s Singles - Koenigssee, Germany* | Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA |
1/6/2019 | 06:00 PM | Men’s Singles - Koenigssee, Germany* | NBCSN |
1/12/2019 | 06:30 PM | Doubles - Sigulda, Latvia* | Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA |
1/12/2019 | 07:00 PM | Women’s Singles - Sigulda, Latvia* | Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA |
1/13/2019 | 06:30 PM | Men’s Singles - Sigulda, Latvia* | Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA |
1/14/2019 | 11:00 PM | Men’s Singles - Sigulda, Latvia* | NBCSN |
1/26/2019 | 08:00 AM | FIL World Luge Championships – Sprint Events & Doubles* | NBCSN |
1/26/2019 | 07:00 PM | FIL World Luge Championships – Doubles* | Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA |
1/26/2019 | 07:30 PM | FIL World Luge Championships – Women’s Singles* | Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA |
1/27/2019 | 02:00 PM | FIL World Luge Championships – Men’s Singles* | Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA |
1/27/2019 | 06:00 PM | FIL World Luge Championships – From Winterberg, Germany* | NBCSN |
1/28/2019 | 10:30 PM | FIL World Luge Championships – From Winterberg, Germany** | NBCSN |
2/2/2019 | 01:00 PM | Doubles - Altenberg, Germany* | Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA |
2/2/2019 | 01:30 PM | Men’s Singles - Altenberg, Germany* | Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA |
2/3/2019 | 03:00 PM | Women’s Singles - Altenberg, Germany* | Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA |
2/3/2019 | 10:00 PM | From Altenberg, Germany* | NBCSN |
2/9/2019 | 06:30 PM | Doubles - Oberhof, Germany* | Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA |
2/9/2019 | 07:00 PM | Men’s Singles - Oberhof, Germany* | Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA |
2/10/2019 | 07:00 PM | Women’s Singles - Oberhof, Germany* | Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA |
2/22/2019 | 01:30 PM | Doubles - Sochi, Russia* | Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA |
2/23/2019 | 07:00 PM | Women’s Singles - Sochi, Russia* | Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA |
2/24/2019 | 07:00 PM | Men’s Singles - Sochi, Russia* | Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA |
2/25/2019 | 11:00 PM | Men’s Singles - Sochi, Russia** | NBCSN |
*Same-day delay
**Next-day delay
#All events to stream live on OlympicChannel.com and Olympic Channel app. Linear coverage on NBCSN and Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA will stream across NBCSports.com, OlympicChannel.com, NBC Sports app and Olympic Channel app.
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