NBCUniversal is reviving NBC Sports Network as a new 24/7 linear sports channel, launching next Monday, 17 November, with YouTube TV as its first carriage partner.
The relaunched NBCSN will be available in the United States via participating pay-TV distributors, with Comcast’s Xfinity to follow and further deals promised.
The move marks a return for the NBCSN brand, which NBCU closed in 2021 as it shifted more live rights to Peacock and USA Network. This new iteration is designed to aggregate a wide slate of live events and side programming already sitting in the NBC Sports portfolio – much of it streamed on Peacock – into a single cable-style feed for operators that still want a premium sports channel in their bundles.
At launch, NBC Sports Network will carry Monday night NBA games and play-off action, Premier League matches, WNBA fixtures, Big Ten and Notre Dame football, college basketball from the Big Ten, Big East and Big 12, golf majors including selected coverage of the US Open and The Open, and cycling’s Grand Tours such as the Tour de France and Vuelta a España. Olympic and Olympic-style sports including figure skating, skiing, gymnastics, swimming and athletics will also feature, alongside coverage around the 2026 Milan–Cortina Winter Games and undercard races from the Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks.
The schedule will be rounded out with established NBC Sports studio strands and US sports radio brands, including PFT Live, The Dan Patrick Show, The Dan Le Batard Show and Fantasy Football Happy Hour with Matthew Berry. Much of the live event slate will be simulcast with Peacock, creating what NBCU describes as a complementary linear touchpoint for fans and an additional monetisation path for rights it has already acquired for streaming.
Matt Schnaars, President, Platform Distribution and Partnerships at NBCUniversal, said the new network is intended as “an important pillar” in the group’s combined linear and streaming strategy, promising value both for distributors that “prefer an aggregated experience” and for rights partners and advertisers seeking broad reach around live sport.
