WBZ-TV
Pre-Race Special: 8am-9am ET
Live Local Coverage of Marathon: 9am-1:30pm ET
Universal Sports
Live Coverage of Marathon: 9:30am-12:30pm ET
WBZ-TV is the only Boston television station providing live wire-to-wire coverage of the 2012 Boston Marathon. As the exclusive local broadcaster for the sixth consecutive year, WBZ-TV offers a full range of news, features and athlete interviews, from the predawn hours in Hopkinton to a complete wrap-up on the WBZ-TV News at 11 p.m. Boston’s WBZ-TV is part of CBS Television Stations, a division of CBS Corporation. In 2010, WBZ-TV and the Boston Athletic Association renewed their exclusive Boston Marathon partnership for three years through the 116th running of the Boston Marathon in 2012. At the conclusion of this three-year renewal, WBZ-TV will be the only station to have aired 30-years of complete, live, local coverage of one of the region’s premiere sporting events.
Please visit www.cbsboston.com, for more information and bonus coverage of the 2012 Boston Marathon.
UNIVERSAL SPORTS
Universal Sports and the Boston Athletic Association have a multi-year agreement that makes Universal Sports Network and UniversalSports.com the exclusive national television home, as well as worldwide multimedia destination, for the legendary Boston Marathon.
Universal Sports Network is home to three World Marathon Majors (WMM), offering complete and in-depth television and multimedia coverage of the Boston Marathon, Virgin London Marathon, real-Berlin Marathon, as well as the Los Angeles Marathon.
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. Offering more than 1,200 hours of original programming each year, Universal Sports has exclusive rights to world and national championship events in a wide array of sports, including swimming, track and field, gymnastics, cycling, skiing, figure skating and rugby. Whether on television, online, or on the go with mobile and tablet applications, Universal Sports offers a four-screen experience to fans of global sports every day of the year.
