Also in response to my aforementioned article, reader Erik shared an additional way to follow the Games in February. I’ve posted it here in its entirety. Thanks, Erik!
Digital over-the-air broadcast television
“NBC (broadcast locally on WPTZ-TV 5.1) aired more than 5,500 hours of gorgeous 1080i HD Olympic coverage for the 2012 Summer Olympic games, up from 3,600 hours for the 2008 Beijing games.
Naturally, the Winter Olympics are much shorter, but they broadcast 416 hours from Torino in 2006 and 835 from Vancouver in 2010.*
Those of your readers in Canada (for whom your NBC links are irrelevant anyway) can usually watch the Olympics on CBC (English), Ici Radio-Canada Télé (French), and other networks as well — though I don’t know the exact arrangement for 2014. All this is digital over-the-air, too — most of it HD.
Note that you do not need anything called a ‘digital antenna.’ The kind of antenna you do need depends on your local broadcaster and terrain, but an antenna is an antenna; there’s no ‘analog’ or ‘digital.’ In Vermont, WPTZ is a UHF station on the top of Mt. Mansfield; it can be difficult to get in some of the valleys, so an outdoor antenna might be required. You do, of course, need a digital television set or television receiver, or an old analog set with a converter box.
*via Olympics on NBC Wiki