The Rio Olympics 2016 Opening Ceremony officially starts at 7 p.m. EST on Friday, August 5 in the Maracana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Brazil. It will air live on NBC.

Watch Rio Olympics 2016 Opening Ceremony in the UK

In the United Kingdom, the Rio 2016 Olympics Opening Ceremony officially starts at midnight Friday night/Saturday morning because of the time difference.

The British Telegraph Sports website will Live stream the Rio Olympics 2016. The sports website’s reporter Alan Tyers will cover the event live.

BBC One will cover the ceremony as well.

Rio Olympics 2016 Opening Ceremony Details

This year’s Rio Olympics already went through its dress rehearsal giving the public a little tease of what’s going on at Friday night’s three-hour event.

Supermodel Gisele will give an open view of the good and the bad in Brazil. She will play a scene where she is being mugged, showing that Brazil has its bad parts. But they also have their good parts too like beautiful women and great culture.

Brazilian Hosts

Brazilian film director Fernanro Meirelles and producer Daniela Thomas will handle some of the fun parts of the Rio Olympics 2016 Opening Ceremony.

Thomas helped with the Olympics 2012 Opening Ceremony in London.

The Rio Olympics 2016 Opening Ceremony has spent less than 10 percent of what London paid for the Olympics most-watched event four years ago.

Meirelles said he would be, "ashamed to waste what London spent in a country where we need sanitation, where education needs money.”

"So I'm very glad we're not spending money like crazy. I'm happy to work with this low budget because it makes sense for Brazil," he added.

Talking about London, the Olympics held four years ago wasn't surrounded with much negative press and media coverage. People were living a different world back then and here we provide you the ceremony Londoners prepared for the world to see. For sure, comparisons will be drawn once the Cariocas present what Brazil is all about in just a matter of days.

Complete Video of London Olympics 2012 Opening Ceremony

Watch the official YouTube video of London’s opening ceremony: Click Here. Or watch the unofficial video here:

List of Brazilian Finest Performers:

Gilberto Gil
Caetano Veloso
Paulinho da Viola
Jorge Ben Jor
Luiz Melodia

Rio Olympics 2016 Games Preview

Fans can watch the 2016 Olympic Games preview on NBCOlympics.com

Competition begins on Wednesday Aug. 3 with Women’s Soccer.

Live stream Rio 2016 Olympics Opening Ceremony

Fans can watch the Live stream of the events on their IOS mobile androids by downloading the App “Rio 2016 Live.”

They can also visit Rio2016.com for live streaming via the internet.

To stay up to date with the latest news regarding the Rio Olympics 2016, like the Facebook Page.

Here is a list of NBC networks covering the Rio Olympics 2016:

Broadcast networks:
NBC
TELEMUNDO (Spanish language)
Cable channels:
Bravo
CNBC
Golf Channel
MSNBC
NBC Sports Network (NBCSN)
NBC UNIVERSO (Spanish language)
USA Network
Specialty channels (Basketball and Soccer)

The 2016 Olympics Games officially kicks off on Saturday Aug. 6.

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