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NBC Sports is a sports app where you can watch thousands of live sporting events from different channels, including the well-known NBC, NBCSN, NBC Sports Gold, Golf Channel, Olympic Channel, Telemundo Deportes, and more. Besides, for those sports lovers, it is also a stream feast with events like NFL Sunday Night Football, PGA TOUR, Premier League, French Open, Triple Crown, and NASCAR Monster Energy & Xfinity Series races.

In addition, it provides a video-on-demand service that enables you to access video clips, preview upcoming events and view highlights of past events. It also allows you to relive all the great moments through full race replays. More than that, with alternate camera angles, synchronized statistics and additional content available for certain events, you’ll get an extraordinary view that traditional sports channels can’t provide.

Note that NBC Sports is only accessible in the U.S. and certain U.S. territories, and you have to sign in with your TV provider credentials to use it.

On iOS AppStore, NBC Sports’ rating is 4.6 out of 5.0, with 420,931 user reviews. On Google Play, its rating is 3.6 out of 5.0, with 106,950 user reviews and more than 10,000,000 installs.

Based on the above data, it can be seen that the rating of this app is above the average level of most apps on iOS AppStore. While on Google Play, it seems that its performance it not good enough, which means that it still has a long way to go if it aims at becoming an irreplaceable sports app. But we should not ignore that there are few alternatives for watching NBC sporting content on non-TV devices, and the app ranks No. 61 in Category-Sports on iOS AppStore. Therefore, it’s still worth considering for users to choose this app.

Since the main feature of this app is to provide users with live sporting events, its competitiveness is mainly in its richness of content and the stability of the presented content. However, the unstable performance and frequent bugs of this app affect the user experience to some extent. 

This app has many advantages that make it likely to be popular among users. First of all, it has a rich content that covers sports events from the most widely known TV channel brands. Secondly, its feature of video-on-demand makes up for the lack of traditional TV. It is also worth mentioning that this app offers closed captioning support and alternate camera angles for some events, which are interesting features for sports fans. But the app still has some drawbacks to overcome, for example, users have to enter their cable provider information every time they try to use it, and the interface sometimes runs a little slow.

Pros

- Users can watch full event replays.

- It provides users with video-on-demand service.

- It supports closed captioning when users watch videos.

Cons

- The interface of the app is not simple and attractive enough.

- It crashes occasionally when logging in.