[AU72]

Those interruptions make it hardly worth watching.

DVR is your friend.

I'll tape and then start watching 1 hour after it starts doing the FF shuffle.

[TomGuy]

from blog.zap2it.com:

The opening ceremony starts at approximately 12:15 p.m. ET/9:15 p.m. in Sochi. NBC is not streaming the event live. Instead, the network will air the ceremony Friday night beginning at 7:30 p.m. ET/PT. The BBC will be covering the event live on the BBC website.

Note that BBC feed may not work outside of the UK.