The International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) executive board has backed plans to launch a new Olympic television channel.
The plan was finalised during a two-day meeting in Montreux, Switzerland as part of broader ‘Olympic Agenda 2020’ proposals that will be put to a vote for the full IOC membership in Monaco from December 8-9.
Bach said that the executive board received a positive feasibility study on the establishment of an Olympic channel that would promote Olympic sports between the summer and winter Games by showing sports coverage, archive footage, news and other programming.
IOC president Thomas Bach refused to confirm reports that the channel could launch as early as next year.
“Putting such a worldwide channel together is not going to happen within just a couple of months,” he said, according to the Associated Press news agency. “The timing of the launch is not essential. We would launch at the time when we are ready.”