Olympic Broadcast Services, the company created by the International Olympic Committee to oversee the host broadcaster function for the Games, will conduct a feasibility study into the potential launch of an Olympic television channel.
The project was one of IOC president Thomas Bach’s proposals during his campaign for the top job at the organisation earlier this year.
The launch of a feasibility study was one of several developments announced by the IOC following the conclusion of a four-day brainstorming seminar led by Bach. The ideas generated at the meeting will form the basis of the Olympic Agenda 2020, a roadmap for the Olympic Movement under Bach’s presidency that is expected to be finalised by the end of 2014.
The ideas and proposals generated will be discussed by the full Session of the IOC during the winter Olympics in Sochi, and those selected will then be taken forward in working groups, which will present concrete proposals later in the year.
The IOC said that Olympic Agenda 2020 will then be presented for final approval to an IOC Extraordinary Session to be held on December 6-7, 2014 in Monaco.