International Olympic Committee (IOC)

The International Olympic Committee earned a significant increase from Chinese state broadcaster CCTV this month, but the new deal still falls well short of the true market value of the Games.

Olympic Broadcasting Services chief executive Yiannis Exarchos has said the new Olympic channel will serve as a “major way” of engaging with the youth market and “hardcore” sports audience after it was …

The new Olympic television channel will launch in English and possibly Spanish and Chinese initially before other languages are added, according to the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) managing director for television and marketing services, Timo Lumme.

Chinese state broadcaster CCTV has extended its partnership with the International Olympic Committee by acquiring the exclusive rights in China for the four editions of the Olympic Games spanning 2018 to 2024.

The breadth and depth of coverage the 2018 and 2020 Olympic Games will achieve in Canada is seen by the International Olympic Committee as an acceptable trade-off for a minimal increase in media-rights income.

Canadian public-service broadcaster the CBC has acquired rights for the 2018 and 2020 Olympic Games in partnership with telecommunications company Rogers Communications and media company BCE, which operates Bell Media.

The International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) executive board has backed plans to launch a new Olympic television channel.

International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach has won further support for his plan to establish an Olympic television channel and the project will undergo further development in the coming months.

Australian commercial broadcaster Seven is paying a high price in its deal for the Olympic Games of 2016, 2018 and 2020, local media-rights experts say, but the broadcaster will view the deal as a good investment for a number of reasons.

Australian commercial broadcaster Seven has agreed a deal for the rights to the next three editions of the Olympic Games, according to multiple reports.

The International Olympic Committee and the Japan Consortium of broadcasters, which this month acquired exclusive Japanese rights to the Olympic Games from 2018 to 2024, are both likely to be happy with the deal, local experts say.

The Japan Consortium, which includes public-service broadcaster NHK and the Japan Commercial Broadcasters Association (JBA), has extended its Olympic Games rights deal through to the 2024 summer edition of the multi-sport event.

Free-to-air and pay-television broadcaster TVB has acquired rights in Hong Kong for the 2016 summer Olympic Games.

The International Olympic Committee has robustly defended last week’s long-term deal with US media group NBCUniversal on the three key areas in which it has come under scrutiny.

Interview with Timo Lumme, the IOC’s managing director of television and marketing, about its new deal with NBCUniversal.

US media company NBCUniversal has extended its media rights deal for the Olympic Games through to 2032 in a deal that the International Olympic Committee said would secure the long-term financial security of the Olympic Movement.