International Olympic Committee (IOC)

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.

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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.

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

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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.

Commercial broadcaster Seven is the only Australian broadcaster to have lodged an expression of interest in acquiring a package of rights covering the next three editions of the Olympic Games, according to the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper.

The Infront Sports & Media agency and International Olympic Committee have hailed the success of the sub-Saharan broadcast strategy put in place for the 2014 Sochi winter Games, adding the initiative will be repeated for the forthcoming Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China.

The ICC’s ambitious income target for its next cycle of media rights sales

International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach has appointed Dick Pound as the new chairman of the board of Olympic Broadcasting Services, which serves as host broadcaster for all editions of the Olympics.

Mike Kiernan, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, reviews audiences across selected European markets for the Winter Olympics in Sochi

International Olympic Committee vice-president John Coates has said that the organisation is aiming to sell the media rights for the next three Olympic Games as a single package in Australia, according to the Fox Sports news website.