Olympic Games

Dutch public-service broadcaster NOS has agreed a deal with US media and entertainment company Discovery Communications for rights to the 2018 and 2020 Olympic Games.

International media company Discovery Communications has formed a new global advertising sales division entitled One Discovery World.

South Korean electronics company Samsung will deliver Olympic content in virtual reality for the first time during the upcoming winter Youth Olympic Games in Lillehammer, Norway.

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UK public-service broadcaster the BBC has agreed a deal with US media and entertainment company Discovery Communications under which it will give up exclusive rights to the 2018 and 2020 Olympic Games in return for free-to-air rights to the 2022 and 2024 editions of the multi-sport event.

Football Federation Australia, the sport’s national governing body, has agreed a deal for commercial broadcaster Seven to show coverage of the country’s national women’s team on free-to-air television for the first time.

An eight-Games deal with Brazilian media group Globo has helped the International Olympic Committee lock in the gains of Rio 2016 for the long-term.

Brazilian media company Globo has been awarded rights for the Olympic Games by the International Olympic Committee through to 2032.

Pan-regional pay-television broadcaster ESPN has unveiled a multi-platform, TV everywhere plan ahead of its coverage of the 2016 Olympic Games in the Latin America region.

Media and entertainment company Discovery Communications, the parent company of international sports broadcaster Eurosport, has announced a number of new appointments to support the exploitation of rights for the Olympic Games.

Many of Europe’s public-service broadcasters are likely to provide a similar amount of linear coverage of the Olympic Games from 2018 compared to previous editions, despite having lost out on the rights to Discovery Communications.

Canadian public-service broadcaster CBC paid a small increase to extend its deal with the International Olympic Committee to cover the 2022 and 2024 Games.

Canadian public-service broadcaster the CBC has acquired rights for the 2022 and 2024 Olympic Games in partnership with telecommunications companies Rogers Communications and Bell Media.

Eurosport chief executive Peter Hutton has said sublicensing fees will cover 70 per cent of the cost of the pan-European sports broadcaster’s acquisition of rights to the Olympic Games.

UK commercial broadcaster ITV will bid to acquire rights for the Olympic Games in 2022 and 2024 in a sublicensing deal with international media and entertainment company Discovery Communications.

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