Olympic Games

The Discovery Networks Deutschland division of international media and entertainment company Discovery Communications has agreed a media partnership with the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) ahead of the 2018 winter Olympic Games.

US media company NBCUniversal has unveiled record coverage plans for the 2018 winter Olympic Games, confirming it will end the policy of delayed broadcasts in favour of live primetime coverage.

Discovery Communications’ German free-to-air channel, TLC, will show live coverage of the 2018 winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, the media and entertainment company has said.

Eurosport has unveiled plans for its coverage of the 2018 winter Olympics to mark 100 days to go until the start of the PyeongChang 2018 Games.

The Russian Olympic Committee has said it will launch an online streaming channel in December.

TF1 has signalled its interest in acquiring rights to the 2024 summer Olympic Games in Paris, while fellow French commercial broadcaster M6 is also interested, according to Les Echos.

Russian state-owned sports broadcaster Match TV has rejected reports that it will not broadcast the 2018 winter Olympic Games, stating that it expects to complete a rights deal in the autumn.

German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF have agreed a sublicensing deal with media company Discovery Communications for live and highlights coverage of the Olympic Games through to 2024.

Olympic Channel-branded content will launch on international sports broadcaster Eurosport in August as part of a new partnership announced this (Friday) morning between the latter’s parent company, Discovery Communications, and the International Olympic Committee-operated channel.

Talks have resumed over a possible sublicensing rights deal for the Olympic Games between media company Discovery Communications and German state broadcasters ARD and ZDF, according to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper.

The International Olympic Committee has agreed rights deals with a number of broadcasters in sub-Saharan Africa for the Olympic Games schedule covering the 2018 and 2022 winter Games and the 2020 and 2024 summer Games.

Telecommunications group Telecom Italia (TIM) has agreed a first-of-its-kind partnership with media and entertainment company Discovery Communications that will grant it access to content from the Olympic Games.

US media company NBCUniversal has said the new Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA platform will launch on July 15, with its initial reach set to span more than 35 million homes in the United States.

Media and entertainment company Discovery Communications, an Olympic Games rights-holder in Europe, has taken the unusual step of publicly expressing its support for Paris’ bid for the 2024 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games.

International media and entertainment company Discovery Communications has taken its free-to-air broadcast partner portfolio for the Olympic Games up to 20 through new agreements in Armenia and Kosovo.

The NBC Olympics division of US media company NBCUniversal has extended its partnership with social media platform Snapchat to cover the 2018 winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea.