Olympics

Media rights clips from May 1 to May 14

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.

International sports broadcaster ESPN will be responsible for providing audiences in the Caribbean with tailored coverage of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro summer Olympic Games, the Caribbean Association of National Olympic Committees (Canoc) has confirmed.

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.

US media company Comcast has said the Sochi winter Olympics generated over $1.1bn (€797.1m) in revenue, with its NBCUniversal division’s broadcasts of the 2014 Games making a significant contribution to a first quarter net income rise of 30 per cent.

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.

The picture quality of 8K is four times the definition of ultra-high definition, or 4K, which is once again four times superior to HD standard.

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.

The International Olympic Committee has announced that the global broadcast output for Sochi’s winter Olympic Games will be almost double that of Vancouver’s staging of the event in 2010.

Media rights clips from January 30 to February 12

Production company Attitude Pictures has acquired media rights in New Zealand for the Sochi 2014 Paralympic winter Games.

Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS), the host broadcaster organisation for all Olympic Games, has confirmed an agreement with the organising committee of the 2018 winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang, South Korea.

Video search engine Blinkx has launched a dedicated channel for the 2014 winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia.

Pan-regional pay-television broadcaster DirecTV has secured a rights deal covering Latin America for the 2014 winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia and the 2016 summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

South African public-service broadcaster the SABC has acquired rights in the country for the 2014 winter Olympic Games in Sochi and the 2016 summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.