Olympics

Free-to-air and pay-television broadcaster TVB has acquired rights in Hong Kong for the 2014 winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia.

Pay-television broadcaster ESPN has acquired rights across Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America for the 2014 winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia and the 2016 summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Media rights clips from January 16 to 29

Pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports has acquired rights in Latin America for the 2014 winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia and the 2016 summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The IMG Media agency has acquired in-flight and in-ship media rights for the 2014 winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia.

International Media Content (IMC), the parent company of pay-television broadcaster SportsMax, has acquired rights in the Caribbean for the 2014 winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia.

Sports5, the sports arm of commercial broadcaster TV5, has acquired rights in the Philippines for the Olympic Games.

Media rights clips from December 19 to January 15

NBC Olympics, a division of the NBC Sports Group in the US, has broadened its partnership with Facebook to feature video content on the social media platform for the first time during the forthcoming 2014 winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia.

Pay-television sports broadcaster SuperSport has acquired rights for the 2014 and 2016 Olympic Games in South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has awarded the Infront Sports & Media agency media rights in Sub-Saharan Africa for the 2014 and 2016 Olympic Games.

IOC says own TV channel will not be a threat to traditional Olympic broadcasters

German commercial sports broadcaster Sport1 has acquired rights for the men’s and women’s ice hockey tournaments during the 2014 winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia.

The Association of National Olympic Committees (Anoc) has appointed the MP & Silva agency to act as the organisation’s media-rights adviser.

The NBC Olympics division of US media group NBCUniversal has extended a digital content partnership with internet company Yahoo through to the end of the 2014 winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia.

Olympic Broadcast Services, the company created by the International Olympic Committee to oversee the host broadcaster function for the Games, will conduct a feasibility study into the potential launch of an Olympic television channel.