Winter Sports

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.

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.

UK public-service broadcaster the BBC has acquired rights to the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation’s (FIBT) Skeleton World Cup as part of its build-up to the Sochi 2014 winter Olympic Games.

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.

Fisu, the governing body of international university sport, has secured a record number of broadcasting hours for a winter Universiade, as the 2013 edition of the multi-sport event gets underway in Trentino, Italy today.

Fisu, the governing body of international university sport, has said it will provide live streaming of the forthcoming 26th winter Universiade on its LiveFisu.tv platform.

The International Paralympic Committee has said that it expects the 2014 Paralympic winter Games to set record levels of global broadcasting reach when it is staged in Sochi, Russia next year.

Czech Republic commercial and pay-television broadcaster Nova has agreed a rights-sharing deal involving the 2014 winter Olympic Games with public-service broadcaster Czech TV.

Pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia has signed a deal with Telecom Italia for Sky’s dedicated Sochi 2014 winter Olympics channels to be carried by the telecommunications company’s TIM broadband and ultra-broadband networks.

Mexican telecommunications company América Móvil has agreed to sell on exclusive domestic media rights for the 2014 winter Olympic Games to state-owned broadcaster Canal 22, according to the Reforma newspaper.

Russian state broadcaster VGTRK has announced that its free-to-air channel Russia 2 will be dedicated solely to the 2014 winter Olympic Games during the duration of next year’s event in Sochi.

The Infront Sports & Media agency has extended its clips distribution deal with the International Ski Federation (FIS) for the 2013-14 and 2014-15 winter sports seasons.

US network NBC will show the majority of its television coverage of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games on a tape-delayed basis despite the criticism it received for employing a similar strategy for the London 2012 Olympics.

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