Summer Olympic Games 2020 Broadcasters

[Mkbw50 475]

 

 

What's that? You want to know how to watch the Olympics? Well why didn't you say so? Note: These are subject to change, and to be brought and sold by broadcasters.

 

Olympics:

 

Afghanistan - Dentsu Inc.

Albania - Discovery Communications

Algeria - beIN MEDIA GROUP

Andorra - Discovery Communications

Anguilla - International Media Content Ltd

Antigua & Barbuda - International Media Content Ltd

Armenia - Discovery Communications

Australia - Seven West Media Ltd.

Austria - Discovery Communications

Azerbaijan - Discovery Communications

Bahrain - beIN MEDIA GROUP

Barbados - International Media Content Ltd

Belarus - Discovery Communications

Belize - International Media Content Ltd

Belgium - Discovery Communications

Bermuda - International Media Content Ltd

Bosnia and Herzegovina - Discovery Communications

Brazil - Globo Comunicação e Participações S.A.

British Virgin Islands - International Media Content Ltd

Brunei - Dentsu Inc.

Bulgaria - Discovery Communications

Cambodia - Dentsu Inc.

Canada - CBC/Radio-Canada

Cayman Islands - International Media Content Ltd

China - CCTV

Chinese Taipei - Dentsu Inc.

Commonwealth of the Bahamas - International Media Content Ltd

Cook Islands - SKY Network Television Ltd

Cooperative Republic of Guyana - International Media Content Ltd

Croatia - Discovery Communications

Cyprus - Discovery Communications

Democratic People's Republic of Korea - SBS

Denmark - Discovery Communications

Djibouti - beIN MEDIA NETWORK

Dominica - International Media Content Ltd

East Timor - Dentsu Inc.

Egypt - beIN MEDIA NETWORK

Estonia - Discovery Communications

Federated States of Micronesia - SKY Network Television Ltd

Finland - Discovery Communications

Fiji - SKY Network Television Ltd

France - France Télévisions

Georgia - Discovery Communications

Germany - Discovery Communications

Greece - Discovery Communications

Grenada - International Media Content Ltd

Guadeloupe - International Media Content Ltd

Haiti - International Media Content Ltd

Hong Kong - Dentsu Inc.

Hungary - Discovery Communications

Iceland - Discovery Communications

Independent State of Samoa - SKY Television Network Ltd

Indonesia - Dentsu Inc.

Iran - Dentsu Inc.

Iraq - beIN MEDIA NETWORK

Ireland - Discovery Communications

Israel - Discovery Communications

Italy - Discovery Communications

Jamaica - International Media Content Ltd

Japan - Japan Consortium

Jordan - beIN MEDIA NETWORK

Kazakhstan - Dentsu Inc.

Kiribati - SKY Television Network Ltd.

Kosovo - Discovery Communications

Kuwait - beIN MEDIA NETWORK

Kyrgyzstan - Dentsu Inc.

Laos - Dentsu Inc.

Latvia - Discovery Communications

Lebanon - beIN MEDIA NETWORK

Libya - beIN MEDIA NETWORK

Liechtenstein - Discovery Communications

Lithuania - Discovery Communications

Luxembourg - Discovery Communications

Macedonia - Discovery Communications

Malaysia - Dentsu Inc.

Malta - Discovery Communications

Marshall Islands - SKY Television Network Ltd

Martinique - International Media Content Ltd

Mauritania - beIN MEDIA NETWORK

Moldova - Discovery Communications

Monaco - Discovery Communications

Mongolia - Dentsu Inc.

Montenegro - Discovery Communications

Montserrat - International Media Content Ltd

Myanmar - Dentsu Inc.

Nauru - SKY Television Network Ltd

Netherlands - Discovery Communications

New Zealand - SKY Television Network Ltd

Niue - SKY Television Network Ltd

Norway - Discovery Communications

Oman - beIN MEDIA NETWORK

Palau - SKY Television Network Ltd

Palestine - beIN MEDIA NETWORK

Papua New Guinea - SKY Television Network Ltd

Philippines - Dentsu Inc.

Poland - Discovery Communications

Portugal - Discovery Communications

Qatar - beIN MEDIA NETWORK

Republic of Korea - SBS

Republic of South Sudan - beIN MEDIA NETWORK

Republic of the Sudan - beIN MEDIA NETWORK

Romania - Discovery Communications

San Marino - Discovery Communications

Saudi Arabia - beIN MEDIA NETWORK

Serbia - Discovery Communications

Singapore - Dentsu Inc.

Slovakia - Discovery Communications

Slovenia - Discovery Communications

Solomon Islands - SKY Television Network Ltd

Somalia - beIN MEDIA NETWORK

Spain - Discovery Communications

St Kitts & Nevis - International Media Content Ltd

St Lucia - International Media Content Ltd

St Vincent and the Grenadines - International Media Content Ltd

Suriname - International Media Content Ltd

Sweden - Discovery Communications

Switzerland - Discovery Communications

Syria - beIN MEDIA NETWORK

Tajikistan - Dentsu Inc.

Thailand - Dentsu Inc.

The US - NBCUniversal

Tonga - SKY Television Network Ltd.

Trinidad & Tobago - International Media Content Ltd

Tunisia - beIN MEDIA NETWORK

Turkey - Discovery Communications

Turkmenistan - Dentsu Inc.

Turks and Caicos - International Media Content Ltd

Tuvalu - SKY Television Network Ltd.

Ukraine - Discovery Communications

United Arab Emirates - beIN MEDIA NETWORK

United Kingdom - British Broadcasting Corporation

Uzbekistan - Dentsu Inc.

Vanuatu - SKY Television Network Ltd.

Vatican City State - Discovery Communications

Vietnam - Dentsu Inc.

Yemen - beIN MEDIA NETWORK

 

Those are who the IOC sold the rights to. However, in some countries, the rights were sold again, in full or in part.

Armenia - Discovery Communications sub-licensed rights to APMTV.

Austria - Discovery Communications sub-licensed rights to ORF.

Belarus - Discovery Commmunications sub-licensed rights to Belteleradio

Canada - CBC/Radio-Canada partnered with Bell Media and Rodgers Media

Croatia - Discovery Communications sub-licensed rights to HRT.

Czech Republic - Discovery Communications sub-licensed rights to Česká Televize, with ČT agreeing to promote sports on both channels.

Estonia - Discovery Communications sub-licensed rights to Eesti Meedia.

Finland - Discovery Communications sub-licensed rights to YLE.

France - France Télévisions sub-licensed a package to Canal+

Georgia - Discovery Communications sub-licensed rights to Georgian Public Broadcasting

Hungary - Discovery Communications sub-licensed rights to MTVA

Ireland - Discovery Communications sub-licensed rights to RTÉ.

Iceland - Discovery Communications sub-licensed rights to RÚV

Kosovo - Discovery Communications sub-licensed rights to RTK

Latvia - Discovery Communications sub-licensed rights to Latvijas Televīzija

Lithuania - Discovery Communications sub-licensed rights to TV3

Netherlands - Discovery Communications agreed to share rights with NOS, except for two 'key' sports.

Poland - Discovery Communications sub-licensed rights to TVP

Slovakia - Discovery Communications sub-licensed rights to RTVS.

Slovenia - Discovery Communications sub-licensed rights to RTV.

Switzerland - Discovery Communications sub-licensed rights to SRG SSR.

United Kingdom - British Broadcasting Corporation agreed to share rights with Discovery Communications

 

All Dentsu Inc. packages are likely to be sold to a local channel.

Discovery Communications/Eurosport said they will sub-license to a local channel

Bring on the Games!

 

Edited July 1, 2017 by Mkbw50
Update

[heywoodu 16,465]

Discovery better make sure there''ll be plenty of online live streams available like the Dutch NOS always had 

[Gianlu33 6,029]

I hope that sky will buy some hours of the OG..

[phelps 8,728]

42 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Discovery better make sure there''ll be plenty of online live streams available like the Dutch NOS always had 

I read an article about Discovery having sold the free-to-air tv rights to NOS for both the 2018 winter games and the 2020 summer games in the Netherlands...

NOS should have about 10 hours-a-day of live broadcasting for 2018 and 14 hours-a-day for 2020, with discovery reserving for themselves 2 sports as exclusive rights (Ice Hockey being 1 of the 2 for 2018)...

37 minutes ago, Gianlu33 said:

I hope that sky will buy some hours of the OG..

I think that's impossible...discovery group would keep for themselves all pay-tv rights for sure...the only open competition is for the free to air part...and I only hope that RAI won't be involved in any case (then, if they keep also those rights for their free channels or sell them to other networks, it's the same...just get rid of that fuckin' public shit of our darling, mamma rai (you already know what are they going to do next august with the rio games, so you can understand why I'm writing those lines)...

[Mkbw50 475]

By the way, Discovery = Eurosport, if you guys didn't know.

[phelps 8,728]

4 minutes ago, Mkbw50 said:

By the way, Discovery = Eurosport, if you guys didn't know.

of course, we know that...

[Gianlu33 6,029]

5 minutes ago, phelps said:

I read an article about Discovery having sold the free-to-air tv rights to NOS for both the 2018 winter games and the 2020 summer games in the Netherlands...

NOS should have about 10 hours-a-day of live broadcasting for 2018 and 14 hours-a-day for 2020, with discovery reserving for themselves 2 sports as exclusive rights (Ice Hockey being 1 of the 2 for 2018)...

I think that's impossible...discovery group would keep for themselves all pay-tv rights for sure...the only open competition is for the free to air part...and I only hope that RAI won't be involved in any case (then, if they keep also those rights for their free channels or sell them to other networks, it's the same...just get rid of that fuckin' public shit of our darling, mamma rai (you already know what are they going to do next august with the rio games, so you can understand why I'm writing those lines)...

Well, i have discovered a law in Italy how OG and other events must boardcast for free (or in a channel whit 80℅ of potential watcher). Here the law in italian: http://www.agcm.it/component/domino/download/41256297003874BD/7D452D93E7E59F97C12567B000379320.html?a=p7340.pdf

[Mkbw50 475]

Well, just trying to help.

 

Here's a question. If you were broadcaster, and had exclusive rights, what and how would you broadcast it if you were in charge?

 

For me, I would just emulate the BBC's 2012 coverage.

All events can be watched live and on demand on telly or on internet, with the BBC Olympic Channels and online there are graphics showing stats and on-demand you can press a button for moments, e.g. a goal in football. Hopefully it will be as good.

Also, how will SBS transmit to North Korea? Presumably they will sell it to KCNA?

[heywoodu 16,465]

10 minutes ago, phelps said:

I read an article about Discovery having sold the free-to-air tv rights to NOS for both the 2018 winter games and the 2020 summer games in the Netherlands...

NOS should have about 10 hours-a-day of live broadcasting for 2018 and 14 hours-a-day for 2020, with discovery reserving for themselves 2 sports as exclusive rights (Ice Hockey being 1 of the 2 for 2018)...

 

 

I suppose they mean live broadcasting on online streams, which would be pretty bad given that in London there were 10-12 streams online almost all day...

No way NOS will actually show 10 hours of live sports on tv, they prefer to spend most of the time showing replays, always behind some minutes behind and talking about the Dutch athletes so they are too late for the live things again. 

[bestmen 2,924]

bein Sport is the best , thanks Qatar

but also our channels here will buy many events of the OG like everytime