Monday, 11 April 2016

Rio Olympics 2016 Live TV Broadcasting Channels

List Of Rio Olympics 2016 TV Channels In Different Countries: The most awaited and gleaming summer RIO OLYMPICS 2016, the XXXI Olympiad played every four years will commence from 5th August 2016 to 21st August in Maracana Stadium, Brazil. The multi-sporting event includes 28 Olympic Games with 10500 athletes, with 306 sets of medals in 33 venues of host city and 5 venues in Brazil largest city and Brazil’s capital.



 International Olympic Committee the owner of the global broadcast rights for the Olympic Games has always the focus to make the events more public and to the young generation. It helps broadcasting on television, radio, mobile and internet platform. The “Olympic Channel” will reflect coverage in Madrid, Spain in English for complete 24 hours. It will also join forces with domestic local channels universal in home languages.
Olympic Broadcasting Services is accountable for providing the international television and radio signals from the Games to the rights-holding broadcasters around the world. It ensures that the sky-scraping standards of Olympic broadcasting are constantly maintained.
In Europe Rio Olympics 2016 will be broadcasted by the Euro Sport parent company “Discovery” as IOC has already sold its rights to the same.
Different TV channels will broadcast the sports as the official broadcasters in each region have been defined and confirmed. The list of the channels is marked below:

Rio Olympics 2016 TV Channels

United States-  NBC (NBC will pay IOC around USD 4.38 billion to broadcast Olympics till 2020)
UK -BBC (BBC will continue to broadcast live Olympics till 2020)
Australia- Seven Network (exclusive rights with 10-15 hours of live coverage every day)
Canada- CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation won the rights for 2014 and 2016 Olympics)
New Zealand- SKY TV (Sky TV will broadcast live coverage of 2016 Olympics in New Zealand)
Pacific Island- Sky TV  (Sky TV NZ will also won the rights to broadcast in pacific island countries)
Germany- ZDF & ARD (National channels of Germany won the rights for 2014 and 2016 Olympics)
France- FT & Canal+
Asian Region- Dentsu (IOC sold the rights to Dentsu who will resale to local broadcasters in 17 Asian countries)
Indian Sub-Continent- Star Sports (Star Sports won the rights for South Asian countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka)
China- CCTV
Europe Countries- Sport Five (Sport Five paid $300 million to acquire rights for Olympics 2014 and 2016 in some European countries, they will resell to local broadcasters)
Russia- NTV Plus (acquired rights from Sport Five to broadcast live coverage of Olympics 2016 in Russian regions)
Caribbean- CBI (CBI Signed a deal to broadcast live Olympics 2016 in 20 countries in Caribbean) & ESPN production partner. (12 hours of live coverage every day)
Middle-East- ASBU (won the rights for Olympics 2014 and 2016 in the Middle East with 12-15 hours of live  coverage every day in gulf and other middle east countries)
Italy- Sky Italia & RAI (Sky Italia bought to rights for Olympics 2016 in Italy but they will share the live coverage with free-to-air Italian national channel RAI)
South Africa- SABC (free-to-air South Africa channel bought Olympics 2016 rights) & Super Sports
African Countries- Super Sport (IOC announced they have sold broadcasting rights in around 40 countries in Africa to Super Sport)
Ireland- RTE (Irish channel RTE will have live broadcasting + daily highlights rights for Olympics 2016 in Ireland
United States- NBC (NBC will pay IOC around USD 4.38 billion to broadcast Olympics till 2020)
UK- BBC (BBC will continue to broadcast live Olympics till 2020)

The broadcasting channels can get the flavors of all the events write on your television to have all fun with. Get ready to rejoice with your families. 

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