Olympic games

Business

France Télévisions wins rights to Paris 2024 Paralympics

Broadcaster commits to airing 300 hours of live coverage on its free-to-air channels during the Paralympics

Media Consumption

Discovery: More than 372 million viewers across Europe watched Tokyo 2020

Discovery presented Tokyo 2020 in 50 markets in Europe featuring 11 national productions and coverage in 19 languages

Live Production

LiveU reports 400 per cent deployment increase at Tokyo 2020

Tokyo 2020 saw the first deployments of both LiveU's LU800 and its LiveU Matrix IP cloud video management solution

Media Consumption

Discovery reports three-quarters of a billion streaming minutes during first week of Tokyo 2020

The broadcaster has also reported increases in linear viewing, particularly in the Nordic markets

Media Consumption

Tokyo 2020 Opening Ceremony ‘first mainstream 8K rip on pirate sites’

File, which includes 8K HLG and 22.2 surround sound, appears to have been taken from Japanese broadcaster NHK

Media Management

Olympic Broadcasting Services hosted in the cloud for first time

Content+, OBS’ content delivery platform, is fully migrated to the cloud for delivering short-form content, content asset management and content production

Production & Post

Boosting fan engagement and interaction during the summer of sport

With the Opening Ceremony of the 2020 Olympic Games just days away, Vualto's Femke Schurer looks at how broadcasters can mimic a seamless linear...

Media Consumption

Spain’s Telefonica testing 4K Olympics channel

Movistar is carrying out tests in conjunction with Eurosport

Live Production

Olympic Broadcasting Services to employ ’10 firsts’ for Tokyo 2020

Company has laid out 10 'firsts' it plans to implement across the production for the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Live Production

TVU Networks offers number of solutions for broadcasters heading to Tokyo

Company is offering rights-cleared live shots of Tokyo alongside its equipment and studio rentals

Media Management

NBC Olympics selects technology vendors for Tokyo 2020

NBC Olympics is working with Xytech. Telestream, Sony, MediaKind, Signiant, TAG Video Systems, Amagi and Ross Video

Live Production

Germany’s ZDF and ARD talk Olympics remote production plans

Broadcasters will produce the majority of their coverage from Germany

Business

Discovery sublicenses Olympic Games rights to Denmark’s DR, TV 2

Danish broadcasters will be able to show action from Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 and Olympic Games Paris 2024.

Media Delivery

Japan PM: Olympics “impossible” unless pandemic contained

Shinzo Abe said the Games must be held in a "complete form"

Production & Post

New dates announced for Tokyo Olympics

Rescheduled for 23rd July to 8th August 2021

Production & Post

Japanese PM: Olympics postponed until 2021

Shinzo Abe says Games will be held by summer 2021

TVBEverywhere

New OTT highlights British Olympic and Paralympic sports

Search is on for a media organisation to co-create the platform

Technology

Olympic Broadcasting Services partners with Alibaba Cloud

Intel will also support new distribution service to be deployed by 2020

Technology

Facial-recognition app draws Olympics’ attention

App provides athlete profiles to users who hold their smartphones to focus on particular athletes' faces on television

Features

TVBEurope February edition now available

Issue investigates PyeongChang 2018, Game of Thrones, Great Art, AIMS and Imagine Communications

TVBEverywhere

Discovery, TIM partner on official Olympic mobile broadcaster service

TIM subscribers will be able to access "exclusive and differentiated content" from both the 2018 and 2020 Olympic Games

Business

Discovery backs Paris 2024 Olympics bid

Discovery Communications and Eurosport have all TV and multi-platform rights in Europe for the winter and summer games from 2018–2024

Analysis

A look back at NBC Olympics’ coverage of Rio 2016

Darryl Jefferson, VP post operations and digital workflow, NBC Sports and NBC Olympics, looks back on Rio 2016

Business

Discovery, Eurosport plan multiscreen strategy for Winter Olympics

Eurosport aims to broadcast more than 100 events live and on demand.

Data Centre

Millennials ‘turning away’ from sports

The vast increase in TV and online video content is turning millennials away from sport, according to the latest Ampere Analysis report. The report...

Production & Post

An Epic Rio 2016

KDDI will integrate Intelsat’s EpicNG technology at the Olympic Games in Rio this summer. The Japan-based telco will utilise the next-generation, high throughput satellite

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Production & Post

Qvest Media equips ARD and ZDF for Rio

Public broadcasters ARD and ZDF are partnering with Qvest Media to broadcast the European Football Championships in France and the Olympic Games in Rio...

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Business

BBC retains Olympics coverage

The BBC has secured the rights for the summer and winter Olympics up to and including 2024

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TVBEverywhere

Reuters-TIMA rolls out services in Moscow and Rio

Reuters-TIMA, a partnership announced in February this year, is expanding its network by adding studio hubs in major international cities

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Production & Post

Ikegami delivers 8K OB truck

Ikegami has completed its work on the first 8K OB production vehicle, complete with 22.2 channel surround sound. The 8K OB vehicle was delivered...

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TVBEverywhere

Sir Martin Sorrell stresses “more online and more mobile” for Olympics coverage

Sir Martin Sorrell, founder and CEO of marketing communications group WPP, gave a keynote speech on youth media consumption and what it means for...

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Business

Discovery Communications takes full control of Eurosport

Discovery Communications is to acquire full ownership of sports channel group Eurosport, for €491 million from TF1 Group. TF1 Group will exercise a put...

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