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Olympic Channel

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Olympic Channel
Olympic Channel logo.png
Broadcast areaWorldwide
HeadquartersMadrid, Spain[1]
Programming
Language(s)English
Picture formatHDTV (1080i 16:9)
Ownership
OwnerInternational Olympic Committee
History
LaunchedAugust 21, 2016; 6 years ago (2016-08-21)
Links
Websiteolympics.com/olympic-channel
Availability
Streaming media
Olympics.comLive Stream
YouTube TVInternet Protocol television
Not to be confused with the discontinued American version of the channel.

Olympic Channel is an over-the-top Internet television service operated by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). It was launched on August 21, 2016, alongside the closing of the 2016 Summer Olympics. The service aims to maintain year-round interest in the Olympic movement, carrying documentaries and other programming chronicling the Olympic Games, as well as coverage of events in Olympic sport outside of the Games.

The IOC operates the service with an international focus, but also stated plans to work with local National Olympic Committees and rightsholders to establish localized versions and linear services as franchised versions of Olympic Channel.

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International Olympic Committee

International Olympic Committee

The International Olympic Committee is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is constituted in the form of an association under the Swiss Civil Code. Founded in 1894 by Pierre de Coubertin and Demetrios Vikelas, it is the authority responsible for organising the modern Olympic Games.

2016 Summer Olympics

2016 Summer Olympics

The 2016 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events in some sports beginning on 3 August. Rio de Janeiro was announced as the host city at the 121st IOC Session in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 2 October 2009.

Olympic Games

Olympic Games

The modern Olympic Games or Olympics are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games are considered the world's foremost sports competition with more than 200 teams, representing sovereign states and territories, participating. The Olympic Games are normally held every four years, and since 1994, have alternated between the Summer and Winter Olympics every two years during the four-year period.

Olympic sports

Olympic sports

Olympic sports are contested in the Summer Olympic Games and Winter Olympic Games. The 2020 Summer Olympics included 33 sports; the 2022 Winter Olympics included seven sports. Each Olympic sport is represented by an international governing body, namely an International Federation (IF).

National Olympic Committee

National Olympic Committee

A National Olympic Committee (NOC) is a national constituent of the worldwide Olympic movement. Subject to the controls of the International Olympic Committee, NOCs are responsible for organizing their people's participation in the Olympic Games. They may nominate cities within their respective areas as candidates for future Olympic Games. NOCs also promote the development of athletes and the training of coaches and officials at a national level within their geographies.

Goal

The service's main goal is to maintain year-round interest in Olympic sports between iterations of the Summer and Winter Olympics, especially among a younger audience; it features coverage of competitions in Olympic sport, as well as short and long-form programmes focusing on Olympic athletes. The service initially broadcast in English, with subtitles available in nine other languages on-launch.[2]

Yiannis Exarchos, overseer of Olympic Channel and CEO of Olympic Broadcasting Services, stated that the service's content would focus primarily on the stories of athletes, arguing that "We need to take some risks and it’s better to take risks now because we're stronger than we’ve ever been. The personalities of athletes, their lifestyles, are something very, very attractive."[3]

History

IOC president Thomas Bach, who originally proposed the concept of an Olympics-oriented television channel in 1994 when he was a junior officer of the IOC,[3] stated that the service would be "the start of an exciting new journey to connect the worldwide audience with the Olympic Movement all year round".[2] The channel is produced out of Madrid, and was allocated a seven-year budget of US$600 million.[3]

The initial digital service has an international focus, but the IOC stated that it plans to work with National Olympic Committees and local rightsholders to develop local versions of the Olympic Channel, which may optionally include linear television channels.[2] The streaming platform is provided by Playmaker Media, a division of NBC Sports Group.[2]

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Thomas Bach

Thomas Bach

Thomas Bach is a German lawyer, former Olympic foil fencer and Olympic gold medalist, serving as the ninth and current president of the International Olympic Committee since 10 September 2013. He is also a former member of the German Olympic Sports Confederation's executive board. Bach is the first ever Olympic champion to be elected President of the IOC.

Madrid

Madrid

Madrid is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and its monocentric metropolitan area is the second-largest in the EU. The municipality covers 604.3 km2 (233.3 sq mi) geographical area.

National Olympic Committee

National Olympic Committee

A National Olympic Committee (NOC) is a national constituent of the worldwide Olympic movement. Subject to the controls of the International Olympic Committee, NOCs are responsible for organizing their people's participation in the Olympic Games. They may nominate cities within their respective areas as candidates for future Olympic Games. NOCs also promote the development of athletes and the training of coaches and officials at a national level within their geographies.

NBC Sports Group

NBC Sports Group

NBC Sports Group is a division of NBCUniversal that is responsible for NBC Sports' media properties, encompassing the NBC television network's sports division as well as day-to-day operation of the company's sports-oriented cable networks and other properties such as NBC Sports Radio.

Regional versions

Canada

Olympic Channel was added to CBC Television's streaming platform CBC Gem on July 23, 2020.[4]

France

Main article: Sport en France

Sport en France is a broadband television channel launched in 2019 and carried by the country's four main triple play operators. Although not explicitly branded as a French version of the Olympic Channel, it was created by the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF) and follows a similar concept, aiming to provide regular coverage of sports which have struggled to carve a niche on general-interest and for-profit sports networks.

Middle East and North Africa

On 4 September 2017, the IOC announced a partnership with beIN Sports to launch a linear Olympic Channel for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, which launched on 1 November 2017. As a lead-up to the launch, the network broadcast a daily block of Olympic Channel programming on its main channel.[5]

United States

Main article: Olympic Channel (American TV channel)

At an industry forum in March 2017, NBC Olympics president Gary Zenkel stated that NBCUniversal would launch a localized version of Olympic Channel in the United States as a linear television channel later in the year.[6] The U.S. version of Olympic Channel launched July 15, 2017, replacing Universal HD—which itself had picked up overflow Olympic sports content following the discontinuation of Universal Sports in 2015.[7][8][9][10]

On July 1, 2022, NBC announced that Olympic Channel would end its current operation as a U.S. linear cable channel on September 30, 2022, but indicated its programming would be moved to other NBCUniversal platforms.[11]

South America

In January 2019, the IOC announced a partnership with Claro TV and Claro Video to distribute Olympic Channel programming on its Claro Sports linear channel and video streaming service to South American countries.[12]

China

In January 2019, China Media Group announced plans to launch a Chinese version of the channel.[13] Named CCTV-16, the channel launched on 25 October 2021.[14]

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CBC Television

CBC Television

CBC Television is a Canadian English-language broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster. The network began operations on September 6, 1952. Its French-language counterpart is Ici Radio-Canada Télé.

Sport en France

Sport en France

Sport en France is a French free-to-air sports television channel. It was launched in 2019 and is headquartered in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris. In 2020, the channel signed on a content exchange program with France Televisions.

Streaming television

Streaming television

Streaming television is the digital distribution of television content, such as TV shows, as streaming media delivered over the Internet. Streaming television stands in contrast to dedicated terrestrial television delivered by over-the-air aerial systems, cable television, and/or satellite television systems.

Triple play (telecommunications)

Triple play (telecommunications)

In telecommunications, triple play service is a marketing term for the provisioning, over a single broadband connection, of two bandwidth-intensive services, broadband Internet access and television, and the latency-sensitive telephone. Triple play focuses on a supplier convergence rather than solving technical issues or a common standard. However, standards like G.hn might deliver all these services on a common technology.

French National Olympic and Sports Committee

French National Olympic and Sports Committee

The French National Olympic and Sports Committee is the National Olympic Committee of France. It is responsible for France's participation in the Olympic Games, as well as for all of France's overseas departments and territories except French Polynesia.

Olympic Channel (American TV channel)

Olympic Channel (American TV channel)

Olympic Channel was an American pay television sports channel owned by the NBC Olympics, a joint venture between NBC Sports and the United States Olympic Committee. It was dedicated to Olympic sports, and was a franchise of the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Olympic Channel operation.

Universal Sports

Universal Sports

Universal Sports was an American sports-oriented digital cable and satellite television network. It was owned as a joint venture between InterMedia Partners and NBCUniversal.

Claro TV

Claro TV

Claro TV+ is a Latin American operator of Pay television. The service is supplied by Embratel and Claro companies and operates in Star One C4 satellite. Its transmission system is DTH in Ku Band, and the channels are encrypted by Nagravision 3 system. The reception is made via mini-satellite dish and a DVB-S2 receiver, and subscribers authentication is made by conditional access card. As of October 2011, Via Embratel had achieved 2,000,000 subscribers.

China Media Group

China Media Group

China Media Group also known as Voice of China, is the predominant state media company by means of radio and television broadcasting in the People's Republic of China. It was founded on 21 March 2018, as a fusion of all state-holding media enterprises including China Central Television, China National Radio, and China Radio International. China Media Group is under the direct control of the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party.

CCTV-16

CCTV-16

CCTV-16 is a Chinese free-to-air television channel, owned by China Central Television. The channel is a localised version of the Olympic Channel, broadcasting primarily in 4K UHD format, with a downscaled feed for HDTV.

Source: "Olympic Channel", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, January 16th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Channel.

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Further Reading

USA Network

United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee

Bravo (American TV network)

NBCUniversal

NBC Sports

Olympic Channel (American TV channel)

NBC Olympic broadcasts

Universal Sports

Olympics on television

2018 Winter Paralympics

NBC Sports Group

Universal Kids

CCTV-16
References
  1. ^ Olympic Channel About Us page with headquarters address (Retrieved 22 April 2019)
  2. ^ a b c d Spangler, Todd (26 July 2016). "IOC Sets Post-Rio Launch for Olympic Channel Free Over-the-Top Video Service". Variety. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
  3. ^ a b c "IOC Plans Year-Round TV Channel to Appeal to Young Fans". Bloomberg. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
  4. ^ "CBC AND OLYMPIC CHANNEL PARTNER TO BRING 24-HOUR DIGITAL LIVESTREAM TO CBC GEM IN CANADA - CBC Media Centre".
  5. ^ "Olympic Channel announces BeIN tie-up". SportsProMedia. Retrieved 2017-09-05.
  6. ^ Dachman, Jason (3 March 2017). "SVG IP Production Forum: NBC Olympics President Zenkel Details Launch of The Olympic Channel". Sports Video Group. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  7. ^ Lieberman, David (2015-11-16). "NBC Sports Group Picks Up Events That Aired On Universal Sports Network". Deadline. Retrieved 2017-07-14.
  8. ^ Hipes, Patrick (2015-10-22). "Universal Sports Network Being Shuttered By NBCU". Deadline. Retrieved 2017-07-14.
  9. ^ "NBCUniversal Sets Olympic Channel Launch Date". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2017-07-14.
  10. ^ "Olympic Channel TV network set to launch". NBCSports.com. 15 December 2016. Retrieved May 11, 2017.
  11. ^ Ourand, John (July 1, 2022). "NBC to shut down Olympic Channel in September". Sports Business Journal. Retrieved July 1, 2022.
  12. ^ Olympic Channel lands Claro Sports distribution deal - Sports Pro, 23 January 2019
  13. ^ "慎海雄会见国际奥委会主席巴赫：将开播央视奥林匹克频道" [CCTV plans to launch Olympic Channel in China] (in Chinese). China Central Television.
  14. ^ Iveson, Ali (9 September 2021). "IOC extends Chinese rights deal with CCTV to cover four Olympics up to Brisbane 2032". inside the games. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
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