The Greek games “RIO Olympic” which is simply known as Summer Olympics is the largest sporting event all over the World. 2016 Summer Olympic will be hosted at Rio De Janeiro in Brazil which schedule confirmed from 5th August 2016 to 21 August 2016. About 10,000 athletes will take part in 28 categories sports event which consisted 306 competitions. Once more thousands of athletes will effort their fate in this biggest event to win gold, bronze and silver medal.
This going to be the 28th edition of Summer Olympic which will be live casted by a huge numbers of Sports channel throughout the world.
By passing the years, somehow Olympics has lost its past popularity and youth viewers. To change the condition International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided to get Olympics more visualized to young descendant. To warm up the edition to the young generation they find out an idea of dedicated “Olympics Channel” which will provided Olympic events 24-hours. They determined to start the coverage from March 2016. The channel will be available bases of English language in Madrid and Spain.
EuroSport leading company “Discovery” has brought the European media rights from IOC. Besides of that few more European broadcaster will cover the live matches in there. Hosting Country Brazil will broadcast the edition in Rede Bandeirantes, ESPN, Fox Sports, Rede Globo and Rede Record. Here we providing the full list of broadcaster who televised the event live in world-wide.
Broadcaster list
Brazil (Hosting Country): Rede Globo, Rede Record, Rede Bandeirantes, ESPN, Fox Sports
Asia : Dentsu
Central Asia : Dentsu
South Asia : STAR India
Latin America : DirecTV, America Movil, ESPN, Fox Sports
Pacific Islands : Sky Television
Sub-Saharan Africa : Infront Sports and Media, SuperSport
Other nations in the world
West Indies/ Caribbean – CBU, CANOC Broadcasting Inc, CWC, ESPN
Australia – Seven Network
Canada – CBC, Radio-Canada
Finland – Yle
Europe – Sportfive
Estonia – ERR, MTG
Azerbaijan – İTV
Austria – ORF
Bulgaria – BNT, TV+
Belgium – VRT
Italy – Sky Italia, RAI
Israel – Sport 5
Ireland – RTE
Hungary – MTVA
Hong Kong – TVB
Greece – ERT
Germany – ARD, ZDF
France – France Televisions, Canal+
UK – BBC
New Zealand – SKY TV
Poland – TVP
South Korea – SBS
South Africa – SABC, SuperSport
Switzerland – SRG SSR
Turkey – FOX
Ukraine – NTKU
Denmark – DR, TV2
Czech Republic – CT, TV Nova, Cesky Rozhlas
Portugal – RTP, Sport TV
Philippines – Sports5 (AksyonTV, TV5, Hyper, Cignal)
Cuba – ICRT
China – CCTV
Romania – TVR
Russia – C1R, NTV Plus, VGTRK
Slovakia – RTVS, TV Nova
Spain – RTVE
Chile – TVN
USA – NBC
USA Viewers can enjoy the event in NBC which brought the media rights for USD 4.38 billion till 2020 season on the other hand SportsFive conferred US$ 300 million for 2014 and 2016 season of Summer Olympic. Don’t be upset if your country not in the list. The event will be also traced in online. So guys enjoy the years biggest event and stay with us for update.
