NBC Olympics and Twitter have extended the content partnership both parties announced in 2019 to include the postponed Tokyo Olympics set for the summer of 2021 and the Beijing Olympic Winter Games in February 2022. Most elements of the extension mirror the original agreement, which was announced solely for Tokyo 2020 in July 2019. Now, both […]
Japan’s NHK public broadcaster says it wants to scrap the 2.5 per cent limit of viewer fees which it spends on simultaneous online broadcasts. NHK says it will work to keep costs down but its rival broadcasters in Japan are anxious that without a formal maximum limit to keep NHK in check then spending on […]
Next year’s rescheduled Tokyo Paralympics, which run shortly after the main Olympic Games, are already in trouble. According to a report from Japan’s public broadcaster NHK, the Paralympics are losing sponsor support. While the games were postponed because of the Coronavirus, it is also the virus which has hurt the potential sponsors. NHK says it […]
The fourth year of operation proved to be record-breaking for the International Olympic Committee’s Olympic Channel. Since launching in August 2016, the Olympic Channel global media destination has produced more than 25,000 pieces of video content representing all Olympic sports disciplines and 206 countries, including 76 original series and films, resulting in more than 3.3 […]
Peacock, the US streaming service, has added a new, exclusive free channel: NBC Sports on Peacock. Available now, the channel will stream daytime live sports talk programming, including PFT Live with Mike Florio, The Dan Patrick Show, and The Rich Eisen Show. In September, Brother From Another and PFT PM will join the line-up. “Peacock […]
NHK says it is postponing any decision on how its 8K broadcast channel will be structured until after next year’s Olympic Games in Tokyo. As reported last week, NHK has now confirmed plans to merge its satellite-based BS1, BS Premium and BS4K channels into two channels, and then to integrate them into one single channel. […]
Japanese publicly-funded broadcaster NHK has frequently been criticised for its number of TV channels as providing unfair competition to the country’s private stations. Now it is set to trim the number of satellite TV channels available. NHK will cut two of its satellite channels, down from four. This means it will consolidate the current BS1, […]
A report from standards body SMPTE quotes Chris Chinnock, president of Insight Media and the executive director of the 8K Association, as saying that 2020 was going to be the big year for 8K transmission because of the Tokyo Olympic Games. “That was going to be the premier event, all kinds of new equipment was […]
CBC, Canada’s Olympic Network, and the Olympic Channel have announced that Olympic Channel TV has now launched in Canada on the free CBC Gem streaming service, one year out from next summer’s rescheduled Olympic Games and on the day Tokyo 2020 was set to begin. Olympic Channel TV offers access to Olympic sports and athletes […]
With the start of the countdown toward the Olympic Games Tokyo now scheduled for 2021, the Olympic Channel has announced its summer programming line-up highlighted by a ‘Great Olympic Moments’ streaming channel, official Olympic films, Olympic Games replays and original series and films. To begin the countdown, the Olympic Channel will present live coverage of […]