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List of 2020 Summer Olympics broadcasters

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The 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo were televised by a number of broadcasters throughout the world. The 2020 Summer Olympics were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1] As with previous years, Olympic Broadcasting Services will produce the world feed provided to local broadcasters for use in their coverage. In most regions, broadcast rights to the 2018 and 2020 Olympics were packaged together, but some broadcasters obtained rights to further games as well.

Broadcasters

In Europe, this was the second Olympics under the IOC's exclusive pan-European rights deal with Eurosport, which began at the 2018 Winter Olympics. The rights for the 2020 Games cover almost all of Europe, excluding France due to an existing rights deal that will expire following these Games, and Russia. Eurosport will sub-license coverage to free-to-air networks in each territory, and also air coverage on Discovery Inc.-owned channels in some regions. In the United Kingdom, these will be the last Games whose rights are fully owned by the BBC, although as a condition of a sub-licensing agreement that will carry into the 2022 and 2024 Games, Discovery holds exclusive pay television rights to these Games.[2][3][4][5]

2020 is similarly the final year of France Télévisions' rights in France (similarly to the BBC, it will also sub-license the 2022 and 2024 Games from Eurosport). Canal+ sold its pay television rights in France to Eurosport, citing internal cost-cutting measures.[6]

In Canada, the 2020 Games were shown on CBC/Radio-Canada platforms, Sportsnet, TSN and TLN.[7][8][9] In Australia, they were aired by Seven Network.[10] In the Indian subcontinent, they were aired by Sony Pictures Networks India (SPN).[11]

The NBCUniversal networks had the Games in the United States, as part of a US$4.38 billion agreement that began at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.[12] The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee asserted that a "right of abatement" clause in the contract was triggered by the delay of the Games to 2021, requiring the IOC to "negotiate in good faith an equitable reduction in the applicable broadcast rights payments" by NBC, with the American corporation being one of the IOC's biggest revenue streams.[13][14] According to NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell, the Tokyo games could be the most profitable Olympics in NBC's history. The Tokyo games were NBC's first Olympics broadcast under current president Susan Rosner Rovner; it would be also be the last due to Rovner's departure in 2023.[15]

More information Territory, Rights holder ...
Territory Rights holder Ref
Afghanistan ATN [16]
Albania RTSH [16]
Andorra RTVA [16]
Antigua and Barbuda CNS [16]
Armenia APMTV [17]
Asia Dentsu[i] [18]
Australia Seven Network [19]
Austria ORF [20]
Argentina
[16][21][22]
Azerbaijan AzTV [16]
Bangladesh BTV [16]
Barbados CBC [23]
Bahamas ZNS [24]
Belarus Belteleradio [25]
Belgium
[26][27]
Benin ORTB [16]
Bhutan BBS [16]
Bolivia Bolivisión [28]
Bosnia and Herzegovina BHRT [29][30]
Brazil
[31][32]
Brunei RTB [16]
Bulgaria BNT [33]
Burkina Faso RTB [16]
Cambodia Hang Meas [16]
Cameroon CRTV [16]
Canada
[34][35][36]
Cape Verde RTC [16]
Caribbean
  • International Media Content Ltd.
  • SportsMax
 [37]
Chile TVN [38]
China
[39][40]
Cook Islands Elijah Communications [16]
Colombia Caracol Televisión [41]
Costa Rica Repretel [42]
Croatia HRT [43]
Cuba ICRT [44]
Cyprus CyBC [16]
Czech Republic ČT [45][46]
Democratic Republic of the Congo RTNC [16]
Denmark DR [47]
Dominican Republic Antena 7 [16]
East Timor RTTL [16]
Ecuador
[48][16]
El Salvador Canal 12 [49]
Estonia
[16][50]
Ethiopia ETV [16]
Europe[ii]
[51]
Fiji
[16][52]
Finland Yle [53]
France
[54]
Gabon RTG [16]
Georgia GPB [55]
Germany
[56]
Ghana GTV Sports [16]
Greece ERT [57]
Grenada GBN [16]
Guatemala Chapín TV [16]
Guinea RTG [16]
Honduras VTV [58]
Hong Kong
[16][59]
Hungary MTVA [60]
Iceland RÚV [55]
India Doordarshan [61]
Indian subcontinent Sony Pictures Networks [62]
Indonesia
[63][64]
Iran IRIB [16]
Ireland RTÉ [65]
Israel Sports Channel [16]
Italy RAI [66]
Ivory Coast RTI [16]
Jamaica TVJ [16]
Japan Japan Consortium [67]
Kazakhstan
[68]
Kenya KTN [69]
Kiribati Wave TV [16]
Kosovo RTK [17]
Kyrgyzstan KTRK [16][70]
Laos LNTV [16]
Latin America[iii] América Móvil [71][72][73]
Latvia LTV [55]
Liechtenstein SRG SSR [16]
Lithuania TV3 [74]
Luxembourg RTL [75]
Macau TDM [76]
Malawi MBC [16]
Malaysia
[77][16]
Maldives PSM [16]
Mali ORTM [16]
Mauritius MBC [16]
Mexico
[78][79][80]
MENA beIN Sports [81]
Moldova TVR [82]
Mongolia
[83]
Montenegro RTCG [84]
Namibia NBC [16]
Nepal NTV [16]
Netherlands NOS [85]
New Zealand
[86][87]
Nicaragua Canal 10 [16]
Nigeria NTA [16]
Niue BCN [16]
North Korea SBS [88]
North Macedonia MRT [29][89]
Norway TVNorge [90]
Oceania[iv] Sky [86]
Pakistan PTV [16]
Palau PNCC [16]
Papua New Guinea EM TV [16]
Paraguay SNT [91]
Peru Grupo ATV [92]
Philippines
[16][93]
Poland TVP [94]
Portugal RTP [95][96]
Romania TVR [97]
Russia
[98]
Saint Kitts and Nevis The Cable [16]
Samoa SBC [16]
San Marino RAI [16]
Serbia RTS [99]
Seychelles SBC [16]
Singapore Mediacorp [100]
Slovakia RTVS [101]
Slovenia RTV [101]
Solomon Islands Solomon Telekom [16]
Spain RTVE [102]
South Africa
[103]
South Korea
[104][105][88][106]
Southeast Asia (except for Indonesia and Vietnam) beIN Sports Asia [16]
Sri Lanka Rupavahini [16]
Sub-Saharan Africa
[103][107][108]
Suriname
[16]
Sweden Kanal 5 [90]
Switzerland SRG SSR [109]
Taiwan
[110]
Tajikistan TV Varzish [16]
Tanzania ZBC2 [16]
Thailand
[16][111][112][113]
Togo TVT [16]
Trinidad and Tobago CNC3 [114]
Turkey TRT [115]
Uganda NBS [16]
Ukraine Suspilne [116][117]
United Kingdom
[118][119]
United States NBCUniversal [120]
Uruguay
[121]
Uzbekistan MTRK [122]
Venezuela TVES [123][124]
Vietnam
[16][125][126]
Zambia Muvi TV [16]
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Notes

  1. [i]
    Rights in 22 countries in Asia, to be resold to local broadcasters
  2. [ii]
    except Russia
  3. [iii]
    except Brazil
  4. [iv]
    Rights in Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
  5. [v]
    EBC News & EBC Financial News 24/7 livestream (including YouTube globally) were blacked out for the Summer Olympics coverage
  6. [vi]
    Over the air and cable broadcast only

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