List of 2012 Summer Olympics broadcasters

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This is a list of Olympic broadcasters of the 2012 Summer Olympics. The games in London, together with the 2012 Summer Paralympics were broadcast around the world, with Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS), an agency of the International Olympic Committee, serving as the host broadcaster.^[1]

The home nation broadcaster was the BBC, which broadcast up to 5,000 hours of the competition and other material using over 27 channels including the red button, SKY, Freeview, Freesat and online.^[2] BBC paid GBP£60 millions for the rights of the broadcasting.^[3]

Broadcasters

NBCUniversal retained the rights in the United States, where they paid 32% higher than the 2008 edition broadcasting fee to International Olympic Committee (IOC), which is USD$1.181 billion compared to 2008's US$894 million. USA Today also indicated that the broadcasting fee increased almost 100% over the past four decades.^[4] In Australia, Nine Network and Foxtel held the rights to broadcast the event, ending Seven Network's streak of five straight Olympic broadcasts since Barcelona 1992.^[5]

Two major cable television networks, ESPN and Eurosport, broadcast the Games in Asia, South America and Europe. Eurosport broadcast the Games throughout the continent of Europe for 746 millions dollar (with Vancouver 2010),^[6] while ESPN fed nine countries in South America and 22 countries in Asia.^[7][8] In some cases, one television station indirectly acquired the rights from IOC, namely CVM TV of Jamaica, which bought the rights from the International Media Content Limited (IMC) which has rights throughout the Caribbean.^[9]

The Games also saw two neighbouring regions sharing one television broadcaster apart from pay-TV. China Central Television (CCTV), which is known in Mainland China also provided a feed in Macau. For the first time, South Korea and North Korea shared one television provider, despite the two countries continuing to have diplomatic tensions.^[10][11]

The Games were broadcast in 3D around the world.^{[12][13][14][15][16][17]} IOC announced on June 6, 2012 that they would provide the livestream of the Games via YouTube for 64 territories across Asia and Africa.^[18]

Territory	Broadcaster	Ref
Afghanistan	RTA Saba TV	[19]
Albania	RTSH	[19]
Algeria	ENTV	[19]
Angola	TPA Maximo	[19]
Argentina	TV Pública Digital TyC	[20][21]
Asia	Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union ESPN Asia AsiaSat	[7][22]
Australia	Nine Network Foxtel 2GB ABC	[5][23][24][25]
Austria	ORF	[26]
Azerbaijan	İTV	[27]
Bahamas	ZNS Cable Bahamas Limited	[28]
Bahrain	IAA	[29]
Barbados	CBC	[19]
Belarus	Belteleradio	[30]
Belize	Channel 7	[19]
Belgium	VRT RTBF	[26]
Benin	ORTB	[19]
Bermuda	Bermuda Cablevision	[19]
Bolivia	Bolivisión	[31]
Bosnia and Herzegovina	BHRT RTRS	[26][32]
British Virgin Islands	CBN	[19]
Bulgaria	BNT	[33]
Burundi	RTNB	[19]
Brazil	BandSports ESPN Brasil Rede Record SporTV	[34][35][36]
Cambodia	CTN TVK	[19]
Cameroon	CRTV	[19]
Canada	Canada's Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium1	[37][38][39]
Caribbean	International Media Content Limited SportsMax	[40]
Central African Republic	RTC	[19]
Chile	Canal 13 TVN	[41]
China	CCTV BTV GDTV SMG	[19][42][43][44]
Chinese Taipei	ELTA PTS CTV CTS FTV TTV	[45][46]
Colombia	Caracol TV	[47]
Cook Islands	CITV	[19]
Costa Rica	Repretel	[48]
Côte d'Ivoire	RTI	[19]
Croatia	HRT SPTV	[49][50]
Cuba	ICRT	[51]
Cyprus	CyBC	[52]
Czech Republic	ČT	[53]
Democratic Republic of the Congo	RTNC	[19]
Denmark	DR TV 2	[26][54]
Dominica	SAT Telecoms	[55]
Dominican Republic	Grupo Corripio	[56]
East Timor	TVTL	[19]
Ecuador	Latele RTS	[19]
Egypt	ERTU	[19]
El Salvador	Telecorporación Salvadoreña	[19]
Estonia	ERR	[57]
Ethiopia	ETV	[19]
Europe	Eurosport EBU	[58][59]
Fiji	Fiji Television Sky Pacific	[60]
Finland	Yle	[61]
France	France Télévisions	[62]
Gabon	RTG	[19]
Gambia	GRTS	[19]
Georgia	GPB	[26]
Germany	ARD ZDF	[63]
Ghana	GTV	[19]
Greece	ERT	[26]
Grenada	Grenada Broadcasting Network	[64]
Guatemala	Televisión Guatemalteca	[19]
Guinea	RTG	[19]
Guyana	National Communications Network	[19]
Hong Kong	i-Cable aTV TVB	[65][66]
Hungary	Duna TV MTV	[19][67]
Iceland	RÚV	[26]
India	Doordarshan	[68]
Indonesia	TVRI RCTI	[69][70]
Iran	GEM TV Group	[71]
Israel	IBA	[72]
Italy	RAI Sky Italia	[73][74]
Ireland	RTÉ	[75]
Jamaica	CVM Television TVJ	[76][77]
Japan	Japan Consortium2 NOTTV3	[78][79]
Jordan	JTV	[19]
Kazakhstan	El Arna Khabar	[80]
Kenya	KBC	[19]
Latin America	Grupo Albavisión4 Terra Networks5	[81][82]
Laos	Lao National Television	[19]
Latvia	LTV	[83]
Lithuania	LRT	[84]
Luxembourg	RTL Télé Lëtzebuerg	[19]
Macau	TDM CCTV	[42][85]
Macedonia	MRT	[19]
Malaysia	RTM	[86]
Mali	ORTM	[19]
Malta	TVM	[19]
Mauritania	TVM	[19]
Mauritius	MBC	[87]
Mexico	Televisa TV Azteca	[88][89]
Middle East	Arab States Broadcasting Union OSN	[90][91]
Moldova	TeleRadio-Moldova	[26]
Mongolia	EduTV Channel 25 MNB NTV SBN TV5 UBS	[19]
Montserrat	Ptv7	[19]
Montenegro	RTCG	[19]
Morocco	Arryadia	[19]
Mozambique	TVM	[19]
Myanmar	MRTV	[19]
Namibia	NBC Maximo	[19]
Nepal	NTV Plus	[19]
Netherlands	NOS	[92]
New Zealand	Prime SKY TV	[93][94]
Nicaragua	Ratensa	[19]
Niger	TV Tenere	[19]
Niue	BCN	[19]
Nigeria	NOC NTA FRCN AIT Maximo	[19][95]
North Africa	OSN	[91]
North Korea	SBS Korean Central Television	[10][96]
Norway	NRK Viasat	[97]
Pakistan	PTV	[98]
Panama	Corporación Medcom TVMax	[99][100]
Paraguay	Paravisión SNT Cerro Corá	[19]
Peru	América Televisión	[101]
Philippines	TV5 Solar Entertainment	[19][102][103][104][105]
Poland	TVP N	[106][107]
Portugal	RTP	[108]
Puerto Rico	Puerto Rico TV	[109][110]
Romania	TVR Dolce	[111][112]
Russia	Pervyi Kanal VGTRK NTV Plus	[26][113]
Saint Kitts and Nevis	ZIZ	[19]
Samoa	SBC	[19]
Senegal	RTS	[19]
Serbia	RTS	[26]
Seychelles	SBC	[19]
Singapore	MediaCorp mio TV	[114][115]
Slovakia	RTVS	[26]
Slovenia	RTVSLO	[116]
Solomon Islands	One Television	[19]
South Africa	SABC SuperSport Maximo	[19][103][117]
South Korea	SBS KBS MBC	[10][118]
South America	ESPN Latin America7 DirecTV	[119][120]
Sub-Saharan Africa	Octagon SABC SuperSport	[103][117][121]
Sudan	SSTV	[19]
Spain	RTVE	[122]
Sri Lanka	SLRC MTV MBC	[123][124]
Suriname	STVS	[19]
Sweden	SVT	[125]
Switzerland	SRG SSR	[126]
Thailand	TV Pool8 TrueVisions	[127]
Togo	TVT	[19]
Tonga	Television Tonga	[19]
Trinidad and Tobago	CCN TV6	[128]
Tunisia	Tunisia TV 1	[19]
Turkey	TRT	[129]
Ukraine	NTKU	[26]
United Arab Emirates	Abu Dhabi Sports Channel	[130]
United Kingdom	BBC	[131]
United States	NBCUniversal Dial Global	[132][133][134]
Uruguay	Tenfield Televisión Nacional	[135][136]
Venezuela	teleSUR TVes VTV	[19][137][138]
Vietnam	VTV	[139]
Zambia	Muvi TV	[19]
Zimbabwe	ZBC	[19]

^1 – Consortium formed by Bell Media, V, Rogers Media and Asian Television Network, with the broadcasts occurring on several properties of these companies (i.e.: CTV is owned by Bell Media and it were broadcast the games on FTA English-language television.).

^2 – It is a joint venture of NHK, Fuji Television, TBS TV, TV Asahi, TV Tokyo, NTV, and JAITS. Its functions are the same as the Canada's Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium.

^3 – Coverage on all smartphones across Japan, in cooperation with the Japan Consortium.

^4 – Coverage across Bolivia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay and Uruguay.

^5 – Internet and mobile phone coverage across the Latin America.^[140]

^7 – Coverage across Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.

^8 – It is a joint venture of Channel 3, TV5, Channel 7, Modernine TV and NBT.

See also

• Olympics on television
• List of 2008 Summer Olympics broadcasters

References