List of 2008 Summer Olympics broadcasters

This is a list of Olympic broadcasters of the 2008 Summer Olympics. These games were the first to be produced and broadcast entirely in high definition television.^[1] In their bid for the Olympic games in 2001, Beijing confirmed to the olympic evaluation commission "that there would be no restrictions on media reporting and movement of journalists up to and including the Olympic Games."^[2] The host broadcasting organization of the games was BOB (Beijing Olympic Broadcasting). The home nation broadcasters are CCTV, CETV. CNR and other broadcasting stations in China with other languages which are broadcasting all competitions, events, galas and ceremonies with the Paralympics.

In Canada the public network CBC/Radio-Canada and cable networks TSN and RDS broadcast its final games before a private consortium involving CTV/Rogers/TQS takes over for the 2010 Winter Olympics, which will be happening within Canadian borders, in Vancouver. In Australia the Seven Network broadcast its final games before the Nine Network and Pay-TV operator Foxtel took over from the 2010 Winter Olympics and beyond.

The IOC awarded Australia's Seven Network the 'Golden Rings' award for "Best Olympic Programme". The award is given for the best overall Olympic coverage.^[3]

Nation	Broadcaster	HDTV	Ref.
Arab League	Arab States Broadcasting Union	Aljazeera Sport HD
Argentina	Canal 7 (All events), TyC Sports (all events)
Australia	Television broadcast: Seven Network SBS Radio broadcast: 2GB SEN 5AA 6IX 2CC KOFM	Seven HD	[4]
Austria	ORF	ORF 1 HD	[5]
Belarus	Belteleradiocompany: TV-First and LAD		[6]
Belgium	VRT, RTBF	VRT:één HD	[7]
Bolivia	Unitel, Red Uno, TyC Sports
Bosnia and Herzegovina	BHRT		[8]
Brazil	Free-to-air television broadcast: Rede Globo Rede Bandeirantes Cable and Satellite television broadcast: Sportv (Sportv 2 | Sportv 3 | Sportv 4 | Sportv +) Band Sports ESPN ESPN Brasil Internet and Cellphone broadcast: Terra Networks Radio broadcast: Rádio Gaúcha Rádio CBN Rádio Globo Rádio Jovem Pan Rádio Eldorado	Free-to-air television broadcast: Rede Globo Rede Bandeirantes Cable and Satellite television broadcast: Sportv HD Globosat HD	[9][10]
Brunei	Kristal-Astro, Radio Televisyen Brunei
Bulgaria	BNT		[11]
Cambodia	National Television of Kampuchea
Canada	CBC Television, Radio-Canada, bold, TSN, RDS	CBC HD, Radio-Canada HD, TSN HD, RDS HD	[12][13][14]
Chile	TVN, Canal 13; webcast on Terra Networks		[15]
China	China Central Television (CCTV-1, CCTV-2, CCTV-3, CCTV-4, CCTV-5, CCTV-6, CCTV-7, CCTV-8, CCTV News, CCTV-E, CCTV-F, CCTV-Russky, CCTV-13, CCTV-Fengyun Football, CCTV-Fengyun Golf And Tennis), China Radio International (CRI), China National Radio (CNR) and other radio and television stations; webcast on Sohu.com	CCTV-5+	[16]
Colombia	Free-to-air: Señal Colombia, Caracol, RCN Webcast: Terra Networks		[17]
Croatia	HRT		[18]
Czech Republic	ČT (ČT2, ČT4 Sport)		[19]
Denmark	DR, TV 2		[20][21]
Dominican Republic	Telecentro
Estonia	ETV, ETV2		[22]
European Union	Eurosport	Eurosport HD	[19]
Finland	TV broadcast: YLE TV1, YLE TV2, YLE FST5 & Urheilukanava Radio broadcast: YLE Radio Suomi & YLE Radio X3M	YLE Peking HD, Eurosport HD & Saunalahti	[23][24]
France	France Télévisions	France 2 HD, France 3 HD	[25]
Germany	Das Erste, ZDF	Das Erste HD ZDF HD	[26]
Greece	ERT		[27]
Hong Kong	ATV, TVB	ATV HD TVB HD	[28]
Hungary	MTV	m1 HD, m2 HD	[29]
Iceland	RUV		[30]
India	Doordarshan, Zee TV		[31]
Indonesia	TVRI		[32]
Iran	IRIB TV3
Ireland	RTÉ		[33]
Israel	TV broadcast: Channel 1 Sport 5 (Including Sport 5+, Sport5+ Live and Sport5+ Gold) Webcast: sport5.co.il Cellphone broadcast: Pelephone, Orange and Cellcom	Cable and satellite: Sport 5HD	[34][35][36][37]
Italy	RAI (Rai Uno, Rai Due, Rai News, Rai Sport 1, Rai Radio 1)	Rai HD	[38]
Japan	NHK Television Tokyo, Nippon TV Tokyo, Fuji TV Tokyo, TV Asahi Tokyo, TV Tokyo, TBS Tokyo	NHK Hi-Vision (NHK G and BS-hi), Nittele HD, Fuji TV HD, TV Asahi HD, TV Tokyo Hi-Vision, TBS Hi-Vision, BS Nittele, BS Fuji, BS Asahi, BS Japan, BS-i	[39][40]
Laos	Lao National Television, Lao National Radio
Latvia	LTV7, LTV1 (opening and closing ceremonies)		[41]
Macau	TDM (Power by China Central Television)	TDM HD
Malaysia	Astro, Radio Televisyen Malaysia
Mexico	Televisa TV Azteca TVC Deportes	Televisa HD TV Azteca HD	[42][43][44]
Moldova	TRM		[45]
Mongolia	MNB, UBS, Channel 25, TV5, TV9, NTV		[46]
Montenegro	RTCG
Myanmar	Myanmar Radio and Television, Myanmar Radio National Service
Netherlands	NPO/NOS	Nederland 1 HD	[47]
New Zealand	TV ONE, TVNZ Sport Extra, both of which were also streamed online along with two online only channels, tvnz.co.nz three and tvnz.co.nz four which carried feeds directly from BOB (i.e. No TVNZ branding)	TV ONE HD	[48]
Norway	TV: NRK1 and NRK2 Radio: NRK P1 and NRK Sport Internet: NRK Nett-TV	NRK1 and NRK2 (opening and closing ceremonies) and SportN HD	[49]
Pakistan	Geo Super		[50]
Philippines	Television Cable: Solar Sports Basketball TV Jack TV SOLAR All Access 1 and 2(PPV) Free-to-air: C/S ETC 2nd Avenue		[51]
Poland	TVP1, TVP2, TVP Sport	TVP HD	[52]
Portugal	TV: RTP (RTP1, RTP2, RTPN) and SportTV (SportTV 1) Radio: RDP Antena 1	RTP HD	[53]
Puerto Rico	Telemundo de Puerto Rico
Romania	TVR 1, TVR 2, Telesport	TVR HD	[54][55][56]
Russia	VGTRK: Russia, Russia 1, Russia 2 and Sport1 and news info on Vesti, Channel One, NTV Plus	NTV Plus	[57][58]
Serbia	RTS
Singapore	StarHub Cable Television, Singapore Telecom Mio TV, MediaCorp Radio 938LIVE, MediaCorp TV Channel 5, MediaCorp News Channel NewsAsia	MediaCorp TV HD5	[59][60]
Slovakia	STV		[61]
Slovenia	RTV Slovenija	RTV Slovenija HD Test	[62][63]
South Africa	SABC, SuperSport: SSX, SSX2, SS5, SS6 (Gold), SS7	SuperSport HD	[64]
South Korea	KBS, MBC, SBS	KBS1 HD, KBS2 HD, MBC HD, SBS HD
Spain	Radiotelevisión Española (RTVE) : Televisión Española (TVE) - TVE1, TVE2, Teledeporte, Canal 24 Horas, Radio Nacional de España (RNE) - Radio Exterior de España, Radio Nacional (Radio 1), Radio 5 Todo Noticias (Radio 5). Also broadcast on the web through TVE a la Carta and to cellphones by Adsmedia.	TVE HD	[65][66]
Sri Lanka	Rupavahini		[67]
Sweden	SVT1, SVT24, Peking+, SRP4 and SR's webcasts. Also broadcast on the web through SVT Play and to cellphones by Tele2.	SVT HD	[68][69][70][71][72]
Switzerland	SF TSR TSI	HD Suisse
Taiwan	CTV, CTS, FTV, TTV
Thailand	NBT, Modernine TV, Channel 3, TV5, (BBTV)Channel 7, TPBS, TrueVisions		[73]
Turkey	TRT 3		[74][75]
Ukraine	First National		[76]
United Kingdom	BBC	BBC HD	[77]
United States	NBC, CNBC, MSNBC (SD only), Oxygen (SD only), USA Network Telemundo (Spanish language) West Coast Talk Radio (talk radio) See also: 2008 Summer Olympics on NBC	NBC HD, CNBC HD, Universal HD, USA HD, NBC HD Olympic Basketball & Soccer Channels[78][79][80]
Venezuela	Venevisión, Meridiano TV, TVES		[81]
Vietnam	Vietnam Television, Ho Chi Minh City Television, Hanoi Radio Television and Vietnam Multimedia Corporation		[82]

See also

• Olympics on television
• List of 2012 Summer Olympics broadcasters

Notes

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