List of 2018 Winter Olympics broadcasters

The 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang are televised by a number of broadcasters throughout the world. As with previous years, Olympic Broadcasting Services together with Japan's NHK produces the world feed provided to local broadcasters for use in their coverage, including about 90 hours of content captured in 8K.^[1][2]

The Games are broadcast in ultra-high resolution and high dynamic range in select markets. In South Korea, terrestrial UHD broadcasts employ ATSC 3.0 standard,^[3] launched on May 31, 2017, by SBS, MBC, and KBS in major South Korean markets such as Seoul and Incheon.^[4][5] In the United States UHD broadcasts are available to cable subscribers of NBCUniversal,^[6] and to subscribers of satellite TV providers DirecTV and Dish Network.^[7]

Broadcasters

On 29 June 2015, the IOC announced that Discovery Communications—owner of Eurosport, had acquired exclusive rights to the Olympics from 2018 through 2024 across Europe, excluding Russia, on all platforms. Discovery will sub-license its broadcast rights to local free-to-air networks on a territorial basis. Discovery's rights deal will, initially, not cover France due to pre-existing rights deals with France Télévisions that run through the 2020 Games. Unlike previous pan-European deals, such as with the European Broadcasting Union and Sportfive, Discovery will not solely serve as a reseller, and intends to carry coverage on its regional properties, but has committed to sub-licensing at least 100 hours of coverage to free-to-air networks.^[8][9][10] In the United Kingdom, Discovery will sub-license exclusive pay television rights from the BBC (which still holds broadcast rights through 2020), in exchange for sub-licensing free-to-air rights to the 2022 and 2024 Olympics from Discovery.^[11]

In addition, IMG was awarded the in-flight/in-ships broadcast rights.^[12] The Olympic Channel will broadcast the Games across the Indian subcontinent.^[13]

Territory	Rights holder	Ref
Asia	Dentsu[i]	[14]
Australia	Seven Network	[15]
Brazil	Grupo Globo	[16]
Canada	CBC/Radio-Canada Bell Media Rogers Media TLN	[17][18]
Caribbean	International Media Content Ltd. SportsMax	[19]
Cayman Islands	Cayman 27	[20]
China	CCTV	[21]
Cuba	ICRT	[20]
Europe	Eurosport	[22]
Albania	RTSH	[23]
Andorra	RTVA	[20]
Armenia	APMTV	[24]
Austria	ORF	[25]
Azerbaijan	AzTV İdman TV	[26][27]
Belarus	Belteleradio	[28]
Belgium	VRT	[29]
Bosnia and Herzegovina	BHRT	[30][31]
Bulgaria	BNT	[32]
Croatia	HRT	[33]
Czech Republic	ČT	[34][35]
Denmark	DR	[36]
Estonia	Eesti Meedia	[37]
Finland	Yle	[38]
Georgia	GPB	[39]
Germany	ARD ZDF	[40]
Greece	ERT	[41]
Hungary	MTVA	[42]
Iceland	RÚV	[39]
Ireland	RTÉ	[43]
Israel	Sport 5	[20]
Italy	RAI[ii]	[44][45]
Kosovo	RTK	[24]
Latvia	LTV	[39]
Liechtenstein	SRG SSR	[20]
Lithuania	TV3	[46]
Macedonia	MRT	[30][47]
Moldova	TVR TRM	[48][49][50]
Montenegro	RTCG	[51]
Netherlands	NOS	[52]
Norway	TVNorge	[53]
Poland	TVP	[54]
Portugal	RTP	[55]
Romania	TVR	[56]
Serbia	RTS	[57]
Slovakia	RTVS	[58]
Slovenia	RTV	[58]
Spain	DMAX	[59]
Sweden	Kanal 5	[53]
Switzerland	SRG SSR	[60]
Turkey	TRT	[61]
Ukraine	UA:PBC	[62][63]
United Kingdom	BBC Eurosport	[64][65]
France	France Télévisions	[66]
Hong Kong	TVB	[67]
India	Jio TV	[68]
Iran	IRIB Varzesh	[69]
Japan	Japan Consortium	[70]
Kazakhstan	RTRK	[71]
Kyrgyzstan	KTRK	[72]
Latin America	América Móvil	[73]
Malaysia	Astro	[74]
MENA	beIN Sports	[75]
Mongolia	TV5	[76]
New Zealand	Sky Television	[77]
North Korea	SBS	[78]
Oceania	Sky Television	[77]'
Pakistan	PTV	[79]
Philippines	TV5 Network	[20][80]
Russia	Perviy Kanal VGTRK Match TV	[81][82]
Singapore	Eleven Sports Network MediaCorp	[83]
South Africa	SABC SuperSport	[84]
South Korea	SBS MBC KBS	[78][85]
Sub-Saharan Africa	Econet Media SuperSport	[84]
Taiwan	ELTA	[20][86]
Tajikistan	Varzish TV	[87]
Thailand	Workpoint TV	[20]
United States	NBCUniversal	[88]
Uzbekistan	Uzreport TV	[89]
Vietnam	VTV	[90]

Notes

1. Rights to be sold to local broadcaster
2. Including microstate of San Marino and Vatican City^[20]