The live telecast rights remain with the state broadcaster Doordarshan and Star Sports which is the official broadcaster of Rio 2016 Olympic Games starting 5 August. According to the conditions set by IOC, the news channels are allowed to broadcast Olympic material three hours after the event has been aired by the broadcasting rights’ holder. The rules defining the conditions on Olympic Games broadcast by the non-rights’ holding broadcasting organizations were sent by News Broadcasters Association (NBA) to various news channels. This effectively means that no channel can use any Olympic material for Olympic Games programmes or for promoting any such programme (news and non-news). Moreover, the broadcast of Olympic material should be restricted to news programmes only.

Source: Mint August 03, 2016 02:15 UTC