2006 Winter Olympics - Broadcasting

Broadcasting

The 2006 Olympic Winter Games were broadcast worldwide by a number of television broadcasters:

• An extensive list of official broadcasters is found at The Games on Television section of the Torino Games official site.
• The BBC provided television and radio coverage of the winter Olympics in the UK – the TV coverage was presented mainly by Grandstand regulars such as Hazel Irvine and Clare Balding. Most of the coverage was shown on BBC Two, with some on BBC One, and there was also BBCi for Freeview, Satellite and Cable (digital TV) viewers. BBC also broadcast many events live on the webcast Freeview provides an extra two screens whereas all 3 interactive streams were available to UK users only on bbc.co.uk and Digital Satellite and Cable such as Sky Digital.
• Eurosport also provided live coverage of events to viewers across the EU and Europe.
• American Forces Network rebroadcast some of this coverage for military personnel serving outside the United States.
• SportTV2 broadcast for the first time all days and all events in Brazil.
• ČT4 Sport was introduced on the occasion of the Olympic Games in the Czech Republic.