The 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris were televised by a number of broadcasters throughout the world. As with previous years, Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS) produced the world feed provided to local broadcasters for use in their coverage. In most regions, broadcast rights to the 2022 and 2024 Olympics were packaged together, but some broadcasters obtained rights to further games as well.
Broadcasters In France, domestic rights to the 2024 Summer Olympics were owned by Warner Bros. Discovery (formerly Discovery Inc.) via Eurosport, with free-to-air coverage sub-licensed to the country's public broadcaster France Télévisions.
The official Olympics website offered both live-streaming and recent recordings of the events in selected markets, particularly in Brazil, Russia (due to Russian broadcasters pulling out), and the Indian subcontinent.
Russian broadcasting rights issue Although the IOC listed Telesport Russia as the nominal rights holder for Russia, the main Russian and Belarusian broadcasters were not officially showing the Games in protest of the sanctions imposed on the two countries, which led to a reduced quota of 32 athletes that were listed as neutrals: Belarus and Russia last refused to purchase the broadcasting rights in 1984. The Associated Press noted on 27July 2024 that Belarusian and Russian viewers were depending on satellite channels and streaming services of neighbouring countries (such as Kazakhstan) to get reasonable coverage of the Games.
Issues on the Taiwanese broadcasts Chunghwa Telecom, which gained exclusive IPTV and streaming rights from Olympics domestic rights holder ELTA TV, reported that their streaming platform Hami Video experienced server crashes for the last 2 games during the men's double badminton knockout stage. Once when the Chinese Taipei male duos (Lee Yang and Wang Chi-lin) successfully advanced to the gold medal matches, and then again when they successfully won the gold medals as the viewership for the game grew rapidly.
Additionally, many cable TV providers and even Taiwanese politicians were criticized about how ELTA TV shared the broadcasting rights other than CHT MOD and Hami Video/ELTA OTT, in which jeopardized the cable TV broadcast availability and even limited the games' coverage for free-to-air TV networks (such as the government-owned TBS network).
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