SKY New Zealand Bags 2010, 2012 Olympics Rights

AUCKLAND, November 29: The
International Olympic Committee (IOC) has awarded the New Zealand broadcast
rights to the Vancouver 2010 and London 2012 Olympic Games to SKY Network
Television.

The broadcast rights for
the Beijing 2008 games are held by TVNZ. According to an IOC statement, SKY and
its free-to-air channel, Prime, were selected based on their capacity to reach
“the broadest possible audience on a variety of broadcast platforms, including
free-to-air television, subscription television and digital media.”

John Fellet, the CEO of
SKY Television NZ, commented, “We are confident that New Zealanders will be
extremely well served by the widest-ever offering of Olympic coverage across a
variety of media platforms.”

—By Mansha Daswani