The 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo has been televised by a number of broadcasters throughout the world. As with previous years, Olympic Broadcasting Services produced the world feed provided to local broadcasters for use in their coverage.
Broadcasters In Italy, domestic pay-TV rights are owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, with free-to-air coverage and digital rights owned by RAI under a sub-license agreement with the European Broadcasting Union. On 16 January 2023, the IOC announced that it had renewed its European broadcast rights agreement with Warner Bros. Discovery Sports to last from 2026 through to 2032. The contract covers pay television and streaming rights to the Summer, Winter, and Youth Olympics on Eurosport and Discovery+ in 49 European territories. Unlike the previous contract where corporate precursor Discovery, Inc. was responsible for sub-licensing them to broadcasters in each country, free-to-air rights packages were concurrently awarded to the EBU and its members to cover at least 100 hours of each Winter Olympics. EBU member RAI then signed a sub-licensing deal for Italian free-to-air TV and digital rights.
In the United States, long-time rightsholder NBCUniversal spun off most of its cable networks into the separate company Versant in January 2026. Rights to carry NBC-produced coverage of the Games were sublicensed to Versant, allowing channels such as USA Network and CNBC to continue their tenure as cable rightsholders of the Olympics.
TerritoryRights holderRef Afghanistan ATN Albania RTSH Andorra RTVA Armenia AMPTV Australia Nine Austria ORF Azerbaijan İTV Belgium RTBF, VRT Bosnia and Herzegovina BHRT Brazil Grupo Globo and CazéTV Brunei RTB, Age of Sports Bulgaria BNT Canada CBC/Radio-Canada, TSN, RDS, Sportsnet Caribbean Rush Sports Central Asia Infront Sports & Media Chile Chilevisión (Only Delayed Content and Live Ceremonies) China CMG and Migu Croatia HRT Cyprus CyBC Czech Republic ČT Denmark DR, TV 2 East Timor Age of Sports Estonia ERR Europe EBU, Warner Bros. Discovery Finland YLE France France Télévisions Georgia GPB Germany ARD, ZDF Greece ERT Hong Kong Age of Sports (replay only), no live broadcast Hungary MTVA Iceland RÚV India JioHotstar Indonesia TVRI, Age of Sports Ireland RTÉ Israel Sports Channel Italy RAI Japan Japan Consortium Kazakhstan RTRK, Khabar Kosovo RTK Kyrgyzstan KTRK Laos Age of Sports Latin America Claro Sports Latvia LTV Liechtenstein SRG SSR Lithuania LRT Macau CMG and TDM Malaysia RTM, Age of Sports Malta PBS Mexico TelevisaUnivision Middle East and North Africa beIN Sports Moldova TRM Mongolia NTV, MNB, TenGer TV, Suld TV, C1, Edu TV Montenegro RTCG Myanmar M Sport/BebeeTV Netherlands NOS New Zealand Sky North Korea KCTV North Macedonia MRT Norway NRK, VG+ Sport Paraguay ABC TV Philippines Cignal, Age of Sports Poland TVP Portugal RTP Romania TVR Russia Okko San Marino RAI Serbia RTS Singapore Mediacorp, Age of Sports Slovakia STVR Slovenia RTV SLO Southeast Asia Infront Sports & Media South Korea JTBC, NAVER Spain RTVE Sub-Saharan Africa StarTimes Sweden SVT and TV4 Switzerland SRG SSR Taiwan ELTA, TTV Tajikistan Varzish TV Thailand TrueVisions Turkey TRT Turkmenistan Age of Sports Ukraine Suspilne United Kingdom BBC, TNT Sports (Discovery) United States NBCUniversal, Versant Uzbekistan Sport TV, Age of Sports VietnamVTVcab, VTV
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