Discovery Communications Signs Olympics Deal With Austrian Broadcaster ORF

Discovery Communications announced a long-term partnership with Austrian public broadcaster ORF that will ensure every event of the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games and Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games will be available for Austrian audiences across multiple screens. Under the agreement, ORF will exclusively sub-license from Discovery Communications free-to-air audiovisual and radio rights for its channel for the 2018 and 2020 Olympic Games. The sub-license package will include selected digital rights to the content ORF broadcasts on its linear TV channels. Eurosport will hold pay rights to air all Olympic Games action on its German-language channels available in Austria, as well as across all digital, OTT and mobile platforms. The Olympic Games are hugely popular with Austrian viewers. The London 2012 Olympic Games were watched by more than 5.6 million viewers (78% of the population) in Austria, while 5.9 million (81% of the population) watched the winter edition of the 2014 Sochi Olympics via ORF (Discovery).