Media Services

On November 1, 2004, BOCOG and the Beijing Municipal Government jointly established the Beijing Olympic Media Centre to better inform the media, the people and the people of the Olympic Family and the world about Beijing's preparations for the 2008 Games. Founded on May 31, 2005, the Beijing Olympic Broadcasting Company (BOB), Limited, is a Sino-foreign joint venture funded by BOCOG and the Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS). It will provide broadcasting services for the Beijing 2008 Olympic and Paralympics Games. On September 21, 2005, a memorandum was signed between BOB and the China Publishing Group authorizing eight radio and television broadcasting companies to be responsible for providing international signals for the televised broadcasting of seven events of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. These were: China Central Television Station (CCTV), Beijing Television Station (BTV), Guangzhou TV Station, Radio and the Television Station of Jiangsu Province, Liaoning Television Station, Shanghai Media Group, Tianjin Television Station and the Zhejiang Television Station. They will broadcast events such as table tennis, badminton, the modern pentathlon, football, basketball, volleyball and tennis. These stations, confirmed by BOB, will form the first television broadcasting group for the Beijing Olympic Games. This will be the first time for the Chinese media to be involved in Olympic broadcasting on a large scale, an important milestone in the history of China's radio and television development. The first International Broadcasters Conference was successfully held with the attendees inspecting Beijing Olympic venues and hearing reports from relevant departments of BOCOG. A speech made by Liu Qi, President of BOCOG, promised conferees good media organization and services for the Olympic Games and won a favourable response from broadcasters from around the world.