LONDON (AP) — The IOC’s chief negotiator tells The Associated Press that Fox, ESPN and the other main contenders for U.S. television rights have shown interest in buying a package covering four Olympics rather than the usual two-games deal.
The International Olympic Committee had been planning to auction only the lucrative broadcast rights to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, and the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro.
But Richard Carrion said the committee was now weighing the possibility of widening the high-stakes bidding to include the 2018 Winter and 2020 Summer Games. Carrion is the IOC executive board member who handles U.S. broadcast deals.
The host cities for those games have not yet been selected.