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Continuing the IOC’s commitment to providing over-the-air television coverage to as broad a worldwide audience as possible, London 2012 is scheduled to be broadcast by a number of regional broadcasters. Though reduced dramatically since 1980, the United States television rights currently owned by NBC still account for over half the rights revenue for the IOC. Many television broadcasters granted rights to the games have bureaux and studios in London, but since at least the 1988 Olympics in Calgary, rights-holder operations are hosted in the dedicated International Broadcast Centre (IBC). London’s IBC is planned to be inside the security cordon of the Olympic Park.

As rights for the 2012 games have been packaged with those for the 2010 Winter Olympics, broadcasters will be largely identical for both events. Confirmed broadcasters include:

• In Europe, members of the European Broadcasting Union will broadcast the Games in their respective countries.
• In the United Kingdom the BBC will be sole broadcaster of the games.
• Italy, SKY Italia originally achieved rights, then sold them to Rai on 17 September 2008 along with the Vancouver 2010 ones, in an Olympics/FIFA World Cup rights exchange.
• In Spain, TVE and Antena 3 has the rights to broadcast these games.
• In Sweden, free-to-air SVT and Viasat have the rights to broadcast the games.
• In the Netherlands, free-to-air public broadcaster NOS have the rights to broadcast the games.
• In Slovakia, Slovenska televizia and Radio Slovakia will broadcast the games.
• In Germany and Austria, ARD, ZDF,ProSibenSat.1 and RTL Group has rights broadcast the games.
• In Austria, ORF will broadcast the games.
• In Portugal, RTP will broadcast the games.
• In the Republic of Ireland, RTÉ will broadcast all of the games.
• In the United States, NBC channels will broadcast the games.
• In South Korea, SBS, MBC, and KBS has the rights to broadcast the games.
• In Canada, CTV, TQS, TSN and RDS has rights the broadcast the games.
• In Brazil, Rede Record, Rede Globo, Rede Bandeirantes and RedeTV! had been awarded the broadcasting for only free to air television rights.[64] Cable and Web Rights. Record News will make a complementary cover.
• In Mexico, the two major national networks Televisa and TV Azteca will broadcast the games.
• In Australia, the Nine Network in joint partnership with subscription television partner Foxtel will broadcast the games. This would be the first time in over 25 years that the Seven Network has not aired the summer games.
• In New Zealand, free-to-air Prime Television New Zealand and pay TV parent company SKY Network Television have the rights to these games. This will be the first time the Olympic Games coverage is not carried on a TVNZ network.
• In China, China Central Television and China Radio will broadcast the games.

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