CBI and CBU sign agreement to air Rio 2016 Olympic games
Thursday, March 12, 2015
In 2013, the Caribbean Association of National Olympic Committees (CANOC) acquired the Caribbean broadcast rights to the next Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

CANOC Broadcasting Incorporated (CBI) and the Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU) have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the airing of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games scheduled to take place in Brazil from August 5 to 21, 2016.

CBI Chief Executive Officer Larry Romany and CBU President Shida Bolai today issued a joint statement announcing their pleasure at the partnership which will bring unprecedented Caribbean centric coverage of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games to 20 countries and territories in the English and Dutch Caribbean.

As a result of the MOU with CBI, CBU members will be entitled to transmit coverage of the Games on radio, free-to-air television, cable television and on-line media.

CBI will provide access to 12 feeds from which participating CBU members may select specific content for distribution in their respective markets. Part of the programming to be delivered under the MOU is a television channel designed especially for Caribbean audiences, and produced by ESPN. In addition to their preferred feeds, CBU members will also transmit all semi-finals and finals featuring Caribbean sportsmen and women at the Rio Olympics.

Of major benefit to CBU members is the opportunity to send a limited number of reporters and technical staff to work alongside the ESPN team in Rio, to produce coverage to be sent back to their respective stations.

The full list of countries covered by the agreement is: Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago and the Turks and Caicos.

CBI’s mission is to create long‐term sustainable sources of funding for Caribbean NOC’s and CGA through the acquisition and sale of broadcast rights for sporting events during the Olympic quadrennial.