Talk:List of 2016 Summer Olympics broadcasters

Broadcast in North Korea
Technically North Korea and South Korea are still at war, an armistice was signed in 1953 but no peace agreement was ever agreed to so I seriously doubt that a South Korean broadcaster would be allowed to provide broadcast coverage in a closed country like North Korea and the fact that Kim Jong-un's regime like his father Kim Jong-Il and grandfather Kim Il-sun have broadcast jammers to keep out foreign media so SBS wouldn't be able to broadcast in North Korea even if they wanted to because that would mean turning off the jammers which would not only allow SBS but also other foreign stations which is something North Korea doesn't want, it's population watching Western television. Also given that the referenced URL address is no longer available makes me wonder there was any truth to the article. I am going to change the broadcaster for North Korea from SBS to Korean Central Television the state broadcaster in North Korea. Please before making any chances or reverting please discuss them here first otherwise your edit may be considered vandalism. YborCityJohn (talk) 23:25, 15 May 2016 (UTC)
 * And that makes it original research. It also contradicts the IOC source, which states that they acquired rights for the entire Korean peninsula. ViperSnake151   Talk  02:25, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
 * It's true that SBS does have the broadcast rights to the 2016 Olympics in both South and North Korea; see https://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-awards-tv-rights-for-north-and-south-korea-to-sbs which says, "The agreement ... includes for the first time Olympic coverage in both the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. ... 'This new contract with SBS will allow the deployment of a full spectrum of new media rights as well as extending the coverage of Olympic Games into North Korea.'" SBS also has the rights to broadcast the Olympics in both countries for the Olympics through 2024. However, this still doesn't explain what kind of arrangement SBS could have to broadcast the Olympics in North Korea, and I would like to know how that has worked or will work. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 01:20, 29 July 2016 (UTC)