1964 was the first Summer Games televised in the United States
1960. The Rome Olympic Games.
The first televised Olympics were in Berlin in 1936.
The first station to televise the Olympic games was BBC.
Seoul was the first city to host the Summer Olympic Games. In 1806.
The 1912 Summer Olympic Games held in Stockholm, Sweden.
The Berlin Games were the first to be televised, with events broadcast throughout the Olympic Village, as well as German public halls and theatres. Results were transmitted internationally by telex, and newsreel film was rushed abroad via zeppelins.
The 1936 Summer Games in Berlin were televised to folks in Germany that had access to special 'television booths' that were located in Berlin and Potsdam. Three cameras were used and a total of 72 hours of coverage were televised. The first commercially televised Olympics in the US was the 1960 Winter Olympics. CBS bought the rights for $50,000. NBC bought the rights to telecast the 2010 Winter Olympics and 2012 Summer Olympics for a total of $2,201,000,000.
The 1960 Winter Games in Squaw Valley, California, were the first televised in the United States. The Olympics had been televised locally in their host cities since the 1936 Summer Games in Berlin, Germany.
The 1936 Summer Olympics were the first to have live television coverage. Since there were very few privately owned television sets at the time, special viewing rooms were set up in Berlin and Potsdam.
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Athens, Greece