IOC expects more than $2b for TV deal

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) expects at least three networks to bid for the US television rights to the 2014 and 2016 Olympics and believes the winning offer will exceed the previous $US2 billion ($A2.18 billion) deal.

Richard Carrion, who negotiates the US rights for the IOC, told The Associated Press he has already received several expressions of interest and plans to make a deal sometime in 2010.

He says he expects “a minimum of three players”.

The negotiations were postponed a year ago, due to the global financial downturn, but the IOC are now prepared to open the bidding sometime after February’s Winter Games in Vancouver.

At stake are rights to the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, and the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro.

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