The German Olympic Sports Confederation DOSB will expand its online sports TV channel and rebrand it from splink.tv into Sportdeutschland.TV.
Kick-off is on August 16, 2014 with the coverage of the Youth Olympic Games from Nanjing in China. Around 3,600 athletes from more than 200 nations will compete for medals in 28 disciplines and 222 competitions. Sportdeutschland.TV will offer live transmissions, highlights, background reports and interviews 24 hours per day until August 28.
The total of more than 40 disciplines of German sports covered by the channel include volleyball, basketball, handball, tennis, table tennis, swimming, bicycle and equestrian sports as well as trend sports such as wakeboarding.
Sportdeutschland.TV will not only focus on the sports achievements, but also on the people and stories behind them. The live coverage will be complemented by a video-on-demand (VOD) service.
DOSB is the umbrella organisation of German sports comprising around 91,000 sports clubs with almost 28 million memberships.
