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The Olympic Games have been broadcast on television since the 1936 Summer Olympics.
24 sty 2023 · Whereas much coverage of the 1936 Summer Olympics is available thanks to the film Olympia, all live television coverage of the Berlin Games is now permanently missing, as there were no means of directly recording television prior to the years after the Second World War.
Television Coverage. The 1936 Games were the first to be broadcast on television. Twenty-five television viewing rooms were set up in the Greater Berlin area, allowing the locals to follow the Games free of charge. Young Olympians. Thirteen-year-old Marjorie Gestring of the U.S. won the gold medal in springboard diving.
Nielsen has tracked television ratings for all summer and winter Olympic Games broadcasts since 1968. Ratings data for Olympic Games telecasts from 1968 to 2006 — including ratings for opening and closing ceremonies and average ratings for each Olympics — are available below:
Twenty-five big television screens were set up in theatres throughout the city, allowing the locals to follow the Games free of charge. A star of the 1936 Games was Jesse Owens . Jesse won four gold medals, showing up German claims of Aryan superiority.
Berlin 1936 marked the start of TV broadcasting of the Games. Twenty-five “public auditoriums” and beer halls equipped with screens opened in Berlin, Potsdam and Leipzig. These places allowed...
Closed circuit television coverage of the Berlin 1936: Summer Olympics Games of the XI Olympiad, an international multi-sport competition that took place in and around Berlin, Prussia, Germany from 1 August 1936 through 16 August 1936. Stars. Dhyan Chand. Dean Cromwell. Henri de Baillet-Latour.
